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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1906
Page
5
Smith Mercantile Co. promotes summer tourism in Canon City by promising good fishing at Grape Creek and inviting tourists to spend a week there. The store touts its wagon, plow, cultivator, harrow, irrigation shovel, and seed stock as the best money can buy at the lowest prices.
Dall DeWeese has returned from Wet Mountain valley where he released trout into his reservoir and Grape Creek. He aims to stock 200,000 fry, boosting year round flow and irrigation water to Lincoln Park, with last year’s effort totaling 100,000 in the reservoir and 10,000 in the creek. Efforts hinge on hatchery supply and legal protections to help Grape Creek become a premiere trout stream for anglers.
The eighteenth annual session of the Seventh Normal Institute will run from July 30 to August 11 in Canon City covering Fremont, Pueblo and Custer counties. County superintendents A. P. Dickson Westcliffe chair Lulu White-Granger Pueblo treasurer Ida T. White Canon City secretary, with instructors Dr. Sanford Bell F F Thompson J F Daniels Miss Straight. The program lists daily classes in arithmetic pedagogy grammar reading drawing science physiology geography history music civics and primary methods plus a moonlight Royal Gorge excursion and a reception on August 2 for teachers and friends.
Dr Joseph Boehm explains a simple nightly trick to wake at a chosen time. Place a clock by the bed and fix the desired hour in memory, then rest without other thoughts. If no distractions intervene, you should awaken on time. Local notices invite readers to share Canon area happenings.
In a crowded tenement Mrs McGinnis keeps to herself yet leads fashion through thrifty scrubbing work and yearly bundles. Rival Mrs O Shaughnessy parades in showy outfits while the washerwoman builds a reputation among neighbors. one evening she returns with a larger bundle promising a whole new wardrobe.
Mrs McGinnis obsesses over a black velvet suit for a imagined aristocratic child. After frantic searches at St Margaret's and other asylums, a vision of a golden haired boy with gingham appears, leading to a tender moment as she finds a real Norah who fits the dream.
Mrs. McGinnis greets Norah with wistful joy as Pat praises his beauty. On Sunday the family makes a triumphal church entrance, Norah in lace and velvet, Mrs. O'Shaunessy meets them with cordial banter. The tale hints at ancient times and census echoes from Vespasian.
A fragment recounts individuals over a century old in multiple towns. In Parma two adults aged 125, in Brixellum 125, Placentia 130, Faventia a 185 year old woman, L Terentius in Bologna 140, MM Apponius and Tertulla ages 140 and 187, at Vele Jacium near Placentia six people 110, four 120, and one 140 years old.
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