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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1896
Page
6
Readers urged to send in solutions to last week’s Presidential Puzzle for a chance at a $100 Racycle. Ads from Miami Cycle and Mfg. Co. of Middletown Ohio push quick submission, model choice, and frame height details.
A new saline infusion operation performed about two weeks ago at Buscall Hospital on Mattoon Street strengthens a patient weakened by a long abdominal tumor. Dr. W. A. Smith led the procedure, injecting about a pint of saline between the breast and chest muscles. The solution rapidly absorbed, and within twelve hours the patient showed marked improvement, allowing possible tumor removal in the near future.
A young sparrow falls from its nest in Madison Square Park as mother birds and a crowd led by George Francis Train witness a cat attempt to seize a fledgling. The sparrows harass the cat, keeping it at bay until it retreats, resuming the breakfast lesson and the spectators' cheers.
In Sandwich and Bourne Massachusetts each town offered 25 cents for a muskrat head or tail. Boy hunters sold the head and tail between towns, paying 5 cents travel, then swapped returns. Town fathers plan to pay for either part, ending the split bounty.
A poetic fragment describes a deep wood at dusk with twilight cloaked by evening wind and the soft unseen movement of sound above damp ground. The imagery emphasizes quiet, shadowed nature and ethereal movement as night falls.
A Harper's Bazar anecdote quotes a well-brought-up American boy arguing that girls should participate in bicycle tours and camping with companions. He contends that shared activities make both sexes friendlier, better behaved, and more careful in speech and conduct, benefiting girls and boys alike.
A skeleton found near the old Tipton homestead is identified by Walton resident Mrs. Elizabeth Lowry as William Bartlett, a trusted servant of Gen. John Tipton. Bartlett died long ago after caring for Tipton, who later became a U.S. senator. burial details and a buried cornerstone support the claim.
Foreign buyers take a large share of copper, with over one third of 330 million pounds sent abroad. The Anaconda mines may yield 85 million, Calumet & Hecla about 80 million, and Boston and Montana around 50 million pounds. Smaller firms look to raise output.
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