WILL FLY FROM PIKE'S PEAK
Colorado Springs, Colo., Aug. 16-Suspended between two immense aeroplanes made by himself W.B. Feltz will attempt to fly from the towering summit of Pike's peak. At no time the past week has the weather conditions been favorable to the carrying out of the bold plan.
August 16, 1897, The Steubenville Herald, Steubenville Ohio (Submitted by Shauna Williams)

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ALL PEOPLE BECOME INSANE
Battle Creek Doctor at Colorado Spring Annual Convention Also Predicts Births Will Cease
Colorado Springs, Colo., Sept, 12.— Statistics purporting to show that the human race gradually Is becoming Insane, and the prediction that the time will come when there will be no more births, were the features of an address before the American Public Health Association here by Dr. J. H. Kellogg of Battle Creek, Mich.
According to Dr. Kellogg's view, birth rate is decreasing in a manner that ultimately will bring it to the vanishing point. The achievements of modern science, the speaker declared, are bringing about race degeneracy by saving the weaklings.
"To regain our lost estate," added, " we should get back to nature. We must cultivate health instead of disease."
[September 12, 1913, Beleville News Democrat - Submitted by Barbara Ziegenmeyer]

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RUN AUTO BY AIR
    Colorado Springs, Colo., July 24-A compressed air automobile engine that will revolutionize the motor industry is the invention claimed by Christian Edwards, formerly of Detroit, who came here for his health. Edwards claims his engine will develop 1,600 horsepower on air. The motor requires neither gas, oil, electricity, or water to operate, he says, and is practically silent running. Compressed air is used in the motor. The same air is used over and over, according to Edwards. [July 24, 1922, The Mexia Evening News, Mexia Texas - Submitted by Shauna Williams]

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TOO MANY CHAPERONES
Colorado Springs, Colo., -Miss Mabel Lee, dean of women at Colorado College, has issued a statement befriending the student. "The time has gone by when the dean of a woman's college must be consulted by every girl who wishes to attend a party that will keep her out after 10 p.m., she said "The modern college girl is chaperoned far too much."
[September 15, 1928, The Warren Tribune, Warren Pennsylvania - Submitted by Shauna Williams]

 

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