Roosevelt Praises Colorado Scenery On Grand Canyon Route
President Roosevelt, touring Colorado by the Denver and Rio Grande, lauds the state’s natural wonders. He tells a Canon City crowd that Colorado will become a national playground and a holiday spot akin to Switzerland, describing its mountains and canyons as assets for the republic.
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America
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Rocky Ford goods and a social cautionary tale
A Telluride Journal reprint extols Rocky Ford produce including butter melons and cantaloupes, sugar beets, lamb, alfalfa, and regional perks like schooling and telephones, followed by a social-reports anecdote about a mistaken lawn party rumor and a note on a new itinerant vendor licensing law.
Arkansas Valley Ditch Association Elects Officers
The Arkansas Valley Ditch Association met at Pueblo on Saturday and elected G. W. Swink president B. T. McClare vice president G. M. Hall secretary and W. M. Wiley treasurer The executive committee includes Swink McClare Hall Wiley with objects to cooperate with state water officials and distribute water per decreed rights An assessment of 20 cents per foot on decreed ditch capacities was levied to fund association needs.
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Arkansas Valley Ditch Association
Pueblo
G. W. Swink
Rocky Ford Ditch
G. M. Hall
High Line Canal
G. A. Kilgore
Otero Canal
H. L. Luthers
B. T. McClare
Fort Lyon
W. M. Wiley
Amity Canal
T. J. Barnard
Oxford Farmers’ Canal
C.K. McHarg
Bessemer Canal
Robt
the Ditch Association
Hail Storm Causes Wide Damage in Otero County
A severe hail storm hit Otero county at eight o'clock last night causing immense damage over a wider area than usual for hail. Reports from the countryside are expected with concern.
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Otero
La Junta Considers Saloon and Sidewalk Rules
La Junta nears enforceable saloon oversight requiring clear street views for saloon rooms and physician prescribed liquor sales. Drugists must obtain permits, file monthly prescriptions, with fines up to 300 dollars and jail up to 90 days for violations. Lamar weighs district sidewalk funding under petition thresholds, apportioning costs by frontage, with 20 year bond payables and options to prepay.
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Rocky Ford
Balky horse cured by veterinary trick shared on street
A crowd in Minneapolis watches a veterinary surgeon wrestle with a balky horse. He lifts the horse’s foreleg for three minutes, lowers it, and the animal resumes walking as if balking never happened. The doctor calls it an old but infallible remedy and invites others to try the method and report results.
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Horses Endure as Electric Transit Shifts Market
A decade ago the horse market seemed ruined by electric railways and bicycles yet demand remained steady. Despite growing electric transit and fewer bicycles, high automobile prices will limit car competition with horses for some time.
A Good Law Relative to Tax Receipts
Statewide note on the new tax law requires county treasurers to mark back taxes on receipts for the current year. The aim is to alert owners to any outstanding taxes so they can settle before expenses and potential sale of property occur. The change addresses overlooked back taxes after purchases and advertising.
Patterson Valley Barn Project and Beet Field Labor
M D L Haight quietly erects a new barn in Patterson Valley while forty Ralph P Collins Indians arrive in town a few days ago to work in the beet fields. The brief item notes local construction and labor movement among Indigenous workers amid farming activity.
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M. D. L. Haight
Ralph P. Collins Indians
Ohio Local Option Elections Report April 29 Summary
By Saturday night April 29 Ohio had 102 local option elections this year. Dry victories led in 71 contests with 61 Beal law elections covering entire cities and 41 dry wins. In townships 19 Brannock elections. drys won 16. In city residence sections 12 saloons were voted out, totaling 203 closed since January 1. Population in these dry areas is about 104,000 per 1900 census.
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Beal Law
State Fair to Open in Pueblo September 1 8
The Colorado State Fair will run in Pueblo from September 1st to the 18th. Officials announce extensive preparations and anticipate broad appeal beyond Colorado to border states. The association aims to make this the Wests principal annual event.
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Pueblo
Colorado
Remarkable Painting on June Woman's Home Companion Cover
The painting The Three Most Beautiful Roses by Paul de Longpre is highlighted as a masterpiece. The June issue features an accurate reproduction on the cover and is sold for ten cents at newsstands or direct from Crowell Publishing Company. De Longpre is hailed as the King of Flower Painters with works valued up to 7500 dollars and widely collected. The magazine is praised for beauty, art, stories, illustrations and fashions and is published in New York City and Chicago at 1.00 per year.
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Paul de Longpre
Woman’s Home Companion
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