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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1897
Page
2
The article urges continuous evangelist efforts amid backsliding and quotes a provocative line that each city should adopt a daily prayer mindset. It emphasizes sustained spiritual outreach and community faith as essential.
The Springfield Republican criticizes President Roosevelt for using the term cops. Now enlisted in the navy he plans to drop cops and adopt saltor sea terms with new marine expressions.
Bishop Seymour of the diocese of St Louis defends dancing as the poetry of motion and not inherently evil. He also holds liberal views on drama, arguing it is not in itself evil, a stance likely to be echoed by young people despite elder hesitation.
The Barnstable jail in Massachusetts is described as easygoing. E. C. Knapp, serving five years for stealing national bank funds, was spotted in prison garb giving the jailer's wife bicycle lessons. Fellow convict Lewis Rogers was allowed a day trip to Yarmouth for a stroll with a cow in tow.
Constantinople dispatch notes the Greek patriarch reports 700 killed in Tokat including Greeks. The Porte arrests eighty Armenian suspects fearing unrest. Rumors tie Russian troop concentration and a secret treaty to Turkish sovereignty under Russia.
Destructive spring freshets stretch across a wide area due to forest loss. Immediate losses include human lives and property, but longer term effects threaten barrenness and uninhabitability. Calls grow for a united movement to preserve remaining forests and restore needed wooded areas.
Manitoba settles the parochial school question by a new bill. It allows religious teaching after classes, Catholic or Protestant by parental wish, voluntary attendance, and hiring of Catholic or non Catholic teachers. French instruction is provided where many pupils speak French as their mother tongue.
The Supreme Court upheld a modification of prior restraining orders, permitting the Great Plains Water Storage Company to continue canal improvements from the headgate for about forty miles. It bars only a twenty foot widening along the reach to secure a right of way through the La Junta and Lamar Canal to the Arkansas River.
In Denver on May 24 Semuel H Metall was killed and John McKenna fatally wounded during a dispute at Joseph Lowes ranch over ditch water. Jacob Kisthard and son Daniel Kisthard admit firing. Sheriff later tied the first shot to Joe Lowe from his porch as arrests followed.
A wagon carrying Hie Warren Mrs. Hie Warren and James Warren returning from a Ringling Bros. show at Greeley was struck by an extra train two miles west of Kersey Colorado. Warren and Mrs. Warren died at the scene while James Warren was critically injured and taken to a hospital.
A man sustaining four broken ribs and internal injuries but not believed to be fatally harmed is hospitalized with extensive bruising.
Money abundance at the center bulges deposits while loans stagnate. Bankers urge consolidation, citing Third National Bank and National City Bank as models, as many banks act as money storehouses with insufficient lending to sustain profitability.
William M. Ross fifteen year old son of Mr and Mrs William Ross of Stockton in Camden county hanged himself today in despair over cigarette habits. He was in good spirits before his parents left for church and was found lifeless upon their return. The death is believed to be a suicide motivated by difficulty quitting smoking.
General Nelson A Miles of the U S Army, escorted by Major General Miles aides and embassy staff, attended the Schamlik ceremony in Constantinople and was granted a special audience with the Sultan.
At Westminster Abbey the Duke of Buccleuch unveiled a memorial bust of Sir Walter Scott in Westminster Abbey Chapter House. Colonel John Hay, U S ambassador, delivered a eulogy praised as wise and truthful. The monument cost £0 with America contributing one fifth.
The secretary of agriculture will send a commission to Alaska to conduct an agricultural and zoological survey. It aims to assess self sufficiency, what crops can be grown, and how to bolster a native meat supply as an alternative to reindeer and seal. The team includes Pelton Jackson, W A Evans, and B Killen.
A report highlights the college’s deep familiarity with both animal and plant kingdoms, enabling significant agricultural insights and valuable practical guidance from the faculty.
In Cambridge England a senate vote of 1713 to 662 rejected conferring degrees on women. Crowds gathered outside the senate house amid posters reading varsity for men. Undergraduates jeered supporters, an effigy of a woman hung near Caius College, and fireworks were set off as protests peaked.
A Times dispatch from Athens says irregulars and deserters pillage the Phthlolie district amid villagers worsted by the strife. Government recalls force from Arta and plans deportations as volunteers, mostly anarchists, are disarmed and sent to Italy. An Italian was killed and six wounded in the ensuing clashes before the evacuees were moved to Brindisi under guard.
May 23 in Agram Hungary reports severe disturbances as elections for the Croatian and Slavonia provincial Diet occur. In Bosniaczi a deadly riot erupts with fourteen killed and thirteen wounded after soldiers fire on the crowd. Clerical accusations claim Catholic clergy incite unrest by opposing civil marriage. Soldiers at Bosniaczi are fired upon and pelted by a thousand protesters, mostly women.
Representative Shafroth of Colorado is selected for the House team to play a chess match against the British House of Commons next Monday. He is regarded as the best player in the House and is expected to win his game.
Amanda arrives by wheel as Mortimore waits roadside. They exchange remarks on time passing referencing cycles and a long awaited meeting with a judge implied in the dialogue. The fragment hints at a formal setting or legal moment centered on two characters.
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