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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1902
Page
8
A wealthy thrifty man Mr Jones plans a Thanksgiving surprise for a poor elderly couple who have long hosted his family. In a private moment he reveals he will send them a quarter pound of candy peanut brittle as the gesture of thanks.
The article compares gender labor policy in Germany and France. France orders cuts in women public service staff, citing illness and incompetence, while Germany expands female employment in railways, telegraph, telephone, and clerical posts, with Prussia as a forerunner guiding broader empirewide practice.
A sixteen pound wild goose shot on Lake Liberty shore near Spokane, Washington, carried a two inch polished ivory arrow point embedded in its breast. The eight inch arrow likely came from Arctic Eskimo hunters, and the wound had healed. The male goose appeared to have been wounded long ago.
Jan Kubelik, in search of a soul, says only a woman’s love can reveal his deepest passions through music. He admits he is very young and envisions a devoted, self sacrificing partner who would die for him as his muse. The interview notes his paradox of longing and artistic output.
Vaudeville performer Mr Goode from the team Goode and Rottenne slipped on a banana peel in the street. He picked himself up with a puzzled look and quipped that the bass drummer had likely gone to sleep again.
During a heated antislavery speech Charles Burley was struck by a decayed egg. he wiped his face and quipped that pro slavery arguments are unsound, drawing cheers. The crowd's hostility subsides as Burley continues.
Milton E. Ailes assistant secretary of the treasury delivered an impromptu toast at a Knights Templar banquet in Washington after expecting to be later in the program. He joked that a hometown epitaph once said I expected this, but not so soon.
Leslie's Weekly notes that the United Fruit Company distributed about 17,500,000 banana bunches and 13,500,000 cocoanuts in the United States and Canada in the past year. Sixty ocean-going steamers served the banana trade, averaging over twenty bananas per person while cocoanuts were more sparsely divided.
Boxes on the Quai d Orsay hold many religious titles from the Carmelites library in Rue de Vaugirard, dispersed two months ago when the order left France. Some works are 200 to 300 years old, with faded owner signatures on yellowed pages.
Old Scottish coal mines near exhaustion prompt search for new fields. Four estates in Fifeshire yield 5 518 acres with an annual rent roll of 20 000 dollars. Buyers paid 830 000 dollars for these properties as activity surges. harbor improvements at Burntisland and Methil are needed to handle traffic.
A new volume by Robert Brown, an East Anglian scholar, collects essays on Gladstone as a Greek archaeologist and scholar. The work follows broader Gladstone studies by others such as Mr. Bryce and surveys his activities in classical scholarship.
The Norwegian council of the state will negotiate a loan of £2,000,000 to fund railway construction and an extensive telephone system across Norway. The United States postal revenue in 1901 reached about $111,000,000.
Extensive rail fare details for year round excursions to Grand Canyon Arizona Phoenix Prescott and Hot Springs New Mexico with limits 60 days final return nine months side trips to Pueblo Colorado Springs Denver and more Colonist and second class rates to California and Northwest points for March April 1902 plus special rates for Federation of Women’s Clubs Los Angeles convention and American Cattle Growers’ Association Denver meeting.
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