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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1906
Page
6
Hank the guide recounts a wild Utah encounter with a gum chune bear and a bumbling professor. A run in with a grizzly, a camera crew, and a dramatic rescue ends with Hank claiming to quit guiding to take up sewing after a chaotic chase and a foolproof bear photo.
Mr Scott chief clerk of the Philippine Board of Education says 800 Ameri can and 6 000 Filipino teachers educate nearly 500 000 pupils. He notes 10 percent of the population speaks English and compares mental development of Filipino and American youths. He adds the Filipino girl matures taller than American girls by sixteen. All American teachers and 200 Filipino teachers are paid by the insular government.
Returning designers report practical updates in semi fitted coats and gored skirts with panel fronts and crinoline linings. New Peter Pan like waists feature turnover cuffs and pocket quirk while soft flannel shirts and semi fitted street jackets rule the coming season. Pattern numbers 2130 2145 2137 2157 2158 cover sizes from children to 44 bust with 15 cent prices and requests for pattern orders to Metropolitan Building New York City.
A nostalgic portrait extols New York City’s scenery and commerce. It cites militia strength of 10,367, Tombs inmates, 113 573 passengers sailed east last six months, and patterns of marriage and divorce among residents. It notes watchmakers signs, stone wealth, and wasteful energy potential, plus ash lined streets and Harlem block counts.
A learned professor is approached by a dirty bootblack who asks for a shine. The professor declines, offers sixpence if the boy washes his face. The boy cleans up, earns the sixpence but refuses it, telling the professor to keep it and get a haircut.
A Chinese Legation member in pale silks speaks at the Newport Casino about pin usage. He argues that China uses no pins, preferring buttons or loops and frogs for fastening, and that foreign pins were shipped but sent back as unnecessary.
In the first half of the year 1906 new building starts rose across twenty cities by 13 million dollars more than last year. Greater New York added eight million, while Los Angeles reached ten million. Puget Sound grain exports totaled 17 million dollars, up 12.7 million from the prior year. June railroad earnings climbed with gains for Vanderbilt system and Illinois Central. Portland cement output hit 34 million barrels with value at 32 million dollars. Immigrant intake topped a million, bringing 19 million dollars in cash. National bank note circulation rose to 561 million, and June water shipments plus foreign commerce surpassed eight million dollars.
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