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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1901
Page
3
The speaker reflects on the failed engagement of a niece, noting the aunt’s secretive act to protect a poor suitor. The poem contrasts sorrow for the Old Year’s passing with a cautious stance toward the New Year, honoring blessings of health, plenty, and love while mourning the dead Old Year beneath winter skies.
Walter Carson, a lonely London writer, dwells on a painful past as New Year's Eve unfolds. A veiled woman enters his room and reveals she is Leila, his long-lost love and former widow. She explains how life kept them apart, then returns to his life with renewed vows and their future together.
A New Year reflection praises human thought as the driver of civilization. It links progress in science, religion, art, and industry to the power of human ideas and the hopes of humanity for future discoveries and improved life.
A reflective editorial urges readers to assess yearly gains and strive for stronger future growth. It encourages youth and early maturities to embrace the year's work, responsibilities, and lessons as foundations for prosperity, prudence, and character.
A short tale about Felix Rogers whose parents died young and a timely shepherd dog in Ohio is celebrated. The piece introduces schoolroom grammar with simple lessons on parts of speech and names the nine parts.
Felix Rogers, a bright teen from a large city poor household, rescues a four year old girl from a blazing apartment and is praised as brave. A wealthy Mrs Richmond saves him from the aunt who raised him, adopts him, and plans his future education while she mourns her lost son. The tale ends noting Felix’s potential as a lawyer or writer and the aunt’s generous sacrifice.
A gentleman keeps two dovecotes with pigeon pairs and their young. One day the family scene is described as the story unfolds, focusing on parental roles and the well being of the flock.
In Pittsburg Post style the tale describes parents in one dovecote seeing a baby bird fall to the ground while their own young peers watch. They gather small sticks and construct a low fence across the doorway to prevent further falls, while the observing owner notes the action.
An Ohio town reports a shepherd dog named Mack waking his sleeping doctor owner during a pre-dawn fire caused by a defective electric wire above a bank. Mack tugged and pawed at the door until opened, then led the physician to the blaze and helped trigger a fire alarm. The building suffered only minor damages.
A leader starts by giving the first three letters of a word such as can in canopy. Players answer aloud with words starting with those letters until someone guesses correctly. Limiting word length increases difficulty. Proper names and obsolete words are not allowed. A prize can motivate players to guess the most words.
A historical verse lists U S presidents in order from Washington to Roosevelt. It moves through Adams Jefferson Madison Monroe Adams Jackson Van Buren Harrison Tyler Polk Taylor Fillmore Pierce Buchanan Lincoln Johnson Grant Hayes Garfield Arthur Cleveland Harrison Cleveland McKinley and Roosevelt, ending with a reflection that fear silences truth.
Mrs Maude Ballington Booth spoke before Denver’s Woman's Club on reforming prisoners. She outlined the Volunteers of America, distinct from the Salvation Army, and described the Volunteer Prisoners League operating in thirteen prisons. She depicted inmate hopelessness and the enduring stigma after release, urging belief in second chances and upright lives, and noted two Hope halls offering supported reintegration away from prying eyes.
William I. Curtis notes in the Chicago Records Herald that American taxpayers in the United States would find relief versus Europe where life insurers face city property investments and taxes exceeding a third of rental receipts. Berlin and Vienna impose high rates, with strict fire-proof building rules and limited options for the poor, who mostly rent suburbs.
President Roosevelt urges Congress to adopt a national policy that supports irrigation while enabling local communities to help themselves. The Romero Irrigation Co. is highlighted for developing thousands of acres in the Sunny San Luis Valley, Colorado. Write to Zephest for details and irrigation literature at 102 Boston Building, Denver, Colo.
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