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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1888
Page
3
A San Francisco Chronicle correspondent describes the Burman Dacoits led by Mingloung as a 500 man band near Tounghoo. They strike by night, surround towns, mark target houses, and kill any resistance while nude and oil slicked, using dha knives to dispatch alarms or plunder valuables including gold, silver, silk, and gems.
In Highland Park near Chicago Prof Elisha Gray proclaims a teleautograph can transmit writing and pictures instantly over long distances. The piece also discusses kidney balm and malaria cures, then reviews sewer gas dangers in modern plumbing, noting most sewers lack perfect plumbing and urging caution despite possible overestimation of risk.
Consul Webb notes a Philippine religious procession with acolytes, saints on gilt cone floats lit by lamps, brass bands, and thousands bearing candles. The long column includes decorated natives bearing floats and soldiers at the rear marching in the dark.
The April Cosmopolitan features a railways series detailing construction and management and notes $8.5 billion invested with $900 million earnings in 1887. It presents a vivid Shakespeare description from George Edgar Montgomery and pieces by Conway, Lillie, O Reill, Burroughs, Wilcox, Roe, and a Southern serial Miss Lou.
North Carolina businessman M S Hamlin reports long standing hip disease or white swelling relieved by Swift's Specific. He claims improved appetite digestion energy and color after spring use and credits the remedy with strengthening the body for hot summers. A Texas resident G N Frizzel says arm and leg eruptions healed after three large Swift's Specific bottles. Swift Specific Co advertises free literature.
Local boot maker Joseph Joyce offers French calf stock oak sole leather and top quality workmanship at low prices. Address listed as No 3 Maple Street, Greeley Colorado with guarantee of perfect fit and satisfaction. Established 1870 in an old world craftsman style shop.
T J Potter and E L Lomax appear among a list for P T A officers along with J B Tebbets and others. The items show committee roles at a P T A meeting and reference district activity.
An old advertisement promises immediate relief for teething pain and crying infants. It claims to cure dysentery, diarrhea, wind colic, inflammation, and general weakness. Sold by druggists worldwide at 24 cents a bottle.
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