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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1902
Page
6
Washington gossip notes a stream of anecdotes about lawmakers. Plucky quips from Senator Dolliver, Miles and Tillman mingle with autograph chases, gum chewing during debates, and humorous misreadings of music and manners.
A historical anecdote recalls President Jordan addressing Stanford students over missing wines from the Harrison lecture visit. A student argues university by laws barred wines on campus, suggesting any contraband seized, thus negating ownership claims. The tale ends with Jordan noting the legal point’s strength.
A Paris newspaper offers readers a chance to win an automobile by guessing outcomes for eight romance characters. Life sized portraits of five women and three men line the streets with questions about marriages deaths and schemes. No entry before multiple chapters appear.
Prof E E Sparks recalls a university trip anecdote where a traveling man chats about crops and plans, the scholar gives curt replies, then claims to be in the brains line. The drummer retorts that Sparks carries a small sample. The tale underlines a humorous misfire in conversation.
While touring the Rhine a boy tugged at the Baron's handkerchief peeking from his pocket. A nobleman warned the Baron, who replied with a quip that everyone must start small, turning a potential theft into a witty moment.
Among nature lovers in England a practice called Marys meadowing aims to bud wild roses in fields and allow them to grow, introducing stray muibs of rarer kinds into fields and woods so they may grow wild.
Pink-eye 18 spreads widely with Chicago cited among hard-hit areas. Physicians: no alarm, promote Marine remedy sold by opticians and druggists as preventive and curative. Slogan promises 10c refund if dissatisfied, from Monroe Drue Co of Unionville Missouri.
An assortment of patent medicine pitches and newspaper blurb misfits. Hall's Catarrh Cure touted as a constitutional remedy at 75c. Various advertised elixirs claim teething relief and cold cures. Snippets poke at quackery, with jokes about money and a Mississippi senator ending court suits.
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