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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1873
Page
4
A Colorado observer reports a dreamlike snow phenomenon on the last day of November near Fort Collins and the Poudre River. Patchy ground snow magnifies distant houses and even Pike's Peak appears enlarged, with sunlit refraction creating shifting, magical shapes for about two hours.
An English periodical argues steel bars offer a lighter, cheaper, and more adaptable alternative to church bells. They promise equal sonority, easier tuning, simpler operation, and less structural burden, with a peal of three to four bars costing fifty to sixty dollars in England. Piron quips about poets and fools after a Paris magistrate query.
Six American women including Harriet Hosmer Foley Flora Freeman Edmonia Lewis Anna Whitney and Mrs Free Soma Stebbins plus Vinnie Ream have come back to the United States. Bronze medals from the Royal Humane Society of England recognize two young ladies Maude and Kerridge for saving a girl and a boy from drowning. Hattie Raybourn Iowa Agricultural College senior seeks Engrossing Clerkship in Senate. Mattie A Locke of Vinton Iowa touted as candidate for Engrossing Clerk of the House. Dr Eliza Walker elected house physician at the British Hospital for Women and Children. she is Scottish and a Zurich University graduate.
The article advises men with families or without means to consider Colorado over other regions, noting limited inducements elsewhere. It urges saving earnings, warns of illness in certain climates, and recommends the valley to well‑off Eastern men who want to “go West and grow up with the country,” citing strong inducements.
The article argues Greeley Colorado will become a major center of trade and population. It highlights cheap land from $6 to $10 an acre, irrigation based farming, and rapid growth with rail links via Denver Pacific and Union Pacific. It notes a 2,000 population, churches, schools, and strong cooperative land fencing.
The notice lists passenger and freight train times for routes between Denver Greeley and Cheyenne. Northbound schedules show a passenger train leaving Denver at 6 10 p m arriving Cheyenne 5 p m and freight trains departing Denver 8 04 a m arriving Cheyenne 5 10 p m. Southbound times include Cheyenne to Denver departures and arrivals with the day’s timetable.
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