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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1900
Page
5
Miss Merriman and Miss Phelps visited Colorado Springs, while Woodford Dawson advertise real estate loans. Local news covers visitors from Denver, construction on J. D. Biggs home, oil excitement in Routt County, and a tract of community notices from Cafion City including Meadows, subscriptions, and a Catarrh Cure advert.
A summer travel note details a May 6 1900 Nickel Plate route schedule with fast trains from Chicago to New York Boston and points in New England and the anthracite regions. It also recounts a lively May picnic to Hot Springs with Miss Anna Goudy of Denver, featuring a long feast and an Indian war dance before returning home. The notice warns hydrant users their water will be shut off for unauthorized use and promotes the D and R G and pharmaceutical convention fares to Manitou Philadelphia Chicago and New York City with round trip rates and special certificates.
The International Sunday School Convention promotes inter denominational cooperation not organic union. Denver hosts July 10 12 with five international workers visiting Northwest conventions led by Prof E O Excell of Chicago to direct singing. Other delegates include Marion Lawrence Rev E S Lewis D D Alexander Henry and Robert T Bonsall. Reduced rail rates and free entertainment offered. A curious fishing wheel on the Columbia River near Portland is described, using three submerged receivers to scoop salmon as current moves.
In a discussion on whether ancient Egyptians knew chess, Notes and Queries argues against the assertion. The article notes that while a board game resembling draughts existed, true chess pieces and varied shapes are not evidenced in Egypt. It cites Wilkinson and Birch, plus British Museum examples, and critiques an Art Journal engraving as misidentifying the game. Also includes local ads for Witch Hazel Salve and One Minute Cough Cure from Palace Drug Store.
In Bayonne area on a remote Pyrenean hillside the Bermardines follow St Bernard and live in mute contemplation of death. Princesses and high-born women join, building bare cabins with skulls as decor, dedicating themselves to a life of hardship and confessional interaction only.
Remarkable progress in Omdurman shows markets and caravan routes joined by European style shops cafes run by Greeks and a music warehouse and concert hall. A ferry links Omdurman to Khartoum with postal and telegraph services now in operation.
A Baltimore tourist who bought a mummy in Alexandria and brought it home to the United States subjected the artifact to X rays and discovered it had no skeleton. Upon opening the case, he found straw and shavings and English and French inscriptions among the contents.
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