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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1893
Page
3
A memoir style reminiscence recalls hunting in Arkansas alongside bear dogs near Devil's Den. The narrator describes bee trees, dawn hunting, and the peril of a panther sighting. Dogs bay, the hunter shoots, and a dramatic clash tests courage and loyalty amid jungle and danger.
An analysis of footbinding as a Chinese custom cited from Harper’s Magazine. It traces possible origins to several figures, notes pain and damage, compares to other deformities, and argues it impairs movement and usefulness while offering little genuine beauty or value.
Our beauty, from tip to tip, measured nine feet eight inches. None of the dogs were killed. But many were badly maimed and bore the marks of the panther's claws the rest of their lives.
The piece notes Navajo blankets dyed with aniline colors and valued highly by both Native and white buyers. It contrasts weaving effort and prices with Indian costs in ponies. It also traces Teutonic family names ending in ingham to Heim home origins and subtribal European settlements.
Abner Adams of Watauga County North Carolina sold a so called cursed walnut tree for fifty dollars. The purchaser L L Council of Elk Park expects to realize fifteen hundred dollars from the deal.
Guests at a recent Australian wedding cast rose petals over the couple as they rode in the carriage, covering the bride in fragrant leaves and marking the ceremony with a festive display.
The Pall Mall Budget notes Lord Rosebery’s push for reports on hasheesh regulation in Egypt, Greece, and Turkey. The drug, made from hempseed husks, is said to disturb digestion and circulation, dull the mind, and cause violence or murder. All cited sources claim long use leads to atrophy, idiocy, and mania, with bans on import, cultivation, and sale.
The article recalls how Sussex fueled medieval and early modern ironwork. Henry II granted Lewes tolls on iron shipments in 1266. Edward I era saw local smelting and London complaints. Sussex built guns at Buxted Heathfield and Robertsbridge, with ordnance carried to Rye. St Paul’s railings by Lamberhurst cost 55 000 dollars.
At a St George's Society dinner in New York General Horace Porter shared a humorous Englishman fact. He quips that an Englishman rides in a hansom cab so that he cannot see the back of the interior or exterior, playfully profiling English modesty and superiority.
In England there is the Rural District Nursing association training nurses for two years at a cost of 250 dollars each. A nurse earns 125 to 159 dollars and receives board lodging and a donkey cart to cover a district of 2009 to 3000 inhabitants.
A collage of early 20th century ads offers lodging at the Bancroft Hotel near the World’s Fair grounds with rooms from one dollar and meals fifty cents, Beecham’s Pills for headaches, Ice cream parlor bravado, a brace of faked aphorisms about secrets, and a Dr J. Marshisi Utica NY offer for a “thousand and one ill” female issues with free bottles to readers.
A collage of early 20th century patent medicine pitches includes Dr Shoop Restorative Nerve Pills promising dyspepsia relief with a free medical book, Dr Kline’s Great Fitness for fits, and a teething remedy for children. The items mimic period promotion with stamps, price notes, and physician-sounding claims.
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