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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1897
Page
6
A collage of patent medicine pitches and odd humor lines. It touts quitting tobacco with a magnet cure and offers free booklets from Remedy Co. It also claims liquor habit cures and prints miscellaneous quips about a cook and a cut-glass bowl.
A noisy collage of vintage ads and snippets touts remedies like Mall's Catarrh Care at 75e and Mrs. Winstons Syrup for teething with various prices. Includes claims about nerve restorers, No-To-Bac tobacco cure, and generic promotional lines interspersed with stray dialogue fragments.
A Rockford reader praises Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for curing severe heart pains fainting spells and nervous symptoms caused by female illnesses. She credits the remedy with restoring her health after doctors failed to help and urges other women to try it.
An assistant engineer proposes an emergency kit for fire companies with eight bandages sets, tourniquets, antiseptics, morphine, and other medical supplies carried on hoses. Firemen would receive lectures from surgeons, pass exams, and earn Red Cross badges, enabling immediate aid at blazes.
William Henry Holloway, once believed dead and buried after vanishing in June, returns home to his wife and eight children to learn another Black man was buried in his grave. The family then confronts the grim joke of mistaken death and loss in New York, in a tale filled with racial slurs and sorrow.
J. H. Herbert showcases trained dogs in a circus featuring a fire scene. One dog sets a miniature house ablaze on stage, another rings a fire alarm, a dog acts as a policeman while four dogs as firemen drive in with a small fire engine. A hose unrolls and a stream douses the “fire” quickly.
A refined simile notes that a pump needs a pitcher of water to start flowing, just as the mind benefits from reading a good book to bring it into running order. The passage uses practical imagery to praise reading’s initiating effect on thought.
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