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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1902
Page
7
The article urges diversifying Canon’s economy with small ventures, especially poultry and junk collecting, arguing these niches can yield substantial returns. It notes Colorado’s appetite for big projects while undervaluing small, local opportunities and cites examples of successful junk and poultry trades elsewhere.
An advertisement for the Chicago Special night train from Denver to Chicago via Union Pacific with departure 11:00 p m and arrival next day. It touts regular service and asks to contact E R Griffin or R H Foster for details.
A festive verse extols King Christmas as monarch of merriment and good cheer. It invites bells to ring and hearth fires to blaze while shadows of sadness fade and stars toast with ethereal champagne.
A Philadelphia Ledger poem by Aimee Carey paints Christmas as a mighty ruler over boundless realms and silent depths. The verse extols jolly cheer and annual bounty while mocking annual gripes and festive folly.
Old or young goose preferred for Christmas. Dress like a turkey, wash skin, season with sage and onions. Boil and mash potatoes with onion juice. Salt pepper outside, baste, bake twenty minutes per pound. Garnish with blood orange and greens. Make pan sauce from drippings, add giblets. Parboil and bruise an old goose.
A Pittsb urg Dispatch excerpt describes Swedish peasants greeting Christmas with an outdoor grain sheaf raised on a yard pole for birds. The custom signals birds’ cheer before any inside Christmas feast, observed during the Yule season extending to January 13.
A discussion in a Main Street store praises the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 as a pivotal moment in American history. It highlights Jefferson's wisdom, Napoleon’s concession, and the possible consequences if France had kept Louisiana, ending with claims that the 1808 acquisition marked a constructive act of statesmanship deserving a grand centennial celebration in 1904.
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