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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1893
Page
3
An ad extols Syrup of Fig as a health aid improving comfort and life quality. It claims to cleanse the system, treat colds headaches fevers and constipation, improve digestion with a gentle effect on kidneys liver and bowels, and urges readers to buy the product from druggists with the California Fig Syrup Company name on the bottle.
Fragmentary notice reports a claim that August Flower cured a person named G. McCrawn of illness while at 733 Park Place Elmira. The text mentions dieting and relief from human agony, presenting a dubious historic remedy advertisement.
A Youth’s Companion correspondent recalls Captain Shubael Higgins of the Nam Arnolda who, at Goree, devised a water rationing plan during a sixty day becalmment. Each man must fetch the dipper aloft and return it, ensuring everyone receives their drink while the captain oversees the system. The crew refill at Goree as trade winds resume.
The Champs Elysees hosts a regular stamp market every Thursday and Sunday where hundreds gather with albums and stamps to buy or exchange. It is said thousands of francs change hands each market day.
A speaker recalls visiting a fortune teller who predicted an imminent marriage and a husband who would not be wealthy, prompting doubt about the clairvoyant’s sanity. The exchange frames superstition and concern over future prospects.
Farmer Sedgwick taunts a sleepy looking tramp asking for food calling him the sleepiest looking individual. The tramp jokes his coat has not had a nap in some time as the exchange ends.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway teams with a publisher to offer a portfolio of sixteen World's Fair pictures at ten cents. The set, valued at twelve dollars, is available by mailing ten cents to George H Heatford, the railway’s General Passenger Agent, Chicago. Also notes dining cars on Union Pacific between Denver, San Francisco and Portland and invites stamps for California sights.
The Santa Fe Route opens a through daily free reclining chair car service between Denver Colorado Springs and Ogden in both directions. Second class ticket holders to or from Utah or Pacific coast points via the line may ride these cars at no extra charge.
An advertisement from Dr. R. Schiffman of St. Paul Minnesota offers to mail a free trial package of Schiffmann's Asthma Cure to any sufferer. It claims instant relief in worst cases and cures where others fail and asks readers to name the paper and send their address. The text also includes a joke line about a dictionary defining a daisy as a tough in full bloom.
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