President's Message Highlights Policy Claims
The president stresses growth in manufacturing mining and commerce and urges safeguards against secular influence on schools with a constitutional amendment. He notes rapid church property growth and proposes taxing it, rejects recognizing Cuban independence favors specie resumption and opposes mailing merchandise. He suggests withholding rations from Black Hill Indians and asks Congress to fund the Centennial Exposition.
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Congress
Local farmers urged to raise pork for home markets
The author condemns shipping pork products to Chicago and Denver, urging farmers to boost home production. He notes high lard prices, wholesale returns, and deteriorating quality, calling for local hog breeds, sour milk, and squash to fatten hogs, with more corn expected, to stop money leaking abroad.
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Denver
Chicago
Contentment and ambition in moral life
The essay argues contentment has limits and praises striving for better circumstances. It contrasts primitive contentment with the pull toward comfort, elegance, and education, noting St. Paul’s guidance may be misinterpreted and urging higher aims without endorsing excess.
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St. Paul
Notable Poetic Labor in Domestic Life
The passage argues that skilled, diligent work within the home grounds poetry and romance in daily life. It asserts that disciplined labor shapes imagination into tangible delight, urging continued effort to overcome obstacles and cultivate heroic, admired characters.
Stanley Reports African Visit and British Expansion Ideas
Stanley describes Central Africa near Lake Victoria Nyanga with a 275 foot sounding, King Mtesa’s productive realm, and his gift of goats and crops. He notes English reception in London and a £12,000 missionary drive to Christianize Africans, plus calls for a British rail link to Lake Nyanza. The piece covers whiskey tax prosecutions in Chicago and Colorado farming contrasts with Illinois yields, ending with Mrs. Moulton’s Plymouth Church expulsion and perjury calls.
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Stanley
New York Herald
Central Africa
Equator
Lake Victoria Nyanga
Lake
Ontario
Mtesa
London
England
Indian Ocean
Lake Nyanza
Britain
India
Africa
The
Chicago Tribune
Illinois
Colorado
Political Rumors and Public Notices Sweep 1880 Chicago
A sprawling 1880s column discusses John Beecher as a witness in a suit with Brooklyn factions, Grant era political mistakes, and possible re election. It notes advertising value, school conventions in Denver, a Chicago national committee, and a shift toward fenceless farming. Also reports Tweed’s escape stir in New York with police scouring the city.
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New York
Tweed
Matsell
Walling
Sixteenth Street
East River Dock
Sheridan urges action to settle Black Hills question
General Sheridan in his annual report calls for immediate steps to settle the Black Hills issue and ease an embarrassing duty. He discusses Indian policy saying reservations should be smaller, land divided for heads of families, and schooling made compulsory, with the Indian bureau moved under military administration to ensure humane, just, and honest treatment.
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Sheridan
Black Hills
Yellowstone River
Big Horn Valley
Clark's Fork
Yellowstone
Jfen
Indian Bureau
Nine year old girl found after long plains trek
A Platteville girl about nine, daughter of Sutherland, wandered from her father while chasing calves two miles out. Despite cold, wind, and wolves, she traveled about twenty five miles over eighteen hours, reaching the Beebee ranch near Evans by Sunday morning. She stayed safe, guided by faith, until returning home. Meanwhile, Denver News notes interest in a narrow gauge line to Denver linking coal and iron regions, with Kansas Pacific agents listed in Chicago meetings.
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Platteville
Con
Sutherland
Platte
Box Elder
John Beebee
Evans
Boulder News
Denver
Marshall Coal and Iron
Colorado
Old Mexico
Central
Centennial preparations highlight Rocky Mountain displays and tours
The assembly aims to boost tourism for the centennial year by showcasing maps and ore displays. General Keim leads the effort to enlighten visitors with minerals and fossils from the mountains. A fresh Henry Wilson story recalls Sumner lending him a hundred dollars before his presidential inauguration, a moment Sumner called uniquely American.
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America
Rocky Mountains
General Keim
Keim
Philadelphia
F. B. Carpenter
Henry Wilson
Sumner
Mr. Wilson
Carpenter
New York Independent
Denver and Boulder Papers Clash Over Mine Yields
The Denver News and Boulder News dispute mine output forecasts for the year. San Juan district shows 2000, Rosita 0, Lincoln and Bross 900,000, Georgetown 66,666, Central City 6,000,000, Boulder County 100,000, and Golden Works 100,000 with other districts listed at 200,000.
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Denver News
Boulder News
San Juan
Rosita
Lincoln and Bross
Georgetown
Central City
Boulder County
Golden Ae Works
General Brush and family return from Ohio and other notices
Home news items report General Brush and family back from Ohio last week while M B Knowles departs for his annual lecturing tour. Various local updates include Elk seen near Jackson street bridge, Rev Adams improving and planning to Denver, and Salomon's warehouse corn sheller progressing.
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General Brush
Ohio
M. B. Knowles
Evans
Mr. Hill
Big Thompson
Adams
Denver
A. Z. Salomon
McLellan
Jackson Street Bridge
Holiday sale notices and local business ads
Several brief items advertise Christmas gift sales at Mrs. E B Dowdell’s house on Main Street. Other notices promote fresh oysters at A Z Salomon's and meat market offerings next to Law & Fezer's. Grange meetings, a bookkeeping job, and alfalfa seed orders are also listed with short deadlines.
Masonic Grand Festival and Ball in Greeley Hall
The Masonic Fraternity invites all Masons in good standing with ladies and friends to a Grand Festival at their Hall and a ball at Barnum's Hall on Christmas Eve December 24 1875. A full programme will be presented with committees named. Also notices of sales and services appear from local merchants and lawyers.
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Masonic Fraternity
Barnum’s Hall
F. ZL. Childs
Greeley
E. H. Abbott
A. Ze Salomon
J. Plumb
St. Vrain
Jaane Canfield
Erie
T. M. Smith
Ft. Collins
J. W. Bailey
Evans
N. R. Davis
Owl Creek
N. Robertson
A. Z. Salomon
J. L. Brush
J. B. Flower
G. Brownell
Jesse Hawes
J. A. Woodbury
R. H. Johns
N. W. Hall
A. Z. Sanomer
Tax List Collection Dates for Weto County 1875
The notice lists tax collection dates for Weto County Colorado in December 1875. Locations include Platteville Lupton Erie Coro na Fleming’s Rancho Greeley and upper St. Vrain with multiple days at each site. Tax payments accepted during absence at the county clerk’s office in the courthouse building. J. F. Beypren, Preasure Evans, Colo., November 19, 1875.
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Weto County
Cololado
Platteville
Lupton
D. W. Ewing
R E Hart Advertises New Family Groceries and Saddlery
The undersigned announces to Greeley and surrounding country a large stock of hardware and furniture now complemented by a complete line of family groceries. He offers goods at low prices with trade accepted at high market rates, and guarantees saddlery items such as saddles, bridles, collars, and bits at satisfactory prices. Main street, Greeley.
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Max Clark
Nettleton
Pueblo
Salomon
Adams Peabody
Jefferson City
Park Church
Denver
Greeley
Saddlery and
Harne*s
R. E. Hart
Main Street
Clothing sale advertisement from A Z Salomon
A. Z. Salomon announces a stock discount on overcoats suits furnishings hats caps and gloves from now until January 1 with tem per cent off.
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A. Z
Salomon
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Law & Fever
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A. Z. Savomon
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