Trips to California or Midwest for Canon City Boys
The Record offers two trips for boys 21 or younger from Canon City. One winner travels to California via Leadville and Salt Lake City to Los Angeles. the other goes to Chicago or St Louis with possible stops. Votes boost chances via paid subscriptions and coupons.
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Canon City
California
St. Louis
Chicago
Canon
Pacific Coast
Rocky Mountains
Leadville
Glenwood Springs
Grand Junction
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake
Los Angeles
Railway Time Card for Atchison Topeka Santa Fe No. 625
Schedule notice for Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe trains from Pueblo and Florence daily and on Sundays. Details show arrival and departure times, connections at Pueblo for Denver and the West, and at La Junta for the California Limited to Los Angeles and San Francisco. Descriptive literature available from agent D N Garnet.
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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway
Pueblo
Deps
Floren Rockvale
Florence
Kvale
Sabboon
Denver
Chi
la Junta
California
Los Angeles
San Francisco
D. N. Garnet
Denver & Rio Grande Railway
Atlantic Coast Limited
Calfornia
Western Points
Atlantic Coast Express
Trans-Continental Limited
Canon City
Denver Flyer
Pacific Coast Limited
Eastern Connection
Pacific Coast
Eastern Connections
Colorado Express
Colorado
Texas Creek
Westcliff
Mappox
Newcomers Honored with Canon City Housewarming
Harvey Martin and sisters Misses Sarah and Rachel Martin, recent Pennsylvania arrivals at 1915 Franklin, were surprised by neighbors including members of the Methodist church at a festive informal house warming. The Canon City area shows a building boom with about seventy five new cottages under construction across Canon City and Fruitmere, driven by improving lumber costs.
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Canon
Harvey Martin
Sarah
Rachel Martin
Franklin
Pennsylvania
Methodist Church
Messrs
Alonzo Harrison
J. J. Shea
8. V. Clark
A. J. McGowan
M. K. Hamilton
Clarence Hills
Mesdames Harrison
Shea
Clark
McGowan
Hawkins
Lamb
Hills
Edith McGowan
New Railroad Aims at Rich Colorado Coal Fields
Amended articles of incorporation filed by Colorado and Southeastern Railroad to extend from Delagua to Barnes Junction through Las Animas Huerfano Pueblo and Fremont counties. The line seeks access to coal and oil fields in Huerfano and Fremont. Officers named are George W Bowen president and F I Heyn secretary.
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Colorado & Southeastern Railroad Company
Trinidad
Huerfano
Pueblo
Fremont
Delagua
Barnes Junction
Las Animas
George
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine for Cold Cure
Advertises a one day cold cure with Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails. Includes E. W. Grove signature on each box. Price 26 cents.
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E. W. Grove
Many new houses under construction in city area
In the Maddock mail route territory including the northern and eastern city sections, twenty two new houses are in course of erection. The notice notes homes rising along the route as part of ongoing development.
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J. W. Maddock
Burst of flood cripples city water pumps at mill race
An uncontrolled torrent flooded the pumping plant engine room with four and a half feet of water and mud after a breached bank between the mill race and water works near the First street bridge. Workers spent hours in water up to their knees, restoring pressure by 4:30 Friday morning. The break stemmed from an imperfect repair last fall that created a drainage channel between ditches to clean the mill race.
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Water Department
First Street
How Kit Carson Fooled Chief Ninot in an Arkansas Camp
In the early sixties Kit Carson and companions rested near Fort Bent when Arapahoe Indians surrounded them. Carson feigned ease while signaling to his men to keep rifles ready. He then disarmed the chief by swapping a knife and pretending to swallow it, deceiving the Indians with a boastful, grimly comic ruse.
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Kit Carson
Arkansas
Old Fort Bent
Carson
Kit
Indian braves retreat after knife illusion on stage
A staged encounter shows a traveler producing a scalping knife from his body and returning it to the owner. The old chief tests the blade and flings it away, causing the braves to withdraw without further aggression. The piece cites superstitions of the red men as the basis of the performance. Also listed are rail excursion rates from Chicago to New Haven with Nickel Plate routes and dates.
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New Haven
Conn
Chicago
Nickel Plate Road
New York City
Nickel Plate
Seventeenth St
Denver
Colo
Texas Creek Man Shot by Accidental Discharge
Floyd Coleman of Texas Creek, about twenty miles west of Canon City, was brought in last Saturday with a bullet wound to the thigh from an accidental revolver discharge. The weapon rested on his lap when it fired.
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Floyd Coleman
Texas Creek
Canon City
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IPF
LE Creek R.R
Xpress
Florence & CR
Associa
Cripple Creek
Victor
Florence “ Canon City
The
Florence and Cripple Creek
R. R
All
Colorado Springs
D. C. MacWaters
Robert R. Watts
Saalem
Foley
Palace Drug Store
Lincoln Park
Louth
Fruitmere
Niwo
Buckingham’s
Crapler
McKnight-Crapler Renedy CO
Pioneer
Nurlery
Hart Pioneer
Hart Pioneer Nurseries
Fort Scott
Kan
Quintessence
Cripple Creek District
D. C
Mac Watters
Gen's Pass
Colorado Springs, Colo
Kansas
ALL Grocers
Canon City Milling Co
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