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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1887
Page
2
A historical overview explains lawn tennis as an outdoor adaptation of tennis played on turf or smooth ground. It covers court sizes for singles and doubles, club culture, gender norms, gear and dress codes, physical benefits and risks, and the rise of courts in Prospect Park with 450 clubs noted.
George W. Childs of Philadelphia funded a 55 foot Stratford on Avon drinking fountain with clock and ornate bas relief. The monument, built of Peterhead granite and Yorkshire stone, features American icons, Shakespearean inscriptions, gilded vanes, and four clock dials with Puck and Cobweb finials.
George L. Hutchins, editor of The Bloomington Sunday Eye, traces a literary career in Chicago St Louis and Denver papers. He outlines founding the Eye in Chicago and returning to Bloomington, noting a 45 000 circulation and a 14 year career with no serious mis deeds.
At the US Naval Academy in Annapolis a old Confederate torpedo boat draws visitors. Though outdated, it recalls a fleet that once used torpedo craft decisively against the Union. The Confederate torpedo bureau in Richmond sourced ideas and material from Europe.
Clinton Scollard evokes a tranquil summer noon with bells, swallows, and breezy fields. The scene unfolds in a beaden shade where kine lie knee-deep in sunshine and harvest tunes drift from distant bells, reflecting timeless pastoral calm.
A Nashville branch of the Lime Kiln club, The High Old Steppers, faces dissolution after arrests and accusations of derelictions. The president served ninety days for possessing a grocer’s meat, sparking a regional backlash and threats against law authority. A letter from Colonel Backspring Johnson of Selma is read, proposing a fisheries settlement method and Detroit visit to learn whitewashing, prompting humorous reaction from Samuel Shin.
Alfred Trumble reports from New York News on an iguana housed on upper Broadway in a large bird cage, brought from a Brazilian steamer to a cigar maker. The creature has a broken tail, green scaly hide, spiked back, hooded head, and can blend with grasses or tree trunks depending on feeding and sunlight.
J Harris Rogers of Pan Electric promotes a new invention called visual synchronism. He claims it lets observers see synchronized moving wheels from distant locations via electricity, with applications in telegraphy locomotion horology and printing. He envisions cheap message transmission and wire photography and handwriting futures.
The French nun Sister Marie Theresa, honored with the Legion of Honor for four decades serving in army ambulances, saved wounded by seizing a bomb and throwing it away before it exploded. She later joked Its only a joke during trials and received the chevalier distinction as a general touched her shoulders and cheek with his sword.
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