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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1900
Page
2
Passenger No 2 travels through a sunbaked Mohave stretch on December 24 when a cowcatcher collision with a steer triggers a wreck. Engineer and fireman survive with minor injuries as passengers endure a night of desolation, later aided by a wrecking crew. By C N Stark. Also a children’s verse about Santa Claus and belief.
A nostalgic verse extols Santa as the swift, jolly figure who visits every home. The poem praises his generosity to children and his loving care for Dad, Mother, and Me as winter days pass. It contrasts winter scenes with the warmth of family and the season's gifts.
Poetic plea seeks Santa Claus’s aid to send a Christmas dream of a beloved. The speaker asks for a whispered joy and a hopeful message in a heartfelt, intimate voice.
A village bakery grows from a simple kitchen to a popular late night stop, serving fresh bread and rolls to a steady stream of customers. The piece notes the chef’s care and the community's demand, while praising practical remedies for health and digestion.
Annual output reaches nearly 16.4 tons of starch. The starch comes from small unfired potatoes, with sixty bushels producing one barrel of starch.
A tersely worded notice seeks agents nationwide to sell health insurance with annual earnings around 400 dollars and a steady commission of ten dollars per month. The document cites the Colorado State Insurance Department and Reed General Building in Denver as references.
An experienced chemist warns that fresh meat exposed to tobacco smoke readily absorbs nicotine and can become badly tainted. The piece also promotes Cascarrets candy cathartic as a health cure and warns against imitations.
A jumble of old advertisements and notices mentioning Foot-Ease powder for foot ailments, Allen’s Foot-Ease samples, a medical claim for LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE, Hall’s Catarrh Cure advertisement with Cheney & Co claim, and travel ads for Denver to Salt Lake trips. The fragment includes names, places like LeRoy New York Toledo Ohio Lyons Iowa Derby Connecticut Chicago, and historical promotional copy.
A letter from Mrs Lizzie M Brewer of Westerly to Dr Hartman extols Peruna as a cure for grip and female catarrh. She claims rapid relief from colds and la grippe and recommends Peruna for weakness and female ailments, citing personal use and many invalids helped. The ad notes a free treatise on catarrh from The Peruna Medicine Company in Columbus, Ohio.
A mixed excerpt notes a presidential election curiosity in North Carolina with McKinley gaining 210 votes in Shelton Laurel township and Bryan none. It includes ads for Allen’s Foot-Ease free sample, a claim about Liquid Air on skin, a census quip about “30 feet” residence length, a joke about aging as cabbage, a Bleaching Blue laundry product, and a closing aphorism on joy.
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