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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1902
Page
6
A poetic lament speaks of longing during quiet nights when stars shine. The speaker cherishes a distant beloved, calling on earthly love to rest beneath heavenly skies. Eternal dreams frame the desire for reunion, with the beloved as a guiding star and angel in the night.
Helen Harvey travels north with dreams of a quiet escape but loses her train money when a gust blows it from the window. She meets a mysterious woodsman named Lohengrin who shelters her, shares a simple meal, and forms a tender bond. He gives her a rose and a goodbye pledge before parting at the station.
Helen and Tom share a Sunday drive to decide their future. Tom recalls a murder case at a station, where a college man killed his wife after her nagging, fled, and was found dead in a sunken boat with a withered rose. Helen silently contemplates the moment and accepts, saying yes to his proposal. The post brings two rain-washed five-dollar bills.
A lyrical vignette sets Mistress Standish in a blurred memory of an English garden. Lavender, roses, and box evoke a homey, faded scene while she grieves for summers long past. The poem threads lavender with linen, graves, and memory, ending with lavender returning beside a cottage wall.
Paris is described as a huge dining hub with hotels, restaurants, and cafes on almost every corner. The city holds about 10,000 hotels and offers meals at various prices from 50 cents to higher-end options, with wine adding 10 cents. A single stock company runs 100 plus eateries delivering consistent service and quality, reflecting clear pay-for-what-you-eat economics.
A Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station visit inspires Prof. Brew er to show his sons a machine that smokes cigars. The boys later replicate the device at home, rigging a similar smoker in the attic and coloring a lauer schaum pipe.
Miss Gisela Elfreschitz becomes the first woman admitted to the Vienna Watchmakers' Guild, marking a historic milestone for female craftsmanship in horology. Her achievement signals evolving gender roles in Vienna's traditional craft scene and opens opportunities for women in clock and watchmaking trades.
Milwaukee election uses seven voting machines across six precincts plus one in the Sixth ward. Rapid, accurate totals noted as voters praised operation. first returns came within four minutes of 7 PM from Thirteenth ward precinct. Officials expect expansion citywide, with about 100 machines next election. Machines prevented voting errors and accelerated final counts, allowing closing totals within minutes after polls opened.
Union Pacific plans hundreds of thousands of dollars in coaling station upgrades nationwide. A new coal chute allows one worker to do the job of twelve. A successful Lexing ton Nebraska trial prompts further installations across thirty stations within a year. Julesburg Colorado will receive the first new chute.
The St Paul calendar for 1903, 10 by 15 inch sheets with pastel Bryson drawings, is ready for distribution and will be mailed after twenty five cents in coin or stamps. Send payment to F A Miller General Passenger Agent Chicago for delivery.
An actress signs the hotel register and gives a clerk a package claiming it holds diamonds worth 10000 dollars. The clerk replies he will ensure the safe is robbed to secure an account of the loss in tomorrow's papers, revealing a planned scheme.
A lively advertisement rhetoric extols eleven points in the evidence for the New York Central Lines. It touts fast trains smooth tracks luxurious sleeping and dining cars and attentive staff as reasons for strong passenger traffic. A separate humor bit mocks a theater dialogue and ends with a cigar plug.
An ad touts a skin ailment plague and claims a single safe cure via Dean's Ointment for 50 cents at any drug store. It contrasts love and absence with a quip about “fonder,” then references Baxter's Bullhead as a tobacco substitute.
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