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Newspaper
Greeley Daily Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1908
Page
3
A jumble of want ads and notices lists a variety of items for sale including an E Lady driving horse and harness, six room houses, furniture, and autos. Nearby are personal notices of gatherings, travel plans, and local business promotions with names of residents and merchants such as Houtchens, Siscoe, Fagan, and The Star Groc.
The item lists guests and events across Cheyenne Spokane Loveland Estes Park and Greeley. It notes F Powell and daughter hosting a bridge party, Miss Florence Huffman visiting, Catherine Stokes and Mrs. Sting of the Missionary Baptist church gathering at Ribley's, Jack Mosher coming from Estes Park, and McGee overseeing the Redpath Lyceum while in Greeley. It mentions travel from Portland and a Fourth of July window with meals planned.
Stokey Concrete company completed a large sidewalk project around the First National bank building after delaying starts. A forfeit was placed to ensure completion in time for July Fourth. Stukey won the bet and forfeit as the work finished Wednesday evening.
One fare plus two dollars to certain points in Texas and New Mexico and return for homeseekers via Colorado and Southern. Liberal limited stopovers. Full information on application. T. B. Fisher, Genl Pass Agent.
Local notices list Thurlby for diamonds and best silverware along with merchants like McClenahan farm loan man Sanborn Houston Up to the minute Young De Voe Henrick Brothers bicycle repair Mantels tiling Day plumbing and heating Co L Gist on a Dillon Montana trip. Also Bartholomew to Boulder for the Fourth and visits from Krause Metcalf Farr Eaton and Elliott. Clyde D McGee arranging with Redpath Lyceum for chautauqua programs. Star Grocery touts two loads of seasonal fruit for the Fourth and urges shoppers to compare prices and buy now.
Yale alumni gathered at Willem Ordway Partridge’s studio in New York to view a completed Nathan Hale statue planned for Yale campus. Partridge, who wrote a book on Hale, portrays the hero with athletic vigor and patriotic fervor, contrasting with MacMonnies’s nearby sculpture. Hale, six feet tall, famed for a jump over a fence, remains a symbol of Yale’s heritage.
A carriage ride with Thomas Jefferson and his eldest grandson ends with a slave bowing and Jefferson reproving the boy for not saluting. Jefferson remarks that a slave shows greater civility than the grandson, reminding him of proper conduct and equality before propriety.
A fire balloon should be flown as a kite with string to please the owner and friends rather than the next county. It requires skill to keep it close hauled then slack and twitch wildly to burn itself up, creating a dramatic climax.
In Hoboken New Jersey a man identified as Thomas Taylor was forced by police to climb a forty foot flagpole and restore an American flag torn from its staff in front of Emile Le Fevre’s home at 219 Bloomfield Street. The crowd, including many immigrants, cheered as Taylor, claiming US citizenship, rehung the flag under the recorder’s orders to set an example against disrespect.
Colonel John White of the Georgia line undertook a daring night deception to trap Captain French and a small British detachment near Savannah. White, aided by three orderlies and Captain Ethholm, created a mock hostile camp causing French to surrender the five vessels crews and 130 arms. White then paroled the British force and burned their escort to cover the ruse.
Thomas Jefferson writes from Paris on January 16 1787 that government rests on public opinion and that better than a government without newspapers is newspapers without a government, arguing everyone should receive and read papers.
In a Carlylean reflection, the speaker compares colonial tea dumped in Boston harbor to a modern surge of democracy. He imagines a Pennsylvanian congress and Bunker Hill as stages where liberty proclaims its birth, with rifle volleys and the tune Yankee Doodle signaling a world transformative revolution.
A Prentice verse foresees new states arriving with starry emblems like evening orbs arriving to join the ranks of the free. The poem envisions liberty’s harp sounding until all are free and time itself rests.
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