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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1892
Page
2
The Atlantic Constitut calls for writers to quit the desk and enjoy a country scene. It extols hazy days, singing birds, warm sun, and lazy reels of summer, urging readers to seek simple pleasures such as brooks, blossoms, and honey amid nature.
In western Wisconsin horse thieves terrorized the countryside until vigilant committees formed. Jim Corsen, identified by a German butcher, hid in a cabin but was cornered by Blackman and riders after a tense standoff. Corsen yielded and was jailed for twelve years at hard labor in Waupun.
A Nash Ville American note from Weakley County recounts a humorous mix up at a local hall shared by the Alliance and the Knights of Pythias. An Alliance member, hearing activity, knocks and is met with a quip about plows hoes and spades before the door closes.
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER. The Furniture Workers Convention will be held in St Louis after its Cincinnati session named St Louis as host city. Officers Davis and Reardon are from St Louis, chosen for presidency and secretary treasurer respectively as the national body prioritizes central access and rail and water routes. The piece covers depot construction, an electric road between St Louis and Chicago, and local social notes including Frank James at a race track and the growth of city clubs reaching about twenty with roughly five thousand members.
Reported from Tonggart and Ghardaia the Sahara, vast locust clouds darken the sky as they move north from the Soudan. incubation runs twenty to thirty days, two months to mature, prompting fear of widespread crop damage despite costly government measures. The New York Sun notes the invasion may stretch across the Sahara, with days of plague ahead.
Amateur photographers are told to leave cameras at home for the World's Fair as snap shooting will be banned. Rights to photograph buildings, exhibits, and grounds will be limited and sold to a few trusted parties at a high price, a common revenue source for expositions. The notice contrasts with other items in the issue about Pasteur’s treatment and various health and public notices.
A collage of ad copy and quips fills a page segment with claims from cattlemen, patent medicines, and self help schemes. Mentions Winslow soothing syrup for teething, Bryant’s College catalogs, Hanson’s Corn Salve, Beecham’s Pills, Judd Electric Left, Mack Curontor, and Henry Watterson’s September health note.
A vintage patent medicine advertisement promotes Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets as a natural laxative and regulator. It claims the pills cleanse and renovate the entire system, are vegetable, harmless, and easy to take. It promises lasting relief from headache, constipation, digestion, and liver derangements with a money back guarantee.
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