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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1908
Page
7
Buffalo Bill's Wild West displays a small herd of bison, one of the continent's few remaining. The exhibit uses the animals to illustrate hunter methods from Buffalo Bill's youth when Indians ruled the central West. Estate of Theodore C. Llewellyn notice seeks claims and settlement. Coraphene Llewellyn named executor. First pub Aug. 6, 1908.
The undersigned administrator under an order of Fremont County Court will sell at private cash sale on September 11, 1908 at 2 PM the real estate of Susan L Daniels estate. The property is Lot fourteen in T J Prescotts subdivision of Tract A in Prescott estate, South Can c a, Fremont County Colorado.
Notice from Fremont County Commissioners that the board will sit as a board of equalization at the county offices in Canon City starting September 1 1908 to correct omissions and equalize the assessment roll. A second session on September 15 1908 will address complaints and adjustments. August 18 1908 GEO P NIX County Clerk. First and last publications noted.
Round trip fares apply every Sunday in summer from Canon City to Florence for 50 cents and Canon City to Pueblo for 1.50, with service listed under Rio Grande.
On Tuesdays Colorado and Southern sell round trip tickets from Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo to all state points at very low rates. The Weekly Record subscription is $1.25 per year.
An old Missouri town awarded Mark Twain an honorary doctor of laws in June during a slow news day. A New York editor sent Twain a wire asking how it felt to be a doctor of laws, and Twain replied that it felt like emancipation from ignorance and vice.
Dr Nachtigal the celebrated African explorer visits a Hamburg merchant. The merchant's son dreams of camel riding and the explorer offers a humorous analogue: sit on an un sprung stool in a heat soaked wagon after fasting to mimic a desert ride.
In a Regency tale, Lord Brougham visits Lady Jer sey and her daughter Lady Clementine Villiers. He forgets the occasion and seizes a present from the line, assuming the birthday girl will not recall its prior giving. He prides himself on cleverness but becomes undone.
Miss Clementina Gibson, a fortyish woman, falls for twenty two year old Algernon Sinclair who socializes with plots of theater, jewels, and a green dress. A photo, a forged romance, and a chase lead to arrest for burglary with evidence tying Sinclair and a missing jewelry hoard to Mrs. Bickford’s house. Detective Robert Williams nets thousands in valuables and a tidy fee. Gibson ends up jailed seeking vengeance on the “little whippersnapper.”
The Mexican Herald notes that amid holiday crowds in Mexico City and remote districts the native languages persist beside Spanish. It observes distinct Indian tongues from pre Columbian times remain spoken by many tribal members, illustrating linguistic diversity in the republic.
The Lakas of the La gone river in French Konze Africa move homes by lifting the roofs and carrying them to a new site. Workers and women cooperate, shoulders to the task, sometimes traveling many miles. The huts feature circular walls and conical roofs.
A collection of quick wits and quips unfolds from clergymen to schoolmasters. Jokes cover ministers children fighting, gas discrimination by breath, denatured Americans, lying admirations, child dictums, and a comic dog caution. Old papers 10¢ bundle of 50 at the record office.
A playful miscellany mocks talkative talkers and social habits while weaving in hay fever verse and a nudge toward classified ads. It ends by noting the ease of using want ads to avoid procrastination and seize bargains.
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