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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1893
Page
8
A brakeman found a tramp dead between train cars and searched his clothing. In a ragged vest pocket lay a greasy envelope and a tear-stained letter from a wife to Jim, mentioning Mary’s death and a promise to return home. The postmark matched the station city, suggesting Jim’s last journey was toward home.
A Chicago boarder complains of a turkey at a boarding house meal calling it a monstrosity with four legs and a beard. The landlady defends the dish while guests muse about the possibility the turkey came from a sheep pasture. The exchange ends with quiet humor as the boarder departs.
A young actress in Kansas City admonishes a vegetable driver over horse care on a curb. She loosens the rein and adjusts blinders, praising humane handling while noting horses face rough treatment, comparing to Pittsburg and citing Black Beauty. A boy jokes about a bald father and heir status.
In Early county Georgia a road crew worker nicknamed Cap Barefield, heavily drunk, stood beneath a falling two foot thick oak. Uncle Attaway Johnson leapt forward and punched Cap, knocking him aside as the tree collapsed, but the trunk scraped Attaway’s heel.
Mr. William White records an instance of sagacity in horses from the Ruskin museum area in Sheffield England. Two grazing horses pursued a runaway pony cart with measured skill, intercepting the cart in a triangular formation and halting it until helpers arrived. The pair then calmly returned to their grazing once the danger passed and the pony was controlled.
A countryman explains a street quarrel over profane language, leading to a court dismissal. An Irish clergyman later quips about his father and the dogs of his flock in a humorous exchange with a wealthy critic. Ripans Tabules: for sour stomach.
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