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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1903
Page
5
An advertisement extols Doctor Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as more than a tonic curing digestive and nutritive disorders. It cites a Plain City resident, Charles H. Sergeant, who reports renewed strength after twelve months of use, plus notes on appetite relief and improved nerves and digestion.
Notice to all Woodmen of World members to meet at Ellis' hall at 8:30 a m on Memorial Day for exercises. By Vote of Camp 18, P H Sheridan D OC 22-11 A H Davis, Clerk 18. Also an advertisement for DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve at Palace Drug Store.
Railway timetable and connecting services list trains numbers and routes from Denver to California and eastern points, with arrival and departure times. It includes routes to Canon City Florence Victor Cripple Creek Pueblo Rockvale and connections at Pueblo and La Junta. Descriptive literature available from D N Gannett Agent.
The article notes many Dorkings shown at leading poultry exhibits, signaling growing hold among North American enthusiasts. It highlights the breed as among the oldest with a distinctive fifth toe shared with Houdans and related French varieties. The Silver Gray variety is praised for its beauty with silvery white head and hackle and lighter breast and thigh.
A discussion of the Silver Gray Dorking breed notes its popularity in England for table quality, with white legs and a deep breast. It then offers simple home egg testers using tarred paper, and advises on incubator catalogues and egg selection to separate fertile from infertile eggs. Antiscratch advice warns against straw litter due to dust and fecal contamination, urging fine feed and clean scraps to prevent disease.
The article suggests using lettuce and green feed like rape to sustain a flock. It highlights a city farmer with four lots raising 100 plus chickens by mowing rape in stages for continuous green feed all summer. It also lists reasons eggs may not hatch and notes that proper feed improves hatchability whether hens or incubators are used.
Denman Thompson and George W. Ayer present Our New Minister at the Opera House on June 9. The play, now in its second year, avoids the beaten path and highlights virtue and courage drawn from life in a New England village. Original cast includes John Terris Charles Stedman John Barker Joseph Conyers Henry R. Scott John P. Brown Grant Foreman Louis Force W. O. Tanner Ethel Brooke Ferguson Philo May and Mrs George W Barnum.
From Chicago to Boston and return fare 19 dollars with Nickel Plate Railway. June 28 departure with ticket sales June 25 26 27 and open return until June 28. Extended return until August 1 possible by depositing at Boston July 1 2 3 or 4 with 50 cent fee. Stopover at Niagara Falls allowed. Three through vestibuled sleeping cars and American Club meals in dining cars. Reservations through Chas E Johnson District Passenger Agent Denver. Also other local ads included.
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