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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1905
Page
3
Just before Christmas the store promotes its stock with new silverware and a selection of affordable goods. Fresh groceries include coffee tea fruits raisins nuts candies cigars flour bottled relishes canned goods and pie ingredients to ease holiday meals.
Alaska's hardships in the gold era gave way to new comforts after rail and steamship links opened remote towns. In Circle City on December 25, 1897, miners pooled funds for a grand Christmas dinner amid high prices and scarce provisions, a feast Craig and companions deemed among the best.
M M Craig of 12047 Main Street recalls Fremont County days when frontier life fostered hospitality and mutual trust. A 1861 Denver errand with a thousand-dollar bill shows neighbors relied on honesty, while lawless acts drew swift frontier punishment. Seasonal coal ads close the reminiscence.
A narrative poem by W. G. Black recalls a Southern youth leaving Dixie for Colorado. He seeks mining, homesteading, and business, while enjoying the frontier life and steady sunshine. A letter home boosts his mother’s joy as the Colorado dream unfolds with mountain streams and praise for the climate and people.
An advertisement claims a cough syrup recipe costs 3 cents to produce and sells bottles for 1, and offers to mail the secret with directions for 26 cents. It also promotes Rowley & Co. formula makers and misleads with other items from Galley’s including misses and children's slippers.
Deaths reported include Henry Clay Burton who died at the county hospital aged about 67 after six to seven months in Canon City. He served in the Confederate army and was a Mason. funeral at Wilson's parlors with burial in Lakeside cemetery. Also Maria L. Moffitt aged 87 years 7 months 21 days died at her daughter's home on Macon Avenue. funeral at her home conducted by Rev. J. T. Thomas and burial in Greenwood cemetery. A letter list for Canon City post office ends with several names.
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