Thursday, September 23, 1909. The Gunnison Tunnel opened.

President Taft opened the Gunnison Tunnel in Colorado.

It was the longest tunnel in the world at the time and transformed the region into a cropland. Alfalfa, wheat, corn, oats, potatoes, beans, onions and fruit--apples, pears and cherries and starting in the 1960s, Moravian malting barley for Coors beer. 

The British magazine Truth exposed barbarities by the Peruvian Amazon Company.

The Arctic Club of American honored Dr. Frederick Cook as the discoverer of the North Pole at a banquet in his honor.  Three months later his claim would be rejected.

Last edition:

Tuesday, September 21, 1909. Arctic Rivals in New York.

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