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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1899
Page
7
Fragmentary ad style note describes Allen's Foot Ease powder for feet with 25¢ price, sample offer, and distribution through draggists and stores. Mentions Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ticket procedures and arctic travel context amid scattered lines about grocers and harvest time.
A garbled OCR fragment from a Denver page shows mid article notes on medical claims and remedies. It mentions consumption care, Beavewe or Beavewe? and various product names with uncertain spelling, plus stray names and addresses.
In Brooklyn a clever woman repurposes two worn spring beds by attaching them to a back fence. She trains vines to weave through the slats, transforming the decrepit frames into a living, flowering feature that will bloom crimson and gold. The piece praises female ingenuity in reusing waste.
The text describes how an eastern carpenter sits on the ground with a stake as a makeshift bench, resting work on the stake and using feet for stability. It notes English tools in royal arsenals under British oversight, but native workshops still squat, with frame saws adzes planes hammers and nails as core implements.
A western inventor develops a folding boat for inland fishermen in Maine and New Hampshire. The craft breaks into four sections with hinged middle parts that fold into a box for transport, then bolt together to form a full buoyant vessel with pointed ends and air chambers.
A recent golf club innovation features a single piece driver claimed to be the longest driving implement yet made. The shaft is bent at the neck so the head sits at the proper angle, creating a continuous grain from toe to toe.
Fragmentary text notes a distinct merit of the elup 3, claiming greater suppleness of shaft and absence of binding at the usual head shaft join, enabling this possibility.
Describes large sea spiders collassen des gigas feeding on molluscs and worms while noting carnivorous wolf spiders in tropical South America preferring fish but eating other animals. Highlights collos sendets as a six inch body spider with twelve legs attacking fish larger than itself and feeding on their juices.
A new office device, the copying press bath, replaces the brush by moistening paper with a sponge padded bottom. The hinged lid carries a spring plate that presses paper onto the padding, ensuring even moisture.
A description notes an apparatus that remains evenly and sufficiently saturated yet not torn through manipulation. The device is stated as patented, implying formal grant of exclusive rights to the design and use.
A two year old cold electrolysis method galvanizes iron with zinc. It claims improved coating uniformity and smoother surfaces, no need to recut threads, stronger adhesion, and lower cost compared with traditional heated galvanizing.
Lapidaries claim a real gemstone feels colder than imitations when touched to the tongue. Sapphires emeralds rubies and garnets are tested similarly with genuine stones usually cooler, possibly due to greater density making them better heat conductors.
The United States Fish Commission division reports green color in oysters stems from vegetable matter in their food. The color does not affect edibility. Red oysters have been observed but not yet studied.
Stone and Ol. Op. C. French, a sculptor, claims Americans show more potential in sculpture than painting. He argues native character favors stone work over oil painting, prompting Mark Twain to quip about trading oil wells for quarries.
A traveling missionary questions Mr. Burdock about his children and farm. Burdock names a wife and nine children, then lists livestock totaling 173 Jersey cattle 589 sheep and 91 hogs, describing a well-kept farm and stock.
In Littleton New Hampshire Edward Lucas recalls the era when Concord coaches ruled the White Mountains. He recounts guiding a six horse coach for two wealthy New York families who paid 200 dollars for the trip and gave him 500 dollars plus 50 for expenses. He also talks of Civil War conscription trips from Lancaster to Littleton and a sleigh accident that left volunteers scattered in the snow.
The group of volunteers patched the leigh and, through hard driving, chased and caught the train, completing their urgent journey.
A discussion of Hawaii sugar growth shows maps used to calm fears of annexation boosting output. Despite claims of no new land usable for sugar, Hawaii's imports rose from 305.85 million pounds in 1894 to 438.77 million in 1896 and 501.88 million in 1897, with planting expanding and surplus shipments sent to New York after a long ocean voyage.
Mme Marion Lilijenstolpe begins work as swimming professor at Chicago's new women’s athletic club. She holds two gold medals, one for world women swimmers, the other from King Oscar of Sweden at her Royal Swimming graduation. She performs dives from eighty feet, with precision in shallow water, and even in a three and a half foot tank. Her most noted feats include parasol-assisted front progress and a knot-tied dive that is untied underwater.
A Brooklyn Eagle snippet features a humorous exchange about intoxication by radiation. One speaker argues intoxication comes from being around drinkers, while the other retorts to discontinue the self exposure to heat. The piece ends with a sly note about warmth.
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