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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1886
Page
3
The Chicago Herald reports safety deposit companies court feminine patrons with handsome parlors and private rooms for exams of securities and jewels. Many renters are women who store jewelry, love letters, and keepsakes. storerooms hold trunks, silver, furs, and historic documents, all protected by security measures and per 1 000 cubic inches pricing.
A party of gentlemen at a Birmingham hotel recounted bird shooting tall tales. A stranger described using a double barreled gun on 10 000 blackbirds, claiming four bushels of legs found the next day, and noting his shot was modest.
Louis T. Rebisso, a Cincinnati sculptor, won the $500 prize for the best design of Chicago’s Grant monument. The equestrian statue will stand beneath an archway atop an elevated roadway in a Chicago park. Rebisso rose from marble cutter to celebrated artist and later led Cincinnati’s modeling class.
An illustrated comparison shows Washington Liberty and Bunker Hill monuments as the tallest man made structures, with pyramids noted as higher peaks. The text also notes France plans to build an iron tower by 1888 reaching 1000 feet in height.
A northern state showcases its new fair grounds midway between Minneapolis and St Paul. The mile square enclosure features a main building, a dozen exposi tion structures, a race track with grand stand, and firebreak isolation to allow future expansion reflecting northwest faith in Minnesota’s progress.
Gen Albert Pike of Washington is a vigorous 77 year old figure in the Southern Jurisdiction Scottish Rite Masonry. A physician of many roles in life including lawyer soldier editor and poet he has presided over the 33rd degree since 1859 and lives in Washington.
The gentleman cited as succeeding Mr. Eaton as United States commissioner of education is N. A. H. Dawson. A lawyer by trade and long involved in southern education boards, he has served in Alabama politics, the Confederate army, and as a presidential elector. Born in Charleston, D.C., he moved to Dallas County, Alabama, in 1842 and has since been connected to Sewanee and the University of Alabama.
Gen Orlando B Willcox, then commander of the Twelfth Infantry, is named brigadier general and assigned to Fort Leavenworth to lead the department of the Missouri. A Detroit native born in 1823 and West Point graduate, his career spans Mexico, Florida, Boston riots, and Petersburg with captivity after Bull Run.
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