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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1903
Page
6
The Tailor and Cutie observes that tailors use padding haircloth and similar materials to make clients look presentable. They note padding and wadding are used to hide deformities and highlight desirable features, illustrating the craft’s ingenuity.
Argument favors burying dead presidents in a national Washington cemetery. Proposals include increasing guard at the temporary McKinley tomb, basing the garrison on an army post, expanding hospital and dispensary facilities, and selecting a new site to house sixty five personnel.
In Paris a central wireless telegraphy station is proposed to distribute news to subscribers across the city. The Societe Francaise de Telegraphie Sans Fil has been organized with this aim, and experimental stations around Paris appear to operate satisfactorily.
In Paterson New Jersey Miss Aimee Stage and Augustus Post recently wed. The bride wore a family heirloom pin carried by sixteen previous brides from the same line. The pin first appeared with her grandmother Mrs Stephen Courter sixty six years ago and has since become a family marriage tradition.
A railroad company conducts experiments with a freight car whose trucks carry rail bearing journals. It is claimed these bearings allow the car to run so easily that one person can prove it. If successful, train loads could be doubled using the same power.
A little boy slept through dinner and dreamed a weeklong dream. When awakened he learned it was only five minutes. He quipped that it takes an awful long time to sleep five minutes.
Aaron Burr fled the scene after the duel and, when asked where he would go next, replied that he could not tell whether he would remain Aaron Burr or be Burr in air. He paused to kick aside a rope on his route before continuing his rapid departure.
A Marion county candidate reports paying his wife 50 cents for tending the fire five times while preparing affidavits of election expenses. The remark raises concern that bribery may be involved and triggers questions about impropriety in Kansas.
Historical records note at least twenty six star sightings across ages with one of the brightest appearing in Cassiopeia in 1572 shortly after the St Bartholomew massacre.
A proposed $7,500,000 hotel in New York aims to redefine the era’s luxury. The piece recalls a Waldorf-Astoria guest once afraid to leave his boots outside, fearing they would be gilded, signaling renewed public interest in opulent pursuits.
An official Vienna advertisement cites Baroness Bourseheld declaring her whereabouts and scheduling a court appearance. The notice notes she was born in February and references a century-old record. The fragment emphasizes legal action linked to her residence and the ongoing court process.
The largest holly trees in the world grow in the Northern United States and in Canada. These giants reach about 70 feet tall and a girth of six to eight feet.
A curious Venetian superstition holds that if a stranger dies in a hotel, the room number becomes lucky in the next lottery. The belief links a death event to future prize outcomes within local lore.
Four to nine leaf clover specimens presented to Queen Alexandra by a Welsh lady, among the collection received by the royal household.
The bishop of London reports only one in eighty residents attend church or chapel. In Leeds England a couple over fifty marry after a thirty year courtship. Next year most German seaside resorts will allow mixed bathing.
Congressman Hilderbrandt of Ohio sat in his committee room with a startled look and no brows after a celluloid eye shade he wore near his desk caught fire. He struck a match to light his cigar and the flame touched the shade, causing the eyebrows to puff away in a brief flash.
A Connemara peasant tale notes women carry turf and seaweed in baskets on their backs while men smoke. A bank manager recalls being asked whether, with turf season coming, he should marry a wife or buy a donkey.
In the House of Lords Lord Halsbury, England's lord chancellor, challenged counsel on the phrase practical. He dismissed the term as unreliable, saying he distrusts the word when used to claim something is practically so and so.
A law student once confounded examiners by declaring marriage an illegal state. Asked how, he replied with a smile that marriage is a lottery and lotteries are forbidden by law, highlighting his view on the law and matrimony.
German newspapers mark the fiftieth anniversary of bug powder called Dalmatian powder. Anna Rosseur, a German woman, identified chrysanthemum flowers as lethal to insects and reported her finding to a druggist. The insect powder trade in Dalmatia is now valued at millions.
Longtime Minnesota Republican leader and Dawes Commission member Tams Bixby intends to relocate to Oklahoma. He will start a newspaper to "grow up with the country" and aims to run for Congress after Oklahoma becomes a state.
A physician who has kept nightly pulse records for five years notes a yearly pattern. Pulse declines each spring and mid summer, rises through autumn to November or December, then falls again and rises, culminating in February. The pattern repeats annually.
Prof. T A Jagger Jr of Harvard warns residents in volcanic regions should build cellars or masonry chambers to seek shelter during eruptions of Mont Pelee. He recommends such shelters as preventive measures for disaster mitigation and cites ongoing investigations.
The red liberty cap symbolized galley slave headwear. Swiss soldiers from the Chateauroux regiment sent to the galleys for Nancy riots returned to Paris with their caps and were hailed as victims of despotism.
Historical note recalls that Christmas trees were unknown in England until Queen Victoria's reign. Prince Albert decorated the first tree for Princess Royal and the Prince of Wales, then toddlers aged 3 and 4.
Within twenty five years American astronomers have won as many annual medals of the Royal Astronomical Society of England as astronomers of all other countries, except England, combined.
Nelson's old ship the Victory remains accessible to the British public while soon to be superseded as Portsmouth's admiral's flagship. The change reflects ongoing naval tradition and public interest in historic vessels.
One hundred thousand replicas of a special medal struck to commemorate Mr. Chamberlain's tour have been ordered for the Cape.
A thirty five year court case over a Brooklyn land plot ends with a decision establishing ownership. The suit named local parties and involved long standing property claims resolved by the court.
The world’s oldest printed calendar, found in Wiesbaden, is attributed to Johannes Gutenberg and dated 1448. The discovery highlights early movable-type printing and places Gutenberg at the origin of a centuries old calendar tradition.
A Birmingham discussion of English slang highlights phrases like brightening their intellect as a euphemism for police assaults. In medical lore, “heart is kept working” notes blood circulating once every two minutes.
A collected page notes Dr W O Coffee of Des Moines offering home eye medicines and a free 80 page book on eye diseases. It lists cures for cataracts and ulcers, plus promotional lines and a free book request. The page also mentions a low national death rate in St Joseph Missouri and various ads and quips about products and politics. It includes drug ads for Hall's Catarrh Cure and Defiance Starch, plus a joke exchange about smoking and Beheld newspaper chatter.
The Maltese island with about 200000 residents relies entirely on goats for milk. Estimates place the goat population around 20000, grazing on roads and hills with little grass, supplemented by carob beans. Average production is four and a half pints per day, with goats costing 10 to 25 dollars each.
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