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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1903
Page
4
The Canon City Record lists Guy U. Hardy as proprietor with a subscription price of $2.00 per year. It notes the paper is entered at the post office as second class matter.
About 25 years ago The Record began as The Canon City Avalanch. In April 1878 Saxe Cramer became owner and the paper renamed The Fremont Co. Record. The 1878 issue highlights tax deadlines, local business rows, a royal gorge railroad war, and lists town officials and local ads.
A column offers guidance on garden watering during city restrictions and neighborly disputes. It includes tips on porch observations, piano discord, and dressmaker bills. The core horticultural instruction urges spraying for canker moth control after blossoms fall using Paris green and lime in a forty gallon mixture. THURSTON WHITE, County Horticultural Inspector.
The record lists President Chas. E. Waldo Treasurer John Wilson and Secretary Mrs. M. M Sheets as Canon residents. The information comes from old files preserved by Mrs. E. E. Cramer, mother of Saxe Cramer, former publisher of the Record twenty five years prior.
The D and R G offers reduced first class fares to cities including Milwaukee Allegheny Washington St Louis Boston Baltimore Mackinack Detroit with travel windows listed. An accompanying note touts DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve as a quick cure for sores burns and boils and warns to obtain DeWitt's brand for safe healing.
The Public Library reports donations spanning philosophy, religion, natural science, fine arts, literature, description and travels, biography, reference, and fiction. Featured are volumes by Henry Savage Landor Norton Hazeldine and Sara M. Biddle, plus extensive runs on classical authors, travelogues, and periodicals.
An old advertisement touts Kodol Dyspepsia Cure promising digestion and blood rebuilding effects. It claims relief from indigestion and stomach troubles and promotes use as a spring tonic via Palace Drugstore. Also promotes DeWitt’s Little Early Risers to arouse secretions and cleanse bowels with continued use.
X rays and practical tests show stomach catarrh stems from repeated indigestion. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure claims to heal indigestion and catarrh by digesting food. Palace Drug Store manager George Pedley sells it. J OC Peabody returns from three week trip after attending gubernatorial events in Philadelphia and a Louisiana Purchase Exposition dedication, visiting New York and other cities.
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