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And the West is History

100 years ago: Classified want advertisements included a “young school girl for companion to aged lady” and an ice cream factory and bottling works for trade, which was available because...

DATE: Mar 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: Classified want advertisements included a “first-class milker and good dairyman,” a “second-hand safe” and “three good rock men at Bell’s quarry near Rockwood.” ...

DATE: Mar 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: O.K. Coal advertised themselves as “the best domestic fuel on the Durango market, free from all impurities.” 75 years ago: Employment services placed 33 unem...

DATE: Mar 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: Attorney Vates departed Durango for Pueblo after he concluded business “in connection with the C.H. Rudy bankruptcy case.” He also visited his daughter, Mrs. J.V. Monroe. ...

DATE: Mar 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: Harry Kelly and sister-in-law Miss Ella Hammond “were summoned” to Durango from Lebanon to be with Mrs. Kelly, who suffered from serious illness in hospital. ...

DATE: Mar 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: A building contractor working on the high school, M.J. Kenney, returned from Denver with five carpenters, with whom he would use to rush the “work on the structure to comp...

DATE: Mar 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: A young girl, Myrta, and her father returned to Bayfield from Durango after she received medical treatment of injuries sustained in an explosion, which “cost her the loss ...

DATE: Mar 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: A vacant fruit ranch, “failure unknown,” was for sale near the railroad station in Hermosa. 75 years ago: Men who worked in the San Jan Basin mines were trou...

DATE: Mar 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: Joe Bryce and Tom McNay, ranchers from the Lower Animas Valley, visited Durango to purchase needed supplies. 75 years ago: A radio broadcast “concerning the ...

DATE: Mar 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Jackson announced they expected to return to Durango after Mr. Jackson finished “bathing away rheumatism, his physical affliction” in Hot Springs, Ark. ...

DATE: Mar 7, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: Mrs. J.T. Smith and her son, Earl, left Durango for their home in Missouri with four of her grandchildren who were left motherless after Mrs. E.D. Franklin, Smithâ€™s daug...

DATE: Mar 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: Mrs. Nan Wilson left Durango for Boulder to work with her sister, Miss Bessie Dickerson, in the hairdressing and manicuring business. 75 years ago: City crew...

DATE: Mar 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

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