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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1897
Page
6
Two sisters near the age of thirteen try a homemade complexion remedy from a newspaper tale to remove freckles. Storm night, masks, and a burglary scare end with their parents returning home and vowing never to leave them alone again.
Mary McDonald of Philadelphia challenges the Chicago World to doubt her claim about a 128 year old California woman. She recalls the woman’s age as 128 and asserts her own truthfulness, noting her small stature and a 1778 Valley Forge memory to support her assertions.
In a New York Tribune report a crowd bids on a grand Carrara marble mantel piece with gold mounts and an Eiffel tower movement. The auctioneer starts at ten dollars as onlookers push the price higher, but a cheeky voice drops to ten cents before the item sells.
Dr Grist Jacobs of Frankfort Germany writes a history of dentistry from 3700 B C to today. The article notes evidence of dentistry in Egypt dating back at least 5000 years and discusses ancient practices.
A Chinaman named Lee Tong was hanged in Spokane Washington. He had professed religion shortly before death and went to a Melican man's heaven, an unusual end to the case.
A compact aphorism reflects that hoping without action amounts to fatalism. It distinguishes between mere wishful thinking and the need to act to shape outcomes, attributed to Rabbi Hirsch.
An advice column urges husbands not to pursue legal separation but to seek medical help for wives with uterine disorders. It recommends Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and quotes Mia Marva Rovros of Camby Indiana praising its effects after four years of symptoms including headaches backache nervousness and irritability.
Readable bits hint at a meeting or decision with names and places obscured. The text mentions promises kept and a community action, but essential details remain unclear.
A garbled OCR excerpt includes stray phrases about care, a person named Levon Anne, and Hobbs. It reads like mixed fragments with no clear event, date, or location to summarize into a coherent news item.
Fragments describe an unclear event involving a spouse and onion related phrase. No coherent details or identifiable persons events or organizations are present in the readable text.
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