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. 110 YEARS AGO IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS

In the cartoon, the News encourages local housewives to buy Colorado products -- part of an ongoing booster campaign.

But the one thing we can’t ignore is the headline: BIFF! SENATOR’S FIST LANDS KERPLUNK ON EX-TYPO-THETAE NOSE

Senator James Reed of Missouri, part of Jim Pendergast’s Kansas City machine, served three terms and was noted for being one of the few Democrats to oppose Wilson’s League of Nations (on racist terms, saying it would lower the U.S. to associate with nonwhite and mongrel nations.)

According to the story, Reed punched John B. McIntyre of the Philadelphia Typothetae in the face after a Senate committee hearing. The United Typothetae of America was an association of publishers.