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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1895
Page
7
A movable pulpit wagon named Gogbel on Wheels travels to worshippers offering Free Seats and alters church services. The device includes a five to seven foot design seen by three observers, detachable and operable from the pulpit platform. It has drawn attention and ridicule yet spurred conversions, with builders receiving orders from other cities for similar wagons to reach unwilling attendees.
A Fargo citizen in the Northern Pacific waiting room faces a candy pistol and a police officer. After threats and a crowd panics, the man bites the barrel off and swallows a large section. The officer jokes that eating it lets him go. A scientist warns against short hair, linking baldness to cutting hair. The czar and his father are described as avid novel readers.
A jumble of remarks and adages from a 19th century page. It includes a scene of Mamie with her mother, a witty exchange about care and resilience, a balloon joke, a testimonial about Piso’s Cure for Consumption, and a stray note on a girl of eighteen’s lively elasticity.
Travel notices advertise reduced Union Pacific System fares to Boston with Aug 17 to 22 departures and Sept 68 returns via Louisville, Ky, with agent Geo Ady at 17th Street Denver. The rest mentions marriage hopes for a rich St. Louis girl to an Indian and various advertisements for tonics, corn removers, and cures sold by druggists, including Hindercorns and Catarrhs Cure.
Knowledge promotes comfort and personal enjoyment by using a pure liquid laxative. Syrup of Figs claims to cleanse the system, relieve colds headaches and fevers and cure constipation without weakening the kidneys liver or bowels. Sold by druggists in 50c and 1 bottles, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co with its name on every page.
A vintage ad touts Doctor Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets small pellets in a vial. 42 to 44 per inch long. One Pellet acts as a laxative, two as a cathartic. A single dose after meals is said to stimulate digestion and ease over eating by gently triggering stomach liver and bowels to work naturally.
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