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Newspaper
Greeley Daily Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1908
Page
4
A Long Island trout keeper discovers his brook trout turn pink after living in salt water as the pond connects to the sound. A visiting sportsman jokes he would eat any pink fish and advises sending them to him for dinner.
Mothers notice sons return from school with cigarette odor and are advised peppermint candy as a simple antidote. The article claims peppermint taste discourages tobacco and that sucking drops can curb smoking for about an hour. It also suggests teaching boys to roll their own cigarettes to limit excess.
Dr Charles Harrington chairman of the Massachusetts state board of health warned at Harvard Medical School that cocaine use is widespread beyond public perception. He cited Chelsea youths running cocaine parties broken up by police and a man selling a catarrh cure containing cocaine who used boys to distribute it. He added that in some bars cocaine is as common as liquor.
A housewife impatiently asks Nora about dinner. Nora explains the delay, noting it takes two hours to split three hundred peas and four hundred remain to be split, after counting them herself.
A story from the Ceylon Observer describes a Colombo garden find where a coconut contained a large rat head. The animal appears to have been biting or eating into the nut when it fell and crushed the rat to death between the shell and the ground.
A brief, humorous quip notes Mrs Sleigh always joins the club gatherings, joking that she “comes up to the scratch” because of the cat. The line plays on a pawnshop or card club idiom with a feline pun.
Essays urge civic beauty through parks, trees, and well kept home grounds in Greeley. Charles Mulford Robinson argues beauty boosts property values, tax receipts, and quality of life, calling for universal homeowner involvement and the removal of weeds and billboards to create livable, prosperous cities.
A marriage license was issued today to Moses Archuleta and Flora Trugillo, both residents of Johnstown.
Genevieve Cosgrove eight and her brother Edward four of Middletown New York were playing near a pond when Edward sank in four feet of water. Genevieve waded to his aid gripped him by the hair and dragged him to shore despite danger. Lifesaving actions by a young girl.
Mrs. Humphry Ward criticized a popular novelist's literary style as insane in a New York luncheon. She compared it to a schoolgirl writer and cited a line about Pearl's eyes influencing a man to retreat, illustrating her point with a vivid, dramatic example.
Daily Tribune invites business men on an excursion through western Weld county next Thursday afternoon to view a large ready trade aiding Greeley. The trip minimizes work time, includes a festive half day, and returns by 9.00 pm after supper at Boyd Lake. Special train departs Greeley at 1 45 pm and costs 1 25 for round trip.
The latest news from Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ingold of Shanghai, China, shows improvement. Their daughter, Mrs. Stone of East Greeley, prepared to visit this summer when he accidentally shot himself between the eyes. Doctors fear loss of sight in both eyes, but now hope only one eye is permanently affected as he remains rational and improving.
On Thursday August 27 the Colorado and Southern will run a special excursion train for the Patrons of Husbandry of Colorado to Eldorado Springs with round trip from Greeley at 7 30 a m returning Eldorado Springs 5 00 p m A special rate of 2 25 for the round trip will be made from Greeley Address by Dr B O Aylesworth.
The extension and renewal of corporate life for The Lower Platte and Beaver Canal Company was filed in the county clerk's office today. Wm. C. Burchett serves as president and H. N. Haines as secretary. The organization is to last 26 years with its principal office moved to Hillrose, Morgan County, from Greeley.
Miss Mary Brush spent last week on the western slope giving Domestic Science lectures at women’s sessions during Farmer's Institutes in Rifle DeBeque New Castle and Fim ma. She returned via Colorado Springs and arrived home Saturday.
A Wisconsin Sphinx proverb states you cannot dead-head into heaven on church membership. The remark emphasizes sincerity over formal affiliation in spiritual approval.
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