100 years ago: “The delivery team of the Otis-McGirr Mercantile Company is wrestling the runaway laurels from the San Juan Creamery team with the regularity and precision of its dashes up the main pike. Yesterday while the driver Newt Barton was in the depot talking with the handsome ticket agent, the team ran up Main Avenue and smashed the wagon up against a pole near the Perring bakery, doing considerable damage.”
75 years ago: An advertisement for Elite Beauty Shoppe, 747 Main Ave., read: “‘Where hairdressing is an art.’ Princess Nyla Cosmetics is a doctor’s line. Nyla Cosmetics is the only line carrying a dermatologists seal of approval on every jar. No more expensive than ordinary kinds. Free demonstrations.”
50 years ago: “Camping at South Mineral Creek over the holiday weekend were the Edward Thompson and Frank Malarsie families. There was coming and going all weekend, but on Sunday they had 23 people eating around the campfire for the afternoon meal.”
25 years ago: “The suspect of an armed robbery of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge railroad’s parking lot booth remained at large escaping on foot with an estimated $1,100 in cash.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
