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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1893
Page
3
A collage of comic vignettes and jests from late 19th or early 20th century humor columns. It features pun filled exchanges, wisecracks about names and identity, and light sketches on post office puzzles and social manners, including a New Name for It, King Totam, and cheeky exchanges about manners and mischief.
Prof. Dyche the Kansas taxidermist recalls a 1887 attack in northern New Mexico. A panther crawled through a tent hole, leaped him, and after a brutal struggle he used a dropped Colt pistol to kill the beast. The panther measured eight feet two inches from nose to tail.
A beggar child asks for a needle and thread from Mrs Suburb and then for cloth and an old suit to patch and fit a new traveling outfit. The exchange ends with a request for a square meal to fill out the garment.
Scientists acknowledge rheumatism danger and symptoms while praising Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as the most effective remedy. It purports to purify blood by aiding kidney function, relieving chills fever liver issues and digestive trouble. A Portland school janitor jokes about a math problem on the classroom blackboard.
A collage of bizarre items including salutes to Uncle Sam salaries, Henry Guy Carleton alimony, Persian train sabotage, Yale meteor diamonds, a London ostrich stomach discovery, caterpillar contests in Rochester, Lincoln County pension frauds, bumblebee firework mishap, patent remedy ads, and a quip about the Emperor of China’s ten ruen umbrella.
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