Harvest Festival Nears at Greeley Race Meet
Harvest Day festival plans take shape in Greeley for the late August race meet. A two division parade is planned with autos and horse drawn vehicles decorated by farmers with farm produce. Prizes include a seppedo meter a dash board clock harnesses and robes. A county farmer committee will recruit members and a follow up meeting is set Aug 21 at Drs Pogue and Hughes office.
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Greeley
Drs. Pogue and
Hughes
Weld County Automobile Club
Dr. Pogue
Geo. van Sickle
H. F. Hurlbut
F. H. Badger
Farmers’ Committee
German Language Service Seeks New Pastor in Greeley
Trinity Lutheran Church at corner Sixteenth Street and Seventh Avenue announces services next Sunday August 20 at 1 30 pm. The new pastor Rev P B Fritsche will be installed for Greeley area while Rev M Manteuffel from Cheyenne Wyoming offers farewell sermon. Services in German. Everyone invited. Fritsche to reside at 1531 Seventh Avenue.
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Sixteenth Street
Seventh Avenue
Greeley and Vicinity
P. B. Fritshe
M. Manteuffe
Cheyenne
Wyo
P. B. Fritsche
M. Manteuffel
Sunday church services schedule with Lutheran pastor
Sunday school begins at 9 30 a m and services are held in the evening at 7 45 p m. All are welcome. Oscar W Gustafson serves as pastor.
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Oscar W. Gustafson
Deaths of William Moll in Evans tent death
William Moll a young consumptive living in a tent on a vacant Evans lot was found dead last Thursday morning. The cause of death was a hemorrhage. Moll, a Philadelphia native, was a machinist by trade.
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William Moll
Evans
Molli
Philadelphia
Infant son of Mr and Mrs Savits dies
Kenneth W Savits infant son of Mr and Mrs Savits of 611 Third Street died last Thursday from in digestion. Funeral held Friday.
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Kenneth W. Savits
Mrs. Savits
Third Street
Infant Paul Miller Died Last Wednesday
Paul L. Miller infant son of Mr and Mrs George R Miller died last Wednesday from icterous conditions. He was buried Thursday.
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Paul L. Miller
George R. Miller
Local laborer dies by hanging in field near LaSalle
John Crossen, a construction gang member in LaSalle, was taken to the county jail for safe keeping after suffering delusions that a woman pursues him. He hanged himself from a haystacker near his workplace last Friday but was discovered before serious harm occurred.
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John Crossen
LaSalle
Crossen
Trap club scores record at Greeley event
At the Greeley Gun Club traps last Tuesday evening scores out of 25 were posted for participants including Purcell with 19 Brewer 20 Townsend 12 Weibking 7 Crone 22 Sexson 7 Asmus 15 Ling 17 McKinney 18 and Dr Weod 12 The results show a range of scores from the high twenties to lower figures reflecting a competitive evening.
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Greeley Gun Club
East pastor visits city. Bates family notes shared
The Rev William H Bates D D and wife arrived last Saturday and stay at Bruce F Johnsons 1029 Eighth avenue. Dr Bates long in New York state with a recent St Louis suburb pastorate and Clifton Springs sanitarium chaplaincy. Eldest son George A Bates who suffered lung hemorrhages for seven years now well after Colorado climate cure and located at Lincoln ranch eight miles east of Greeley where parents will visit. Dr Bates preached at union service. vacancy at First Presbyterian to supply pulpit next Sunday.
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William H. Bates
D. D
Bruce F. Johnson
Eighth Avenue
Johnson
Dr. Bates
New York State
St. Louis Presbyterian Church
Webster Groves
Clifton Springs
N. Y
United States
George A. Bates
Colorado
Lincoln Ranch
Greeley
Bates
United Presbyterian Church
Hunter
First Presbyterian Church
Reunion Sparks Across Four Decades Between Veterans
S. H. Southard hosts his old Civil War tentmate Judge Edward Kennedy of McConnellsville Ohio. A Denver newspaper note prompted Southard to call Shirley House where Kennedy was staying. Kennedy recognized the caller by voice immediately.
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S. H. Southard
Edward Kennedy
McConnellsville
Southard
Denver
Judge Kennedy
Shirley House
Mr.Southard
Forbes Farm For Sale Near Greeley And Windsor
Mr A J Forbes announces his quarter section farm for sale due to aging. The land lies seven miles west of Greeley, four miles east of Windsor, and three miles from LaGrange school. It includes over 5 000 of water rights with rights in No 2 ditch No 2 reservoir Windsor reservoir and Poudre Valley. Forbes will sell at reasonable price or rent to a first class tenant.
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A. J. Forbes
Greeley
Windsor
LaGrange School
No. 2
Windsor Reservoir
Poudre Valley
Forbes
Privilege for Greeley Windsor Platter excursion riders
Passengers on the Platte Canon excursion from Greeley and Windsor may stop in Denver on the return and take the 10 10 C and S train home. The excursion train reaches Denver in the evening allowing time for theatregoers and next morning time for business in the capitol city.
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Greeley and
Windsor
Denver
The
Canon
Capitol City
Marriage Licenses in Various Colorado Cities
Ney A. Zilar of LaSalle and Miss Ethel May Moore of Greeley listed for marriage. Anson F. Harnish of Greeley with Miss Ethel Holland of Greeley. Gorganio Garcia of Johnstown with Emilia Pinio of Platteville. John Edwin Nix of Eaton with Miss Minnie Johnson of Eaton.
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Ney A. Zilar
LaSalle
Ethel May Moore
Greeley
Anson F. Harnish
Ethel Holland
Gorganio Garcia
Johnstown
Emilia Pinio
Platteville
John Edwin Nix
Eaton
Minnie Johnson
Union Services to Be Held at Two Churches
Next Sunday evening union services will be held at the Methodist and Baptist churches. Rev. O A Petty will preach at the Methodist church and Dr. T D Bancroft of Kansas City Kansas will speak at the Baptist church.
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O. A. Petty
T. D. Bancroft
Kansas City
Kansas
Swedish Lutherans Host Thursday Ice Cream Social
The Swedish Lutherans announce an ice cream social this Thursday evening on the lawn at 802 Fourth Street the home of Chas. Lofgren. Everyone is welcome.
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Chas. Lofgren
Fourth Street
Special excursion via Colorado & Southern to Greeley
To Come and Return Only $3.50. Special excursion via Colorado and Southern Friday August 25 leaves Greeley at 6 30 a m.
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Colorado & Southern
Greeley
Farr Produce Company Sacks For Sale Prices
Sacks Sacks. Just received a car load of sacks. Call and get prices. Farr Produce Company.
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Farr Produce Company
Local Social Notes from Hillsboro Area
Mrs Mellon and Miss Crowley were in Johnstown shopping Saturday. Mrs Newman entertained friends at dinner last Thursday. Zenn Greenlees of Pecknam visited this vicinity earlier this week. Mr and Mrs Bowles spent Sunday near Platteville with Mrs Bowles sister Mrs Briggs. Hannah Newman returned from Windsor where she visited her sister Mrs Stedman.
BIC Bend Aid Society Hosts Meeting At Mrs Thacker Home
Community circles report that the BIC Bend Aid Society will meet at the home of Mrs Thacker on Thursday. Mentions of visitors include Mr and Mrs John Pritchard Jr and Miss Myrtie Davis from Hastings visiting Emily Davis. Mrs Boal hosted a Wednesday prayer gathering.
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Myrtie Davis of
Hastings
Emily Davis
Remains of Grover Alkire Remembered After Lightning Death
Antelope Park residents note sickness and visits as Grover Alkire is buried in Fort Collins after a lightning fatality. Rev. E. J. Harlow conducted services in Windsor with interment at Fort Collins.
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Grover Alkire
E. J. Harlow
Windsor
Fort Collins
Stage Realism and the Real Dog in Theatre
The New York Post reports Joseph Jefferson guiding a Q and A on drama and stage realism. He criticizes modern stage sets as a tribute to imagination lacking, notes audiences would demand a real Schneider, but argues realism must be placed correctly to avoid spoiling the play.
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Joseph Jefferson
Jefferson
Schneider
New York Post
Beau Brummell Tales From a Regency Luncheon
An English paper recalls Beau Brummell at Brighton and Brooks's hazard games. He mocks nobility yet stacks a run of luck winning twelve stakes in succession. He quips about humble birth and earns a porter pledge from a brewer, who retorts with sharp wit.
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Beau Brommel
Brighton
Brummell
Brooks
Brummel
Blackguard
London
Opera glasses aid hearing and sight in theater
A Chestnut street optician explains that opera glasses help hearing as well as sight. A customer jokes about the miscue, while the optician notes lip reading from the glasses aids understanding of lyrics and speech in large venues.
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Chestnut Street
Optician
Philadelphia Record
Wait for an appetite and eat only when hungry
Guidance from the Boston Cooking School Magazine urges waiting for a real appetite before meals. It warns against eating out of habit, notes hunger enhances digestion, and suggests skipping breakfast or lunch if they are dull until true hunger returns.
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Boston Cooking School Magazine
Pepper Types and Digestion The Case for Black Pepper
The New York Press summarises a reader belief favoring black pepper over white and red cayenne. It argues black pepper has stronger flavor and stomachic effect while red pepper irritates but may cause congestion in the digestive tract, challenging laxative claims.
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Tropics
New York Press
Cadillac Land on Mount Desert Becomes Island Haven
The 1688 Cadillac grant on Mount Desert and surrounding area survived confiscation during the Revolution with the Gregoires reviving the claim. The island, once a lonely forested refuge, attracted artists and travelers. The first summer cottage cost 300 dollars, and later land values jumped from 25 000 dollars to over 100 000 dollars an acre as fashion settled in.
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Mount Desert
Cadillac
Acadia
England
Bernard
George
M. Bartholomew Gregoire
Maria Theresa
Gregoires
Four Track
Grinding Incense Mills on Lan River in Mongolia
A missionary travels the Lan river in Mongolia and notes thirty one rapids in one day. Water mills grind aromatic trees into incense powder. mills produce about 200 catties (266 pounds) daily during the rainy season. Incense bundles weigh the same and sell locally for fifty strings of cash about six dollars.
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China
Lan River
Mongolia
Pygmies and the Measure of Inches in Classical Texts
The piece discusses African pygmies and the ancient concept of pygme as a Greek measure. It notes an inconsistency between described heights four feet and a proposed height of thirteen and a half inches. It references Homer Herodotus and the elbow to knuckles distance of eighteen dactyls as thirteen and a half inches.
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Herodotus
Africa
Lincoln's reply to Harvey ends two hour talk with a joke
Boston Herald quotes the anecdote told by Charles W. Slack about Harvey, a friend and biographer of Daniel Webster. Harvey claimed to know Webster's advice and spoke to Lincoln for two hours, only to be interrupted by Lincoln noting Harvey's oversized calf with a single humorous remark.
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Charles W. Slack
Peter Harvey
Daniel Webster
Mr. Webster
Lincoln
Mosquito Interruption during Colonel MecSchwartz's Town Growth Tale
A Chicago Tribune reminiscence recalls Colonel MecSchwartz praising the town's growth when a child interrupts with a mosquito on his neck. The scene shifts as Miss McSchwartz offers to pinch it, eliciting an exclamation from the colonel.
Pudding Test Sparks Family Debate in Dinning Room
Norah questions when the pudding bakes as Mrs Wilson offers a knife test. Mr Wilson jokes that if the knife comes out clean they should knife in the rest of the knives. Scene from a Woman's Home Companion piece.
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Nora
Wilsons
Norah
Detective Tells How He Spotted Thief in Woman’s Disguise
The Washington Star quotes a detective captain recounting how he identified a thief hiding in a woman’s disguise. He observed the suspect adjusting a skirt with both hands before seizing him.
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Washington Star
The Brick In His Hat Joke Told By Dingle
In a playful exchange the speaker Dingle apologizes for lateness blaming jokers who blocked him. His wife retorts by asking why he did not remove the brick from his hat to strike them, a humorous domestic vignette captured by the Philadelphia Press.
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Dingle
Philadelphia Press
An Undeserved Imputation Magistrate Card Game Charge
A defense in a courtroom scene where the prisoner denies the charge of gambling for money and claims the other man was responsible. The magistrate questions the accused about the alleged card playing offense.
Be Not Rash Parable Echoes in The Bishop's Niece
A quotation from George H. Picard's The Bishop's Niece cautions against needless risk. It urges patience, noting a precious jewel lies beyond a raging furnace if one waits for the flames to subside.
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George H. Picard
Generosity and Economy Clash with Extravagance and Avarice
A concise reflection on how generosity can touch extravagance while prudent economy sometimes partners with avarice, highlighting tight balance between charitable giving and stinginess.
Family Quip Sparks Lighthearted Debate on Members
A humorous exchange cites a newspaper claim that the average family has four and seven tenths persons. The husband jokes that he is the seven-tenths in the household, while the wife reads aloud the figure.
Wit as Shield Not Sword Says Fuller
Fuller argues wit should serve defense not wound others. He frames humor as a protective tool in discourse and daily life, urging restraint and thoughtful speech to avoid harm while persuading or amusing audiences.
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Fuller
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S. D. Lunt
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A. W. May
Ora Hamilton
Ruby Armstrong
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Joe Jefferson
Beau Brommel.s
J. F. Brownfield
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Fred Buzzell
Ieat
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D. J. Price
Palestine, Texas
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D. H. Hoops
General Agt. C. & N-W. Ry
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