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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1908
Page
2
A readable sale notice touts five acres well set to fruit with trees three to five years old and a five room house. It mentions proximity to city limits, good soil, and desirable location. Also lists undeveloped one acre or more tracts suitable for fruit or vegetables with perfect water rights and invites showings.
The article extols Colorado and Canon City winter weather as mild and sunny while reporting heavy snow and hardship from Kansas to the Atlantic Coast. It notes widespread eastern snow disruptions, fuel shortages, and business embargoes in St Louis and Chicago, contrasting with Colorado’s many fine days and an invitation for easterners to visit. It also features a digressive literary aside about Washington and a quote from Owen Wister in March America's.
C. B. Whipple notes that a neglected young orchard yields second class results and stresses careful early preparation. He advocates thorough watering, deep plowing or subsoil plows, level land, and prior cropping on well watered soils to ensure uniform growth and reduce future losses. Alfalfa land requires especially early and thorough work with disc and smoothing harrows.
The reader is reminded of well known biographical claims about George Washington including birth on February 22 1732 death on December 14 1799 military actions during the American Revolution and leadership as the first U S president. The text hints at common legends such as the cherry tree tale and questions readers about map related knowledge.
Practical guidance for housewives on smart shopping, planning, and in person market visits. Emphasizes regular shopping, ordering multiple days ahead, and asking questions to secure better service, quality, and economy.
A long report warns of a deadly horse disease spreading across western Kansas, Nebraska and beyond. It resembles Surra, has no known cure, and proves fatal within three weeks to eight months. Symptoms include fatigue, fever, pallid mucous membranes, red spots, excess urine, swelling, and eventual delirium.
New York publishers prepare to release The Liberators a political novel by I N Stevens part owner of the Pueblo Chieftain and former Colorado Springs Gazette owner The work draws on American feudalism and reforms and is expected to influence the next national election A love story weaves in legends from an Aztec manuscript with a February 15 release and over 10000 orders already placed
Trainmen report two bands of mountain sheep along the rail line near the Royal Gorge upper entrance. Eight and fifteen or sixteen sheep occupy the area, unafraid of trains as crews watch from nearby. The article notes the sheep may establish a permanent habitat and warns against shooting them following a recent court case.
Readable fragments recount prohibition era anecdotes from Eldorado Kansas including a Missouri visitor seeking whiskey with a prescription and a joke about a captured snake delaying a court session. Also mentions Mrs. Hetty Green snubbing nobility and social observations from the era.
The advertisement touts made to measure service with customer choosing fabric and style. The firm guarantees satisfaction with fit finish and workmanship. It emphasizes careful fit and correctness as key selling points to retain customers.
A Scottish town tale shows a tradesman refusing Christmas gift exchange and a traveler offering a box of cigars. Joe Lincoln recalls a sermon joke about time in church. A little girl taunts a doctor with a flicked tongue after a tongue treatment. The Pullman company plans to stop liquor sales on board trains across the United States beginning in the East and moving west, citing illegal sales and costly lawsuits.
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