Western humorists tour the Colorado Midland Railway
Denver Post cartoonist Doc Bird Finch and Bide Dudley visit Colorado on a promotional railroad jaunt hosted by C H Speers and Lee Haney. The trip covers Ute Pass, Evergreen Lakes, Mount Massive, Busk tunnel, Glenwood Springs, and ends with a banquet in Glenwood Springs led by Mayor Jacob Schwarz and the city council.
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C. H. Speers
Denver
Colorado Midland Rilway
Moc Bird” Finch
Denver Post
Bide Dudley
Doc Bird” Finch
Coldo Midland Railway
Doc Bird
Lee Haney
The
Midland
Lee
Doc
Glenwood Springs
H. Speers
the Midland
Ute Gass
Ute Pass
Rocky Mountains
Colorado Springs
Leadville
Rocky Mountain Region
Dee
Evergreen Lakes
Mount Massive
Colorado
Sugar Loaf Reservoir
Busk
Hagerman Pass
Ivanhoe
Frynnepan
Mount Nast
Vally
Co. M. Keck
Glenwood
Glenwood Hotel
Jacob Schwarz
Drunken Chinaman Found Up a Harlem Tree
City police find Chin Kung Gin in a cedar tree in Harlem at six am with a bag of clothes and a bottle of gin. He says only the word Gin and is examined by Magistrate Kernochan in a humorous Harlem court scene.
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New York
Chin Kung
Harlem
Lycurgus Hemmer
Broadway
Ninety-fifth Street
Policeman Hemmer
Hemmer
Manhattan Island
New Orleans
Mott Street
Chin
Second Street Station
Kernochan
Gin
Five Year Old Fires Public Safety Item in Household Incident
In Oakland Maine a five year old girl Doris Bailey fired a public safety item during breakfast while her father Edmund Bailey and mother were nearby. The weapon discharged six shots causing damage to a mirror lamp sewing machine cover and kettle before the child stopped and laughed.
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Oakland
Doris
Edmund Bailey
Fairfield Street
Mr. Bailey
Biff
Whisky as snake bite cure in Lackawaxen tale
A German migrant worker, four miles above Lackawaxen in Pike county, Pa, used whisky to treat a rattlesnake bite after the snake struck his boot. The bottle reportedly made the snake wary and dazed, allowing workers to release it. They found the snake later drinking from a spring.
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Port Jervis
N. Y
Lackawaxen
Pike County
Kodol advertised to treat stomach trouble and dyspepsia
The ad promotes Kodol as a remedy to prevent stomach upsets and long term dyspepsia by strengthening the stomach. It urges buying a bottle from A. Gamble and notes a separate Bees Laxative Cough Syrup sale via C. A. Gamble for coughs and colds.
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C. A. Gamble
Kodol
In Campaign Times a Bird Sings in a Tree
A fragment from Campaign Times notes a bird singing high in a tree with unread melodies echoing. The line reflects on a lone voice facing vast noise and limited audience in a crowded political landscape.
Time to Play a Spade Clean the Sidewalk
A call from the Zearing Advocate urges residents to remove sod and dirt from the cement sidewalk in front of their homes, noting it would take about fifteen minutes to complete the task.
Rats Ruin Savings Nest in Trunk Near Washburn
Joe Ferro a laborer in Washburn Wisconsin kept about 600 dollars in an old trunk for years instead of banks. He found the money chewed to pieces by rats forming a nest of the remnants. His planned trip to Canada is now ruined by the loss.
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Washburn
Wis
Joe Ferro
Ferro
Canada
Frying Pan Into the Fire Ad Advises Self-Restraint
The Maxwell Tribune urges avoiding personal feuds and costly mistakes by keeping disagreements private. An ad promotes Kodol for digestive relief, claiming it stops sour stomach belching gas bloating and indigestion when needed, sold by C. A. Gamble.
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Maxwell Tribune
C. A. Gamble
Summer Ailments Tied to Stomach Health Warned
Advice notes that many summer illnesses originate from the stomach and urges keeping a bottle of Kodol in the home to maintain digestive health during hot weather.
If Made Into Bacon Four Hogs Sold For $82 50
A newspaper note recalls four hogs sold for 82.50 and jokes that if they had been all bacon they would have fetched enough to buy an automobile.
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Rockies
Coloado City
Colorado City
Strang
Manitou
Princeton
Harvard
Yale
Finch
Tipsy Ghinaman
Harlem Oriental
Babe
Big Rattler
A. Gamble
Glee Club
Band
Washington Star
Scott
Halligan Coffee Co
Hobart
J. B. Kooser & Co
H. M. Duckworth
Mrs. Loud
Ames Savings Bank
F Geat
E. E. de Witt & Co
Chicago
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