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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1903
Page
6
A Ballmore News verse notes a horse owner envious of a whip and a whip seeker wanting a horse, ending with a humorous swap idea. It then hints at a playful method to bind captives in staged battles, describing a bound prisoner technique. The piece blends whimsy with a mock cautionary note on restraint.
The text describes a prisoner of war taken to a post and placed in a seated stance, then lifted by a friend to stand. It also details a game where players form a circle, one blindfolded in the middle, with girls as flowers and boys as vegetables, and the chant Roses and Beans prompts seat changes. It ends with instructions for making a simple paper daisy flower.
Practical arts and games for children and gatherings include making paper flowers with wire stems and yellow centers, a thought reading trick with two performers, a flower meaning glossary, a spring seed mixing experiment, two simple games Blind Postman and The Travelers Alphabet, a Left-Hand Party concept, and a note that Sunday Island is described as the tallest mountain rising 2000 feet from water in the Pacific.
A simple camera obscura experiment shows why objects seen through a small pinhole appear inverted. Two nested boxes with a ground glass screen and a copper pinhole reveal a real image formed by straight light rays, where rays from the top strike the bottom and vice versa.
A humorous ramble on geotwisticus of the liver as a quirky spring fever, mixing comic verses about frogs, worms, and fishing lore with a playful jab at a Bluejacket band comparison. It closes with a note from an Illinois paper about strawberry colic in a youth.
A sharp line notes a speaker who, after railing at womankind, decides to approach a woman with his troubles seeking understanding or help. The tone remains critical yet reveals an attempt at seeking solace from the very group he derided.
The Rochester murder of Theresa Keating is declared solved with the confession of August Russell, born in Belgium, age thirty nine. Corroborating evidence, including his detailed account of the scene, supports guilt amid talk of alienist examination and possible investigations into his past. Russell feared the electric chair, and his wife recalls his nerve storms and fear.
The aged playwright Ibsen has stopped reading papers or letters and refrains from literary activity. He rarely meets people, relies on a servant and masseur, and remains confined to his Copenhagen home aided by two canes. Five years ago he was active and regimented, taking his daily walk and reading newspapers at the Grand Cafe.
Sixty two years ago a man named Jones moved from Kentucky to Dade county Missouri with ten children. A reunion at Everton drew 1 019 descendants with a few expected late. Most descendants married and settled in the same southwestern Missouri neighborhood.
Princely German merchant Hugo zu Hohenlohe Oehringen forms a company with merchant Schode, capital $75,000, to use oil for road dust suppression. He is brother of the duke of Vrest, owner of forests in Silesia and Hungary.
Bronson Howard, the dramatist, is in Pasadena California and plans to stay two or three years. He says doctors cannot determine his illness and that three years ago they advised rest after which he wandered Europe and Egypt. He reports his health now better than in years.
The article traces the origins of Astor wealth to the Bowery, noting William B. Astor inherited about $600,000 from his uncle Henry a famed Bowery butcher. His uncle’s fortune, invested around 1846, contributed significantly to creating the Astor estate and its future fortune.
Massillon chief Edward Ertle towers among peers at six feet two and 247 pounds. A highly active figure, he is described as an unusually athletic lawman.
The piece argues urban pressures on food supply shrink farm labor and quality. It notes city-bred workers lack farm spirit and pace versus eight-hour city workers. It predicts a coming migration of city-educated workers to farms, aided by agricultural schooling and business training. The trend could reshape districts that supply breakfast foods.
General Fitzhugh Lee has accepted a Jersey City Daughters of the Revolution invite to deliver an oration at the Paulus Hook monument unveiling on October 24. He is a descendant of Light Horse Harry Lee, who led American forces at Paulus Hook on July 19, 1779.
The first American baby born on Guam is the daughter of Eugene Dewey Ryan, a United States Navy paymaster aboard the Concord. The infant, described as a distinguished little stranger, is about one to two months old. Ryan has served in Guam for about a year and participated in the battle of Manila aboard the Concord.
The Congo tribe communicates with large bamboo drum hoops stretched with animal skin. The drums, used only on important occasions, convey messages across distances and reflect a curious traditional method of signaling.
Sir Frederick Pollock the renowned English lawyer and law writer has accepted an invitation to read a paper before the annual meeting of the American bar association to be held in Hot Springs Virginia from August 26 to 28.
A Chicago man preserves a handwritten list of peculiar Maine names once noted by the late Thomas B. Reed. The items include Ezek Smith, Hasa siah Jones, Liberty Brown, Calvary Thomas, Hopestill Waters, Bana Bullock, Kilah Manley, Galen Kirk, Summer Allfiend, Generous Pascal, Uzza Fellowes, Zophan Harum, Diodantia Gilmore, Mesbach Carson, Cotton Milliken, Priam Sproull, Deluva Dickson and Barcillai Sawyer, all names Reed claimed to know personally.
A broad classification of West Point graduates lists notable outcomes up to now. It counts one president and two presidential candidates, eight presidential electors, four cabinet members, 29 diplomatic representatives, 24 members of Congress, 122 other federal officers, 18 governors and lieutenant governors, 85 state legislators, 124 civil and 178 military officers of states, 64 city officials, 230 educators, 236 railroad officials, 233 civil engineers, 214 judges and lawyers, 22 clergymen, 50 other professionals, 268 business men, 230 farmers and planters, and 172 authors.
Herbert Gladstone earned the nickname Tuppence after his father raised the income tax by two pence about thirty five years ago. The nickname stayed with him through his lower-form days at Eton. He is described as a short broad shouldered man with a Spaniard complexion and a strong golf interest.
Mme Norcrosse a California singer won praise in London and first appeared as a child at Madison Square Theater New York in The Colleen Bawn. When a principal actress fell ill she stepped in on short notice, became a hit, but declined a dramatic career. She later moved to Paris to study music.
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