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Newspaper
Greeley Daily Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1908
Page
4
A local store announces a closing out sale on their leather goods described as the finest in Greeley. The advertisement claims large discounts and encourages customers to investigate the offer.
A memorial tribute from Weld County commissioners honors Father Peres A. Tisdel for decades of charity and service to the poor. The board approved a $50 appropriation to sustain his memory and reflect gratitude for his work and town-building efforts.
John D Rockefeller and Standard Oil backers along with J Ogden Armour secure an option on enough Colorado & Southern stock to gain control. The option will be exercised in two weeks and the C S will be merged with the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul system. An extension to Forsyth Montana will connect with St Paul this summer, creating a system approaching 12000 miles of track.
Special to the Pally Tribune reports Sam Shapiro a drug clerk in New York City rested in a bookstore and awoke to discover the gas left on by accident. He was found dead this morning with a bottle of nitric acid and a note saying he was tired of life and nobody to blame.
Dean F B R Hellems of the State university will lecture before the W T K club in the Unitarian church parlor at 3 o clock Wednesday December 16 on the subject Stephen Phillips. Alumni and former University of Colorado students are invited.
A newspaper ad recounts a witty request from a clerk who received a hand edited plea from a pretty girl. It asks the coat donor who lent a brown raincoat in the park on Sunday to contact the butler at 2117 Peanut street and pay the ad cost to reclaim the garment.
A dealer compares two coral strings, one dark and dull priced at 50 cents and a pink, translucent one at 500 dollars, noting coral's global appeal and varied cultural uses from India to Africa and Italy. Marlow, age three, defies his mother’s warning about Willie Burr, promising a spanking before returning.
The New York Press notes a rat catching method using an animal scent laced with rhodium essence. It claims rhodium oil attracts rats from afar and costs 50 cents per ounce. The piece contrasts catnip with rhodium and explains rhodium oil is derived from bindweed and used in perfumery.
In a timber yard two workmen carry a large piece of wood when the manager arrives and jokes with one man. He tells Joe the batten is on the wrong shoulder. Joe replies that it should be on the manager’s shoulder.
A Washington Star quote captures a child and Colonel Stilwell discussing the temperate zone remark and mocking ongoing Prohibition efforts. The exchange frames a political undercurrent criticising Prohibitionists as heading toward worsening conditions.
The quotation notes that worry harms happiness and arises from small trifles. It urges silence from the benefactor and letting the recipient speak of the benefit, reflecting Stoic counsel on perception and gratitude.
A. J. Drexel Biddle, Philadelphia’s prominent figure, urged universal boxing training. He warned ignorance leads to foolish acts and recounted a banquet anecdote about handling sharp knives to illustrate etiquette and preparedness.
A Philadelphia man sent Christmas gifts a gold eagle to his son Clarence and daughter in law Lottie with a playful letter. The notes joke about the female portraits and the eagle, the meaning of E pluribus unum, the thirteen stars, and working forty six days a week. A Word from Josh Wise adds a quip about the oyster and sauce.
An average yield of ginger in Jamaica is about 2009 pounds per acre. The figure reflects typical production levels for the crop in Jamaica.
The fragment describes Greeley with 9,000 residents located 62 miles north of Denver and 40 miles from the Rocky Mountains. It highlights water supply, county status, education institutions, schools, streets, churches, hotels, railroads, factories, banks, canning and starch industries, climate, and a thriving agricultural economy with annual crop value around 6 million dollars.
Directory of lodges and societies in Greeley with officers and meeting nights. Includes a. O. U. W. Frank Madden master workman and C. L. Sullivan recorder, Poudre Lodge No. 9 meets Thursdays, Daughters of the American Revolution regent J. G. Hughes, and other fraternal groups with officers and meeting dates.
A period list details meetings for Masons Royal Arch Masons Knights Templar and other orders. It names officers such as M. J. Neill W Mi EF Flower and aligns meetings by dates moon locations and halls including Masonic hall OA branches and the M. B. A. hall.
Fragmentary time card notes show entries for Daloe Pacific ae and Denver Ly with Greeley Se Serey 10 and a line referencing Hag pee Ott. The readable items imply payroll or schedule records but lack complete names or dates.
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