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Newspaper
Greeley Daily Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1908
Page
2
The piece argues that crowded Colorado schools show a statewide crisis with three and four pupils per desk and no funds to build. It compares communities to individuals and asserts debt is necessary to fund mental growth and education, urging the next legislature to raise the bonding limit.
Special to the Daily Tribune Boston November 24. Professor William E Castle of Harvard University has bred two new varieties of guinea pigs. The animals are of exactly the same character as Castle predicted, showing a claimed mathematical rule governing reproduction, color, hair length, and sex. The work is seen as a significant advance toward solving the secret of sex in animals.
Chicago dispatch reports Speaker Joseph G Cannon backed tariff revision in line with the Republican platform and pledged to help enact the policy into national law. The remarks followed a luncheon for six rear admirals hosted by Alexander H Revell of Chicago at the United States League club.
Postoffice Inspector Frederick visits Greeley to establish a fifth rural route. The route will run west from the city as farmers gain free delivery service amid rapid community growth.
Fall season offer to Denver for November 26 including Ben Hur at the theater, a Boulder University vs School of Mines football clash, and automobile races at Overland Park. Last chance for the season. ask a Union Pacific agent for details.
C H Baird the tailor has purchased the Greeley Cleaning and Pressing works at 812 Ninth Avenue and will personally run it. He will also continue his Williams building shop for the moment and later merge all business into the Ninth Avenue location.
Workmen engaged today in installing the new steel library racks in the new library building. Two new members were initiated at the regular meeting of the Eastern Star Tuesday night.
J. D. Key, a Kansas City commission merchant, was arrested in Kansas City by former Chief Hayes on charges of embezzling 2000 dollars in a potato purchase from R. L. Martin of Ault. Undersheriff Baird will fetch Key back to Colorado. Key has a brother in Kansas City and Martin partners with E. G. Huff.
Henry's Minstrels brings a lineup of top artists led by Bob McLaughlin Pat Crawford Billy Baxter and George Foster to the opera house on Tuesday November 21. The program includes new hits and a vivid Dixie Land afterpiece with moving scenes. A noon street parade is planned.
Frederick Sherwood, 30, was instantly killed in the Sun and Moon mine when a powder blast misfired as he hurried to Denver to comfort his mother dying there. A small rock fragment pierced his heart, ending his life instantly. The Sherwood family home is in Denver.
In New York on November 24 Karl Loos age 57 returned home after an all night absence and opened fire on his family at breakfast. He killed his daughter Meta and fatally injured his son Frederick a Lutheran minister. His son John disarmed him before further harm. He had been drinking and mistreating his family for some time.
Galliopolis Ohio November 24. Dr Oo S Mills house physician at Columbus insane asylum rose from bed in a hotel and shot himself. He left a note reading Whats the use.
Rear Admiral Robly D Evans recalls a practice of listing weekly menus for ship meals and dining with the crew without napkins. He explains how dining with the president on a battleship impressed sailors, mollified complaints, and reinforced proper feeding by the fleet.
Quote by Sydney Smith warns against ruining current happiness for possible future misfortune. It argues most grief stems from self made shadows and fears. The reflection emphasizes living in the present and avoiding anxious preemption.
A reflective essay treats life as a crystal chalice where what you pour in determines what overflows. Love expands the measure of life, hatred drains it, and the final grasp at death is only what you have given away. The piece asks what you will put into your cup.
The Thaw affair reveals how money buys special legal and prison privileges, including elite treatment in jail and asylum. Critics warn such favoritism undermines justice, worsens class tensions, and corrupts the republic by normalizing unequal access to mercy and due process.
H. E. Jordan argues the financial toll of typhoid fever is immense. Based on Pittsburg 1907 data, a death costs about 2 200, with total cost per death near 7 500 when considering lost work and hospital care, underscoring the need for prevention.
The passage explains how people form ideas of many women from a single mental image. It compares broad impressions to many portraits on a wall and argues true love arises from focusing on one image seen through a narrow pinhole, like a camera obscura.
A new device uses a glare tube and a jewel-hard steel ball of 40 grains to drop from a fixed height. The ball’s rebound height, read on a scale with 100 equaling carbon steel average hardness, indicates metal hardness for tool manufacture.
A log five feet in diameter and perfectly preserved was found 404 feet underground at the Alabang stock farm while drilling for an artesian well. Officials of the bureau of agriculture are puzzled by the find as the drill had reached 400 feet and struck hard rock.
A plain man complains of a cold and hoarseness. The scientist explains a mild ephyza with nasal congestion and eye suffusion. The man prefers an interpreter over a physician, highlighting miscommunication about medical terms.
A literary club night drew attention as a participant pronounced Les Miserables in a brand-new way and then connected the title to Victor Herbert, signaling a playful literary miscue during the event.
A public figure cautions about the risk of words later regretted. The exchange notes that spoken remarks are less dangerous than written statements signed with a name. The dialogue underscores accountability in public communication and the pitfalls of signed commentary.
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