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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1893
Page
6
Knowledge promotes Syrup of Figs as a pure liquid laxative valued for cleansing the system and easing colds headaches fevers and constipation. The remedy acts on kidneys liver and bowels without weakening them and is sold by druggists in 50c and 1 bottles, manufactured only by California Fig Co.
A melancholic verse where the speaker bids farewell under a bright moon and stars. He asks for a parting smile to light his lonely way and describes a cold heart meeting that is only a parting. The text reflects sorrow and departure from a distant beloved.
A man recalls a hotel meeting with a spectral woman who claims gratitude after a murder victim’s skeleton is found. The ghost trails him from Hodgeburg to his boarding house and even pays his train fare, ruining engagement plans with Maud. He tries selling her to a dime museum and other schemes but fails. He ends by returning to Hodgeburg with the ghost still in tow.
A young novelist narrates attempting to be arrested to write a vivid police station portrait. He taunts a Bowery officer, is beaten slightly, then provokes a second near-arrest by acting drunk. the experience leads him to doubt feasible realism in future. He concedes his methods backfire and that he perhaps deserved the rough treatment. Tipping described as fresh reminder of cultural nuance and hospitality.
A Philadelphia Times piece describes a man who pays tenants to move out, buys a house at a high price, and returns at night with a spook to exhume and rebury a luminous woman’s bones. He warns others not to disturb the skeleton for fear of an untimely grave.
A historical note describes sidewalk men in major cities earning two dollars a day plus livery, then shifts to a Tennessee report about a 16 year old boy near Milan born with one eye and hairy growth covering his body, likened to a brute animal.
Count Leo Tolstoi, meeting a young Russian poet who sent his work to the writer, voiced a sharp critique of poetry. He argued poetry hinders clear expression and insists prose best conveys thoughts with succinctness and accessibility. He called verse often the product of literary wantonness and frivolity.
An eclectic fragment traces Mohammed II siege artillery at Scutari with massive stone shots and dwarfing comparisons to modern guns, then veers into advertisements and odd anecdotes including a 1654 archbishop, a deafness cure pitch, and a Windsor Star joke about a grandmother peeling onions during a marriage proposal tale.
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