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Newspaper
Greeley Daily Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1908
Page
2
The Greeley Daily Tribune announces publication details and policy for daily editions excluding Sundays and legal holidays. It lists staff roles including editor and manager, contact details in Greeley Colorado, and subscription rates and mailing terms.
A discussion on politics as a profession notes how elected officials face shrinking real income, social pressure, and a creeping decline after years in office. It warns that the system rewards appearances and favors, with many endangering self-respect and financial stability, while few sustain long careers.
The Youth's Companion 1909 calendar features Charles C Curran's painting In Grandmother's Garden in a large format eight by twenty four inches. The calendar uses thirteen colors and lithography on fine stock with clear readable month dates. It is issued to subscribers of the Companion for 1909.
One fare for a round trip to Denver on Thanksgiving Day November 26 features a spectacular production of Pa Hur, a championship football game between Boulder University and School of Mines, and automobile races at Overland. Ask Union Pacific agent for particulars.
Special to the Daily Tribune Denver reports a proposed academy of music costing at least 250000 dollars, potentially up to 500000, to be built at Fifteenth street and Cleveland place on the site of the former People's theatre ruins. The venue would host grand opera and orchestral concerts, becoming a premier musical center west of New York.
District Attorney Stidger will file information in district court this afternoon charging Mrs Ian F Read with attempt to rob and assault with intent to kill. This action follows a ten day prior case involving Mrs Genevieve C Phipps alleging dynamite and blackmail for 106000 at the International Company offices on Seventeenth Street.
The six week old son of Mr. and Mrs. M. E Harris died at home at 608 Twelfth Street from acute pneumonia after a short illness. Funeral services will be held at Macy's undertaking by Rev. R. J. Hunter at 2 PM.
Little Elizabeth M Nusbaum seven months old died Wednesday after an appendicitis attack necessitating an operation. Funeral services will be at the Nusbaum home Friday at 2 PM conducted by Rev W A Philips.
Transfers filed with Weld County Abstract and Investment Co show John E and Bert A Shafer selling to H E Gaylor for 125 dollars one acre in N half SW quarter 27-8-66. Mary M Clark and related to T A McAfee for 75 dollars Lot 26 Block 16 Frederick. Frank M Schaffer to Schaffer Land and Live Stock Co deed one dollar the Schaffer reservoir and enlargements. Wm L Snyder to F C Grable one dollar SW quarter 11-8-63. J A Arbuckle and J J Purcell to F C Grable one dollar SW quarter 11-8-63. Burton D Sanborn to Clarence Sall 800 dollars Lots 7 and 8 Littell’s Subdivision Elk 144 Greeley. John V Crone to S A Blair one dollar N half BE half 20-8-66.
November 18 notices show Jennie M Pettyjohn to Robert Bonner Bowler for 1000 dollars covering Lots 17 and 18 in Block 28 Nunn Otis F Tomlinson to Elizabeth Buffe for 1 dollar on NE% 4-1-65 Thomas Winbourn to James Harrison for 150 dollars covering Lots 12 and 8 in Block 23 Fort Lupton City of Greeley to Archie L Camp Jr deed 4000 dollars for Lot 15 Block 38 Greeley Greeley Land Co to R J Houtechens 2800 dollars for N Lot 2 Block 6 Greeley and Lots 7 and 8 Barber's Sub Block 123 Greeley William McMullen to Willig Kent 16000 dollars for NE% 26-8-66.
A 1908 column condemns a cruel joke at a Cleveland hotel where 200 laborers were turned away by a deceptive delegation seeking work. It laments the impact on workers facing eviction risk and portrays the act as widening the rift between capital and labor.
Our Shanghai correspondent reports the old Chinese order fading as Western education becomes irresistible, marking a lasting transformation in the lives of millions across the empire. The London Times notes the change is irreversible.
The narrative portrays Greeley as a thriving city with 9,000 residents, situated near the Rockies. It touts education, infrastructure, industry including beet sugar, potato starch, canning, wholesale trade, hotels, railroads, libraries, and a robust commercial club, plus extensive agriculture generating annual crops around 66,000 in value.
A fragmented directory lists multiple lodges and orders in Greeley including C U W Frank Madden workman and IL Sutves, A B Greeley lodge with Wyatt and secretary, and regular meetings on various dates. Also noted are B A Kell and Pressley commanders, W K C Adelie Clark president, and several female auxiliary and Rebekah groups with meeting evenings and officers.
Miscellaneous notes list meetings for Masonic and fraternal groups in Lorain and nearby towns. Names like Nell J Alcorn and C K Jackson appear among officers, secretaries, and clerks. Meetings occur on Tuesdays and Thursdays with varying halls and dates mentioned.
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