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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1900
Page
6
The Register notes the tallest man in Maryland lives in Carroll county near Westminster. The piece lists varied average amounts of money held by different nationalities and mentions Oklahoma City's growth with a Carnegie library gift. It also describes Siamese royal youth sending boys to England to study diverse trades and sciences.
George W. Dart, who raised the Stars and Stripes over the Confederate capital at Columbia, S C during Sherman’s march, has entered the Soldiers' Home of Iowa in Marshalltown. His home was in Attica, New York.
The commission overseeing the Fast River bridge asks the institution to start condemnation proceedings for about $2,000,000 of property needed for the Brooklyn approach. Three churches are among the obstacles to the project.
Two sisters in San Francisco excel in men’s trades, one a 20 year old carpenter who built a five room house for her family, the other a boss painter. Their father, a carpenter, raised them as boys to pursue skilled trades.
A grim relic arrives at a San Francisco museum. The back-scratcher is carved from the leg bone of a missionary killed and eaten by islanders early in the century. The item passed from grandfather to husband, then to the museum due to his wife’s disapproval of its gruesome associations.
Twenty one wagons moved through Wabash Indiana in a solemn procession carrying the county's last marketable black walnut logs. The tree once abundant and majestic is now practically extinct, underscoring the need for protective forestry laws.
In a New Jersey glass plant, a horse in a department worked without equal hours, while human workers sought shorter hours. After a brief strike, they offered to resume when the horse’s hours matched theirs, hoping for a fair settlement and the horse’s welfare.
New York ideas advocate lighting upgrade for the statue. Charles Canfield proposes sending a jet of steam through the arm to create a visible flame as night falls, using the existing lighting plant on Bedloe's island with minimal extra cost.
The Kansas City Democratic platform is seen as a revival of old cries with imperialism framed as the main issue. Supporters from Silver Republicans and Populists react, while Teller presses the platform as excellent despite denouncing related doctrines in the Senate.
The piece traces three eras of Democratic fear of imperialism from Jefferson to Grant. It argues early Democrats opposed monarchy and military despotism, cites annexations under Jefferson and Jackson, the Mexican War under Polk, Lincoln’s wartime policies, and Grant’s 1872 renomination as examples of imperialist accusations.
The piece rebukes fears of a Republican plot to revive militarism and crown McKinley with empire. It recalls Grant’s reelection and public trust, notes heavy standing army numbers, and argues Democrats must save the republic. It dismisses the fright as overworked and unpersuasive in Colorado and other western states.
The permanent Democratic convention chairman James D. Richardson of Tennessee led a scheme to profit from a government document. He took stereotype plates for a Presidents publication and later printed a private edition bearing Copyright 1807. A distribution committee sold copies at 34 dollars a set, netting about 27 dollars profit per set. Congress investigated and labeled the venture a form of monopoly, though noting neither Richardson nor the New York Ice Company fit the classic trust definition.
The Colorado governor and fusion silver candidate steers away from free coinage in a keynote that critics say signals a platform shifting silver from its leading role. East gold papers praise the omission as prudent though Kansas City sentiment trends toward endorsing a silver stance. The piece also questions any link between the Vice Presidential candidate and Standard Oil.
The Silver Republican National Committee nominates William J. Bryan for president and endorses Adlai E. Stevenson as candidate for vice president. It criticizes the 1896 shift to gold standard, praises independence, and urges unity with Democrats and Populists to defeat trusts and imperialism in the coming election.
An American army nurse recently returned from Cuba reports a dramatic scene as a Cuban laundress visits the hospital. The woman speaks of an attack on wounded men and nurses, alarming the nurse and hospital staff. An ill typhoid officer, who understands Spanish, permits the nurse to relay the warning. the message ends with a puzzling line about stripes on a pink shirt waist. The Nautical Almanac style anecdote closes with the line, leaving the cause unclear.
London dispatches indicate the Pekin legations were declared safe on July 4 but later reports cast doubt, with Chinese forces near Tientsin and increasing violence in provinces as foreigners retreat from southern areas. Japanese and Russian movements, and renewed unrest, shape the peril for foreigners in China.
In Cripple Creek Eva Hrooks was killed at Silver Street home by Bruce Seward who then shot himself. Earlier Seward had killed a man in Leon Kansas years ago and was pardoned from Leavenworth. The sequence followed a broken affair with Hrooks after she refused his advances and reunited with her parents.
A Special Record from Hermosilla, Mexico reports James Crawford of Bensox and others with T. B. G. Gedine and Martin Hulen of Aspen arriving with placer gold ore totaling sixty dollars in gold dust, summing their earnings for months of work about fifty miles south of Panis.
Instructions describe a method to detect escaping sewer gas using a moist white muslin cloth treated with acetate of lead. If gas escapes the cloth darkens, indicating danger and requiring immediate action.
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