Frontier Days mocked as hollow spectacle in Cheyenne
The editorial condemns Cheyenne’s Thirteenth Frontier Days as a costly fraud with inflated prices and shallow entertainment. It critiques fake cowboys, crowded parks, and the urge to extract money from visitors while praising the value of more honest enterprise elsewhere. It also notes Insurance Commissioner Clayton’s push to lower the two percent tax on premiums, arguing reduced taxation better serves policyholders.
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Cheyenne
Greeley
Wyoming City
Scenies
Grandsland
Clayton
Insurance Commissioners
Colorado Springs
Insurance Department
Weld
Greeley Frontier Days criticized as costly, disappointing show
City business leaders profited from high prices as a spectacle drew crowds. Residents and visitors left lighter wallets and wiser, calling Frontier Days a sad misnomer and near disgrace to local civic effort.
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Greeley
Cost of living in Greeley critiques and concerns
A local minister’s remarks on living costs in Greeley sparked debate but the issue extends beyond one sermon. The piece argues rising prices affect wages and rents nationwide, noting the cycle from higher wages to higher costs and calling for housing investment to ease rental pressures.
Prices and profit shift in housing and goods
The text argues real estate gains may not sustain, estimating $500,000 for rental housing within 30 days after taxes and upkeep. It notes merchants face thinner profits versus five years ago despite high prices, while producers gain but are offset by higher living costs, wages, taxes, and land prices.
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Greeley
Greeiey
East
Colorado
Chicago
Pittsburg
Podunk
Ind
Illinois
Addressing Cost of Living in Greeley and Local Economics
E. W. Martin argues in the Tribune that Greeley faces high retail prices due to locally skewed economic structure. He contends too many non-producers rely on a few producers, inflating costs across groceries lumber real estate and other trades, urging expansion of productive industries or reduction of non-productive ones.
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Greeley
E. W. Martin
Vitus Das Rostra
Europe
Bapero
Kaper
Doan's Kidney Pills Prove Useful in Greeley Testimony
A Greeley resident Mrs D Ballard recounts relief from thirty years of back and kidney pain after using Doan's Kidney Pills from H Reynolds Drug Co. Publicly vouched in 1906 the remedy brought complete relief and lasting health benefits. Sold by dealers at 60 cents. Foster Milburn Co New York sole agents. Remember the name Doan's.
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Greeley
Doan
Creeley
D. Ballard
Seventh Street
Colo
Dean
H. Reynolds Drug Co
Foster-Milburn Co
Wuffelo
New York
United States
Breeding Ewes for Sale Invites Buyers
Parties desiring to purchase breeding ewes whether Mexican or graded are invited to correspond with the undersigned J. M. Giguin San Luis Colo.
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J. M. Giguin
San Luis
Colo
Poisoned barley and fruit used to kill ground squirrels
Weld County results from the Forest Service report experiments led by Stanley E. Piper of the Biological Survey showing green barley heads best for poisoning ground squirrels. Other tested baits include oats barley raisins prunes dried apples and cracked corn with strychnine. rabbits cats jacks and cottontails also died.
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Weld County
Forest Service
California
Stanley E. Piper
Biological Survey
Department of Agriculture
Golden Fortunes In Mouths Of Greeley Citizens
A humorous look at how many Greeley residents wear gold in their teeth. The city editor’s request for a “gold tooth” piece leads a reporter to a dentist, where a gold crown and fillings reveal a costly, everyday role of gold in local mouths. The piece notes about 20000 dollars worth of gold crowns and fillings each year and praises dentists for alleviating pain despite public unease.
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Greeley
Tribune
O. Henry
A New Teacher for Normal Chosen
Miss Harriet T. Stalmaker is appointed English teacher at Normal high school and preceptress of the high school girls to replace Miss Adisa Parker. She is a West Virginia graduate and recently earned an M A from Teachers College New York City. She has prior high school teaching experience and is described as cultured refined and with strong scholastic attainment.
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Harriet T. Stalmaker
Adisa Parker
Miss Stalmaker
University of West Virginia
Teachers’ College
New York City
Miss Starmaker
Relief From Colic Pains with Chamberlains Remedy
A Kentucky resident recounts years of intense colicky pains ended by using Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. After a few doses the symptoms disappeared and have not recurred for four years. The testimonial highlights the remedy as effective.
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Mason
Beaver Dam
Chamberlain
Oat Heads Believed Best in Weld County Exhibit
A Weld county exhibit features top oat heads framed at the Commercial Club office aimed for the Interstate Fair and National Exposition in Omaha. They were grown by Robert Bliss of Greeley. Exact head length not given but judged to be unmeasured and superior to other Colorado sections.
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Omaha
Comm Cial Club
Robert Bliss
Greeley
Colorado
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Mase
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Moer
the Tribune
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New Canfield Hotel
Saly
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Throg
Giamees
Switzerland
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L.A. Ford
Boulder
Cold
Hellgate
Colorado Rockies
Alaska -Youkon - Pacific Exposition
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C. H. Speers
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