Weld County Rejects Liquor Licenses Eager for Western Progress
County Commissioners refuse liquor licenses across Weld County, including Evans and Julesburg, turning the region toward temperance. The piece contrasts the large frontier county with eastern perceptions and notes a stricter prohibitory stance than in Ohio or Massachusetts.
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Weld County
Evans
Eric
Julesburg
Massachusetts
Buffalo Country
Ohio
Colorado
Italian climate and Alpine journey provoke heated editorials
The editor of the Greeley Tribune faced repeated digs over his Italy comparisons as the text recalls travel writing about the Italian climate and a lengthy account of crossing the Alps through the Mont Cenis tunnel. The narrative contrasts mild and harsh winter scenes across Turin Parma Bologna and Rome with vivid sensory details.
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Greeley Tribune
Colorado
Italy
Virgil
Bayard Taylor
Rome
Lausanne
Geneva
Chambery
Mt. Cenis
Russia
Mt. Denis
Gol de Frejus
Alps
Turin
Parma
Piacenza
Reggio
Modena
Bologna
Adriatic
Naples
Palermo
Wealthy Green City Colony Proprietor Plans Vast Expansion
In an interview en route to Denver a Green City Colony principal proprietor described immense wealth with 10 000 Green City lots and aim to rival Philadelphia by laying out millions of plots. He noted ownership of Evans grit mill half for 1000 dollars and 9500 bushels of wheat to grind immediately.
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Green City
Denver
Green
Philadelphia
Evans
Remarkable Omaha capitalist touts river canal plan to water 2 million acres
The speaker claims 8 000 cattle with 200 dairy cows and 5 000 acres of Richmond area bottom land. He plans a Platteville to Green City to Julesburg canal 100 feet wide and ten feet deep and irrigation for 2,000,000 acres, boasting giant UP profits and Denver support.
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Green City
Denver
Richmond
Julesburg
Union Pacific
Platteville
Stanton
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Anna Dickinson Speech Sparks Missouri Prostitution Law Repeal
Anna Dickinson's St Louis address inspires readers and helps shift public opinion. The speech prompts the Missouri Legislature to repeal the existing prostitution regulation in a large vote, then she echoes portions in Chicago. The piece notes women asserting influence and hints at a dawning era of female power.
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Anna Dickinson
St. Louis
Chicago
Missouri
Politigians
Trees in the Park Need Plowed Ground for Growth
A letter urges the Town Board to clear and plow a five foot wide strip around park trees to prevent weeds and grass suffocating roots. It notes well kept trees on Monroe and Maple streets as a contrast and calls for immediate action to allow trees to thrive.
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Monroe
Maple
Plan for a Greeley Sanitarium Increases Health Capacity
The author proposes establishing a five acre sanitarium near Greeley to attract patients from Denver where 5,000 invalids exist. Start with a small house and add one story wings as needed, staffed by a physician with baths and grounds, and offer a carriage service. Advertising could bring 50 to 100 patients in the first year with scalable growth.
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Greeley
Denver
Long Branch
Colorado Sanitarium Boom Sparks Bordering Closures
The article notes no sanitarium exists in Colorado yet Dr Bucktel shuts his institute due to hiring troubles and wealth. His closure leaves a crowded house with boarders. The text asserts invalids increasingly seek Colorado for care and the business could grow indefinitely.
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Colorado
Temperance and social reform rhetoric from 1874 Newark speech
The author argues to target the distillery as the root of intemperance urging government control over alcohol and criticizes punitive laws on prostitutes. He condemns moral reform through harsh laws, cites British reports, and calls for vigilant enforcement by police at brothels while urging personal duty and moral action.
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Newark
Atlantic
Pacific
England
Great Britain
Britain
Missouri
Water delivery model could solve equitable canal shares
Max Clark’s adjustable rear gate on a flume aims to deliver precise water quantities from canal No. 2 and is described as the Italian method. The town board plans irrigation fixes including earthwork and the Oak Street lateral to secure southeast town water, while new printing and Gardener’s Monthly add local interest. People praise Clark’s potential grist mill plan for capital funding and salary prospects.
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Max Clark
Colony Board
Clark
Colorado
Utah
Wterall
Town election yields temperance slate for trustees
In Monday's town vote the regular ticket shifted after Ingalsbe withdrew. Ira Canfield won a seat along with John Leavy B C Adams 8 K Thompson Jos Moore and others all described as strong temperance men. The list includes Leavy Plumb Adams Brash Thompson Hazen Moore Ingalsbe Canfield and Jones.
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Ingalsbe
Ira Canfield
John Leavy
B. C. Adams
8. K. Thompson
Jos. Moore
Ovid Plumb
J. L. Brash
K. Thompson
N. F. Hazen
Theo, Ingalsbe
J.H. Jones
Town Board Proceedings in Growley Colorado April 6 1878
The Growley town board meeting records actions on refunds for violations of Ordinance No 4. The board suspended fines for Hawes Hazen Ranney and others, approved payments to J C Higley Scott and J P Justice’s fees, and approved the town treasurer's quarterly financials. Election returns announced elected officers and clerks with results, and several clerk and judge fee items were approved before adjournment.
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Growley
Colorado
Nichols’ Block
Jos
Moore Pike
Theo Ingalsbe
Ralph Meke
Jos Ap Woodbury
Heineg
Josse Hawes
N F. Hazen
John Ranney
Then & R
J. C. Higley
Jackson S
A. L. Welch and Co
Lee
Pei Os Follawan
L. von Gehren
C!etion
Copseseee Etnnee
Csisstisienen Caaisae
Jos A Woodbury
Yeast and bread starter from old directions
Instructions describe making yeast by boiling hops with flour sugar and salt then resting warm for thirty six hours and combining with additional mash and water. A note to the editor mentions a quart cup with salt sugar soda and a spoon, kept warm to produce yeast in a few hours.
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