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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1899
Page
5
M A Ketron claims a ten year stomach ailment cured by Kodol Dyspepsia Cure in a scientific fund backed by physicians. The medicine is promoted under the motto what you eat and the text suggests endorsements from medical circles.
A Chicago frontier note explains long term lake level subsidence across the Great Lakes, with Lake Ontario and Erie falling relative to Chicago. Prof Gilbert of the Geological Survey cites irregular, NE to SW subsidence, predicting water may eventually back into the Mississippi and redraw river flows over millennia.
A display at the palace grounds featured two fighting camels from the chief's stock. They charged and clashed with teeth and legs, drawing blood as onlookers cheered. After a dozen men used ropes and cudgels to separate them, one camel was severely wounded and may remain crippled for months.
Rob't Moore of La Payette Indiana calls DeWitt's Little Early Risers the perfect remedy for constipation and other ailments. The pills are described as gentle and non gripe inducing by the user I H Myers.
The Cape of Good Hope observatory reports a faint eighth magnitude star unseen by eye yet the fastest moving star ever found. Its proper motion is about nine seconds of arc yearly, implying 200 years for a moon sized shift, while its orbital speed may carry it hundreds of millions of miles annually.
A Boston refrigerating company secured a license to liquefy air at 1500 gallons per day for 20 cents per gallon. The liquid would be stored in five inch thick steel cylinders for controlled release and versatile use in refrigeration or other applications. Chester H. Brown of Kalamazoo Michigan endorses Kodol Dyspepsia Cure for indigestion.
United States Consul Wolf at Noumea reports rich pearl beds off New Caledonia west coast. A single shell yielded 256 pearls and a small boat supplied last year twenty two pounds of pearls. Water depth sounded to six feet seven inches. French and Austrian syndicates may exploit fisheries. shells praised for quality and Americans urged to profit. E E B Turner Compston Mo cured of piles by DeWitts with holazel salve after seventeen years, and doctors endorse it. beware counterfeit.
In a playful exchange Mrs. Hardacre and Hiram discuss a straw that symbolizes a long awaited turn, while an advertisement for DeWitt’s Little Early Risers claims a permanent cure for chronic constipation biliousness nervousness and worn-out feeling with gentle daily pills.
The piece presents a comic exchange between Johnnie and his mother about being a bad boy and needing to be gian t, reflecting playful sentiment. A Williams of Harlem Life promotes One Minute Cough Cure from L H Myers of South Canaan Conn, praised by Henry R Whitford for coughs colds and bronchial troubles.
Notice shows multiple land claims and final proof filings at Lamar Colorado. Maud L Stewart Lamar filed for desert land claim No.1 in Sec 20 Twp 21S R 43W with witnesses Lottie Crawford John A Williams Ezra C Nowels and Trellyen Ernest Nowels. Lizzie Thornber widow of Frank Murnberry filed for Homestead for SEM See Sec 36 Twp 22S R 42W with witnesses K M Irving A C Burgasser J S Chenoweth Robert Dober. Vincent V Carrico filed for parcel No 4341 for the 8 of See Sec l Twp 2S R 6W with witnesses H L Bowles J A Bowles W B Watkins R W Brooks.
Public land records note multiple settlers filing final proof to prove residence and cultivation on parcels in Colorado. Witness lists include Ira Swadley John Stream William James George Bishop Mattie Lindstrom Victor Erikson John Bergstrand J W Hoback J Stevenson Homer Wilson and L Cox sent from Lamar and surrounding areas.
Notice announces that settlers Abraham Rhodes and Lotice Lamar filed for desert land proof. Rhodes seeks proof for SW Sec 1 Twp 22 Range 47 in Colorado, with witnesses A J Peed Richard Emerson Benjamin Knowles and W P Harper. Stewart Nowels Ernest Nowels and others named for Stewart land claim notice in Colorado.
Public notices record timber culture and desert land filings at the U S Land Office in Lamar Colorado. James A Collins Adolph Marburg Lorena M Blackwell file final proof or desert land claims with witnesses named from Lamar Colorado. Dates span 1899 to 1909 with officials Merrill and others overseeing the proceedings.
The summer climate of Southern California is delightful and worth a visit. Santa Fe Route offers low round trip rates late June and early July with liberal privileges, choice of return routes and long limits. Send for full particulars from G. J. Garvin, Agent, Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Railway.
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