Real Estate Boom in Canon City Prompts New Homes
Canon Realty Company reports strong activity in Raynold s Heights with buyers from Colorado and Iowa. Residents gain artesian water from Hogback, while new cottages and four room houses rise. Biggs Smith and McClanahan plan a major roller skating rink with maple floor and Chicago instructors, aiming for November 20 opening.
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Canon Realty Company
Raynold’s Heights
Park Center
Fruitland
Phelps
Thos. Macon’s
Palmer
Greenwood
Mellen
Messrs Biggs
Smith and McClanahan
Eleventh
Main Streets
Chicago
Canon Band
Kicks Wake Up About Canon City Commerce
In Canon City the ads show few grocers hardware stores or meat markets. Townsfolk display Fourth of July decorations into October revealing slow prosperity. The piece urges water improvements and advocates forming a stock company to build a cannery to can snow for next summer’s drinking water.
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Canon City
Kansas
Colorado
Maud
Banking Hours in Canon City Colorado
Canon City claims the only Colorado town with banks opening at seven each morning and closing at six in the evening. Interest rates are the same as elsewhere. The article extols abundant irrigation water, noting farmers irrigate public roads adjoining their lands and charge no county fees.
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Canon City
Colorado
Potatoes versus peas sparks street side store tale
A Canon City resident questions local grocery choices and a clerk sells potatoes from a sack on the sidewalk. The next day the woman returns the potatoes and jokes about preferring potatoes to peas in future purchases.
Street Crossing Hazard Warns Fire Safety
A reader warns that if the fire department is needed on Main Street they risk landing a wagon on top of a skyscraper at the first cement street crossing. The danger seems fine if the fire is on the roof but disastrous if it is in the basement.
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Main
Community notes mix humor and town business
A Canon City column mentions a physician warning of climate change for dying patients, the water works siren, and undertaker profits. It notes snow removal on Main Street except near Canon City Realty, where real estate tours kept sidewalks busy. Suggestions for night service from telegraph companies and a push to extend service along the Santa Fe line are discussed. Railroad rate biases favoring Pueblo are critiqued as harming Canon City retailers.
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Main Street
Canon City Realty Company
Western Union Telegraph Co
Canon City
Postal Telegraph and Cable Company
Santa Fe
Pueblo
Missouri River
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Raynolds’ Heights
Thos. Crisman
Colorado Springs
Eighth Street
Harrison Avenue
Canon City Real Estate
Henvey & Keys
Fred C. Johnson
Schuyler, Neb
W.W. G. Smallwood
Cherokee
Iowa
Daniel P. Bradley
Beulah
Pueblo County
J. A. Zackinson
Galesburg, NL
Raynold’s Heights Addition
Geo. A. Prentiss
Chas. Sutterfield
Adams County
Ohio
Monday
Burrage Avenue
Wilbur F. Gleason
Woodlawn Avenue
Andrew W. Cook
Southington Conn
H. N. Beecher
Raynold's Heights
Bis
F. R. Parry
Victor, Colo
Bank of England
Raynolds Heights
Only
Postoffice
Strathmore Hotel
Fremont County Bank
Canon City, Colorado
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