How They Enyed The Fourth of July Canon City
Canon City observed the one hundred twenty ninth anniversary of the Declaration with a citywide holiday. Fireworks caused minor injuries, the penitentiary held a band concert and vaudeville, and numerous picnics and excursions filled the day. Crowded trains, large Grove gatherings at Rockafellow farm, and races at Cripps Creek and Garden Park accompanied many private displays and a royal basket dinner.
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Canon City
Coulter
Norden Young America
Earl Helm
River Street
Edgar Smith
Pueblo
Smith
Cleghorn
Rockafellow's Grove
Cripps Creek
Westcliff
Garden Park
Oak Creek Canon
Grape Creek
Cottonwood Springs
Royal Gorge
Rockafellow Fruit Ranch
America
Canon
Valuable mare breaks her leg at fair grounds track
Ed Norris' trotting mare collapsed while being prepared for the Fourth of July races at Westcliff. The horse fell and broke her left fore leg between the foot and pastern joint. Dr Wilson Person treated the injury and cast the leg in plaster of Paris.
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Ed. Norris
Fair Grounds
Westcliff
Wilson Person
Globe Democrat Tur Recrop Special Offer
The Globe Democrat offers a twice weekly subscription and Tur Recorp site option, both one year for 1.85 dollars.
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Globe Democrat
Tur
Y M C A Conference at Glen Park August
The executive committee of the Colorado Y M C A through state secretary G B Bilheimer announced the Fifth Annual Bible conference at Glen Park August 18 to 18. The summit locale at 7200 feet offers cool days and nights with devotional study and wholesome recreation. Attendees will tour nearby sights with guides each afternoon and enjoy tennis golf good food and first class hotel lodging in affordable rates.
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Young Men’s Christian Associations of
Colorado
G. 8
Bilheimer
Glen Park
Platte
Arkansas
Oity
Booster Edition Of The Record
The Record urges support for a Booster Edition to attract eastern home seekers to Canon City and Fremont County. It emphasizes community cooperation from business leaders and growers, promises thorough, truthful illustrations, and notes aims beyond profit to spur Westward settlement and local prosperity.
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Canon City
Fremont County
Tae Recon
Tux
Colorado
City Council Examines Bills and a Horse Treatment Feat
The Canon City City Council meets amid debate over bills for legal services in the injunction case and a veterinary treatment of a valued horse with a leg fracture. A council vote rejected payment, pushing any settlement to court. The session also approved engineer reports, street work, and ordinances on bill boards and street excavations, with adjournment planned for July 17.
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Dale
Sayre & Eldred
Okey
City of
Canon City
D. N. Cooper
T. B. Coulter
Arthur
Kenly
Theodore Shoemaker
Dedrich N. Cooper
Samuel P. Dale
S. Mitton
Hinchman-Renton Fireproofing Company
Visitors Reach Marshall Pass Summit Despite Cold Weather
A crowd of about twenty five to thirty Canon travelers joined the D and R G excursion last Sunday to the Marshall Pass high point. The two-section train left at 9 a m and returned at 6 20 p m for a full day trip amid chilly air at the summit. Snowsheds observatory and railway station burned recently and will be rebuilt soon.
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D. & R. G. Execurion
Marshall Pass
Pueblo
Salida
Pretty Souvenirs From the West
Walter Combs a Honolulu clerk sent postcard mementos from the rim of Kilauea volcano in Hawaii. Edges burned by lava dipping symbolize Pele and the goddess’s fate, as he recalls world travels and the volcano’s stupendous sublime view.
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Walter Combs
Honolulu
Hawaiian Islands
Lafe Combs
Greenwood Avenue
Uncle Sam
mid-Pacific
Kilauea
Pelee
Walter
Kilsues
Thompson buys Fremont County Wall Paper firm stake
R B Thompson Wall Paper and Paint purchased an interest in Fremont County Wall Paper and Paint. The stock moved to Florence where Thompson and associates have built a thriving trade over the past year.
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R. B. Thompson Wall Paper & Paint Company
Fremont County Wall Paper & Paint Company
Florence
Thompson
Change in Canon City Homes For Better Architectural Variety
An observant visitor praises Canon City as pretty but argues for more architectural variety. He notes many four to six room cottages mirror a rigid plan, laments uniformity, and suggests practical changes such as reducing dormers and creating rear screened porches that can double as summer kitchens. He predicts the town will evolve toward diverse facades.
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Canon City
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Cripple Creek
Westcliffe
Ocksfellow
Everbody
J. W. Work
Horticultural] Society
H. 8. Garlinghouse
J. B. Cook
Horatius
Kane
George Tripp
John Sullivan
Et Little
Miss Ostrie MH
E.C Mitchell
Batchelor
G. W. Jackson
D.S. Moore
A.N. Orntorff
GO. G. Durkee
Ray Acker
Y.M.C.A
Norris
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