John Emmerson Tours Northern Colorado Agriculture Focus
The article describes John Emmerson’s visit to northern Colorado highlighting Fort Collins and Canon City. It covers sugar beet farming with 11,000 acres at 14 1 3 tons per acre, net income around 34.16 dollars per acre, a 1200 ton daily beet sugar plant, and lamb feeding profits. It notes Ft. Collins population around 10,500, new construction including a $60,000 YMCA, and comparisons to Canon City’s tree-lined streets.
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Colorado
Canon City
Colorado & Southern
Denver
Fort Collins
Ilinois
Omaha
St. Joseph
Kansas City
Chicago
Ft. Collins
South Canon
Local notes on Knights of Pythias session and Ft Collins visit
J W E reports on the Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias gathering with about 88 lodges and nearly 200 representatives, plus the Grand Lodge of Pythian Sisters and uniform rank encamped at the State Agricultural College. The piece also covers a train strike, a request for a special train denied by the railroad, and impressions of Ft Collins post office and local water and newspapers.
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Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias
Grand Lodge of Pythian Sisters
K. of P
State Agricultural College
Denver
Ft. Collins
Daily Record
Canon City man praises Dean's Kidney Pills for relief
A Canon City resident describes long term back and kidney problems and credits Dean's Kidney Pills with marked improvement after use. He notes fewer nighttime awakenings, clearer urine, and stronger back. Sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents. Old papers 10c bundle 50.
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Canon City
L. A. Schamp
Pike Avenue
Colo
Dean
Hunter Palmer
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
United States
The Best Financial Banking Ad Promotes Savings
A vintage ad urges readers to bank with liberal methods and save for old age. It promises four percent on savings deposits and links wealth to early saving and money in a personal account.
Citizens State Bank Officers Named in Ledger
The Citizens State Bank lists T. B. Coulter as president J. W. Cannon as vice president M. J. Evans as cashier and board members.
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Citizens State Bank
T. B. Coulter
J. W. Cannon
M.J. Evans
Cashier
Beaver Land seeks bids on Beaver Creek pipeline project
Beaver Land and Irrigation Co. plans to solicit bids for a pipeline and ditch from Beaver Creek. Contractors should contact O. R. Parker, engineer, or J. Q. MacDonald, manager. Full specifications will be released soon.
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Beaver Land & Irrigation Co
Beaver Creek
O. R. Parker
J. Q. MacDonald
Two New Telephone Lines Are Installed In Florence
Florence, Aug. 16. The Colorado Telephone company has workers laying two new lines. One will connect Florence with Glendale for Beaver Land and Water company. The second will serve the new cement works seven miles east of Florence.
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Florence
Colorado Telephone Company
Glendale
Beaver Land and Water Company
Returned from camping trip in Park County mountains
Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Curtis and several Polhemus families with accompanying relatives returned to Canon City on Thursday from a camping outing in Park County near Guffey. They reported delightfully cool weather and full enjoyment of the stay.
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N. E. Curtis
G. A. Polhemus
H. C. Polhemus
W. S. Polhemus
Runaway Wagon Wrecks Delivery at Lincoln Park
Glynton Hall, driver for his father’s Lincoln Park store, led a Tuesday afternoon runaway after his horse panicked. The wagon plus debris scattered into kindling and scrap iron, Hall was thrown clear and bruised. He has recently recovered from a prior runaway incident a month or six weeks earlier.
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Glynton Hall
Lincoln Park
Young Hall
Santa Fe Brakeman Hurt At Portland This Morning
A Santa Fe brakeman named McComb was severely injured in the Portland yards while the freight engine was switching. The rail spread, throwing the engine and tender off the track and pinning McComb under the tender. He was taken to hospital for treatment as traffic on the division was delayed for hours. McComb lives in Pueblo.
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Santa Fe
Portland
McComb
Pueblo
Adjudged Insane in County Court This Morning
Mrs F A Mitchell owner of a dressmaking shop at 321 Main Street was adjudged insane by a lunacy commission in county court Saturday and taken to the county infirmary for treatment. If no improvement in thirty days she will be sent to the asylum at Pueblo. She had exhibited strange behavior for weeks including a mania of sending postal cards to sheriffs and judges nationwide seeking arrests over imagined grievances.
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F. A. Mitchell
Main Street
Pueblo
Convicts Escape From Prison Farm No 3 During Sunrise Breakout
A disturbance at the penitentiary Saturday morning followed the escape of two trusties from prison farm No 3 on Four Mile. Details are limited as authorities investigate the breakout and search for the fugitives.
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The
Penitentiary
Prison Farm No. 3
Four Mile
Escaped prisoners flee prison farm under guard
Police and detectives hunt two trusties, Charles Shrode and J E Greer, who rode prison horses after escaping a farm under Jerry McTans watch. Shrode, 24, from Boulder county, larceny sentence three to four years. Greer, 34, from Clear Creek county, grand larceny one and a half to two years. A $100 reward is offered for each fugitive.
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Chas. Shrode
J. E. Greer
Jerry Mc- Tan
Shrode
Boulder County
Buena Vista
Green
Clear Creek County
West Hosts Campers From Ordway in Canon City
A group of 19 visitors from Ordway, Colorado arrived in Canon City for a mountain outing and found Mr. West and family living there. The guests camped on Wests shaded grounds and enjoyed ice cream, cake, and music hosted by the Wests. Several left for Ordway on Friday morning, while those who stayed included Mrs. Wests son and daughter and Rev. F N Sandifur, a former Ordway pastor. The West family again proved skilled at entertaining guests from their former home.
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Ordway
Colo
Canon City
Mr. West
C. S. Iles
Cecil
Marie
Dolly
Della
Helen Winfree
Grace Gray
F. N. Sandifur
West
Beaver Creek Power pipeline plat filed for record
A plat by Jesse H Waters and others shows Beaver Creek and East Beaver Creek lines for a power plant near Fancher's ranch in section 16 township 17 south range 69. The Beaver Creek line runs 4.7 miles with twenty inch diameter and 18 cu ft per second, head 1200 feet. East Beaver Creek runs 8.8 miles with twenty four inch diameter and 15 cu ft per second, head 1800 feet. Surveys began June 11 1907 with an estimated total cost of 750000 dollars.
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Jesse H. Waters
Beaver Creek Power Company
Beaver Creek
East Beaver Creek
Fancher
Will Resume Mining Operations at Barnes City
Mr and Mrs N E Barnes of New York City with Mr and Mrs M D Stecher of Chicago and A D Weller visit Strathmore hotel en route to Barnes City to direct Cottonwood Creek Copper Mining. Barnes asserts assays show a rich copper vein at Montezuma property with ore value rising with depth and plans to spend 40000 testing. Return to Colorado signals renewed mining activity in the county.
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N. E. Barnes
New York City
M. D. Stecher
Chicago
A. D. Weller
Barnes
Strathmore Hotel
Barnes City
Cottonwood Creek Copper Mining Company
Colorado
Montezuma
Worth Claims in Red Gulch Go for Good Money
At the Red Gulch Mining and Milling annual meeting in Colorado Springs H C Taber sold the Worth group of five copper prospects to John W Roof and Henry J Worth of Elmira New York They will develop the properties with their own capital and through expert engineers have studied the gulch resources New York Worth is not related to the pioneer prospector of the same name in Red Gulch
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Colorado Springs
Red Gulch Mining & Milling Company
H. C. Taber
John W. Roof
Henry J. Worth
Elmira
N. Y
New York
Red Gulch
Escaped Lunatic Caught Riding Top of Box Car
Charles Nelson an escaped patient from Pueblo state asylum is jailed in Florence awaiting transfer. He fled days ago and rode a westbound Rio Grande freight on top of a box car wearing a red mother Hubbard dress signaling the engineer before Conductor Harrington captured him and turned him in at Florence.
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Florence
Charles Nelson
Pueblo
Steel City
Rio Grande System
Hubbard
Harrington
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promise and Testimonial Offer
An advertisement proclaims Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh, a constitutional disease, claiming internal action on blood and mucous surfaces. The firm offers 100 dollars to any case uncured and invites testimonials from F. J. Chenny & Co of Toledo, with pills for constipation sold separately.
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Hall
BLISS
Sherman Aveaue
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John Emmerson
Zemo
Ax Ae Raner
OF. Louis, MO
Palace DE UG
Mitchria
Park County
Ss. P. West
Wn. T. Bridwell
Canon City, Colo
Holman Mercantile CO
Canon
Worth
F. J. Chenny & CO
Toledo, O
Oi Co
Reaity
Burnett
Pure Food Commission
Joseph Burnett Co
Boston, Mass
Rupong Gant
Jaume Uspuasas
Denver Laboratories Co
Intgiy
Bening Silver
Arapahoe St
Dr. Miles
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