Colorado Poultry Institutes Set for August Meetings
Colorado Agricultural College plans a series of poultry institutes in August to boost production and profits. Noted experts led by Judge C H Rhodes and Dr J W Downey will lecture on breeds, feeding, buildings, and business, with sessions in Greeley Fort Collins Denver Colorado Springs Rocky Ford Canon City Collbran Grand Junction Loveland and more.
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Colorado
Denver
Colorado Agricultural College
Greeley
Fort Collins
Colorado Springs
Rocky Ford
Canon City
Collbran
Grand Junction
Loveland
Grand Junction Institute
C. H. Rhodes
United States
J. W. Downey
H. M. Bainer
R. C. Clay
L. L. Johnson
Mr. Clay
Advertised Letters Remaining in Canon City Post Office
List of unclaimed letters for the week ending July 12 1908 at Canon City Colorado includes J W Bailey J E Bargo Miss Blanche Blake Mr J C Brown Mr F E Burdon Mr W G Byrd Miss Mamie L Cook Chas A Clark Mr Byron Coffin Mrs Mary Crew Chas P N Davis Elbert Dorsey Frank English two copies Farley Mrs J F Farel Joseph two copies Gale Jesse Hall John Hamilton Mrs Jessie W Hammond Miss Mary two copies Hawkins Everett and Mrs John Hendricks Mrs John Hiatt Me wow ABELL AEE Bae Bae Hohman John Hughes Mrs J C Jackson Thos Lamme J M two copies Lanahan Mike Lowrey John McGowan A F McMillan Maud Morgan Miss Lottie Morris Miss Geo T Morrison Luther Parnell Dave Randolph James Roberts Mrs Maud Royster James Sheer Miss Attie Trujillo Candito West Minnie Zimmerman N B Seamans Club ROBERT 8 LEWIS Px
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Canon City
Colo
Bailey
J. W. Bargo
J. E. Blake
Blanche Brown
J. C. Burdon
F. E. Byrd
W. G. Cook
Mamie L. Clark
Chas. A. Coffin
Byron Crew
Mary
Mary (2) Davis, Chas. Elbert Dorsey, Mr. P. N. English
Frank
Farley
J. F. Farel
Joseph
Gale
Jesse Hall
John Hamilton
Jessie W. Hammond
Hawkins
Everett Hendricks
John Hiatt
Minnie Zimmerman
N. B. Seamans Club
Robert 8. Lewis
Trinidad Faces Severe Flood After Heavy Rains
In Trinidad on July 14 the Purgatoire River rose rapidly after days of rain, matching the worst flood since four years ago that damaged the Santa Fe depot. Water flooded Riley canon and nearby camps, forcing residents to higher ground as bridges gave way and the depot faced bank erosion.
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Trinidad
Purgatoire
Santa Fe
Riley Canon
Segundo
Sopris
Jansen
Tempt Made to Rob Ridgway Bank
Ridgway July 14 An attempt to rob the State bank at Ridgway last night failed after robbers blew vault doors with nitroglycerin. They tunneled from a trap door near the Mentone hotel, causing the vault to explode and damage records. B T Barkar has been arrested on suspicion.
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Ridgway
State Bank
Walters
Mentone Hotel
B. T. Barkar
Mr. Jones
A. H. Cole
Oxford
Nebraska
Mr. Cole
Hagenbeck Wallace Show to Visit Canon City Next Thursday
The Hagenbeck Wallace combination, a merger of two major tented shows, comes to Canon City next Thursday. Carl Hagenbeck’s trained beasts and rare acts join B. E. Wallace’s renowned circus acts and horses in a grand display featuring four hundred parade horses and open cages, with sea lions juggling and riding, lions and leopards on horseback, and a celebrated tiger on an elephant.
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Carl Hagenbeck
Great Wallace
Canon City
America
B. E. Wallace
Asia
Hagenbeck
Low Rates From Colorado and Southern for West Coast Trips
Beginning June 1 and ending September 15 the Colorado and Southern sells round trip tickets to Utah Washington Arizona Oregon and California at extremely low rates. T B Fisher G P A Denver. Push Goat Saosk.
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Colorado and Southern
Utah
Washington
Arizona
Oregon
California
T. B. Fisher
Denver
Bears Battle at Bronx Zoo Between American and Japanese Bears
A 45 minute clash in the Bronx zoo pits an American bear named Fitz against a Japanese bear. Spectators recount fierce arm and claw blows, a pool dive, and a chaotic intervention by keeper Spicer and staff using clubs to separate the exhausted combatants.
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Crazy Mike
Fitz
New York
Zoo
Bronx
Director Hornaday
Spicer
Mrs. Fitz
Ceasy
Mike
Bears
Hornaday
Ferguson
Can't Quit Playing Noah on the Missouri River Raft Landing
The Appleton family floats on a raft down the Missouri river aiming for a landing. Appleton at Missouri Point hopes to keep livestock secure with a rail raft as the current threatens the farm and delays a safe descent. Locals watch as the river tests the voyage and the raft teeters toward a forced drift.
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Missouri River
Noah
Appleton
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson
Missouri
Missouri Point
Appletons
Mad Cow Invades Hoboken Street Calm Restores Milking
A red cow from Secaucus escaped a livery stable in Hoboken and caused a urban uproar. Shouted “Mad cow” as the animal toppled a baby carriage damaged fruit stands and stores, then a farmer claimed the cow was only hungry for milking ending the incident.
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Hoboken
N. J
Secaucus
Thomas McAleer
Frontier Sketches of Denver Fourth of July Jubilee
Fragments recount Denver’s first Fourth of July celebration in Auraria near Sixteenth and Wynkoop with about 3 000 attendees. James R. Schafer gave the ovation, Captain Richard Sopris read the Declaration, and residents fired horse pistols in the air as crowds applauded.
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South Platte
Cherry Creek
Denver
Colorado
Ferry Street
Eleventh Street
Dick Wooten
Union Depot
Sixteenth
Wynkoop
James R. Schafer
Richard Sopris
Uncle Dick
Taos
Also Mentioned on This Page
Poultry Institutes
Ridgway Bank
Hagenback-Wallace
Hoboken, N. J
Buffalo Jones
Kansas
Colonel Jones
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