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Newspaper
Greeley Republican
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1912
Page
4
Strong hail storms struck the region from Severance to near Eaton and Briggsdale injuring crops and damaging grain on the Klusser Eaton farm and neighboring homesteads. Winds and pounding rain accompanied the hail as residents reported broken glass, ground holes, and heavy rainfall in Pierce and Nunn districts.
The Hanson and E M Lloyd farms suffered the main damage with crops of corn and potatoes harmed. The loss will be serious though not total, impacting harvest prospects in the affected area. Nearby towns report little or no damage from the same hail event.
Ed Miller harvested peas from under seven acres on the Sauter ranch near Johnstown and netted 292.40 dollars, about 42.90 per acre, after deducting seed, drilling, harvesting, hauling and other expenses. The strong return highlights peas as a valuable crop and the ground can be used for winter feed.
Dover Del secretary of state grants a charter to the Amazon Pacific Railway company to acquire railroads steamboat lines ferries and other businesses using steam or electricity in Peru. Authorized capital stock is 30000000. Incorporators are New Yorkers.
A New York Press account describes John Hancock dressed in a red velvet cap and blue damask gown in 1782, George Washington in black velvet with a cocked hat and sword, John Adams in pearl broadcloth, and Massachusetts Chief Justice Dana in winter white corduroy. It notes fashion shifts as the century advanced from powdered hair to tied hair, colored fabrics fading, buckles vanishing, and knee breeches yielding to trousers.
A mother boasts her six week old baby can do many things including imitating a steam engine and smiling intelligently. A caller questions the infant's abilities while the mother humorously defends the baby's perfection in this light anecdote.
A Royal Institution paper argues gold as the oldest metal due to native occurrence. The Nagada tomb possibly of King Menes yields gold fragments a bead a button and near pure copper wire dated at least 6,300 years old. Much ancient gold carries silver content and origin traces to Pactolus and other streams in Asia Minor.
The dispatches recount an old man once famed in his native city who faced poverty after wealth. As his time waned, he remarked that life, though tough, was interesting. The piece notes death is everywhere yet often hidden, reducing public philosophy and mindful acceptance of mortality.
Delle and Nelle discuss a quarrel with Jack over a hair style approval. Delle recalls telling him the ladies aid approved her hair and he asked if it was ratified, showing his impudence. The exchange reveals lingering tension and social embarrassment.
A humorous remark from Mr Growcher questions whether wives vote and jokes about the cost of election day costumes. The line plays on social norms and budgeting in a light political aside.
Johannes Daniel Falk of Weimar organized in 1813 the Society of Friends in Need and opened the ragged school for neglected and orphan children. The school later became state run as Fal kech inetl ut and Falk, a self taught scholar, is famed for his charitable work.
A Maine clergyman at a town hotel orders a typewriter. The proprietor, left in charge, pretends the case is an ice parcel and whispers it will be fine by dinner time. The quip cited comes from the Sacramento Bee.
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