Canon City News Notes and Local Arrivals
Dr Wheaton and party visit Canon City with tours to Royal Gorge and prison. Civic events include Children’s Day services led by Rev Wilkinson and decorations. County plans two new bridges at Four Mile and Beaver Creek with bid calls next week. Local residents travel or relocate, and society notes cover visits, funerals, and church activities.
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Wheaton
U. S. Army
Philippines
C. F. Elliott
Canon City
Peabody
N. F. Handy
Royal Gorge
State Penitentiary
Cripple Creek
The
Baptist Church
H. F. Wilkinson
Denver
Publication Society
Four Mile
Beaver Creek
Thompson Ranch
Garden Park
Curtis Crossing
Blanchie Bates Whip Accident at Garden Theatre
Blanchie Bates but displayed a whip in the lead role of Under Two Flags at the Garden Theatre New York. A whip lash struck a front row woman in the face during a staged fit of rage and Bates apologized. The orchestra member replied with a witty souvenir remark causing noted laughter among the audience.
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Miss Bates
Maine Sheriff Reports Sandpeeps Whisky Flasks
Sheriff Pearson in Me. cites named sandpeeps flasks containing two ounces of whisky sold for 15 cents. The small bottles enable street concealment and reduced seizure risk. Deputies recently obtained a warrant to search a pocketed seller and found 63 sandpeeps in his pockets and under his waistcoat.
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Pearson
Roruand
Maine
The Shamrock's Designer George Lennox Watson
George Lennox Watson, famed designer of Shamrock II, began naval architecture in 1872. He designed the Clotilde, Vandura, and contributed plans for America's Cup challengers Thistle Valkyrie I and III, plus the Britannia cutter for the Prince of Wales. He also shaped many great ocean steamers and acknowledged Herreshoff as the world’s best boat builder.
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George Lennox Watson
London
Formosa
Prince of Wales
Herreshoff
America
The Black Person Question in a Nutshell
A paraphrase from Athens quotes an old Black resident stating the town feels uprooted as simmon trees vanish and possums depart. He argues white people must protect possums and stop a mass casualty event, claiming Black people and possums are inseparable now and forever.
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Athens
Kentry
Literacy and landholding among Hawaiians in early census notes
Among 199 030 residents Hawaiians form 36 percent and part Hawaiians 91 percent can read and write. Hawaiian and part Hawaiian children total about half of students, while 4 717 of 6 327 landholders are Hawaiians, over two thirds.
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Island
Dublin lord mayor’s grand speech veers into mixed metaphor
A former Dublin lord mayor delivered a political speech with ornate language and closed with a striking mixed metaphor. He warned listeners they stood at the edge of a precipice and that the burden would weigh on their necks for the rest of their days.
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Dublin
The Wallack Ghost Haunts a theater’s Ruin
Workmen demolishing the Star theater find no traces of the Wallack ghost once said to haunt the building. The specter, linked to James Wallack of the theater family, was repeatedly seen by staff and even studied by a scientific society, but no conclusions were reported.
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Wallack
Star Theater
James Wallack
Broadway
Specter
New York Sun
Bispham’s Pencil Trick Breaks Cigarette Habit
David Bispham, the singer, reveals his method to quit smoking by holding a piece of pencil in the mouth whenever a craving arises. He says this substitutes the sensation of the cigarette and, after a month, he fully broke the habit and has not returned to cigarettes. He claims the pencil satisfies the urge without tobacco.
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David Bispham
Mr. Bispham
New York Sun
Old Geronimo Sells Photographs At Fort Sill
Old Apache chief Geronimo, now 84, lives near Fort Sill and earns over $1,000 a year. He charges $5 for a portrait and prefers a fierce pose, evolving from white man attire to his traditional war dress to meet visitors’ expectations.
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Geronimo
Fort Sill
C. T
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