Burlington Junction Considered for Greeley as Rail Links Grow
Urias Miller and other Burlington officials visited Greeley this week signaling the city as the logical junction for the Burlington trunk lines. Colorado & Southern attorney T. S. McMurray says roundhouses and repair shops may be built here with 250 to 200 men employed, potentially placing Western Burlington shops between Greeley and Cheyenne.
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Greeley
Urias Miller
Burlington
T. S. McMurray
Colorado & Southern
McMurray
Cheyenne
Union Pacific
Watch Your Husbands Wives Off Season Advice
A satirical column counsels wives to watch husbands during the off season of summer travel. It playfully warns that husbands may act out in unexpected ways when wives are away, urging careful packing and vigilance while noting the piece’s humorous, tongue in cheek tone.
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Old Greeley
Adam
Lower Altitude Hope To Restore Woman's Mind
Mrs. Clara Alward, confined to the Pueblo asylum eight months ago, is to be released on probation and sent to California for a lower altitude in a bid to restore her mind. A petition for $125 and travel expenses, supported by her sister Mrs. Anna Eastman and attorney Joseph C. Ewing, will be granted. The case involves her property valued at about $3,000 near Hudson and past disputes over ownership tied to Isaac Brown.
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Clara Allward
California
Clara Alward
Pueblo
Anna A. Eastman
Joseph C. Ewing
Hudson
Ward
Isaac Brown
Pueblo Institution
Brown
Alward
Good Clean Baseball Sought for Greeley Team
Boost for the Greeley ball club. Manager Roy Colline has invested to keep good clean baseball alive. On Sunday the Greeley Grays play the Denver White Sox in what is expected to be a close contest.
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Greeley
Greeley Grays
Roy Colline
Denver White Sox
Band Concert Offerings Draw Crowds Amid Weekly shows
The program for tonight features Invincible Overture La Biadene Gavotte Sunshine Waltz Imperial The Light Guards Overture Bolyphonia Characteristic Dance Dark Town March Seventh Regiment. Concerts have grown popular with man woman and child attending weekly. refreshments will be served on the ground.
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Invincible
Sunshine
Imperial
The
Light Guards
Kicking Shins Stops Bold Hold Up
A would be holdup man failed to seize Tom McKenna, manager of the Airdome, near the Camfield hotel last night at about 12 30. McKenna escaping with a kick to the shins, the assailant fell and fled leaving no usable description.
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Tom McKenna
Airdome
Camfield
McKenna
Camfeld
Read Lectures as Jens Junkling Draws Laughter
Opie Read at the chautauqua portrayed Jens Junkling, the country philosopher, in a new lecture not from his novel The Jucklings. The character, popular in England, drew strong crowd reaction as Read shared city experiences and spoke on paid expenses.
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Jens Junkling
Opie Read
Chautauqua
Jens
Mr. Read
Jens Juckling
Jucklings
England
Stewart Hobson
Work on depot begun at Severance
Grading for the new Severance depot is under way. The building will sit in Block 2 near the elevator, with construction to start immediately. Estimated cost is about $2,000. The Great Western railroad, the sugar beet road between Windsor and Eaton, is the only road interested in the project.
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Severance
Great Western Railroad
Windsor
Eaton
Greeley Real Estate Page Teases Northern Colorado Wealth
The Tribune previews its Saturday real estate page highlighting Greeley district achievements and northern Colorado land wealth. It promises what has been done, what is being done, and what will be done in northern Colorado real estate.
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the Tribune
Greeley District
Colorado
Marshal Seeks Civil War Sword Hidden in Memphis
City Marshal Gene Williams plans a Memphis trip to recover a Civil War era sword once borrowed by a friend. The weapon belonged to his father, a Memphis resident and Civil War veteran, who received the blade after the war. Williams hopes to reclaim it someday.
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Gene Williams
Memphis
Williams
Marshal Williams
Beating Auto in Race By Barefoot Street Urchin
A barefoot boy from 1125 Thirteenth Street outran a police car, covering more than a half mile at 25 to 30 miles per hour. He told the city marshal a drunken man had frightened his mother, then led officers to his home on foot as the car closed in.
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Thirteenth Street
Tribune
Surveyors Map Denver Greeley Ditch Along Beebe Draw
Surveyors are at work setting stakes in the southern Beebe Draw for the Denver Greeley ditch to irrigate the Draw and adjacent territory. Farmers expect water next year as the supply comes from Standley lake.
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Beebe
Denver-Greeley
Standley Lake
Officer McGregor joins threshing crew after bond
Officer James McGregor who posted 5000 dollars bond and faces an August 12 hearing for a recent shooting will leave the city today or tomorrow to take a job with a threshing outfit.
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James McGregor
Frank Tuck
New Jail For Women In Greeley Nears Completion
In about three days Greeley will open a jail solely for women. The facility, housed in the city hall basement, aims to be a model of luxury with hot and cold water beds a cement Brussels carpet and a prettily decorated private boudoir. City Marshal Williams has not stated if a manicurist will be retained.
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Greeley
Siie
Williams
Hotel
A de Greeley
City Hall
Blaze Endangers Town as Fire Damages Ault Residence
A fire of unknown origin was discovered about 11 o'clock last night at Albert Payne's residence in Ault causing about 500 dollars in damage before extinguishment. Payne was away at a neighbor's house when the blaze broke out, and residents and two fire companies rushed to the scene. The alarm drew the anxious attention of the town, recalling past nearly-destructive fires.
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Albert Payne
Ault
Payne
Fort Collins
Robert Maybury
Japs Now Here Would Fight The U S Says Reporter
Veteran correspondent Jack Williams of the Philadelphia Press warned that in a war with Japan every Japanese worker in the United States could be recalled. He claimed Japs act as agents to relay information home and spoke at the Airdome before planning a Seattle to New York auto trip. He displayed an American flag dipped in many rivers.
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Japan
Jack Williams
Philadelphia Press
New York
Seattle
Williams
Airdome
Oats Reach Chin High as Severance Farmers Report Bumper Crops
Rancher G. W. Bear two miles north of Severance shows oats tall as a man and well headed with eighty acres of spuds. J. H. Miller one mile south has finished threshing barley at fifty five bushels per acre. Some hail fell in Severance country but many areas escape the storm yielding bumper crops. Reports from spud growers suggest some exaggeration, but a drive through the potato belt confirms strong yields and promise.
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G. W. Bear
Severance
J. H. Miller
Este
Greeley Minister to Speak at National Reform Institute
Rev. J. M. Wylie departed for Winona Lake Ind to attend the Fifth Annual Christian Citizenship Institute held August 9 to 20 under the National Reform League. He will deliver a series of talks on the development of the Kingdom of God in the political sphere and plan to speak in Morning Sun Iowa on August 22 after visiting Chicago.
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J. M. Wylie
Winona Lake
Ind
Christian Citizenship Institute
National Reform League
Wylie
Kingdom of God
Chicago
Morning Sun
Notices Served for Sewer Connection Urgency
The city ordered immediate sewer connections or the city will proceed and charge about double to residents who delayed. Those notified previously face formal notices that no further discussion will occur, with assessment added to the property if ignored. Mrs. O B Volkart of Platteville and Mrs. Laura Holzer of Independence Iowa visited Seley and Platteville, marking Holzer’s first Greelerr trip.
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O. EB. Volkart
Platteville
Laura Holzer
Independence
Seley
Holzer
Visting
Greelerr
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J. A. Morrison
Tenth Avenue
Mise Margaret Shufart
Des ‘Joines
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Girls’ Industrial School
Mitchellville
Marshal
Denver-Greeley Ditch
M’gregor
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