06 Dec 1876
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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1876
Page
1
Office and Residence Southeast corner Madison and Pine streets describe a business notice stating round the clock calling services in both urban and rural areas with a public address. The snippet implies a local service operation based at the corner location.
A narrator recalls how his Uncle Ithuriel pursued rare collections in luxury, from cow bells to echoes. After endless purchases and court battles over a great echo, the fortune dwindled as two owners disputed halves, until the echo ceased. The uncle dies just before a wedding, leaving the heir with mortgages on every echo.
A Philadelphia Free Press item recounts a brutal domestic assault by James Robbins on his wife, a disguise by a butcher in revenge, a late-night police encounter, and the claim of a widow’s deception. Separate notes describe the Nile’s rising flood, its dates, and Egyptian beliefs about the water's height.
London Times notes a shift in George Eliot’s style from the lighter early works to Daniel Deronda. It traces the author’s relationship with critic-philosopher George Henry Lewes, who helped shape her later novels and even wrote the club scene in Deronda. The piece discusses public reaction among Lewes’s admirers who blame him for changing her prose. It adds that Deronda remains a strong seller.
Mr Wesley's rules against gold and debt would shield a community from hard times, and plain chapels without steeples. The writer argues for modest living, recalling Manchester's Wesleyan maxim, and notes behaviorally liberal views on ownership, church steeples, and shifting to attract strangers to Bridgeport.
The passage details Rome as a vast cemetery post Empire with burials near ancient ruins and parish churches. It cites excavations uncovering thousands of bones, alarming heat-related health risks, and risks to workers while connecting the Colosseum basin project to underground water and epidemics. It also notes fresh railway work and new quinine provisions for workers. A separate note mentions gold shipments to China and a Cleveland inventor's chemical-free freezing machine using compressed air.
Sir William Thomson told the Brittish association upon returning from the Centennial that England is far behind America in wisdom of patent laws. He warned Europe must reform its obstructive system or risk America becoming the nursery of useful inventions for the world. Judge Washington, beware the mule’s hind tege.
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