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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1903
Page
6
Nell and Jerry escape a tense romance amid a car accident on the Maine coast. After a dangerous ride and a broken leg, Nell sends Detta to plant a kiss that calms Jerry and helps his ankle mend, as faith and affection bridge the gap between love and danger.
A nurse recalls a frightening crash as Nell learns she and Jerry escaped serious harm. The auto ran away and both were brought in. Mr Hapgood suffered a fractured leg while Nell and Jerry are recovering and awake, awaiting further details.
In Tipton Jim Johns of the Republicans was seen with James R. Cole and PD J. Mendenhall in Indianapolis. They eyed a shop window pair of elephant tusks worth 1600 dollars. Johns quipped he would tackle an elephant if he saw one with tusks like that, peering for a symbol of courage rather than backing down.
An epidemic of diphtheria in Passaic New Jersey schools is blamed on the promiscuous use of lead pencils. The report notes a separate fact about The Hispar pass in the Himalayas possessing the longest glacier, ninety miles long.
A humorous take on modern wedding invitations and costs, comparing the process to being served with a subpoena. The piece describes shop visits with a wife selecting gifts, from silverware to a perforated tea ball, and the man’s reluctant participation in wedding rituals and expenses.
An official visitor inspects an asylum and meets a sane looking inmate who claims unlawful confinement by relatives for money. The commissioner promises action, but as they leave the gate the man kicks him from behind and declares that blow to ensure he remembers the mercy shown.
In Albany a roll call shows Assemblyman Treat of Cayuga voting aye after being accused of dodging. Speaker Nixon penalties follow as a quip about missing a Treat delivery sparks a brief laugh, reflecting journal corrections and partisan banter.
A puzzle tale from the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune features an instructor doubting a youth’s failure to ascend in business. The youth explains he dodged the ladder’s bottom rung, and the instructor laments lifting hoodoos. A comic aside references Mrs Mahoole Shire and misquoted chatter about Uncle Tom's Cabin affecting a boy’s heart and a violent taunt about Little Eva.
The article notes that the largest number of deaths occur not after midnight but between five and six in the morning, challenging common assumptions about death timing. It emphasizes dawn hours as peak, suggesting patterns in mortality timing.
The weekly panorama notes Joseph Pulitzer marks twenty years in charge of the New York World. After war service, he built the Post Dispatch in St Louis and entered politics briefly, being elected to Congress in 1885 before resigning. He turned 56 on April 10.
A historic Silver Jubilee service was held May 12 at St John’s Church in Indianapolis to honor Bishop Francis Silas Chatard of Indiana on his twenty fifth anniversary of consecration. Cardinal Gibbons attended along with archbishops forty bishops and abbots and about 300 priests and nuns. Archbishop Quigley of Chicago delivered the sermon recalling the consecration era in Rome.
The Postoffice Department investigation led to A W Machen receiving a leave of absence as general superintendent of free delivery and the appointment of a post office inspector as his successor. In Washington a tall slim man in a flashy outfit boarded a street car and attracted a conductor's disapproval before being identified as Sir Michael Herbert, the British ambassador.
Bishop Alexander Le Roy, founder of Christian villages across Africa, arrives in the United States to study the Negro problem as it exists here.
Gen and Mrs Laurence P Graham of the United States army marked their sixty second wedding anniversary in Washington last week. The couple wed at St Augustine Florida during the Seminole era.
A 19th century piece surveys old wisdom and modern science teaching at home. It details experiments with boiling liquids, glass joining, and the climbing perch, plus notes on turning solids to liquids, water candlelight, horse sleep habits, a six pointed star drawing trick, and a Cromwell Road museum display of a Cetiosaurus Leedsii skeleton.
A Corean gardener shaped a growing vine into an armchair, embedding gingko seeds that sprouted into the vine. After harvest it was cut, dried, and polished to resemble mahogany, standing 3 feet 4 inches tall, 25 inches wide, and weighing over 100 pounds.
A playful collection of jokes about fish dealers and puns. It presents quick questions and punchlines, such as why a fish hook resembles the letter F, or why a cow turns into a pasture, ending with a riddle about an icicle that lives in winter and roots upward.
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