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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1899
Page
7
A fragmented report highlights physicians using opium and a statistician noting over three thousand cases in the Middle and Eastern regions. Dr. Crothers concludes that six to ten percent of men may be opium inebriates in a broad survey while other mentions promote stomach tonics and foot remedies.
Rudyard Kipling’s former lover known as Corinne, Jessie McFarland, a street singer in San Francisco, later died in a private hospital. She had a troubled life including marriage hardship and motherhood, and died beside Lone Mountain where her baby is buried.
Eugenia Kellogg Holmes writes of a girl in a tavern setting with a Greek head and speaking eyes who spends her nights singing songs for beer commissions and shows little comprehension of the songs' meaning or any broader ideas.
The article portrays Peking as a remarkable blend of permanence and contradiction. It describes the city as a fortified Mongol capital from the thirteenth century, surrounded by Manchu bannermen and Russian-leaning elites, with distinct Chinese and non Chinese influences shaping its modern character. It notes ancient walls, nine gates, and old military customs still observed.
Retired night watchmen Lazarus Kildooley and Jeremiah O'Hare, in Conshohocken, engaged in a “keeping-awake” wager plus a euchre game. Both slept through the night. by noon they woke to find the money status unclear as townsfolk wonder who won the $5 stake.
A Dorchester bound car stops to help a middle aged woman with a severe cast onto the vehicle. The conductor offers support with his palm on her back. She snaps that she can enter alone. He retorts that she nearly left the car without his assistance.
The Ancient Mechanical Society of Baltimore celebrated its 136th anniversary recently, highlighting a long history of local engineering craft and community events.
The Brooklyn election demonstrated voting machines delivering full, rapid city totals within an hour. Despite two or three breakdowns blamed on deliberate damage by machine opponents, replacements ensured every vote was counted. The New York Evening Post notes an accurate, tamper resistant result boosting ballot reform faith.
The Christmas issue of the Lake Shore Book of Trains is unique in railroad literature. Copy will be sent to any address on receipt of a 2 cent stamp, via F. M. Byron G W A Chicago, A J Smith, G P A Cleveland.
The Algodones mill run by Don Felipe Garcia uses a vast circular inclined platform and a swiveling tree trunk as a treadmill. Five burros pull the rope drive to a small gristmill grinding both corn and wheat. Wheat flour is graded into three quality levels with remarkably fine white output.
The B and O R R plans to equip its Main Line with track tanks and water scoops on passenger locomotives used on fast freight trains to save time and reduce stopovers. If successful, track tanks will be installed across divisions between Baltimore and Chicago, starting with 50 new Vauclain compound engines.
In the Sulus near Jolo pig sticking and horse racing are common, but coral diving stands out as a splendor. The clear reef water lets divers spot coins twenty feet down. They bring up sea animals and coral, using bamboo air chambers to stay underwater three to four minutes.
The Health and Pleasure Resorts of Texas, Mexico, Arizona and California are reached via the Southern Pacific Company's Sunset Route. Daily through service from New Orleans to San Francisco via Houston, San Antonio, El Paso and Los Angeles. Special semi weekly Sunset Limited from New Orleans on Mondays and Thursdays with Buffet Smoking Car Bath Room and Barber Shop Drawing Room Compart ment Car Pullman Sleepers and Dining Car meals a la carte. Direct connections at New Orleans from all points North and East. Inquiries to W. G. Neimyer or W. J. Berg and local agents in Cincinnati Buffalo Chicago Chicago office details provided.
A luxury Pullman palace car train tour to Mexico begins Tuesday January 23 departing Chicago and visiting the City of Mexico and other major cities then returning to Chicago. Limited, first class, all expenses paid. Led by Beau Campbell of The American Tourist Association. For maps and tickets contact Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul agents.
New equipment makes the Union Pacific line the most popular with service east and west from Denver. Nine hours saved between Denver and San Francisco or the Pacific Northwest and only one night to Chicago St Paul or St Louis.
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