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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1897
Page
6
Fourteen year old Jack Clark of Sherman Maine drove cattle home at dusk when a moose charged from the shadows. He fled to a tree and stayed aloft for about an hour until the animal departed. He reported the encounter to his family afterward.
Table Talk notes fashion moving toward sense and sincerity in social life. Visiting cards announce at home days, with etiquette shifting to polite restraint and honesty. Afternoon calls replace formal dinners, with guests asking if a hostess is receiving and continuing hospitality through tea and receptions.
The Providence Journal recounts Halley’s comet пути through history from 1066 to 1835 and notes current effort by the Russian Astronomical Society to compute its true orbit. Prof Glasenapp warns the next return, likely in 1911, may be detected earlier with advanced telescopes, improving timing accuracy to hours or minutes.
English papers record the death of Tiny the four inch toy terrier owned by General Sir Archibald Mclaine. He never was a war dog and died of a cold after years of poor appetite. The body was stuffed and donated to the Zoological Museum in London as a noted example of a pygmy breed.
Rene Clayton a Philadelphia cigar dealer owns a nanny goat famed for an unusual taste for rats. The pet patrols cellars and brings prey to the door causing complaints. While a rat bolted through a dining room the goat chased it wrecking a chair the owner later had to replace. The animal is sent to the country for rest.
A voice urges gentleness with children, praising calm reproof over anger. It recalls a father who prefers kindness to beating, hoping memory preserves homes where a mother’s tear and a father’s sorrowful frown guided them. Adversity may come, but the home’s law of kindness endures.
A Toronto loan association secretary swung an axe to cut wood in his yard and fatally struck his head when the blade foul hooked a clothesline. Police reported the accident occurred at his residence with the man dying from the injuries.
A note states ladders will be placed in the B cell house bedrooms to help sleepy residents rise each morning. The plan aims to prompt punctual wakefulness without detailing implementation or timetable.
A Southern sanitarium scene recalls luxury before the war as guests watch a sunset behind Mount Pisgah. A northerner asks about local customs, while a southern woman grins and notes she has seen such sunsets before the war. The exchange ends with the teaser that it was “befo' the wa'.”
Mrs. Cleveland toured the president's newly purchased Princeton residence and decided it needs more closets. The remark reflects her practical approach to the famously spacious home.
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