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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1899
Page
4
A junior clerk recalls a vanished exress courier Hooper who vanished after three packages worth about eighty thousand dollars disappeared from the strong box. Hooper’s body was later recovered from a river. rumors swirled as investigators pursued the missing funds and the clerk faced a moral test.
A Persian baby Cyrus survives after being hidden in the forest grows into a boy who acts as king among friends. He leads a pomegranate theft from a poor man and, when questioned, confesses no one else should be blamed, taking full responsibility for the act.
A Hindu boy raised among wolves in India acts friendly with beasts at a water edge. Captured and cared for by an officer, he cannot speak until near death when memories surface briefly. The boy, likely a village child with a missing elder brother, gnaws bones and prefers wolfish seclusion and bare life over human society.
A Universalist note outlines global living conditions with rough counts: 500 million well clothed, 250 million naked, 700 million partly covered. 500 million in houses, 700 million in huts or caves, 250 million with almost no shelter. It comments on daily life being harder than special occasions.
Topeka reports about 2,750,000 cattle in Kansas with 700,000 milch cows and 1,200,000 fattening for market. Cattle move from Texas and Indian Territory to Kansas City stockyards, then to canners, stockers, and feeders. Feeder to fattening efficiency rises with corn, boosting beef weight and value. Canners are a low-grade group doomed to the executioner as meat is processed.
A collage of short mishearings and questions from children and their families. Jokes about cherry trees, grace, and wisdom threads mingle with a captioned vignette on quirky kid logic and a fragmented note on artful fashion and misused phrases.
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