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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1902
Page
5
A collage of playful, pointed vignettes and society notes from THE REGISTER. Items reference the King of Spain, Chinese envoy Wu, Castellane debts, a Moroccan captive missionary, a Chicago co education critique, Bangkok and Siam royalty at a stockyard, and various editorial quips. It mixes satire, rumor, and social opinion with brief mentions of journalists, magnates, and public figures.
Colorad o notes report Ellis Meredith praising the State Industrial School for Girls. David Powell dies in a Unity tunnel slide in Silverton. Cripple Creek deaths and acquittals, hospital injury settlements, and multiple fire and blast incidents are summarized. The Reed Investment Co plans a Grand Junction block. Dolls exhibit in Denver. A Belle Vista hotel fire damages. El Paso County gains back tax funds. Victor high school trench explosion injures desks. Christine Collbran dies in Korea. Victor Adams and Clay Hoover rescued from a tunnel. Denver Packing Co to open by December 15. California insect collection donated to University of Colorado. Rail bonds issued for the Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Railway. Pueblo feeds 800 children on Thanksgiving. Holyoke forms Chamber of Commerce and eyeing LeRoy reservoir aid.
Officials select ivory white with a yellow tinge for Exposition structures, noting its distinction from Chicago fair hues. The Nicaraguan government raises customs duties by 180 percent due to silver price fluctuations.
Denver Nov 80 In his annual report to the state engineer Superintendent Armstrong of irrigation division No 1 says water scarcity raises new questions and drought fuels litigation injuring farming. He calls injunctions a trick to secure senior water rights via temporary restraints often harming older appropriators. He urges legislative or Supreme Court action. He notes abuses such as old canals expanding capacity to take decreed water and selling surplus to new ditches, and stresses storage reservoirs value proven by drought. Division No 1 spans 3105.01 miles of ditches with capacity 19 267.71 cfs and 321 days of water delivery. irrigated area 743 375 acres with various crops listed.
The annual report states the army’s strength on November 27, 1901, and outlines later reductions in 1902. It notes hospitals, Philippine scouts, Porto Rico regiment figures, and the effect of prohibition on beer and light wines at posts, warning it increases drunkenness and disciplinary issues. The piece marks end of Cuban occupation and Philippine insurrection, with improved army health and ongoing reforms.
Denver fat stock and feeder show officials voted to shift the event to March 8 9 and 4 5 to align with the State Cattle Growers Association and the American Cattle Growers meeting. A new packing plant opening will occur that week. C K Boettcher becomes treasurer. December 18 aims to form new committees. strong cattle sheep and hog entries expected from across the United States.
A Brush mass meeting settled on erecting a sugar factory of 600 tons capacity. Foundations start before year end, operation planned for September 1903. Dyer & Co of Cleveland back the project with 3,000 acres beet guarantee, now 5,815 pledged. Land is fertile, great ditches, promising outlook and rapid contracts. Insurance fraud noted in Delta case with BE. G. Angell returning from California after a long absence.
J A Manson recalls Sir Edwin Landseer’s unusual talent for sketching animals with both hands and shows his skill through anecdotes. At Ardington he drew a royal stag on a chalkboard, prompting a protective display of plate glass. Landseer’s bond with dogs and his belief in exercising them is noted by an intimate friend, who quotes his view of “peeping into their hearts.”
Miss Maggie Welch secretary of the Betsey Ross Educational and Benevolent Society writes from 328 North State Street Chicago NL describing a severe cold last fall with persistent coughing and lung and throat soreness that left her greatly distressed before using Peruna. She claims rapid improvement and gratitude toward the remedy.
The Wisconsin Labor Bureau surveyed 769 people to learn why many girls favor factory and store work over household duties. Respondents argue for better rooms, kinder treatment, warmer beds, and independence, noting women who do housework are seen as kitchen drudges and unjustly treated.
London society embraces a Swedish vibrationist who claims to cure all ills through vibration. Adelina Patti reportedly supports the method as nerves, pneumonia, and appendicitis are vibrated away. Palming faith healing and crystal gazing fade as fashionable women flock to vibrationist parlors.
Advertises lands in the Sunny San Luis Valley with gilt edged water rights. Invites readers to secure choice parcels this fall and directs to Zeph. Chas. Felt at 614 616 Majestic Building, Denver Colorado for particulars.
A Berlin naturalist Professor Hirsemann studied ant toilets and found upper class female ants are cleaned by an assistant acting as a lady's maid. The maid begins by washing the ant’s face and then the rest of the body, revealing social behavior patterns among workers.
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