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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1900
Page
5
Mixed local notices include bank rental offer for a steel safe box, real estate loan at per cent, train fare to Cripple Creek, and upcoming closing exercises at Mount St. Scholastica. Also public health updates on Dr. Sarah Goff, student moves, school principal appointment, and various errands and advertisements from Morrison’s Grocery and local merchants.
A compact study of presidential veto usage from Jackson through Cleveland, noting how veto frequency reflected executive assertiveness. It cites Jackson 12 vetoes, Johnson 21, Grant 43, and Cleveland 301 in term one and 42 in term two, with various other presidents listed for contrast. Also included is a brief description of ammonia gas production and properties.
A Pittsburg Dispatch anecdote argues men notice women’s attire more than they admit, recalling even a transformed hat from last year. It contends men catch subtle details, exemplified by a taciturn observer recognizing a Paquin gown and an old hat’s metamorphosis. Public story tellers thrive in Japan, with 600 in Tokio using a table, fan, and paper wrap to illustrate tales.
In Camden the Quarter Sessions court heard Rebecca Peters accused of fortune telling fraud. She failed to pay a fine of 1060 dollars after promising to return Miss Jennie Kuhn's lover and instead instructed her to perform bizarre acts. The judge noted it was her first offense, but warned the public about such soothsayers and their fraud.
Two delegates, Robert Laws and Dr John G Paton, spoke of perilous mission work in Africa and the Pacific, noting cannibalism persists in New Hebrides while home perception underplays its extent. Chief Justice de Villiers warns Dutch independence will crumble under British pressure as Kruger and Steyn's aims are misread. A Chicago medical college tale about a red brick bat during a quiz is also recounted, along with a London boarding school plan depicting a South Africa layout.
In Cripple Creek Colorado on June 16 a local man reports relief after surgery by Dr. Tilney and staff at the Opera House. He walks unaided and praises the treatment, while another local testimonials that after 15 years of total deafness in one ear and impairment in the other he now hears normally at age seventy thanks to the doctor.
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