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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1902
Page
2
Timetable listing arrival and departure times for multiple trains. Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe routes show trains 6 45 625 626 631 and 632 with respective AM and PM times across Canon City and Cripple Creek.
The Canon City Record advertises one year subscriptions for The Record along with several partner papers including Toledo Blade Chicago Inter Ocean Cosmopolitan Woman's Home Companion The American Boy and The Semi-Weekly Globe Democrat at various combined rates. Offers apply to existing and new subscribers if the Record is prepaid for one year.
Last Friday the final literary program of the year was well received. Mrs. Armstrong closed with enjoyable readings. The athletic team trains under G. B. Bilheimer and J. T. Ralph as track work is sharpened. Warden Martin has improved the track at Boulder on May 16 with events including 100 yard dash 220 yard dash 120 yard hurdles 440 yard run 220 yard hurdles 1 mile relay running high jump shot put hammer throw pole vault and broad jump. Edw. Mehler of Union Bottling Works Erie Pa. praises Kodol Dyspepsia Cure and its relief. Palace Drug Store stockist Geo. Pedley notes stops cough and cold relief with Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
Negotiations confirm Charles B. Hanford will tour with a revival of The Taming of the Shrew. A telegram from James B. Delcher Amusement Company directs a re arranged route ensuring the city will be visited, a boost for local theatregoers.
Bicycles show modest changes with inch tubing replacing larger sizes and rising coaster brake popularity. Good wheels sell for 15 to 25 dollars while newer chainless models reach about 75 dollars. Repair shops enter harvest season with high demand and continued work on pneumatic tired buggy wheels. The notice promotes reading The Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean and annual subscription at 1.60 dollars.
The Hot Springs bath department now serves the public offering hydraulic massage tub and plain baths with massage for men only. J L Prentiss is manager. The notice invites stock in the Fruitgrowers Association and provides secretary J L Heaton as contact at 134.
Miss Helen Grantly wears Worth of Paris gowns in the revival with fabrics and embellishments praised as models of grace. Gowns reportedly cost at least 6500 dollars. Grantly’s beauty and figure suit the artistic attire as the production nears its London influenced cast notes.
After a two to three week delay the tools and casings for the New England Consolidated Oil Co arrived and were placed. Actual oil boreing started yesterday and a producing well is expected within 30 days.
In Cajon City market gardens thrive with Wm. Kenly operating twelve acres west of Soda Springs growing lettuce onions dishes spinach celery and small fruits plus roses for commercial use. Onions bring about 200 dozen bunches daily with girls packing. markets include Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo Cripple Creek Leadville and others. Returns from onions reach about $3000 yearly as Kenly plans a two story red stone packing house and relocation of barns to expand cultivation.
A compilation of property transfers with names such as F A Raynolds and J H Whipple across blocks in T Macon's addition plus other deeds to School District No 1 and various buyers. Also includes ads for legal notices bids on library construction, medicine and cure recommendations, and local shop promotions from 1902 era sources.
An advertiser promotes a combined subscription deal with The Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean offering $1.60 for one year of both papers, and notes DeWeese & Turnbull provide first-class real estate loans at 8 percent interest.
A prominent business man stepping off a Rock Island train voiced one complaint that prices are too high. He warned we might not afford to maintain the service yet promised better things ahead. He urged customers to stay with Rock Island and enjoy the "best in the house" always.
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