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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1907
Page
4
In March the worst market panic in years swept Wall Street. The Waldorf Café crowd felt the crash deeply as traders franticly chased profits and lost all sense of proportion. Rumors swirled around figures like H. C. Frick while a spectator described scenes of fear, greed, and absurd bravado.
The day after Richmond fell Lincoln, with a small guard, walked the ruined streets. At General Pickett's corner he ordered the guard to wait and then sprinted two steps up the block, surprising onlookers with his brisk pace.
Dr. Thomas Jefferson Jackson Lee, a federal employee at Mare Island Navy Yard, proposes a water leakage theory for earthquakes. He cites sea-adjacent seismic disasters and notes his long career at Lowell Observatory and discovery of numerous stars.
Denver report says two Colorado criminals James E. Mitchell and Chas Williams known as Denver Frenchy face federal indictments for blowing open the Williamsburg post office safe on May 12. Arrests followed by Pueblo officers. Mitchell fears Canon City imprisonment.
Six inmates fled during a liberty break aided by a prison shield. Mitchell stayed behind, while Deputy Marshal Clark shot a fleeing convict. Mitchell, wanted in Omaha for a $10,000 diamond theft with "Kid" Harris, is linked to the assault on a shopkeeper. Cardona serves time at Canon City. rewards were posted by Omaha and postal authorities.
A column riffing on fashion cuffs and a West Point cadet mess milk pasteurization notes. General Kuroki and Roosevelt are referenced amid anecdotes about cuff buttons and pasteurization halting typhoid cases. Bishop Olmstead’s Denver dinner remark closes the excerpt.
The piece blends anecdotes from a New York banquet with General Kuroki, Admiral Dewey, and Viscount Aoki, then shifts to a Washington letter noting Taft Roosevelt tension, Foraker’s fall from favor, and a rise in unemployment protests in London amid Woolwich Arsenal suspensions, reflecting on Cobden era free trade.
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