29 Aug 1907
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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1907
Page
1
Stuart Maclean notes a domestic shift with Mother playing bridge altering roles. Julia’s suitor arrives. Henrietta’s attire shrinks. Ellen reads, Mary recruited. Father resents change. Mother consoles with advice on simple honors while meals become quiet. Chicago Daily Journal.
Pleasant Evening Reveries focuses on loving more and hating less, urging mothers to join the Home Circle at Evening Tide. It extols compassion over conflict and invites readers to nurture happiness with near ones despite hardships. The piece emphasizes inner beauty over outward age or wear.
A meditation on finding happiness beyond wealth. It contrasts the joyful beauty of nature with the perils of busy life and stresses the value of family, early education, and moral nurture. It underscores the power of home letters to support wandering youths and keep them from temptation.
An old advertisement urges opening an account to secure wealth and old age spending power. It touts four percent savings deposits and stresses the social value of money and saving.
A plea from Citizens State Bank officials urges mothers and sisters to send frequent loving letters to sons brothers and lovers abroad. The piece argues wholesome home influence can deter vice in cities and protect young men from degradation, urging prayer and steady affection.
The Star Course committee outlines a winter lineup with Slayton's Jubilee Singers and the Trans-Continental Trio among acts. Geo B Coulter Maude Drake Helen Goff and Maynard Lee Daggy listed with lectures by Prof John B De Motte Dr John Merritte Driver. Geo B Jones to visit Canon City next week. The general secretary seeks volunteers and odd jobs. contact Mr Gray west 367.
A fragment discusses medical experts agreeing on a life expectancy limit between fifty and sixty years. It mentions a “Nature's Shelper after 60” and a supposed tonic, Electric Biom, claimed to size every organ, attributed to Hunter Palmer.
Notice lists high school faculty meeting times on September 2 at 9 am and 2 pm and a superintendent’s enrollment period at the high school. It provides unclear student enrollment details and indicates a statewide or district education notice with incomplete remaining text.
The page lists old school books and authors, followed by an advertisement for Hall's Catarrh Cure claiming a constitutional cure with a $100 reward for any failed case. Includes address J. Chenny & Co Toledo Ohio and price 76c. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Fremont county coal mines report shortages of coal cars and miners as grain shipments to the East divert equipment. Mines operate near steady output for the rest of the year, but rising labor costs may be needed to attract workers if shortages persist for six weeks.
Beaver Land & Water company will open bids September 1 for three miles of open ditch, siphoning work, and a 1000 foot tunnel to divert water onto prairie lands for irrigation. Contracts may be awarded immediately with work to begin September 15 and finish by mid January, with additional tasks planned after.
County Superintendent Minnie C Merriam reports twenty eight applicants took the recent teachers certificates exam with five North Canon district No 1 teachers. Six first grade five second grade and four third grade certificates issued. Seven failed to reach the required 70 percent average with at least 60 percent in each study. Next exam set for the third Thursday and Friday in December. Full list of successful candidates includes I L Valentine Dora Sherwood Ada R Polhemus Catherine E Bob Nellie M Morris Eth el Mrteker L D Beckwith J D Norman Caroline B Olson Irma A Seas Margaret J Robert Mabel R Allen V Bragg Wiewsie HB Moore and Cassie L Hurd.
Cripple Creek mining district plans a lively Labor Day with continuous entertainment and a Beauty Contest open to exhibitors from Paseo, Fremont, Paso Robles, and nearby areas. The event aims to lift spirits and provide lighthearted amusement for all attendees.
Mayor L. A. Van Tilberg is to receive photographs for the event. The baby show has two classes for six months to one year and one to two years with three prizes each. Features include horse and foot races, burro races, boy and girl races, a menagerie race for Pioneer Association members, a fire department horse race between Victor and Cripple Creek, and railroad reduced rates for all. Also advertised is a tonic marketed as The Vegetable Treatment for blood disorders promising relief.
Cripple Creek August 23 W J Witcher who homesteaded at Upper Four Mile in 1871 and has run stock plans to sell his entire herd of cattle to Denver buyers at twenty dollars a head He owns between three thousand and six thousand head ranges across Teller Fremont and Park counties He will begin the roundup September 1 with proceeds expected between sixty thousand and one hundred thousand Regular as the Sun is an old expression but the liver and bowels act as well with Dr Kings New Life Pills from Hunter Palmer druggist 32 5c
In a report to Mayor McClellan, Tax Commissioner Lawson Purdy notes that the city’s land value alone exceeds Pennsylvania’s total real estate value and almost doubles New York State outside NYC. He cites six square miles around Central Park as more valuable than Missouri’s entire real estate, highlighting vast city land worth. Morning glories question ends the piece with health of porch blooms and nest egg concerns.
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