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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1886
Page
3
A vagrant art student notes hop picking in western New York valleys. Rows of vines, busy bins, and multi town pickers create a lively scene of hard work, social dances called the Hop, and simple frontier folk life alongside aging kilns and daily routine.
Cincinnati reports a 14 year religious frenzy with about thirty adherents including a former congressman’s widow and a Kansas judge’s wife. The group venerates Mrs. J B Martin as a mortal divinity while promoting holier than holy living and millennial beliefs. A photographer captured a sketch as the subject declined a portrait.
Thomas Cogswell born in New Hampshire fifty years ago by Dartmouth class of 1862. He served as Captain after the war, studied law admitted to the bar in 1866, and served in the General Court 1871 72 as Democratic speaker of the house. He later became Belknap county solicitor and was county selectman chair from 1880 to 1882. Now engaged in agriculture and estate management.
The article profiles Gen George Ernest Boulanger, France’s war minister, as a rising strongman who could challenge the republic. It notes his youth, Breton father, English mother, imposing physique, and a Paris Figaro warning that he seeks war with Germany or dictatorial power, sparking European alarm.
The piece outlines E. W. Howe as a quiet, distinctive American novelist. It notes the early reception of The Story of a Country Town and its rise in fame after a favorable New York World notice. Howe, editor and proprietor of The Atchison Daily Globe, wrote two more works The Mystery of the Locks and The Moonlight Boy with the same simple style.
Richard Chandler of Bath Maine intends to row across the Atlantic or Pacific in a twelve foot boat with fourteen foot gunwale. The craft will have watertight compartments forward and aft and a central cockpit. He will carry food life suits cork life lines and Boyton suit alongside other comfort items.
In a reflective passage from Macmillan's Magazine the speaker notes a holiday amid a cold age. Thrushes sing before snowy blossoms and grasses, while hawthorns, chestnuts, and branches rise to the azure sky. The poem contemplates time, season, and silence before holier powers.
Allan Forman reporting from Chicago Tribune describes a New York Chinese temple at 202 Mott Street known as Joss. The hall features ebony altar, ornate lanterns, and Chinese mottoes as worshippers pay priests with a tiered system for time and offerings.
A young English miniature painter in the city gains fame among fashionable women by preserving exquisite features as separate ivory portraits. He collects eyes among others, including Mme. Barrios widow of Guatemala's late president, with a single melting almond eye framed by lashes and a fine brow.
A proposal in 1887 for an autumn gathering of shorthand writers from all systems to mark two centennial milestones. The Pitman phonography jubilee celebrates a scientific era in shorthand, while the tercentenary of modern shorthand traces from Dr Timothy Bright to Mr Pitman and later English and continental authors.
A German visitor at a historical exhibit asks about the Eleventh Prussian army corps and learns a brother died at Sedan. The lecturer jokes that the brother lies at the end of the line, provoking the man to weep, crying Mein armer bruder. The incident was recounted by the Cincinnati Sun.
One of five wills of the late Myra Clark Gaines of New Orleans has been offered for probate in Brooklyn. It is claimed she resided in that city.
Advancing a sales pitch from Portland Maine the Hatarr Hook Co promises unprecedented money by taking an agency for the best selling book out. Beginners succeed grandly none fail with terms free.
A cure for piles is offered with Dr Bosanko's Pile Remedy. It claims to absorb tumors and stop itching, providing a permanent cure. The advertisement lists price at 50 cents and the address The Dr Bosanko Medicine Co. Piqua Ohio, with Flower & Petrikin as sellers.
G Cook, veterinary surgeon, advertises compounds for Black Leg Pleuro-Pneumonia Hog Cholera and Fowl Cholera. He offers bone and joint treatments, bloating relief trocars, shoeing for diseased feet, pruning tools, and lodging for invalids at Miner's Livery Stable and Woodbury's shop.
Dealer touts superior materials and proportions, urging customers to consult before buying elsewhere and promising value.
Hale and Hotchkiss advertise 60 000 acres in Wyoming about 100 miles north of Greeley with 15000 acres priced at two dollars per acre. One sixth down, five equal payments over six years, water provided by Canal and Tunnel Company, spring purchase incentive, town to be laid out next month, notary Arthur R Hotchkiss.
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