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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1895
Page
2
The article describes a new pair of curling irons with a lever trigger that opens the jaws independently of grip. Hair is clamped, and a ratchet mechanism rotates the tongs to curl the hair. The device aims to speed up curling with less wrist effort and no reheating.
Dean Hole praises Mr Peabody as a major benefactor of London. He notes the well built worker housing, its influence on plant prize winners, and argues temperance comes from common sense conscience and spiritual influence rather than coercion.
The story recalls Empress Catherine’s warm regard for her ladies at court. Waliszewski’s history notes she noticed Mlle Potocka lacked pearls and ordered a ball for her. Potocka arrived as a milk maid and Catherine secretly slipped a pearl necklace into her pail, calling the necklace the curdled milk.
An English grave digger who also serves as parish clerk and beadle recounts a joke about how he came to be known by successive nicknames. A visitor asking if he was the sexton leads to the playful line about evolving titles from sexton to beetle to Virgin.
A new sewer sanitation project in the City of Mexico, costing about 25 000, plans twenty five wind mills to be built in various districts. The mills would rotate paddle wheels to speed the sewer current to one metre per second.
A Spanish proverb says that an ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. The home is the first church, the hearthstone the first altar, and father and mother the first teachers.
Senate amends and passes second reading of the bill abolishing capital punishment and the Reuter bill appointing unpaid commissioners for uniformity in U S legislation. Bailey's bill to strike exclusive from paragraph 18 is discussed. A wage lien exemption bill is defeated. House endorses Minor bill on proportional representation but tabs it. final allocations listed for multiple counties and towns.
In the Senate a heated discussion over a memorial attacking government stance on the bond issue and diver federal attitude. Populists push adoption while Republicans oppose due to wording. Hartzell pins blame on Teller and Wolcott. House clarifies tax, aging, and language provisions as bills advance through readings and amendments.
Debates on creating a Cripple Creek mining region as Oro County dominate the El Paso county division fight. Cripple Creek merchants largely back the split while Cripple Creek residents oppose it amid county-line committee action and a joint House-Senate session.
Lawmakers discuss a House passed track system bill and a joint memorial to Congress regarding coinage, with Kennedy pledging backers to certain theories. Several finance and judiciary measures advance, including mortgage law changes, insurance law updates, and tax matters, while memorials on Senate elections and mineral lands proceeds receive votes.
The Senate was not in session. The House met at noon and passed a bill to cap interest at 6 percent when no agreement prevents higher rates, with an amendment to set maximum at 12 percent. A cigarette sale and manufacture bill was adversely reported by Medical Affairs but set aside for later. A bill to prohibit child labor in mines was amended and laid on the table by Labor, prior to consideration.
The Indian bill moved through conference committees with the amendment gaining consent. Officials hope the amendment will secure the bill, though there is doubt whether the executive endorsement will follow.
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