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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1900
Page
2
On New Year’s Day, Mr Spooner and his wife recall past quarrels about engagements and love letters. Dora, Dick, Marie, and Irene feature in memories of mistaken suspicions, secrets, and reconciliations from a boarding house romance.
Quotation roundup notes diary turning excuses and foibles as the year changes. It hints that alcohol blurs year transitions, Christmas gifts lose shine, beginning goals falter, and diary keeping is praised, while New Year offers chances to repay generosity and curb old year swearing. A New York World sentiment ties seasonal tidbits to personal restraint and reflection.
A New Year greeting prompts reflections on happiness and its meaning. The narrator considers how personal wishes vary from candy to wealth and fame, noting true happiness depends on how money is spent and the sincerity of friends.
The dialogue captures Brown explaining that the items are not for gifts he made his wife but for gifts his wife made him. Green asks in wonder as Brown confirms the origin, and the two men exchange a quiet, sympathetic handshake, reflecting shared emotion.
The piece argues wealth and fame fail to guarantee happiness, urging acts to make others happy as true joy. It muses on social position’s burdens, then shifts to the appeal of new things, fashion, ideas, and technological hopes, imagining a future era with Mars signals and an ideal automatic servant. It reflects late nineteenth century optimism and practical desires for better living.
A Baptist Union reflection questions the value of New Year wishes. It suggests the greeting is hollow unless it becomes a pledge to ease others’ anxieties and bring happiness, urging sincerity beyond cards and routine phrases.
The poem portrays love’s harmony and sin’s cries fading as a speaker, with a sad yet brave heart, steps into the world’s threshold. It emphasizes resolve and hopeful movement toward a broader life journey.
A terse Chicago Record line hints at an impending salary reduction, contrasting a cheerful New Year greeting with an austere bearing that signals managerial intent. The tone suggests corporate or municipal retrenchment affecting staff.
President Draper of the University of Illinois argues in a address on Common School Problems that elementary education has become overly complex and is driven by theories not of broad concern. He notes trends may be good but overextended and urges recognizing that most children will earn a living and thrive through agricultural and mechanical labor, strengthening the country.
The piece notes about 17,000,000 children attend school in the United States, claiming no other country matches this. One-fifth of the population is in free schools, with Europe lagging behind. It extols public schools and expanding trade and technical schools, libraries, and widespread educational effort, calling education the cheapest thing in America.
A quip about Thomas Edison highlights his legendary work ethic. A friend recalls Edison working sixteen hours without noticing the passage of time and suggests his motto would be never watch the clock.
The United States plans a shot fired twenty miles away, a distance record in a display of American ingenuity. The event will showcase a marvel of American workmanship, while Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is noted as a long standing cure for digestion and biliousness.
The note laments scarce goldfinches in England where they are treated as a British institution. It hints milliners may be driving the decline by overharvesting the birds for hat fashions.
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A Civil War note states that 133 southern lawyers rose to general officer ranks in the Confederate army during the War of the Rebellion, highlighting legal professionals elevated to military leadership.
The exhibition featured over two million dollars worth of thoroughbred stock at Dexter Pavilion Chicago on December 18 1900. Prizes totaled nearly $100 000. Advance the champion fat steer sold for one dollar fifty cents per pound live weight on Chicago Scales Co. official scales, a record beef price.
Belgium boasts the highest population density among civilized nations with 593 people per square mile. The ad list promotes Garfield Tea for constipation and stomach disorders, along with various product pitches and quotes. The item also notes McKinley's leave extended to 1901 and advertises the Chicago Special train via Union Pacific.
Caution against catarrh remedies containing mercury. Mercury damages smell and the body, so prescriptions from reputable physicians are advised. Hall's Catarrh Cure by F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio contains no mercury, taken internally, and sold by druggists at 7 cents per bottle.
Electric fountains gain popularity as main attractions, notably in England where many have been installed. Garfield Tea is promoted for cleansing the system purifying blood and aiding liver and kidneys. Many plan to watch the century change, viewing late nights as harmless repetitively.
A dated collage notes the English Post Office earns about 20 million yearly and includes a series of period advertisements for cold cures, chewing gum, and household products. It ends with a weather quip about a predicted cold wave.
Tickets on sale January 13 14 15 1901 for travel to Salt Lake City and return to Denver via Union Pacific. Travel offers best track quickest time and finest equipment. Ticket Office 941 17th street for National Live Stock Association meeting.
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