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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1891
Page
2
A New York Sun observer describes a vivid oyster versus starfish battle in shallow water. The oyster clamps the starfish’s rays in its shell, ending the fight as the starfish loses all legs and sinks dead. The tale blends marvel and natural history from an oyster farmer’s viewpoint.
The San Francisco Call recounts Col E A Denicke hosting Capt French and Col John Mosby with other guests where French narrated a Libby prison escape. Mosby recalls capturing him near Gettysburg on the 17th, nearly firing, before surrender saved by Mosby. Also notes quirky author habits and a brief Satan joke from Judge.
An elderly Confederate veteran at a Pikeville home recounted a Gettysburg scene in detail. He described scattering fire, a captain's call, advancing across the field, a numb shock, darkness, and the eventual loss of his arm before recovery in hospital.
Fragments of a marble statue from a premier period of Greek art were found in the Tiber embankment digs. The head is very beautiful and well preserved. Monteverde the sculptor and Morelli the painter deem the statue a chef d'oeuvre and it will soon be shown to the public.
A collage of quotes on fashion class and humor including a London auctioneer scene, hose gift items in a jeweler’s stock, remarks about talkative people and ideal women, Washington timber claims by young women, and assorted humorous vignettes on hats, meals, and fashion trinkets.
A Chicago Herald piece laments the decay of rural roadside blacksmith shops once vibrant centers of craft. Wagons, tires, ironwork and tools crumble, while the master smiths who formed communities fade into legend. The article notes the loss of forges, bellows, benches, and the era when neighbors relied on skilled hands for plows and milk troughs.
A Brooklyn Life feature notes two young college women physicians who set up a modest home in a squalid Mulberry Street tenement to serve the neighborhood poor. They charge whatever the people can pay and aim to apply the Mount’s teachings in daily care, while their names remain undisclosed.
A fragmenting, mixed-read item set surveys the Dead Sea's eerie stillness and heavy waters, then shifts to a crowded ads and notices page featuring patent cures, testimonials, and promotional blurbs from various firms. It includes medical pitches, product claims, and miscellaneous personal notices from 19th-century advertisements.
Advertisers tout Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a perpetual blood purifier with guaranteed results and money back if not beneficial. They compare it to seasonal remedies, list numerous conditions it purportedly treats, and extend a separate $500 reward offer from Dr Sage’s Catarrh Remedy for incurable cases.
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