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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1899
Page
6
Feature blends literary musings on women independence with home styling tips from 1910s magazines. It notes evolving roles, praises intellectual equality, and discusses daily domestic taste stories, then shifts to practical interior ideas for open fireplaces, mantels, and book-filled corners. It ends with recipes for Raspberry Mousse and Spanish Custard.
A cooking school recipe for hot chocolate cream pudding with a chocolate icing and whipped cream. Also instructions for flaked cod with a stiff mayonnaise sauce, parsley and grated egg yolk garnish.
Home beauty guidance for summer living urges sea salt baths and tonics to counter energy loss. It promotes jet buckles as smart accessories, favors gray silver and dull gilt metals for daily wear, and ranks jet near rhinestones. An eyebrow and eyelash growth remedy mixes vaseline, cantharides, lavender and rosemary oils to stimulate growth with careful application, plus a sunburn ointment recipe using carbonate of lead, arrow root, rose water, and olive oil applied lightly to the skin.
A vintage ad promises Allen's Foot-Ease powder relieves tight new shoes and feet that sweat or swell. It claims to cure corns bunions and burning feet and notes availability at druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents with a free sample by sending to Allen S. Olmsted LeRoy New York.
Anne Blufkins asserts belief in reincarnation despite claiming laziness and a past life as a princess on the banks of the river. Her remarks reflect a quirky, speculative view interwoven with personal identity and memory.
One hundred dollars reward for any case of catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F J Cheney & Co endorsed by West & Troax Walding Kinnan Marvin wholesale druggists Toledo Ohio. Ads promote internal cure and testimonials. Also railroad schedules from Denver to Chicago and St Louis with low rates via Burlington Route through Colorado points.
The Union Pacific adds new equipment east and west of Denver to improve speed and comfort for all passenger classes. It claims to be the quickest route with emphasis on elegance, promising one night to Chicago and St Louis and over ten hours saved to Denver and the Pacific coast. Ticket office on 41st Street. The text also includes an unrelated claim about a clairvoyant and a stray line about divorce lawyers.
A collage of vintage advertising snippets and quips from a newspaper page. It includes lines about Paultless Starch, Piso's Cure for Consumption, Dr Kane's nerve restorer, Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup, Cascarets candy, and light social jokes about invitations and sea shore chatter, reflecting early 20th century ad culture. The jumble preserves names and places such as Au Sable Michigan and Philadelphia.
An excellent laxative tonic from the California Fig Syrup Co. touts Syrup of Fies as a pleasant, effective liquid laxative made with senna and aromatic plants. It claims gentle, full-body cleansing, relief from colds, headaches, fevers, and chronic constipation without irritating kidneys or liver, and warns to buy only from the company to avoid imitations. price 50 cents.
A reader from Charlemont Massachusetts recounts two years of weakness dizziness and digestive trouble eased after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Lozenges Liver Pills and Sanative Wash. She reports renewed energy appetite and sleep and credits the treatment with restoration. The letter promotes Mrs Pinkham's advice service at Lynn Massachusetts offering free guidance to women with health concerns.
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