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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1875
Page
3
Dvid Leavitt, deputy county surveyor and justice of the peace in Sterling Colorado, heads the Pioneer Saddle and Harness Shop. Local business lists him as principal and announces goods for sale in the county.
The American Mine at Sunshine is described as a rare fissure vein with extraordinary yields. Since discovery in June 1874 by Hiram Fullen and George Jackson, development has shown strong, widening ore veins with high gold content. Prof. J Alden Smith and investor Henry Hitchcock propelled the venture, with substantial profits reported and plans to resume sinking to deepen the shaft.
Springfield armorers, displaced by a decline at the armory, have populated Providence with several hundred families. The Providence Tool Company, with a Turkish contract for 800,000 Peabody-Martini muskets, runs four plants and employs about 1,500 skilled workers and 40 inspectors earning $4 eight hours. Turk officers praise the guns while the Martini weapon reportedly kicks harder than the Springfield model.
A preacher recounts a tale of a woman seeking a marriage fee from him claiming lack of children by her husband. He recalls accepting the honorarium then learns the daughter has a son, urging ministers to focus on truth rather than earthly concerns and continue their mission.
A narrative recounts a fortune telling claim about Josie Booth dying in a theater and unfolding tragedy. The piece links a predicted death to a real event and notes public reactions and subsequent reforms by a woman who turned to farming and shoemaking, praised as a model of practical labor and moral reform.
The Halles fish seller La Mere Mars also known as La Mere Mare has died in Paris at age 94. A descendant of French nobility her life intertwined with the Revolution era figures and she was famed for selling fresh water fish and trout. Her early years were spent in the Marquis Juxta Nants residence on Rue Turenne and she left a legacy of a thriving fish stall at the Halles.
The piece lauds unmarried women often labeled old maids. It honors their sacrifices as providers, caretakers, and moral supports who choose happiness for duty. It contrasts wealthy male philanthropy with the quiet heroism of these women enduring ridicule to uplift others.
The Gallic capital mourns Princess Marceline Czartoryska who died after a dramatic village scene. As her grandson survived a sudden illness the princess staged a final garden audience, blessing villagers and gifting tokens to children, women, and men before her passing.
The Rocky Mountain Herald recounts Denver’s 1858 59 beginnings with the Apollo theater, Haydee sisters and Langrishe troupe, plus the provisional Jefferson Territory’s first legislature convening November 7 1859. It lists early officers, election results, district divisions, and notes about early settlers, streets named for Larimer and other founders, first homes, the first white woman, a silk-dressed count’s wife, and Tom Pollock the first blacksmith who owned the town’s initial buggy.
A Paris letter in the New York Graphic describes an exhausted mother after her son’s sorrowful trial. She refuses to be wheeled inside, begs bystanders to recite the Dominical prison, then kneels as all recite the Lord's Prayer. Her grandson Mercer is named as death invades, the child nears her lips and she dies without a sigh.
A kangaroo at the Zoological Gardens astonishes observers by moving through tree branches with the agility of a squirrel. The brown fur blends with the branches, and the animal can lie motionless for long periods yet leaps with remarkable speed when disturbed, a trait aiding its concealment and survival.
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