Denver Beets and Child Labor Sparks Informed Tour
Denver women toured northern Colorado beet fields to study child labor, reporting perceived abuses. The piece critiques Alice Lambert of the Denver Post for sensationalism, defends Japanese workers’ roles, and argues conditions are misrepresented while noting local industry and schooling trends.
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Denver
Denver Women's Clubs
Colorado
Greeley
Denver Post
Beetfields
Alice Lambert
Scotlands
Mary C Co. Bradford
Woman's Club
C. H. Jackson
Game Organization
Catherine Williamson
Woman's Public Service League
Eliza Anderson
Jane Jefferson Club
Greeley Beetfielde
Miss Lambert
Seventh Avenue Graded and Graveled Pre-Track
Street officials secured signers to grade and gravel Seventh Avenue. Work starts at once with multiple teams due to deep cuts and large fills. Residents on Nineteenth Street and Twelfth Avenue urged to petition for early grading. progress depends on majority owner signers along each street.
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Seventh Avenue
Nineteenth Street
Twelfth Avenue
Lights Out After Storm Leaves City in Darkness
A Sunday storm plunged the city into darkness with most churches unable to hold evening services. The First Presbyterian children’s program was postponed. Congregationalists held service by candlelight in a parlor, while fourty guests received tallow candles from Camfield’s Manager Hall before retiring.
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First Presbyterian Church
Hall
The
Camfield
Gesick Baby Dies At Eleven Months Near Greeley
Henry Gesick eleven month old son of Mr and Mrs Christian Gesick died Sunday at the family home six miles northeast of Greeley Funeral services were held this morning at the German church on Elev enth street in the community.
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Henry Gesick
Christian Gewick
Greeley
Eleventh Street
E J Carver Dies in California Pioneer of Union Colony
Riverside mourns E J Carver longtime Greeley Tribune manager and owner who retired in 1901 due to ill health. Age about 74 he died after a bout of whooping cough and declining health wife surviving. Carver active in Pioneer Colony circles and the Pon d re Valley Lodge L C O F may handle funeral with extended notice to follow.
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Tribane
Riverside
Calif
Union Colony
Carver
Greeley Tribune
California
Pondre Valley Lodge No. 12
Unicon Coleny Pioneers
Mr. Carver
Estes Park Group Plans Prospect Mountain Trail and Park Goals
A special Estes Park Protective and Improvement Association meeting approved a trail to Prospect Mountain summit from the Big Thompson bridge with a July 4 completion target, plus plans to promote Estes Park as a national park and game preserve. Subscriptions funded a fish hatchery drive and a summer entertainments program.
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Estes Park
National Park and Game Preserve
Medicine Row National Forest
Enos A. Mills
Frank Q. Stanley
Fish stories on the Delta flood bring heavy carp catch
Delta floods send carp into ditches and fields as fish numbers rise. Saturday T A Foley weighs a twelve pound carp. water remains on river bottoms though Poudre falls, Platte runs bank full. Tribune ads offer buyer guidance.
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Delta
T. A. Foley
Hailstorm Devastates Farmland Near Loveland
Loveland reports a Friday hailstorm that wrecked at least 5,000 acres of fall wheat on dry land, about four miles from Loveland. The storm cleared a three mile wide path, destroying grain beyond salvage. A local doctor suffered 200 acres lost, marking three straight years of hail damage to his wheat.
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Loveland
Highland
Elks Move to Purchase Bay Baptist Church Property
It is practically assured the Elks will buy the Baptist church property. Five hundred dollars in cash is paid and a contract signed for three thousand dollars due in sixty days with more time for the balance. The move signals an investment plan, not guaranteed construction on the site.
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Elks Bay
Elks
Heavy Rain and Hail Cause Damage in Beebe Draw Area
A Sunday storm broke the English ditch causing seepage and headgate washouts across fields. A narrow hail streak dumped three inches on one ranch in five minutes, ruining garden fruit and delaying hay cutting. Gilcrest reports southeast hail with four inches on Box Elder flats, though few farms are affected.
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Gilcrest
Box Elder
Engineer return aids Boyd Lake district survey
Hartung, in charge of the Boyd Lake district preliminary survey, reports work near half done and estimates at least 8000 acres reclamable in Oklahoma hill. Plans for pumping remain undecided but promoters consider two to three large centrifugal pumps powered electrically. Surveys target completion by July 1 with a petition to county commissioners at the next meeting.
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Boyd Lake
Hartung
Oklahoma District
Boyd Lake District
Oklahoma Hill
Eaton Observes Children’s Day in Three Churches
Sunday’s Children’s Day program filled the Baptist Congregational and Methodist churches of Eaton with families and youngsters. The event included songs and recitations and marked the churches’ festive observance in recent years. Modern Woodmen of America memorial services and Royal Neighbors auxiliary lodge also held services, with the lodge attending the Baptist church where Rev. E. Payne preached the sermon.
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Eaton
Woodmen of America
Royal Neighbors
Baptist
E. Payne
Beginning Track Laying for Pleasant Valley Extension
Fifteen days remain before the Union Pacific starts track laying on the Pleasant Valley extension. A crew is due July 1 to finish thirteen miles by Contract or Sprague. Grading of Crow Creek line completes in time for rails, with Camfield Zeta and Gill set to receive freight by mid July to mid August. Bridge work includes piling for three irrigating canal bridges and a 200 foot span over Lone Tree Creek, plus major work over the Poudre to link Crow Creek branches with Sixth Avenue.
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Union Pacific
Pleasant Valley
Sprague
Crow Creek
Camfield
Zeta
Gill
Lone Tree Creek
Sixth Avenue
Tisdel Memorial Committee Tea Event and Nearing Completion
Mrs N S Cheeseman hosted about twenty five Tisdel Memorial committee members and wives at a 6 pm tea dinner. The Tisdel rooms at the city and county hospital are nearly furnished and the committee’s work is almost finished with a brief meeting planned.
High Water Delays Windsor Rural Mail Service
The Poudre river high water halted rural mail delivery all last week as bridges were deemed unsafe. No trips have been made since last Monday despite a heavy Sunday shower. no hail or severe lightning occurred.
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Windsor
Poudre
Burlington Interurban to Begin Work Near Greeley
Reliable sources confirm the Burlington Interurban will start grading soon on a Greeley to Hudson line and plan one or two new towns en route. Growth in northern Colorado towns follows the surge in land sales, with railroad expansion and new offices planned in Hudson and along the Denver-Greeley corridor.
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Greeley
Denver
Wyoming Line
Denver, Laramie & Northwestern Railroad
Wyoming
Union Pacific
Burlington Interurban Railway Company
Cudson
Burlington
Hudson
Denver-Greeley Investment Company
Greeley Considers Fire Apparatus Upgrade From Anderson KC
The fire and light committee met Saturday night and reviewed a proposal from the Anderson concern of Kansas City. It would be cheaper than Seagrave but opinions favor Seagrave in most respects. A final decision is expected tomorrow night.
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Fire and Light Committee
Anderson
Kansas City
Seagrave Auto
Greeley
Colorado
Seventh Avenue
Eaton Minister Elected Trustee of Swedish Biblical Institute
Rev. A. A. Anderson pastor of the Swedish Free church at Eaton was chosen as a trustee of the Swedish Biblical Institute at a Rockford Illinois conference. The appointment, not yet learned by Mrs. Anderson, comes as the institute plans to move from Chicago to Omaha. Anderson has lectured and raised funds for the institute during travel and recently assumed Eaton church leadership. Mrs. Della Corbett of Des Moines is visiting her cousin Mrs. Elle Klein en route to Tacoma Washington and will depart tonight.
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Miss Lambert
Russia
Denver
Lindsey
Greeley
Ae Jap
A. A. Anderson
Swedish Free Church
Eaton
Swedish Biblical Institute
Rockford
Ill
Della Corbett
Des Moines
Elle Klein
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