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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1902
Page
2
Time card records for Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe detailing clocking in and out, yard shifts, and service crew duties. Includes employee names, job codes, and monthly totals for hours worked across divisions and routes.
The Record offers one year while Toledo Blade Chicago Inter Ocean and others present gift and combo rates. Subscriptions require the Record paid up in advance. option to send another paper as a gift to a friend. Canon City Record notes the deal.
Pueblo considers forming an Arkansas Valley baseball league including Cafion City Florence Rocky Ford Pueblo La Junta and Walsenberg with Sunday and holiday games and a pennant for the winner. Fans show strong interest in organizing a league and subscriptions offer a special deal for one year.
Father Vipond of Hillside, a 96 year old Methodist preacher, was in town last week. He said he could shave himself quickly and kept lively during the visit, and plans suggest he may live beyond a century. He is of Scotch nationality.
A seven member committee was elected to organize incorporation for the Trades and Labor assembly. They will build a two story hall with basement gym, a large assembly room, and smaller rooms for city labor groups. Operations begin after papers arrive, site to be chosen in the business district.
The Callon ladies in charge of a recent city art exhibit say patronage was inadequate. They urge mothers of school children to support the effort, which aims to buy items for school decorations. A brief health ad promotes Herbine as a quick dig estion aid with improved vitality at 50 cents, sold by Hunter Palmer.
Miss Bertha May Gardner announces her engagement to Mr. David Dunaway. The wedding is planned at Christ's Church in Carson City on Wednesday evening March 19, 1902, with a home in Plateau City, Colorado after April 1. Gardner noted as a popular local lady. Dunaway recently moved to Plateau City to run a store.
A letter from American Beet Sugar Company dated February 25 1902 informs Captain Rockafellow Canon City Colo that farmers west of Pueblo show little interest in beet culture. The firm will sell seed and implements for cash, require carload beet deliveries, and offer no agent support beyond selling supplies. W K Winterhalter agricultural superintendent signs. The note also advertises Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean cable service details.
List of unclaimed letters remaining at the Canon City Colorado post office for the week ending March 7 1902 includes F W Bailey Harry Hradly Mrs ME Brown William Bord Chase Frank Donadson Ed Draper Vinna Dorcester Jen L Fuller Lucy Fisher Moss Elsi Jones BI Jones Pauline Lindstrom Pauline Kilparie A Osmand Geo B Parrott Arthur Shellen Genrs St John TM Stump Inney Stone JR Thomas Sam Vantis GH Wells JW Wiseman Croier & Wood Guy U Harpy P M.
A dated record lists transfers: Chess to KB for 1650 dollars of lot 22 in Raynods Sub Division. S H Atwater to Malissa Perkins for 450 dollars in sec 21 to 18. W M Mayhew to K L Pierce for 400 dollars, lot 2 block 58 H and a Rudd's Addition.
Miss Minor, principal of the high school, is on the sick list and Miss Helen Sartor fills in. The board, while denying another teacher this year, plans a new room in Jefferson school and retains the eighth grade there. Electric demonstrations in lower grades excite pupils. a laboratory is planned for the new high school building. Prof Swinney and Prof Gillette visited a Dawson mine for a day as ore is shipped from Swinney’s property. A note on cough relief and a local electric supplier ad appear amid the school news.
Michigan figures Mr Anank Smith and Mr John E Bird recall a past case where a perfume gift to the wife altered the trial fate. The defendant claimed gifts were for Christmas and bought a carpet sweeper for his own wife. The anecdote ends with the jury siding with Smith, costing the defendant $2000.
A collection of humorous and anecdotal snippets including a Grimm tale pun, a Berlin anecdote about belief and a thaler, a divorce case with a teary applicant and a joking lawyer, and a Texan friend of Representative Cooper discussing smoking in Washington.
Macomb Illinois resident J R Holly cites perfect relief from a chronic stomach ailment after using Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. He notes prior doctors and remedies failed and advises eating normally without overloading the stomach. Palace Drug Store manager Geo Pedley promotes the product. Pill ointment also advertised for piles with Buckeye Ointment sold at 50 to 75 cents.
An advertisement touts White's Cream Verminage as a general tonic for weak digestion and morbid character outcomes, priced 25 cents and sold by Hunter. Ballard's Horehound Syrup is offered for pulmonary troubles and respiratory illnesses, claimed to prevent consumption, priced 50 cents and sold by Hunter Palmer.
An advertisement touts Ballard’s Horehound Syrup as a cure for the worst cough or cold when used as directed. It notes a price of 50 cents.
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