Greeley’s cooperative colony in Colorado’s Great Desert
A Detroit Post and Tribune report chronicles the Union Colony of Greeley founded in 1869. It details cooperative land ownership, irrigation, village planning, and 4 000 residents, with 10 000 acres cultivated and notable moral climate, education, and temperance.
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Detroit Post and Tribune
Greevey
Col
Colorado
Great American Desert
Horace Greeley
N.C Meeker
The
Tribune
Brook Farm
Boston
George Ripley
Mr. Emerson
Sylvania Tarm
Pike County
Pennsylvania
Great American Phalanx
Monmouth County
New Jersey
Brook Farm Association
Greeley
Meeker
Fourier
West
the Tribune
John Russell Young
Pritune
Herald
Europe
Cooper Institute
Rocky Mountains
Colony Fund
New York
Michigan
Chicago
The Ten Little Grasshoppers
A whimsical verse recounts ten grasshoppers on a vine and their shrinking numbers after feasts weather and mischance. The piece ends with one grasshopper bidding farewell as nine million more await in Boston Evening Gazette.
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Boston Evening Gazette
The Smuggler Mine and Ballioat Town Developments
A vivid account of the Smuggler mine at Ballioat describing ore production wages and shipments. It compares the ore house to an eastern factory with fifty workers paid monthly and rich profits for owners. The piece notes a stone mill with ten stamps and promising local veins adding to Ballioat’s growth.
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Ballioat
Sunshine Courier
Rules of Etiquette From a Bygone Era
A collection of social tips on mannerly behavior including table habits personal appearance and courtliness. The guidance scorns vulgar display warns against public bad manners and outlines decorum for dining dress introductions and interactions among men women and couples.
United Spav es Coinage and the Great Pyramid
A column mix of odd notices and commentary begins with a claim about a cheap dining room near Clinta offering one cent meals and a satire about pyramids and obelisks. It references Dr. Watson F. Quimby and Piazzi Smith, plus a series of brief anecdotes, curiosities, and miscellaneous quotes from various locales.
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Rand
Clinta
Egypt
Atlantic
Watson F. Quimby
Watson
Piazzi Smith
Great Pyramid
Great Pyramid of
Costly Snow Storm Raises Provisions Prices
A Deadwood reader reports a heavy snow event that pushed freight costs up and merchants respond with price hikes. Flour now sells at fifteen dollars per hundred pounds, up from eight to nine dollars a week earlier. A merchant with 300 sacks on hand notes the rise.
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Deadwood
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Dp. L. Dawley
Greeley House
Greeley, Weld County
W. M. Fox
Boulder
Marinus G. Smith
Alf. Nichols
Indies
News
Delmonico's
New York Sun
H. N. Rogerson
T. E. Marsh, M. D
M. Faseman
Attorney At Law
J. D. Bucwery
Tee’y
Union Colony
Oaee & Buckley
Union Bank
Exchange Hotel
D&e Comfort Feed
Chormer Main
Jefferson Streets
Graham
S K. Thompson, E
Main Street
Boxman
R. T. Fergus
F. L. Ghilds
Puxsy
Smuggler
Elijah
Washington
United Spaves
Henry
John
Gustave Dore
Paris
Raleigh
N.C
Jacksonville
Illinois
Stewart
Baltimore
Hartford
Ventura County
California
San Jose
Santa Cruz Mountains
Z. P. Boyer
Nature Sellom
Josh Billings
Billings
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