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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1901
Page
2
Practical gift ideas for Christmas season appeal to husbands brothers and fathers. A large stock promises sensible presents with strong value and lasting use, aiming to help shoppers choose helpful items for loved ones during the holiday rush.
Whipple's offers a hot blast stove with modern improvements and nickel plated stand lamps at Mrs. J. C. Agard & Son, 228 Main Street. Main Street location listed as 5012 and 07.
The Short Line between Chicago and Omaha is described as direct east west with two through trains daily and superior sleeping and dining car service. Timetables maps and info are available from J B Preston Denver. plus ads for shoes hats and clothing at Spot Cash Store and Christmas tree decorations at Rocky Mountain bakery.
A patient from Fulford, Md, recounts a long illness with bed sores and credits DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve with a perfect cure. The notice promotes the salve as the best on the market and warns against counterfeits sold by Palace Drug Store under Geo Pedley.
The Youth's Companion will publish 200 to 300 stories in 1902 across four series titled Tales of a Deep Sea-Diver Tales of a Circus Hand Tales of a Mississippi Pilot and Tales of an Indian Agent. Notable contributors include Jack London Ella W. Peattie Elizabeth McCracken May Roberts Clark and Sarah Orne Jewett. New subscribers who pay $1.75 receive remaining 1901 issues and the 1902 calendar.
The Handsomest Calendar of the season in ten colors features six beautiful heads on six sheets 10x12 inches reproductions of Moran paintings issued by General Passenger Department Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway. It will be sent on receipt of twenty five cents. Address F A Miller General Passenger Agent Chicago. Also note about coffee and tea pricing.
Francis H. Nichols credits New York with leading global ambulance care. He notes American cities Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, St Louis, Pittsburgh, and New Orleans adopting systems, while Vienna provides a European parallel with 20 ambulances under a humane society after the Ring Theatre disaster of 1881.
An American railway contractor recalls Boxers seizing railway stores in Mongolia. They burned supplies including salt marked cartridges. A Boxer displayed a bottle of pickled onions and shouted that foreigners had torn out children’s eyes for preservation, provoking a mob that was easily routed.
Senator Daniel of Virginia lives frugally in Washington to cover his late father Judge William Daniel’s liabilities. For 30 years he has worked to settle more than $100,000 in debts from the panic of 1875, choosing to assume them rather than renounce.
In Samara province on the Volga, a secluded sect of women led by an elder, the Blessed Mother, lives in hill dwellings and fasts awaiting the world’s end. They believe 11 women are possessed of miraculous powers and guard the group as a religious order. Coronation Kisses. The belligerent kiss is joked about in a quip on royal ceremony. King Edward had earlier suggested peers would skip kissing at coronation but noted it would be unbearable to endure. William IV resisted the custom yet accepted it, threatening to abdicate rather than comply.
The United States begins issuing a $10 silver certificate in a new series titled Buffalo bill. The note features a mammoth buffalo and is part of a lineup using American subjects with an eagle on the $1 bill George Washington on the $2 bill an Indian chief on the $5 bill and now the buffalo on the $10 note.
A recipe for fruit balls using warm boiled rice and fresh peaches, wrapped and boiled, served with lemon or sweet sauces. Includes a lemon sauce and a method for making a quick thickening sauce with cornstarch butter sugar and lemon juice. Mentions Kate Hatch McRae of Cripple Creek Colorado designing a rapid heating cake machine.
A machine with a downward projecting beater operates by fixing a hanger to the table edge and placing a cake dish underneath. The user turns a crank to rotate the beater until the task is done, with the beating frame removable for cleaning or swapping beaters for different tasks like whipping cream or making frosting.
Parsley can be scalded briefly to use as a seasoning for winter soups and sauces and dried quickly by the fire. It may be rolled into a ball and sliced for soup and creamed potatoes. Parsley aids digestion and sprigs with salt freshen breath. Lavender oil in hot water freshens a dining room atmosphere before meals. Hostesses use small vessels in parlors and dressing rooms to ease stuffiness during festivities.
Cleaning flannel blankets can be done with borax and soft soap in cold water. Soak overnight, rub, rinse in two waters and air dry without wringing. For preserving flower color, New York Botanical Gardens method uses sunheated papers after pressing to finish drying and retain colors.
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