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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1895
Page
3
A fragmentary column blends funeral lore, anecdotes, and reflections. It recalls Walter Scott, a London ring trick, a duke and Mrs Fitzhervert, and a custom of funeral feasts with wine goblets carried by mourners, weaving folk memory with literary and social musings.
A former mill owner’s daughter, now in her eighties, becomes a traveling courier for lonely women. She offers routes, schedules, hotel advice, and itineraries, delivering typewritten manuscripts and tickets for journeys from Alaska to Argentina. Remuneration scales with journey length and effort.
A dramatic scene shows a doctor juggling a hat in a frantic room as his wife announces a diphtheria case and antitoxin arrival. Buenos Aires hosts Handel's Messiah with a 300 chorus and 50 orchestra, selling out, amid a note on a large regional fish hatchery valued at 2.5 million dollars.
An advertisement extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as essential for health, claiming impure blood causes most disorders. It cites extensive cures from scrofula to blood poison and salt rheum, and includes a testimonial from Rev. J. M. Pate of Brookline Station Missouri about a mother and child improving after use.
An eminent clergyman returning from Rome says Leo XIII seeks to heal schisms by reuniting Catholics with the Greeks Russians Armenians Anglicans and others under the holy see. He cites improving Vatican Russian relations including a czar gift to Poland’s archbishop and aims to reconcile the Church of England over Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.
An old advertisement touts Syrup of Figs as a pure laxative improving digestion and cleansing the system. It claims medical approval, non harming action on kidneys, liver, and bowels, and urges purchase from California Fig Syrup Co with 50c and 1 bottles. It also discusses aggressive advertising and recent business expansion by the Aermotor Co. and related machinery promotions.
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