Lamar's Fourth Independence Day Celebration Recap
The Lamar community hosted a large Independence Day celebration with closed businesses, a morning sunrise salute, and a Lamar win over Syracuse in a ball game. Activities at the grove included a picnic and speech by Granby Hillyer, racing events at the track, a fireworks display, patriotic music by the Colebourn family band, and a grand evening ball at Galladay's hall.
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Lamar
Syracuse
Granby Hillyer
Ora Cinssne
Hugh Douglas
Dan McLean
Jim Bradley
Ed Silver
Colebourn
Galladay’s Hall
Curious Facts From Old Columns And Oddities
A stream of curious excerpts mentions a soda siphon explosion injuring a clerk named George Curtis in Washington DC, cargoing dead bodies described as statuary, ink from New Granada turning black, amber containing a small squirrel, Charleston chimney sweeps, ancient papyrus ads, Morro castle terminology, fashionable New York men as walking advertisements, and a Java boiling mud lake with giant bubbles that explode periodically.
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Washington
D.C
George Curtis
New Granada
Baltic Sea
Charleston
S. C
Thebes
Pompei
New York City
Grobogana
Java
Blind brothers serve as Ashville mail carriers
In Ashville North Carolina two brothers who are both blind work as mail carriers. They travel to nearby mountain towns on rough roads without guides and rely on the intelligence of their horses. In four years of service they have met with no accident.
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Sam
Ashieville
N. C
Three lives saved by unlikely canine hero in Paris
Two Parisian gendarmes found a stray Russian deerhound named Dimitri near Canal d Ourcy. When a child fell into the canal, Emil Nolle swam to rescue him but was overwhelmed until Dimitri bit the rope and freed both child and rescuer. The dog vanished after the daring act, leaving three lives saved and no trace. Also notice for dentist Drs Young and Shrock at Union Hotel on July 10 for four days.
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Canal d'Ourcy
Dimitri
Quali de la Marne
Emil Nolle
Gazette
Drs. Young & Shrock
Union Hotel
Also Mentioned on This Page
Co. C. Huddleston
Lamar, Colorado
Cc. M. Lees
Boyd’s Druc Store
Post Office Building
Doctor Clary
Ofice
Lamar Union Hotel
Lamar, Colo
Hasty, M.D
Goodale Block
Lakan
Colorado
Doctor Feweres
J. W. Bent
Laman, Coronapo
Goodale Building
J. K. Doughty
OmMeein Land Omee Building
U. 8
Orrick , Laman, Corp
G Iven
Luther L. Higtr
Ter
Keesiver
Colo
Eras Ome
Wright
Peal
Joead
W. A. Memaris, Rewister
U.S. Lawp
Laman
Coto
Thorntons
Timber Calturventry No
Benjamin Braner
Benjamin Bruner
United States
W. A. Merrit
Register
Conwell Bid
East Main Street
J. S. Bryant
M. Strain
Close Bros. & Go
Prowers County
Arkansas Valley
Amity Canal
Close Bros. & Co
Chicago, Ill
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