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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1897
Page
6
Advertising copy touts Golden Rind Watermelon with a shiny yellow rind and crimson flesh. Claims 1896 prizes, $1 per melon, and high profits from early ripening varieties. Enclosed are orders for seed book and packages from Salter Seed Co. in La Crosse Wisconsin.
In a March Century piece the story recalls President Lincoln ordering a soldier guarding the White House grounds to move inside. Lincoln, tall and fatigued, argued that duty could be fulfilled inside, then declared himself commander in chief and ordered the guard inside.
The text promotes Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a remedy for rheumatism and related stomach kidney and nerve issues. It alleges the product can alleviate acute or chronic inflammation and reduce groaning by addressing digestive and systemic discomfort. The tone aims at urgent relief claims.
An old advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio as effective internally for blood and mucous membranes. It claims a 3 0 price per bottle and lists Truax wholesale druggists and Kinnan Marvin as sellers. The notice includes a moral quip about owing money.
A mock advertisement urges Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets with refund promise if ineffective. It cheekily questions baseball fans about a “picked nine” and features Cascarets as a liver and bowel regulator. The spoof ends with a character named Hobson mocked as stupid.
An old notice touts the Union Pacific as the sole line with three through trains to the East and fastest service to major points. Ticket office listed at 41 Seventeenth Street, corner Arts.
Detroit Free Press recounts a Tennessee moonshine trial where a young lawyer defended a defendant whose conviction depended on unproved statements about whisky. The jury could not agree after multiple testimonies and a disputed bottle test, and the case was dismissed.
The St. Louis Republic recalls M Veritan the Burlin provost who in 1787 built the largest harp on record. It measured 320 feet long with fifteen wires of varying thickness set between two poles. The instrument inclined 20 to 80 degrees and was designed to foretell weather from its tones as wind blew through it.
A firm at Anderson Indiana serves notice that the so called wonderful engine invented by Grant Brambel of Sleepy Bye Minnesota infringes its patent rights and warns against its manufacture in the United States Germany and England.
Over 200000 card sales touted as a method to curb tobacco use and save money. Ad copy promises health benefits and guaranteed results from No-To-Bac marketed by druggists. Text includes garbled references to public events and unnamed individuals.
In a damaged OCR fragment a star tobacco slogan appears praising chewing tobacco as lasting and cheap. The text includes stray quotes about jobs and a few names and phrases suggesting a society note or humorous clipping with incomplete lines.
The readable text presents displaced advert like lines about tonics teething salves and cold cures, interwoven with stray dialogue about a broken china cup and a love note. It reads as a chaotic collage of product pitches and social chatter from a past newspaper page.
A mosaic of clipped notes and stray lines mentions trains heading East and dining cars with no smoking, plus odds and ends about tickets and a street corner. Other items reference Florida dates, a writer's doubt, and a quip about babies named after great men and parental consequences.
The article notes an afternoon train from Denver to Kansas City on the Aston schedule with a Pullman sleeping car and faster travel times than others. It mentions passengers discussing travel and a reference to the inauguration with remarks about McKinley.
An advertisement touts Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a safe solution for feminine ailments and barring unauthorized medicines. It claims women can be cured of obstinate female complaints through self-treatment and professional guidance from Dr. W. W. Pierce of Buffalo, with testimonials about relief from ailments like rheumatic symptoms and constipation.
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