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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1900
Page
7
Thirty years ago the nation bought more from foreigners than it sold to them, by about per capita. Now the balance has flipped and exports exceed imports by eight dollars and fifty cents per person.
A fragmentary article notes France’s disappointment at the absence of crowned heads at the exposition, citing Oscar of Sweden and Norway Leopold of Belgium and George of Greece’s gratitude-to-France gestures. It also recounts a Philadelphia Hobby Riders Dinner where guests discussed diverse hobbies from engravings to stamps, highlighting the clash of rival fascinations.
A Boston Journal quote from the Green Bag notes Iceland has no prisoners and hardly any police. For 1,000 years its history records at most two thefts, illustrating a stark contrast with more civilized nations and offering a lesson for criminology and policing.
A Paris butcher wagers a lion cage challenge, drinks wine, plays cards with the trainer, and is mauled when he offers a wineglass to a lion. Irish woman refuses a marriage after grinning from a cages bars. Vienna eccentric dies in a lion cage bed. Salem visitor knits in a tiger den, two hours with a scarf, tamer intervenes. An advertisement touts Herb ine health aid by Hunter Palmer at 50 cents.
Marie Peary, daughter of arctic explorer Lieut. Peary, was born at latitude 77 40 north and sails with her mother on the Windward to Etah to await herfather. The family will live in a caboose repurposed as a houvre, donated by Erie Railroad, as a winter home in the polar expanse.
An old classified-style note touts Herbine as a tonic to strengthen the stomach and regulate the liver, claiming it prevents disease by correcting digestive failures. It lists a 50 cent price and mentions sale by Hunter Palmer.
A New York Herald note cites authorities debating brain food as many recommend fish or varied meats, yet apples gain favor for brain material and whole-body health. It’s claimed nervous systems crave phosphorus and a ripe raw apple digests in eighty five minutes, saving energy and aiding longevity.
The London Express outlines how Chinese beggar, thief, and leper guilds in Nanking, Peking, and Tientsin dominate districts with a king who collects tribute and extorts traders. Beggars, thieves, and lepers have vivid hierarchies, with kings enforcing control, guarding habits, and profiting from victim’s misfortune.
A village near Moscow reports brutal robbers beating a 70 year old woman who refused to reveal where money was hidden. They fled when a wagon approached as her son arrived to find her badly injured and unconscious. The Washington Star comments on harsher punishments for cruel criminals.
A farmer discovering his mule team near a tree saw mules attacked by fires. They pawed the ground in panic, exposing bluish dust and a floury sand deposit. Extensive deposits of tripoli or rottenstone were later valued by experts at 10 000 to 15 000 pounds.
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