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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1901
Page
3
An 1890s discussion outlines rising cremation in U S cities from 1900s data, with insurance and religious objections. Proponents cite public health and crime prevention, while opponents argue scriptures mandate burial. The piece envisions checks to verify cause of death before cremation.
A mother and daughter in Georgia turned old wedding quilts into a thriving business. They sold a selection to hotel guests near them, earning enough to pay off their mortgage and stock the farm with better bloodlines and tools. The venture began with a few quilts and grew to a steady annual income, with plans to expand the enterprise.
The United States consumes about 700 million wooden toothpicks annually, mostly imported from Japan, Portugal, and Maine. In the U S, five thousand cords of wood are used each year for toothpick production, with 95 percent from Maine. White birch dominates the timber, especially in Franklin county, while outside Maine production centers are Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New York. Logs are peeled, cut into veneers, then finished into toothpicks at a rate of a thousand per minute. factories operate only a few weeks yearly to meet demand. Portugal yields the finest toothpicks, hand-whittled from orangewood splints by girls earning 10 cents daily, prized in top restaurants and refined homes. Japan ranks next, hand-cut from reeds, competing with American products despite a 35 percent duty due to cheap Japanese labor.
An overview of early solar power ambitions and Dr William Calver of Washington claiming a pan heliomotor could concentrate sun rays to generate up to 24 000 degrees of heat and burn through rock and wood with mirrors and focusing spots. The piece then notes Socialist deputies in Italy opposing a government bill modeled on French anti anarchist law, arguing it curtails personal liberty.
Woolsey Aspinwall recounts voyage to Nome from Seattle, facing arctic ice off Nunivak Island and isolation on a barren coast. He details beach gold prospects late, finds ore cleaned up, and notes Tent camps near Hungry Creek. He weighs odds of making money, urging hardy, sustained effort for eventual riches and a bright Alaska future.
The sale of Craig-y-Nos, Adelina Patti 1843 birth legend, brings the famed singer back into public notice. Patti rose from Madrid roots to New York opera to London Royal Italian Opera, earning fame, wealth, and a luxurious Welsh castle, with a theater and landscaped grounds. The new owner is Sir George Newness, a London publisher.
A French investigator concludes military and naval men show the highest brain fatigue with 199 per 100,000 going mad. Among liberal professions artists top the list, then lawyers, doctors, clergy, writers and civil servants. Commerce leads in mental steadiness with 42 per 100,000 going to a madhouse, though U S figures may differ.
South Sea white bait, a tiny raw fish caught during September, is described as the mnanga by Samoan fishermen. The fish spawn in river mouths, are captured with a cloth net, and eaten raw by locals and visitors. A Maine debt law permits seizing town assets for unpaid debts, and Otis town officials face looming enforcement as officers seize a selectman’s oxen and residents’ cows.
An advertisement urges women experiencing nervousness backache and dizziness to seek Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound for relief. It promises confidential guidance from Mrs Pinkham Lynn Massachusetts and offers free advice without doctor fees.
Mrs Valentine of Camden New Jersey testifies that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound relieved her intense nervous fatigue headaches stomach pain and back and side pain after taking four bottles she felt like a new person and praised the medicine for helping her regain health.
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