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Newspaper
Greeley Daily Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1908
Page
4
The Prosperity Edition of the Greeley Tribune is now available by mail and at the Tribune Office. It features over 200 half tone cuts and the finest double page map of northern Colorado irrigation, covering the Continental Divide east to Morgan county. Copies are ten cents each, ready for mailing.
Mr and Mrs R W Harris entertained in honor of Mrs W L Huxtable and Mr and Mrs Huxtable of Boulder during the convention. Six covers were paid and a fine menu served. The guests left for home after four days in Greeley for Grand Lodge sessions where Mr Huxtable served as a delegate.
The Weld County Trib une reports 410 callers yesterday and today seeking copies of the new special edition. Modesty aside, the paper notes many flattering remarks praising the publication as the greatest newspaper yet in the county.
The Scrap Book recounts a Brittany stroll where a tourist seeks a silver sapphire ring. An old woman tests him with price and motive, offering ten francs, arguing he has no wife, and presses the notion that men misrepresent love and purchase for a sweetheart or wife.
A reflective poem on wisdom residing in heaven and within the human mind. It contrasts spiritual insight with worldly idols, urging the pure mind and youth to seek wisdom through reverent contemplation of God and truth.
A Confederate general Bishop Leonidas Polk learns a passerby is far from his unit. The stranger asks which company he belongs to and the general replies I am a captain in the army of the Lord. A separate vignette shows Yale president Hadley on a train rehearsing a speech while Mrs. Hadley is teased by a sympathetic matron.
The Melbourne Times printed a terse note about Albert Henry Savage Lander arriving in St Petersburg from Tibet after suffering from natives. A later Times item claimed the beast was terrified residents, captured after clashes in Tibet, then dispatched in a remote area, noted as possibly the first of its kind in Russia.
The piece recalls Douglas Jerrold’s sharp wit in response to Albert Smith and a comic tale of two curates. One curate, approached by a begging woman, discovers a stray copper then a half sovereign in his pocket, revealing a domestic misadventure and moral irony.
A man who had secretly aided a beggar slipped away with a purse but next day discovered he wore the fellow lodger’s trousers by mistake, prompting surprise and chagrin at home.
A medical examiner asks a student how to provoke perspiration in a disease. The student, drained of memory, is pressed with pushy questions. In frustration, the student quips that if all else fails the patient should be sent to the examiner for examination to make him sweat, else the case would be hopeless.
Mrs. Graham drank red ink thinking it claret and feared the worst. A doctor arrived and dryly remarked that there is such a thing as pushing deco rated interiors too far.
Mme. Modjeska and her company toured the extreme north during a bitter winter as Count Bozenta begged to move south. He warned the cold would kill the mood while she quipped that the south was dead, calling it a beautiful corpse.
A Sunday school teacher asks children what kind of little boys and girls go to heaven. A child answers dead ones, revealing a grim twist in a reflective classroom vignette from a historical piece.
An old Scot seeks an oculist for threatened blindness asking for a stimulant. The doctor warns he must stop drinking or lose his sight. The man shrugs and says he has seen all worth seeing anyway.
The text argues that while material wealth may be lost, a child’s virtue and good name endure. It laments those seeking riches for heirs and urges cultivating virtuous habits as a lasting legacy. Wealth may fail, but virtue walks with the individual to the end.
A Philadelphia capitalist visits Chicago and derides the local accent as a wretched patter while claiming Philadelphia speech is pure Oxford English. The Chicagoan responds that Philadelphia hosted the British army, implying the region’s language was shaped by that era’s occupation.
A southern colonel's colored valet named George plans to use ammonia on a grease spot to remove it from the colonel's light trousers. George believes the ammonia will fit, as a final attempt to lift the stubborn stain despite prior failures with gasoline brown paper and a hot iron.
In a London inquiry a verdict of wilful murder was returned. Blood stains on clothing were clarified by color photography. An expert used high pressure oxygen to brighten stains, which were then captured by a color process, strengthening the prosecution's case.
An Heidelberg astronomer captured a celestial nebula in Cygnus that closely mirrors the outline of North America. The photograph, named the America nebula, depicts the continent’s shape with the surrounding starry ocean. It is the first celestial object named after a major earth division.
Leasowe Light on the Wirral shore ends a long tenure as the oldest lighthouse in England. A seven story masonry tower founded on cotton wreck material, it survived fires and a local liquor sale ban, with women tending the light for the past decade.
The Chinese emperor leads a frugal life under rigid etiquette with meals regulated by law. A new dish requires a special decree and court physicians monitor his appetite. If a desired viand is deemed injurious, courtiers persuade him to avoid it for health reasons.
The piece compares social etiquette between Britain and France, noting that English women bow to a man they know while French women wait for recognition. It also contrasts doors opened by men in England with French views on such officious acts and highlights who initiates visits in each country.
Mrs Phoebe Rideout of Oroville has been elected to lead the bank at Oroville and also heads the Marysville and Gridley banks. The three institutions reportedly hold over 3 million dollars in aggregate capital. Mrs William Langdom of San Francisco is re elected president of Union Savings Bank in Modesto.
Mrs Miriam N Loomis told the Home Economics conference at Chautauqua that college dining is spoiled by bad manners with bread and cake thrown at tables and hotels charging students for service. She urged the table as the school social center and questioned why young men and women must apologize for college manners.
Consul General Robert J Wynce reports that Suez Canal shipping and tonnage rose in 1907 with a net tonnage increase of 1 282 920 tons over 1906 and 1 594 429 over 1905 Receipts for 1907 also climbed by 1 557 000 dollars compared with 1906.
The statement suggests every piece of plate glass worldwide will be broken within ten years due to the law of average. It frames a sweeping, controversial forecast with no cited sources or measurable evidence.
Charles Melvin died at his ranch near Kersey aged 88 after a long life spanning Ohio Illinois and Colorado with a Pueblo visitor at his bedside. Lawrence Housman died of tuberculosis in the county hospital at 61 after a period in Greeley with funeral plans pending.
In Columbus on October 22 Mrs. Amy Parker aged 75 consumed poisoned bon bons from a box received by mail. She fell ill soon after and died despite swift medical aid. The poem on the box appeared to target her, though her relatives know of no enemy.
The excerpt argues that modern dress and household conveniences trap microbes and threaten humanity. It suggests returning to a primitive lifestyle as science and socialists advocate, lamenting civilization and urging a move toward nature.
Claudius Clear notes that most scolding occurs between spouses or from parents to children. Parents must discipline and counsel but risk provoking wrath and hurting children. Harsh scolding damages trust and can drive children to evasions, leaving lasting emotional scars.
The Greeley Nurses association held a social afternoon at Mrs. Mary Martin’s home with music and an experience meeting. Mrs. Alice Hendricks read a paper on hemorrhages, followed by discussion. A lunch was served and the gathering deemed a success. The next meeting will be at Miss Rena Sample’s home, 1540 Ninth Avenue.
The Burlington Interurban Railway Co. announces that F. C. Olson is no longer authorized to represent the company in any capacity. This notice is issued by C. A. Fletcher, Assistant Secretary.
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