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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1895
Page
3
An ornate advertisement extols knowledge, comfort, and personal enjoyment from a swift purgative that cleanses the system and eases headaches and fevers. It claims to act on the liver and bowels without weakening them, pledges purity, and notes bottles sell for 1 dollars with the California Fig Syrup logo printed on every bottle.
The piece outlines circus slang and jargon used by traveling showmen. It names terms for roles and areas such as main guy, guys, tops, big top, kid show, barker, Dutchers, grafters, Rube, Hey Rube, wind-jammers, razor backs, lusher, jump, red wagon show, lot, camp, stock tops, and various act-specific labels. It notes historical ties to violence and evolving speech across regions.
A former Lane Seminary student recalls Dr. Ly man Beecher's mockery of tardiness caused by the chapel bell. Beecher, in dressing gown and slippers, laments the bell's quiet toll and jests that it makes no more noise than a lamb's tail rung in a fur cap before leading prayer.
The article describes kidneys filtering impurities from blood as it passes, noting that inactivity leads to Brights disease, dropsy, diabetes and other fatal ailments. It promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a diuretic to revive kidney sifting and cleanse impurities, also aiding bladder catarrh gravel and urine retention. It claims malaria rheumatism constipation biliousness dyspepsia and nervous weakness improve with the Bitters.
A newspaper notice promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a universal cure for catarrh, claiming it cures at all stages by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. The ad offers a one hundred dollar reward if it fails, and invites readers to request testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio. Pills are also advertised.
An advertiser touts Salzer seeds for oats, wheat, corn, potatoes, grass and clover, promising enormous yields and larger barns. It urges readers to mail 7e postage to La Crosse Wisconsin for a free Grass and Clover Mixture sample and seed book. Also promotes Mrus Wixstow Teething Remedy and Giant Spurry seed.
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