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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1912
Page
2
Publisher promotes closing out prices on men and boys apparel with discounts from 25 to 50 percent. Includes suits, overcoats, scarves, cuff button sets, suspender garter sets, silk suspenders, neckties, gloves, handkerchiefs, sweaters, mufflers, hosiery, leather cases, handbags, hats, shirts, underwear, shoes, slippers, pocketbooks, and coin purses in Christmas boxes and fancy packaging.
A local store highlights practical, widely useful gifts for Christmas. They avoided fancy items and stocked common sense merchandise in abundance, offering a large variety for shoppers to choose from despite limited display space.
A local store promotes a week of bargains on family and decorative textiles including rugs lace curtains draperies pillows blankets and table linen. It also advertises fireless cookers fancy jardinieres corset demonstrations lace front models and a corrugated selection of accessories with silk hose combs and gold inlaid barrettes. Prices note special values at $3.50 for medium length lace back corsets. Come and be fitted.
Retailer advertises remaining all wool Hercules suits offered at cost or below, inviting buyers to take advantage of deep discounts on the last stock. Includes limited quantities and emphasis on value pricing.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson submitted his final annual report to President Taft, detailing sixteen years of farm progress from $4 billion to $9.532 billion in farm wealth, a 141 percent rise overall. He credits colleges, experiment stations, and press help for lower living costs via greater crop production, notes 13,858 department employees, a $25 million appropriation, and 225 million publications distributed, with soil study spanning 623000 square miles.
Workmen are busy this week improving the streets of Evans gravel is being distributed and cement crossings are being built in the main part of town. Nothing has yet been done concerning moving the James Ellis building which stands too far out to permit the sidewalk on its proper line. The committee to decide the action will report on the first Monday in January. Mrs J L Bartlett returned from Des Moines Iowa where she visited her parents for a few weeks.
Charles A. Baker of Colorado Agricultural College highlights United States education bulletins and affordable playscape guides, urging teachers to use Bulletin 16 on playgrounds, Bulletin 10 on agricultural education, and Montessori and language through agriculture bulletins. He notes prices and how to obtain copies, then shifts to critique of excessive laws and courts.
Washington December 10 the interstate commerce commission refused increases to pota to rates from South Dakota Nebraska and other western states to St Louis Peoria Chicago and other points deeming current carload rates fair to carriers and shippers the advances ranged from half to eight cents per 100 pounds Also noted is a personal note about Mr and Mrs L W Eastham of Missouri visiting Mr and Mrs C E McCoy who left for San Francisco this morning.
J R Spear of 1018 Fifteenth Street Greeley has built a practical newspaper receiver that grips a paper with a steel spring. A steel band stands three feet high when anchored in the ground and holds the news securely in the crotch formed by two bands. Patent applied for. Spear plans to mass produce at low cost for ready orders.
The article warns Colorado beekeepers of rising winter and spring losses across counties including northern Colorado Otero Crowley Bent and Montrose due to poor winter stores and inadequate protection. It urges strong colonies and sheltering to survive severe winters, noting that granulated stores hinder wintering and suggesting removing inferior honey to improve quality.
Wesley Foster, State Bee Inspector from Boulder Colorado, describes syrup and candy recipes to feed bees in winter, optimal hive arrangements, and site conditions. He emphasizes warm, dry, elevated locations, straw or chaff insulation, and avoiding damp or low ground.
An Irishman sits in a station smoking when a woman chides him for smoking. She calls him un gentlemanly and hints at poisoning him if she were his wife. He replies with a sharp counter, implying she would poison herself. The exchange ends with his quip about their roles reversing.
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