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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1901
Page
3
Leslie's Weekly reports dire housing in New York tenement blocks with overcrowding, filth, and lack of air or water. The piece contrasts squalor with savage huts, noting widespread vice, disease, and poverty while acknowledging occasional resilience of residents, urging reform.
Sixty Grant family association members and guests gathered in New York on February 27 for the third annual reunion and the 300th anniversary of Priscilla Grant. Officials announced about 12,000 descendants of Matthew and Priscilla Grant in the United States. Matthew Grant and Priscilla arrived in 1680, and the late General Ulysses S. Grant was among their descendants.
The item argues that a U S England alliance would be unbeatable against foes. It ad highlights Hos tetter's Stomach Bitters for digestion and blood nourishment. It also notes a fashion prediction about quieter summer apparel and jokes about collar buttons. It mentions Russ Bleaching Blue for whiter clothes and an army officer claiming Eden's site in the Philippines with the snake remaining.
An 19th century style ad for Mrs Winslows Soothing Syrup teething remedy appears alongside a satirical cynic’s quip attacking political figures and references to Carter’s Ink usage by big city schools. The piece combines commercial copy with bold political humor about US senators and popular voting.
A desperate effort to save passengers as a train is enveloped by a blazing roof. An imposing intruder orders calm, assigns roles, and the engine crew prepares a fast, dangerous dash to outrun the fire with passengers praying for safety.
Passengers praise a quiet rescuer, Paul Ansdell, as a fire threatens a snowbound train. Ansdell reveals he is a scientist seeking wealth and power, while Gervis Templeton and Gladdy watch the unfolding thanks with mixed reactions. The blizzard hardens, and Ansdell plans a Montreal stop as the story hints at deeper schemes.
A daring venture ends safely as a long train stops in a starless night. Surviving passengers, weak with fear and relief, give thanks in the cold air as snow drifts around the cars and the danger passes.
A traveling speaker notes Arkansas township names favor creeks such as Beech Mill Barren Dutch Long Big Peter Clear Pierre Flat Crooked Sugar and Day and mentions towns named after Grover Cleveland Yell and Sugarloaf. He cites slow population growth recently from 1820 9% and 16% rise over the last decade.
The article notes Mexico has abundant rosewood and mahogany used for timbering mines and as fuel for engines, signaling widespread depletion of precious woods in mining areas.
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