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Newspaper
Greeley Daily Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1908
Page
3
Local notices list furniture and real estate for sale along with autos and room rentals. Names and places include Princeton street, Fort Collins, Eaton, Platteville, Denver, Sanborn Houston, and Thurlby. Community updates mention visitors, weddings, chores, and Fourth of July plans.
Various local names visit relatives and friends in town. Howard Saunders of Denver visits Aunt Mrs M A Bunker. Irene Sullivan returns from Denver. Geo Dedrick and daughter Misa Retr travel from Raton with Mr and Mrs Henry Williams of Denver visiting Mrs Ed Jenkins. McCobb Ciella Carpenter plan a Thursday trip to Iowa for a vacation. Ivan EU meets his father’s car at Chalk Bluffa. Local baking contest mentioned as part of the events.
Farm loan firms and trades advertise services while residents travel to Denver Estes Park and Boulder for visits. A marriage license, church sales, fruit displays, and various town visitors mark the holiday period as residents prepare for Independence Day festivities.
The Star Crocory advertises a promotion offering free firecrackers to any boy or girl who delivers a cash order for reg. It claims a large bundle will be given in return, promising abundant supplies for young folks.
The Colorado and Southern offers a round trip fare of 26.35 from Greeley to Dallas for the annual Elks meeting in Dallas July 12 to 18, valid for return within 80 days. Also available from Dallas to other Texas points and Mexico City at one fare plus 2.00 for the round trip. See agent for special trains.
A reflective piece contrasts city cemetery upkeep with rural practices where families, on a spring day, scrub and tend headstones with soap and water. Some neglected graves fade away as lines from Longfellow surface, a vow to restore them lingering but unfulfilled.
The article extols olive oil as beneficial when taken internally to aid digestion liver problems and weight, when eaten with meals as a dressing and appetizer, and as a chest back rub with quinine or camphor for colds throat soreness and nervous weakness. It also suggests massaging the skin along the spine then drying with a Turkish towel.
The piece traces the proverb to falconry roots and explains variants such as hernshaw and bandsaw. It notes the shift from distinguishing falcon from prey to a broader testing of discernment, with Hamlet cited as using a humorously altered form.
A Baltimore American quotation notes G Smith meeting the speaker in the street. The frigid remark about the weather reflects the cool impudence of the fellow. The line conveys social irony without further context or consequence.
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