FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS ARCHIVES

Editor’s note: Every day, The Denver Gazette reprints some of the best front pages of the Rocky Mountain News as pulled from its 100-plus-year archives.

112 YEARS AGO IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS

In the cartoon, a convention of national stereotypes eagerly awaits the arrival of 20 lucky News readers who are on a sponsored around the world tour.

But Denver has already made an impact in Europe:

“A Colorado beauty has captured Paris. She is a former Denver girl and her fame has spread from the Latin Quarter to the boulevards of the gay capital. They of the studious affectionately call her ‘La Belle Americaine.’

“Her real name is Margery Pearson. She is merely 20 years old. Three years ago she was living in Denver with her mother Mrs. Florence Pearson.”

(The story notes is also loved for her “charm of manner,” as well as her beauty.)