New York Fashions Feature Walking Suits and Beef Eaters
A period fashion overview notes walking suits in plaid and basket brocade, with deep basques and vivid trimmings. Describes beefeater hats, derby styles, cottage peak hats, and evening hats, plus materials like chinchilla, silver fox, seal sacques, and rich velvets. Prices rise for circular cloaks and Dolman shapes as winter styles emerge.
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New York, Navy
Barnum
London
Princess
Martha Vy Ashington
Fossil Lake country yields relics and petrified snakes
The Loveland region farther reveals fossil beds near Fossil Creek with geodes containing shells and vertebrae remains. A tale recounts two women collecting fossils, one mistakenly identifying a cranium, amid other relics and a playful dig at the scene.
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Dear Thrune
Loveland
Hayden
Fossil Creek
Denton
Colorado
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Snow Covers Ground After October Frost
From the Black Hills the Greeley Tribune Crooks City reports the ground is now covered in snow three to four inches after a spell of fine weather ended with a surprise snowfall.
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Rocrepeenye
The
Greeley ‘Tribune
Croox City
Springtime with us here in California
A letter from Heena California dated November 20 1878 contrasts warm spring weather with cold winds in Greeley. It mocks Reformers and discusses topics from Ecclesiastical meetings to Chinese policy, fleas in California, and local politics including John Chinaman and Kearney, ending with journal entry by J. E. Ambrose.
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Colorado
Greeley
Eclectic Society
Michigan University
China
North America
Luna
Mother Earth
Rocky Mountains
California
San Francisco
Joan Chinaman
Kevney
Butler
Massachusetts
John
Kearney
J. E. Ambrose
Ste Heena
Cal
Boulder Valley and mining boom fill frontier pages
A wide scan covers rail and smelting plans from Pueblo to Silver Cliff with new coke ovens at El Moro and a Longmont Erie railroad project. Mining profits loom as ore near Fryer hill averages high, while Boulder blocks rise and cattle shipments from Wyoming surge toward 4,000 carloads.
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Pueblo
Silver Cliff
Golden
L. C. McKinney
Gilpin County
Boulder
Leonard Root
Bulen
Magnelia
Laramie City
New Jersey
el Moro
J. J. Wells
W. A. Buckingham
Longmont
Erie
Little Pittsburg
New Discovery
Winnemuck
Dives
Bela M. Hughes
Denver
Fryer Hill
Pittsburg
Nebraska News Notes and Local Fire Hazards
Local report notes horseback riding popular among North Platte ladies and prairie fires near Schuyler destroying five farmhouses. Prices given for coal corn oats wheat hogs at regional markets. A New York hunter injured by an exploding prairie fire flash and two more wildcat incidents reported with a hunter’s near-miss and a dangerous encounter by Harley Barber with wild cats.
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Ermemon
North Platte
Clarkaville
Hall County
New York
Platte
Lincoln Globe
Schuyler
Harley Barber
Bear misidentified by hunter ends in seven dollars and forty five cents
A hunter named Jimmy Hines and companion Mr. Mariston shoot what they think is a large bear but find a black yearling calf. They pay the owner seven dollars forty five cents. Other items note Orpheus November issue and jokes about moustached clergy in England.
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Jimmy Hines
Placer
F. P. Mariston
Jimmy
Marston
George
Cole Lydon
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Hotel DE Comfort
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Graham
Promieter
R Bennett
Ype Minnie
Devenport
Jefferson and
Pine Street
K Thompson
Main Street
Canon City and
Boulder Valley
Mayo Street
Joseph Moore
W H. Bennett
Emerson & West's Bank
M. Freeman
J. D. Buckley
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Union Colony
Freeman & Buckley
Farr
Canal No. 2
Denver Pacific Railway
Union Bank
Masonic Block Greeley
Greeley House
Greeley, Weld County
B. L. Dawley
W. Stein
F. L. Chips
Atill
Hialine
H. N. Rogerson
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Chicago
Greeley Tribune
Crtcaco
Howers
Mile
Litta
Bloomington
McVicker
Marshall Field
Edson Keith
Mr. Meeks
Galena
Meeks Bros
Bear Lodge
Black Hills
Wyoming
Chas. Boettcher
Judge North
Sinois
News and Courier
R. J. van Valkenburg
Faurot
Ohio
Petersons
Ite
T. B. Peterson & Brothers
Chestnut Street
Philadelphia
Sleepy Boy
James
Nebraska News Notes
Orpheus
Mary B. Dodge
John Zandel
Rubinstein
Horace M. King
Park Place
Horatio M. King
England
New Orleans
Sambo
Jockiey
Witiess
Uae
Emia
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