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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1901
Page
6
Olivia Oatman, a 17 year India born Buddhist priestess, visits the United States to preach. She shows a path from spiritist Buddhism with white robes then yellow upon advancement, rejects the idea of sacrifice, and teaches reincarnation beliefs and vegetarianism.
The article notes Prof Richard Lynch Garner believed dead in the French Congo after 1892 gorilla study. He built a steel cage, learned gorilla speech with a chimpanzee companion, and claimed a 30-sound anthropoid vocabulary. He recorded monkey speech in U.S. zoos before leaving for Africa.
The late William L. Trenholm former U S treasury comptroller under President Cleveland is remembered for three years of service after his appointment in the first Cleveland administration He later led the American Surety Company and the North American Trust Company His widow is Mrs Kate Louise McBeth of Charleston S C The report notes his stature in New York finance and his memberships in several clubs and societies including the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the New York Chamber of Commerce He authored The People's Money and served on the Civil Service Commission in 1885 and 1886
Prominent silk manufacturers urge federal action to compel labeling of weighted or dynamited silk goods. They claim metallic dyes inflate fiber weight and harm legitimate trade, saying dyers’ ingenuity has grown so vast that strict legislation is needed to protect consumers and honest producers.
The fusion majority in the Colorado legislature elected Senator Patterson to succeed Senator Walcott. Patterson is editor of the Rocky Mountain News of Denver and a former Populist congressman.
Alvord, the era’s major embezzler, confessed to stealing $700,000 from his bank employer and expects a lighter sentence. The report notes the certainty of punishment for embezzlement. Secretary Ross presses kindergarten and industrial education in public schools, citing France’s lead in 1876 and urging similar programs in England and Germany.
Lord Pauncefote and William Gwynn, a colored doorkeeper, share a rheumatism tale. Gwynn had recommended a cure, and soon after the diplomat claimed it cured his rheumatism but gave him gout, noting the odd result in a street meeting.
Sanford Bennett, a prominent Encinal resident, touts distilled water and California olive oil as the secret to perpetual youth. He asserts the method reverses aging, promises a long life, and plans a public lecture on health and longevity. He demonstrates hair regrowth after applying oil.
Descriptions of the army moving toward Pekin show miles of coolies, vehicles, and animals in a vast transport operation. The scene includes diverse wheeled conveyances and state alike commandeered all along the path with Japanese and Russian involvement noted. Also mentions large convoy of munitions ferried upriver by coolies and multiple crafts in action.
A New York syndicate forms the American-Illwaian Steamship Company to operate eleven steel ships for freight and limited passenger service. The first ship Hawaiian, 435 feet long with 8 250 ton capacity, is loading in New York. Fleet includes Californian Ameri can Oregonia Arizonian Alaskan Texan. two twin screw ships exceed 12 000 tons. Planes to sail biweekly Honolulu voyages in 58 days.
The piece blends sensational notes about a Nome City Beach gold discovery with health ads for Hostetter's Stomach Bitters and Hall's Catarrh Cure. It weaves in quotes, literary asides, and promotional lines, urging readers to value health, medicines, and periodical literature like George's Weekly and Bryan's Commoner.
A collage of short lines includes barroom quips about liquor and health warnings, a claim for Garfield Tea curing indigestion, a cold remedy advert for Laxative Brom Quinine, and a poultry feed job offer from Javelle M Go at Parsons Kansas.
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