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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1900
Page
5
The article describes a massive 1889 banquet in Paris with 40,000 French mayors at Palais de lIndustrie. It details three relays of guests, 95 chief cooks, 13,000 waiters and helpers, 9,900 plates, 52,000 utensils, 40,000 rolls, and meat and fish quantities as part of the seven events being celebrated.
The Medical Record states fair haired individuals typically have 140000 to 160000 scalp hairs, similar for men and women. Dark haired people average 105000 hairs while red haired individuals have about 30000, though they tend to retain hair longer due to coarser texture.
A large gathering of European royal family representatives is planned on the Riviera likely at Beaulieu or Mentone. Attending are King of Denmark Empress Dowager of Russia Princess of Wales Duke and Duchess of Cumberland Prince and Princess Christian of Denmark Princess Waldermar and Prince Hans of Glucksburg.
The Actas, a recognized dwarf race averaging four feet eight or nine inches, inhabit interior Luzon mountains. They are linked to the Andamanese, who dwell on Bay of Bengal islands. A modern writer notes that dwarf populations persist only in the most inaccessible regions of their continents or islands.
The Berlin sewerage system annually transports 60 to 70 million toma of sewage for distribution over 20 066 acres beyond the city. It costs about 26 million dollars a year but greatly fertilizes the land and is a sanitary disposal of the city’s cowage.
A Wichita seance tale features a cowboy asking a ghost about eternal fire as a shadowy figure groans. The piece then cites a heredity claim: ninety seven percent of offspring of deaf parents are deaf with typical deafness near .6 percent. It attributes this to two heredity laws and a tendency toward normal types in offspring.
A form of English tea merchants offers every married woman who buys a pound of its 75 cent tea a pension of 2.50 dollars weekly for five consecutive weeks if her husband dies while healthy at the start of the program. The pension continues while she remains a widow.
The Department of Agriculture notes an average of 224 lightning deaths annually in the country. With a US population around 76 million, the annual risk of death by a lightning strike is about one in 335 000.
In Japan, women reveal age and marital status to shopkeepers to access designs tailored to single and married life. The practice reflects cultural norms in clothing options and social roles influencing consumer fashion decisions.
The passage notes Canada would be 237000 square miles larger to match Europe, is nearly thirty times the size of Great Britain and Ireland, and about 300000 square miles larger than the United States.
A London Daily Mall note links the late Frank Buckind to a habit of riding with head out for lung aeration and claims motorists gain similar vigor from speed. It cites a renowned English chauffeur under Sir William Broadbent for indigestion and nervous exhaustion who, since embracing motor travel, reports peak health attributed to driving.
A passage claims feather pillows cause ill shaped faces by pressing flesh around the mouth and nose. It notes deep lines and sunken eyes from repeated rubbing and pressure, likening the effect to marks left by pillows in crowded scenes.
New Aztec calendar edition for January to June 1900 now available at A. T. & F. Ry ticket office. Includes six color reproductions of Burbank’s Pueblo Indian portraits and an engraved cover of the Aztec calendar stone. Limited edition, early orders urged, price 25 cents.
Notice from the late members of L. Baldwin & Co. Stockgrowers and Dealers that they have disposed of all interest to remaining members who will continue the business and settle all claims. Signatures include J. C. Barownrs Mes, J. C. Batowr, and Lee Bartow with Lamar Colorado date December 28 1899.
For sale one first class water right in Fort Lyon Canal offered by C. B. Tomay with easy terms.
Stephen N Can aStieict assignee of Perry T Kirk of Prowers County Colorado filed to prove desert land claim No 74 for Ey SEW of Section 6 Township 28 6 Range 42 W 6th P M before the Lamar Colorado Register and Receiver on March 6 1900 W W Reynolds Frank McGrath W E Vincent and J J Banks all of Holly Colorado to witness irrigation and reclamation.
Lanman Office Lamar Colo January 18 1900 Nene has filed notice of intent to make final proof for claim H E No 425 for SE and SW of section 14 township 28 R4W before the United States land office at Lamar Colorado February 23 1900. Witnesses named are W O Pletcher H A River Wm Vernon and Joseph Cook all of Lamar Colo. Register W A Mera
U S Land Office Lamar Colorado announces that Thomas M Phillips for NE Sec 18 Twp 25 Rg 44 W 6th P M will file final proof February 15 1900. Names Merrill Bromfield Riley and others from Lamar Arana. Hill Register.
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