Boulder Hero Saves Town From Powder Explosion
Boulder August 12 Four dead two fatally hurt and twenty-eight seriously injured after forty seven boxes of giant powder on a flatcar exploded. George Whiteley 25 risked his life climbing the car to brake it and extinguish flames, preventing a far larger catastrophe in the town.
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Boulder
Whiteley
Canon
George Whiteley
M. 8
Oxford
Weybrake
Danger District
Death toll rising after Boulder depot explosion
A. E. Weeks of the volunteer fire department died from injuries after Friday night’s blast at the Co 8 S freight depot in Boulder. Coroner Buckhart will hold an inquest. authorities seek the fire’s origin amid new damage claims from nearby homes. Seven more weeks remain under investigation as investigators pursue leads and rewards offered.
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Bouder
A. E. Weeks
Buckhart
Boulder
N Cit
Strawn
Colo
Explosive Train Disaster In Boulder Ignites City Damage
A carload of nitroglycerin exploded on Colorado and Northern tracks near Boulder during a strike. Officials of the Colorado and Northwestern face limited liability due to a receiver, while negligence by Colorado and Southern workers could allow damages. Fire watches were not kept by either railway, and the blast left shattered windows and a ruined business district. A burnt timber fragment four by four inches and four feet long was found in a nearby barn lot, traced to the explosion car.
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Rado and Southern
Colorado and Northern
Colorado and Northern Railway
Colorado and Northwestern
Colorado and Southern
Colorado
Boulder
D. K. Steinberg
Coroner investigates death of traveling laborer Samuel Adamson
Coroner C. H. Whitmore visited Florence to assess the death of Samuel Sharpnack Adamson who died from injuries after falling from a moving freight train near Portland. Adamson, 23, from Fort Lupton Colorado, was en route home from El Paso Texas when the accident occurred. The case was treated as accidental with no inquest. burial will be in Fort Lupton.
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C. H. Whitmore
Florence
Samuel Sharpnack Adamson
Portland
Adamson
Knights of Pythias
Fort Lupton
Lathers’ Union
el Paso
Two Robberies Reported in Florence Over Weekend
Florence records two burglaries within 48 hours. Ed Horan on East Third Street lost a suit of clothes and small change after a pantry entry. Fren Hitchcock on West Main Street found a pair of pants taken and $5 stolen, with a large trunk rifled but no other valuables missing.
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Florence
Ed. Horan
East Third Street
Horan
Hitchcock
Price Sets 140 Mile Auto Record From Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs Aug 12 W W Price a mining man set a new auto record between Colorado Springs and Leadville. The 140 mile trip over a rough mountain road in a five person car with a 0 coree power engine took exactly six hours.
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Colorado Springs
W. W. Price
Leadville
Kansas Professor Proposes Perpetual Motion Milk Plan
Kansas State Agricultural College professor Oscar Erf outlines an endless chain system using milk to produce a buttermilk powder fed back to cows. The dried product is 70 percent protein and could cost about one and a half cents per pound, with potential Kansas savings of $400,000 annually and reducing half a million pounds of buttermilk waste daily.
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Kansas State Agricultural College
Oscar Erf
Prof. Erf
Kansas
Two Nebraska Friends Meet on California Delta Train
Miss Edna Kennedy returned from California and found Miss Lottie McDowell of Oklahoma among Canon City visitors. They rode together one third of the journey on the Union Pacific and only realized their shared path at Ogden Utah. They had met in Nebraska as children and later reunited in Utah. Miss Kennedy will stay several weeks with Canon City friends before continuing eastward. Miss McDowell plans to spend time there before her onward journey.
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Edna Kennedy
California
Geo. T. Wood
Lottie McDowell
Okron
Miss Kennedy
Miss McDowell
Nebraska
Union Pacific
Ogden
Utah
Canon City
Los Angeles
Harvard chemist surprised by German student prank
Two hundred University of Berlin students lured Harvard professor Theodore W. Richards onto a dampfschiffreise on Muggel lake. Amid cheers and a mock Harvard yell, Richards recovered and spoke on physico chemical contents, applauded by the crowd before adjourning.
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University of Berlin
Theodore W. Richards
Harvard University
Chemical Department
Richards
Mugegel Lake
Rickards
Muggel Lake
Harvardstein
Harvard
Hydraulic Rams for Farm Water Supply
Colorado Agricultural College discusses using hydraulic rams to lift water for homes without public supply. A ram works when a stream provides six to eight times the pumped water and a fall of at least 1.5 feet is available. The drive pipe should be about 15 feet long with sufficient head.
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Colorado Agricultural College
Water Ram Pump Described With Recurring Momentum Mechanism
A historical description explains a water ram pump using a tandem valve system that repeatedly seals and releases to push water into a delivery pipe. With a drive pipe area several times larger than the outlet, water height gains of up to 150 feet are possible, aided by a storage tank to smooth pressure.
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Robert W. Gay
Canon City School Chief Returns From Missouri Vacation
Prof. F. F. Thompson superintendent of Canon City schools returns from a vacation at Fyan Missouri reporting pleasant weather aside from a few hot days. Mrs. Thompson visits relatives in Nevada Missouri and will be away several weeks. Schools reopen in mid September and Thompson preps for a record enrollment, with the board expanding plans accordingly.
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F. F. Thompson
Canon City
Fyan
Board of Education
Prominent Dairy Authority Visits in Canon City
S. B. Shilling of Chicago, president of the National Dairy Union and editor of the Chicago Dairy Produce, left Canon City after visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Trout of South Canon. Shilling, a noted dairy lecturer, has invitations to speak before farmers institutes in over forty states.
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S. B. Shilling
Chicago
National Dairy Union
Chicago Dairy Produce
W. H. Trout
South Canon
Visitor from Ironton Returns to Colorado for Rest
Mr. Shilling, who has just seen his sister Mrs. Trout in Ironton, spends summers in Colorado for rest and recreation, usually staying a week to ten days as her guest.
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Ironton
Mr. Shilling
Colorado
Mrs. Trout
Regular as the Sun Ad Sells Dr King’s New Life Pills
An old fashioned ad asserts sun’s regularity and promises a natural routine with Dr King’s New Life Pills. It credits Hunter Palmer, druggist, with a 25 cent guarantee. The note laments lack of free groceries while defending merchants’ rights.
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Dr. King
Hunter Palmer
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