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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1909
Page
6
The Cheyenne Frontier Days festival is condemned as hollow and overpriced with shabby exhibitions and inflated prices. The piece notes masquerading cowboys, questionable vendors, and calls for reform while praising the efficiency of Insurance Commissioner Clayton and his team as they consider tax adjustments and stronger administration.
Citizens lament the Frontier Days exhibition as overpriced and outdated. Local business interests profited from the event, while residents and visitors suffered lighter purses and waning respect for the spectacle that now seems a misnomer and disgrace to the city.
A local minister’s Sunday sermon drew headlines by critiquing retailer pricing in Greeley. The piece notes living costs rising broadly, linking wage demands, producer prices, and rents, while arguing the issue mirrors trends in other western and eastern towns.
A historical discussion notes high living costs and inflation as taxes insurance and upkeep erode profits. It argues real estate may not sustain gains, and while merchants face slim margins, producers gain less from high prices as costs rise across wages, land and goods.
Editor EB W Martin argues Greeley’s retail prices exceed those of Denver and southern towns due to local economic inequality. He notes too many non-producers relative to producers and calls for boosting productive industries to relieve the burden on residents and workers.
Mrs. D Ballard of 519 Seventh Street Greeley Colorado recounts using Doan's Kidney Pills in 1906 after years of rheumatic back and kidney pain. She says the remedy gave complete relief and remains a firm supporter, urging others to try it. Sold by H Reynolds Drug Co. in Greeley and Foster Milburn Co Buffalo as U S sale agents. Remember the name Doan's.
Breeders invite buyers of breeding ewes to correspond with J. M. Olguin of San Luis Colorado offering Mexican or graded stock for sale.
Weld County results show poisoned green barley heads most effective for ground squirrels with barley grain and fruit treated with strychnine as alternatives. Raisins and dried apples worked for gophers while tests indicate no harm to doves, quail, sheep, or cattle. Rabbits and cats also succumbed in related trials.
A city editor seeks a gold tooth tale but visits a friendly dentist instead. The dentist discovers a problematic tooth requiring a gold crown, leaving the reporter in pain and doubt about the story’s value. The lighthearted piece ends with the journalist facing weeks of dental agony and a story unlikely to be worth much.
A 19th century view notes Greeley residents wear gold in teeth as a cash cache. It estimates about 20 000 dollars yearly spent on 22 karat crowns and mors fibre fillings, forming a hidden bank for townsfolk while praising dentists for relief of pain despite public suspicion.
Miss Harriet T. Stalmaker appointed English teacher at Normal high school and pre ceptress for the high school girls replacing Miss Adisa Parker. She is a University of West Virginia graduate and recently earned an M A from Teachers College New York City. She has past high school teaching experience and a reputation for culture refinement and scholastic attainment.
Beaver Dam Kentucky resident I. 8. Mase on recalls four years of intense colicky pains with no relief until a friend recommended Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. After a few doses the symptoms vanished and have not returned since.
A framed sample of oat heads shown at the Commercial club office in Weld County is hailed as the best in Colorado. Grower Robert Bliss of Greeley produced the heads which are said to outsize any others from the region and may advance to the Interstate fair and National Corn Exposition in Omaha.
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