Local notices and social news in Greeley page
Greeley items report visits and travel by residents including Blanch Impson from Monte Vista visiting friends, Charles Clark returning from Denver, Mrs. Otto Tracy and children to Fort Lupton, and Edith Sanford with Ida Leleet from Evans attending high school events. Attendance at lectures, piano and violin lessons, book sales, holiday sales at local stores, and preparations for Elgin and Thomson companies are noted alongside relocations of Edward Waechter and J. R. Hughes journeys and plans for winter stays.
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Charles Clark
Denver
Otto
Tracy
Fort Lupton
Edith Sanford
Ida Celeet
Evans
A. L. Talbert
Wray
Colo
Edward F. Waechter
Greeley
Sixteenth Street
The Oldest Lock in Existence from Nineveh
A report describes the oldest known lock that once secured a Nineveh palace door. The massive key, nearly 3.5 feet long and as thick as a four inch drain tile, powered a complex mechanism with bars and notches. Similar ancient locks and keys were used in Egypt 5,000 years ago.
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Nineveh
Egypt
Idleness and Luxury Breed Brutality in Ancient Rome
The Atlantic essay by Gamaliel Bradford Jr. cites Roman society as morally lax despite high civilization. It notes easy divorce, Cicero’s separations, and the arena as a form of brutal spectacle rather than modern novels, illustrating social decline amid refinement.
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Cicero
Gamaliel Bradford, Jr
Atlantic
Children from Berlin Discover Sheep in the Country
In a London Tribune excerpt, two Berlin children raised in the city finally visit the countryside. At first unimpressed, they warm to a flock of sheep and exclaim that the animals are without wheels, highlighting their quirky awakening to rural life.
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Berlin
Max
Moritz
London Tribune
Little Janet Delivers Mustard Lesson For Dinner
A four year old named Janet secretly uses a mustard spoon to daub bread at dinner while others help themselves. She bites, scalds her mouth, then calmly says she will wait for the jelly to cool. The incident is recounted in Pearson's Weekly.
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Janet
Pearson’s Weekly
Children’s Wisdom Says Grass Is Whiskers on Earth
Fragmented lines from an old column present children’s quips about nature and animals. It blends playful definitions and mythic references with a remark on Pompeii and a circus moment highlighting a child’s view of a kind mother.
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Bobby
Hercules
J. H. Burns
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Rket
Ludwig Sandberg
Ashland
Oregon
Marks
Abe
Thomross, & Wilson
Waterman
Stover
Merrill
Thompson Music Co
Humber
Tribune
Midland Concert
McClenahan
Morrison's
K. Hunt
Hunt
Edison
Thompson Music Uo
D. J. March
Midland Concert Company
Frank H. Game
William Dougherty
Elmira
N. Y
Harry van Antwerp
Stover’s Book Store
Eastman Kodaks
Fezer’s
C. L. Fitch
Fort Collins
L. G. Moss
C. BE. Peck
Gray's Grocery
C. R. Joiner
Bentonville
Literary Society
The
Royer Business College
Business College
J. K. Thompson
Sarah Gibson
Thompson
Nice
Lena Thompson
Eleventh Street
Frank Green
Englewood
William Tell
George and
Leighton Green
Olive Murdock
Demorest
Paola
Kansas
J. H. First
West
Topeka
Kan
Indiana
L. F. McNalley
Flint
Mich
Stetson
Gec
Asc
Benjamin
E. S. Carrithers
America
Rome
Men& Boys
Due Hal
Hubbut
Camp
A. L. Camp, Jr
Greeley, Colorado
Peys
Santa Claus
Abbott & Evans
Ninth Ave
Byron Jackson
the Kendrie & Bolthoff Mfg, & Supply CO
Denver, Colorado
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