15 Aug 1877
Page 1
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 8 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1877
Page
1
Opinionated piece questions the existence of Oshkosh Wisconsin as a fabled town and traces its mockery to mapmakers and western humor. The article notes Hayden's Colorado survey crews mapping elevations and fossils across Colorado and neighboring states with multiple teams surveying Wyoming Idaho and Utah.
A discussion on editor refusals to publish prose and poetry, followed by Colorado grasshopper notes. Professor Riley’s findings on locust origins and habits are examined against earlier work, with defense of Colorado farmers’ controls and the Plains origin of most destructive swarms. The Denver News reports on this agricultural report from the Union Colony of Colorado.
A Denver News correspondent logs a chaotic July day in Lake City with sun, cloudbursts, sleet, snow, a tornado, floods, avalanches, earthquake rumble, river floods and ice on the Gunnison. Interleaved items include castor bean leaf experiments, Vanderbilt family gossip, a Buffalo Sunday school success, and a Norwich Bulletin quip.
In Virginia during the war a Confederate soldier James Moore of Burke County North Carolina risked enemy fire to reach a wounded federal officer and give him water. The grateful officer later sent Moore $10,000 to be paid in four annual installments. The Raleigh News notes the gift is genuine and not a deception.
At a Massachusetts Dental Society meeting Dr G F Waters of Salem demonstrated a burn treatment using ordinary baking soda followed by a wet cloth. He poured boiling water on his wrist to test the method, and said pain ceased almost immediately with rapid healing and no scarring for non-severe burns.
Jennie Colling's Boslin's Bower in Boston reports 1 106 job applications in a year with 630 women employed and 7 060 dinners served during winter at 771 dollars. Many applicants are wives of merchants clergy and doctors. Colling notes many women formerly hiring servants now seek work themselves and recounts a humiliating attic room interview and a former mistress in distress seeking aid from her former servant.
A Burlington Free Press report describes a queer genius in Hast Burke Vermont who has not spoken to a man for twenty five years. He converses with women and minors only and talks to objects when no other option remains. He refuses a man to his right in church and speaks in meetings as a fervent speaker.
The passage recalls a pillow case respirator tested by Vice-Admiral Jerningham on the Cambridge during Plymouth trials where a man entered a smoke-filled area with a hose and ten minutes later sang to prove safety. It also notes a Newell couple's long, disciplined life and vast family, and recounts a Civil War anecdote about a sentinel and a Jackson signed pass. Finally it cites six month business failures totaling 99,609,000 in liabilities, with many heavy firms collapsing and smaller firms failing as currency limits bite.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.