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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1891
Page
2
A Detroit Free Press piece humorously weighs buyer caution in selecting a family horse. It covers price bargaining, horse health checks, mouth and teeth clues, vision tests, leg and hoof concerns, and a dialogue style buyer’s script. It closes with a note on Scotch heritage and a science item on lightning by Professor Kohlbranch.
An Oriental dispatch notes the King of Annam currently has 579 wives and 579 mothers-in-law. A Minneapolis Tribune column mockingly toys with the math of 165 nightly visits plus 1980 words of declarations, 165 bulldog guards, and yearly bonnets and sealskin bills.
Tobias F. Hudson, a nine year horse stealing convict at the Maryland penitentiary, is described as a genius and inventor. He rents time to craft a padlock that tightens bolts when hammered, preventing escapes. Hudson, with a 200 volume scientific library, aims to install the new locks in dormitories. he gains 26 months commutation and release scheduled for April 5, 1894.
A Scituate parish minister faced a hard, grasping parishioner who died. At the burial the minister’s sharp remarks drew a stern rebuke from the widow who asked to be spared. the old pastor offered his brief verdict that the departed had been a good provider but the rest should be left unsaid.
Between London and New York a daily exchange of about eight hundred messages during late morning hours links markets instantly. Amid ads for Salvation Oil and Dr Bull's Cough Syrup, the piece highlights medical cures, fashion shifts, religious publishing, and self-improvement schemes, all typical of a bustling urban page.
A scanned newspaper fragment presents a display advertisement puzzle inviting readers to find a unique word in weekly 38 inch ads from Dr. Harter Medicine Co. and similar promos. The page includes unrelated lines about moral maxims, patent remedies, and a fashion pattern offer, with a stray note about a ship’s mast-head.
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