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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1900
Page
2
Casier's Magazine notes that ironclads like the Monitor and Merrimac faced airless turrets causing a disease named ironclad fever with typhus like symptoms followed by coma and death. Ventilation innovations resolved the illness and made metal ships safer afloat.
Stephen Crane, the American novelist and war correspondent who died in Badenweiler, gained fame for The Red Badge of Courage. He served as a war correspondent in Greece-Turkey, Cuba, and the Spanish American War, noted for bravery on firing lines and later criticized for war scene portrayals. Born Newark New Jersey in 1871, he began writing early after Lafayette education.
Edmond Gosse argues in the May Atlantic that the Trinity Milton manuscript is the most precious piece of English literature. He notes most major authors’ works lack their own handwriting, but Milton’s sheets reveal the mind and craft in action. The Trinity volume is Milton’s unquestioned handwriting except for some sonnets copied by amanuenses.
Ada C. Sweet argues that self-reliance is valuable in material affairs but should not erase the recognition of equal worth in others. The piece contrasts self-centered confidence with the idea that everyone is as good as Sam, urging a balance between independence and mutual respect.
A brief rift among foreign powers over China's division sparks debate while readers note the country’s uncertain fate. The item also mentions rising cases of dyspepsia and stomach issues as people seek relief with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. A note from Billville says John returned from the Philippines on furlough with one leg, securing a lifelong pension.
An old advertisement describes Allen's Foot Ease powder for tight shoes and foot ailments. It promises relief from swelling heat sweating aching feet and bunions with a trial package offered by mail.
An old newspaper ad promotes Know Thyself and The Science of Life as free postpaid medical books for men, with packaging details and a library edition offered for $1.00. It cites The Peabody Medical Institute at 4 Bulfinch Street, Mass., as the source and highlights engravings, plates, and a gold medal prize claim.
A collage of vintage ads and jokes includes a weekly salary note for a poultry firm, a pun about a census, laundry inked with Faultless Starch, Mrs Winslow teething remedy, a quip about tidiness, a claim against baldness with Coke Dandroff Cure, and a brief exchange on curios. The pieces evoke local commerce and social humor of the era with named brands and playful dialogue.
An assortment of advertisements and quips including Hall's Catarrh Cure priced at 75e, notices about Castoria for Infants and children, a Book of Choice Recipes offer, gossip quotes about personal letters, a 1900 letter praising Piso's Cure for Consumption, and a newspaper joke about cooks and organ grinders.
A testimonial from Mrs Anse Tompson of South Hot Springs Arkansas praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for long term female health issues including leucorrhoea womb and ovaries inflammation and severe menstrual pain. She credits ten bottles and Sanative Wash with restoring health enabling daily work sleep appetite and life. She urges others to follow directions for a cure.
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