21 Apr 1875
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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1875
Page
1
D Peabody florist on Main Street announces a March 9 stock opening with a full line of spring goods. The shop promises everchanging styles, cash sales, and a specialty in bleaching along with a selection of bedding plants and bulbs including asparagus roots and vegetables.
John W. Sutton argues that belts dominate power transmission in the United States, outlining how friction, surface elasticity, and wrap affect belt performance. He compares leather and rubber belts, notes practical shafting issues, and suggests future use of high tensile steel belts on elastic surface pulleys.
The piece portrays Greeley Colorado's strong temperance stance with residents enforcing liquor bans, condemning whisky, and debating the movement with sharp community passion. It also recounts a dramatic zoo incident in Cincinnati where a lioness escaped, fought a donkey, and was finally killed by Patrick McAvoy's shot.
A grand snow slide on the Georgetown border drew a crowd after an alarm bell rang. James Fallon was found in the gulch with a broken seventh rib and severe contusions after being carried to town for medical care. His brother and Jasper Bell were also in the area when the accident occurred.
An examination lists presidents from Washington to Grant and their church affiliations and attendance. It notes Washington as vestryman, Adams and Jefferson views, Madison Monroe churchmen, Jackson and Polk pew habits, and Lincoln’s discomfort in service, ending with Grant as a Methodist church trustee.
A Boston Traveler excerpt mocks long spelling challenges and a claim about honesty in a treasury. It features a spinner asserting women never steal, a grave dismissive test about petty theft, and jokes about spelling difficulties at home and in daily life.
The article traces the rise of rural cemeteries as a humane, nature integrated burial system. It cites Morne Auburn and Laurel Hill as models, notes the need for landscape gardening expertise, and urges careful site selection emphasizing security from roads, accessibility, and beauty. Germantown, Pa.
A humorous obsolete fragment recalls a fat Mexican rider whose wagon breaks in a desert. He endures thirst and hunger, appears to transform into a horse, then reverts to a man as Mexicans pursue him. A New York Legislature note warns of penalties for tying horses near fruit trees and public buildings.
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