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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1900
Page
6
The Record notes colorful quips and opinions from New York about public figures, naval matters, and social mores. It highlights remarks on Buller and Bobs, Senate seating of Quay, Presbyterian revision talks, vegetarian diets, South Africa’s native population, and a stock exchange seat price, closing with Dewey’s Manila Bay remarks.
A discussion on changing career paths and fame across professions. Clergy decline, law grows more attractive, doctors rise with imperialism, and musicians gain ground. The piece notes a drop in engravers and a shift in the status of artists and authors.
Mrs. Alice Wilson of Kokomo Indiana recalls a Sabbath water trip that led to her falling into a cavern of rattlesnakes. After a two hour battle the snakes were slain and 521 dead reptiles left the path. Water from the spring remained pure and the tale gave the creek its name.
The San Antonio region in southwestern Texas sits about 600 feet above sea level with surrounding hills. Signals report a pleasant year round climate with cool evenings in summer and rare frost before November or after April, averaging 14 freezing days yearly.
In Markneukirchen and nearby villages Saxony the violin industry employs about 15,000 people. From children to elderly residents all work continually on various components of violins, forming the staple local economy.
Discussion of removing a judge from office for economic reasons not personal to him. The removal is argued as unauthorized by the Tennessee constitutional provision requiring concurrent legislative action after notice and a statement of causes.
Soldiers gain a new knapsack design with bullet proof armor sides and spur fittings at the base to stand it upright. Spurs at the top receive adjacent knapsacks to form a temporary ground fort. The other sentence offers a beauty remark not tied to the item.
English Daily News correspondent H. Hales describes his capture and wounds at Boer hands. He recounts compassionate care from Boers and tells how fellow prisoners and soldiers were treated with humanity despite the conflict.
The Paris exposition telescope will bring the moon within thirty six miles and is three times the length of Chicago’s Yerkes instrument. It measures 197 feet long with a five foot diameter and weighs twenty one tons. Lenses exceed forty nine inches and weigh 1320 pounds. For two centuries big lenses were a Paris monopoly via M Mantels, Guinaux’s successor, delaying such instruments.
A Pittsburg Dispatch report recounts a wintering eagle at Fiddle Lake in a hemlock grove fending off three attacking wildcats. The eagle seized one cat by the neck, then rose about 100 feet and dropped it on rocks, killing two on the first two falls and a third to finish the second attacker, while the survivor fled down the mountain.
A Philadelphia Press quip contrasts insurance with assurance noting the agent carries assurance while insurance is what he offers to sell. The joke hinges on the wordplay between the two terms and their perceived meanings.
A long simmering feud at a department store ends when a veteran complaint man erupts. After twenty years of soothing a notorious kicker, a rude insult to a patron prompts the man to abandon the firm with a final, fatal remark and leaves the shop stunned by the twist.
A writer extols Corfu as an Ionian paradise with mild climate and winter resort appeal. Observations cover sports and folk customs, ancient ovens and door marks, lemon-scented laundry, olive oil exports, and vivid scenes of dances, feasts, and a Greek funeral with open coffin and improvised verses.
An author at his desk endures a stifling day as sweat pours and hair mats while pushing a realistic novel. He wrestles with flawed dialogue and invented sounds to capture life like a horse’s gallop and the torment of making truth on paper.
Stephen M. Van Allen of Jamaica received the smallest revolver ever made as a gift. The inch long weapon is self acting, holds six cartridge chambers, fires bullets the size of a pin head, and can pierce a half inch pine board. It was tested and found accurate, given by a friend who obtained it abroad.
Texas street car ordinance requiring motorists to halt at crossings was held not to apply to electric street cars in Citizens' R. Co. v. Ford. The excerpt mentions unrelated phrases and quotes without affecting the case outcome.
A Wichita letter recounts Hoke Smith’s September 16 1893 opening of the Cherokee Strip for settlement. M F Graves with John Rolfs led a farm wagon ride to grab claims as thousands surged into the border area near Kiowa. A riderless horse caused chaos and a neck injury amid the scramble.
Dr Peter Stiens a Russian electrician announces an electrical device that supposedly lets blind people see with their brains by bypassing the eyes He demonstrates by blindfolding an interviewer and revealing objects via the apparatus claiming future utility and pending patents across the continent
Mr Graves drives to a new claim east of Augusta after a 32 mile three hour run with mule and horse. The team collapses exhausted but recovers as the pair stakes a quarter east of town and contemplates joining the town site. Wintering 100 head of cattle on native prairie, Graves relies on winter forage as a key asset in his evolving claim venture.
Reproduced excerpts from Harrow students show odd biblical, historical, and scientific misunderstandings. One boy claims Moses killed a calf with a sword, another says Ruth weaned corn, and a history answer describes Quebec as a vast bay.
Report describes a Boer shell at Modder river that nearly struck a gunner, who dodged to safety by throwing under a hummber as ground erupted with heavy shelling and bullets. Nearby reports note Gen Cronje owning a farm near Potchefstroom.
A Wier Woman portrays an Atchison woman who avoids sharing troubles by locking herself in her room. The text also mentions a proposed alliance with England and health ads for Hostetter's Stomach Bitters and Allen's Foot-Ease. Fragmentary line: Improper by Proxy. soUnce. Jenkinson gave me a shock this.
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