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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1906
Page
4
A Denver era address accuses the state GOP of being captives to corporate power and calls for a new, impartial party structure. It demands end to corporate control, open primaries, fair conventions, and honest elections to avert defeat in 1906.
A letter urges Colorado Republicans to unite behind President Roosevelt's square deal as the path to victory. It names several supporters headed to the Denver convention and stresses party unity to back the president. A testimonial for Foley's Kidney Cure is included from George A Sherman of Lisbon Red Mills, New York.
The article cites Mrs Martha Shute, secretary of the state board of agriculture, promoting bisulphide of carbon fumes and kerosene mixtures to kill red ants. It also notes boiling water on bones as a method and Canon City gardeners using a water-filled bottle to drown colonies, claiming rapid success.
The notice advertises arsenate of lead for sale and four carloads of Western quart crates at 14 50 per hundred, suitable for cherries currants and goose berries. Ira Carrier returns from Salmon City Idaho after a ten day visit noting spring rains and mountain snow hinder travel in that region.
A column encourages parents to dress children well, noting neighbors' judgement and friendship implications. It jokes about extreme fabric options and urges buying durable, affordable boys clothing and shoes from Towler and Stockton Brothers.
A fragment describes a stage ride from Red Rock Montana covering seventy miles with roads muddy enough to require ten horses at one point. Snow is noted along the Bitter Root mountains. A separate item claims a cure for dyspepsia via Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets endorsed by Mrs S Lindsay of Fort William Ontario.
A Cleveland poet W G Smith wrote a song sung by Missouri Pacific Immigration Bureau members during a Canon City Merchants Association drive along Skyline boulevard. The piece praises Colorado with lines about its valleys mountains and healthful air. Bargains in Singer sewing machines offered from Singer Co located at 110 South Fifth Street with Blue 463.
The United States Smelting and Reduction Company on Smelter Hill, South Canon, shut its plant yesterday as charge wheelers demanded pay rising from 1.60 to 2.00 for an eight hour day. Mexicans lead the strike, unorganized, with no violence yet, while deputies guard the site. additional workers were brought in from Trinidad and Pueblo, and operations are expected to resume with full staff in a few days.
Two special trains will run over the F. and C. C. road on the Fourth of July from Canon City to Clyde on the Short Line twelve miles east of Cripple Creek to accommodate attendees of the big Independence Day picnic.
Under Knights of Pythias and G A R auspices two Canon trains will depart at 7 and 8 a m for a round trip fare of 1 50. The Glade Market at 624 Main St advertises fresh vegetables in stock.
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