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Newspaper
Greeley Daily Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1908
Page
3
A fragmented page lists want ads and rentals with prices and features. Items mention rooms for rent with gas and bath, furnished listings, trades for livestock, and a corner lot for sale with specific dimensions, alongside incomplete lines and garbled text. The readable parts indicate a busy classifieds page from a mid century newspaper.
Local brief mentions Thurlby jewelry and watch repair along with farm loan ads by Sanborn & Houston. Notices include births, visits, cigultural events at Normal Chapel, a music recital, and various resident travel plans across Greeley Fort Collins Denver and surrounding towns. Neighborly notices highlight illnesses and family updates with several names and addresses.
The will of Ira Williams of Fort Lupton, who recently died, was filed in county court today. It bequeaths his entire estate to his wife and children. Phyllis McMillan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. McMillan, is ill. A. J. Scott was arrested for water theft and posted bond.
Thurnby the man with the diamonds featured as a headline. Mrs. Duncan of Denver visits Mrs. Albert McMillan while Alexander's store promotes a Saturday morning sale at seven with location opposite the Catholic church. C A Johnson of the Argentine Central Railway discusses excursions in Greeley and Miss Smith offers half price stamped sofa cushion covers at Coronado block. Don’t miss chance to buy something nice.
E. L. Hamilton returned to Bellefontaine Ohio after visiting sisters Mrs. Warner Coontz and Miss Amanda Hamilton. Mr and Mrs Frank Blunt hosted eight friends at 1121 Thirteenth Street on Thursday night for a social evening with games and light refreshments.
Charles Plumb aged twelve and his cousin Laura White aged ten rode the collobeeal train on Thursday to visit their aunt Miss Myra White in Denver. They travel alone and plan to stay ten days at Betes Park with Mr and Mrs Melville Faris.
Miss Cora Smith hosted a Sunday School party for the First Presbyterian church wives and guests. Grown women dressed as eight year olds, prizes went to Maud Myer and Edna Schillig, with a repast served by Bessye Smith and Lydia Larson.
A sandhill crane has settled at Mrs. H. P. Heath's home at 807 Seventeenth Street. The tame gray bird greets visitors, but attacks some and scolds others. It drinks cold water and feeds on meat dropped into water before gobbling or discarding it. Mrs. Heath will return the crane to its owner.
George W. Irving of the Chicago Municipal Service League will address the Greeley business community tonight in the Commercial club rooms. He will offer practical guidance on keeping business local versus mail order competition.
The Daily Tribune offers a moonlight trip to Eldorado Springs on Thursday August 6. Train departs Greeley 1 26 PM and returns from the resort at 9 30 PM with options for supper at picnic grounds or New Eldorado Hotel.
William D. Haywood former secretary treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners announced his candidacy for congressman at large on the Socialist ticket. He said he enters the race at friends urging and expects a vigorous campaign and Western Federation support. He resigned his secretary treasurer post and will devote time to lecturing while awaiting federation decisions.
On July 17 in Grand Junction Colorado the cost of prosecuting Steve Adams is estimated at 20000 to 25000 dollars borne partly by San Miguel county. Bulkeley Wells of Smuggler-Union Mining denies financial involvement claiming his stake was only aiding authorities. The prosecution costs across Idaho and Colorado plus related cases exceed 200000 dollars for the two states and near 200000 more by the Western Federation of Miners.
Mrs George E Keller and Miss Sarah McCullough hosted a pleasant Thursday afternoon gathering of young ladies in pink and white sweet pea decor. Punch was served by Mamie Scott and Mae Thompson, guests read original poems, and a fine repast followed. Invitations numbered 36.
A splinter pierced the sole of Miss Katie Claus of Shaw's store on Thursday afternoon. The four and a half inch splinter lodged in her foot. she was chloroformed while the splinter was removed and she will be unable to work for some time.
Mr and Mrs Martin Cummings led a Sunday school picnic and fishing party of girls at Seelys Lake on Thursday afternoon. The outing included fishing, a pleasant picnic, and a cool evening ride home with the group from the First Presbyterian church.
A reflective meditation compares life to a sea with shifting tides and a sky of God. It urges readers to spread their sail to the spirit’s breath and set a true course to reach a safe, desired haven.
A Gallican bishop dining in Rome confuses his see with a French department. He finally reveals I am Bishop of Cognac, provoking a chorus of voices that Cognac resembles a bishopric and amuses the guests.
Dr. Max Verwern, physiology professor and director at the University of Gottingen, is appointed Kaiser Wilhelm professor at Columbia University for 1908 09. The Prussian minister of education recommended the appointment. Verwern, a renowned physiologist, is expected in New York late in August and has received high honors in Germany.
The Nueste Nachrichten mocks euro aristocracy and American heiresses by launching an International Marriage Institute for Wealthy American Heiresses. It advocates selling brides to European nobles at low prices, with travel funded by remittance and shipment via Hamburg.
The passage suggests women bored with few ideas should pick probing topics. A Boston man hopes to learn if cats like flowers, and women with ennui could divert themselves by pursuing such investigations to satisfy his curiosity.
A New Yorker recently back from Chicago recalls a sorrowful sight on Clark Street near the lakefront. A fine old house bore the inscription Optimists' Club above a grand door, while large placards reading To Let signaled bleak times, noted by Harper's Weekly.
An Austrian inventor introduces a money counting machine. Coins are dropped into a funnel, slide down a spiral track, and pass through slits sized for their denomination before dropping into a basket.
A blind student at Barnard College uses a reader to take notes during lectures, then transcribes them on a raised typewriter for study. The state provides $300 annually to pay the reader, asserting a legal right for blind students to such assistance in academic work.
Observers Pickering Barnard and others report changes on the Moon especially near Linnaeus crater. They conclude the shrinking white patch results from hoar frost melting at sunrise with frost forming and melting in other lunar regions.
A simple method uses white soap cut into walnut size in warm water with a teaspoon of glycerite. Stir well and blow through a small pipe. Adding strawberry juice yields pink bubbles while orange juice produces yellow bubbles.
Three black fox farms near Atherton Prince Edward Island raise 20 25 and 30 foxes for their skins. Skins sell in London from 500 to 1800 dollars each depending on quality.
The Church of England Waifs and Strays society reports it has cared for 13 476 children over 26 years of operation, reflecting its long term charitable work.
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