National Western Stock Show Grows Into Major Denver Exposition
Denver hosts the National Western Stock Show each January with backing from about 500 stockmen and financed by the Denver Union Stock Yards. New facilities cost around 80,000 dollars, amphitheater seats 10,000, and the week aims to draw 50,000 visitors and 150,000 attendees. Premiums exceed 50,000 dollars as railroads offer reduced rates from across the West.
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Denver
West
Denver Union Stock Yards
Greatest Show in World at National Western Stock Show
The National Western Stock Show in Denver, opening January 16 for a week, holds the world record for feeder cattle exhibitions. Last January saw 150 carloads from shipments totaling over 10,000 cattle, with eastern feeders also attending. The event emphasizes commercial value, carload sales, and the preference for short fed cattle with health and quality driving profits.
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Denver
Car Lot
Subscriptions Offered for Saturday Evening Post and Ladies' Home Journal
Raymond Wolfe offers subscriptions for the Saturday Evening Post and the Ladies' Home Journal or both. Call him at Gr eeley 437 for details. The Journal costs $1.60 per year, twice a month, and The Post costs $1.60 per year, with weekly delivery.
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Raymond Wolfe
Saturday Evening Post
Ladies’ Home Journal
Greeley
Journal
the Post
Destruction of Grasshopper Eggs Urged for Pest Control
Prevention is better than cure and the key to reducing grasshopper outbreaks lies in destroying their eggs. The article explains egg-laying in pods of 30 to 60 eggs, locations around crops and fencerows, and that harrowing fields in fall and spring helps. It notes natural fungal dies as occasional relief and calls for neighbor cooperation and state-wide action.
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Hungary
Colorado
Greeley
The
Times
Christmas sales and social notes from 1910 era town
The itemized notices mention Lester's Big wall paper sale at Scott Bros 706 Ninth avenue and a French stag toilet set giveaway at Fezer's drug store lasting from December 19 to December 24 1910. Other notes list Mrs J Zimmerman of Erie in Greeley on business, Miss Mary Christamer visiting Denver for holidays, Mayo and Rene in a vaudeville sketch The Widows Hing at Park Theatre, and I M DeVotie and John DeVotie traveling to Vernon NY to visit a 94 year old mother. Photographic enlargements from pet Kodak negatives and themed Christmas gifts are advertised by J Henry Couture at Fezer's.
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Kodak
J. Henry Couture
Fezer’s
Notice to Contractors for School Playground Equipment
Notice to contractors of district six invites sealed bids by Grace N Allen until November 21 1910 for installing swings and teeter boards at multiple schools including South Ward North Ward Gipson Ward Annex East Ward and related buildings. Bids cover four swings and four teeters at South Ward two swings and three teeters at Gipson and so on with possible bid rejection reserved and committee on supplies listing wreaths and holly rings from the greenhouse.
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Ool District No. 6
Eeloy
Grace N. Allen
Tober
South Ward
North Ward
Gipson
Ward Annex
East Ward
Newlyweds and Their Baby stars D L Don at Greeley
Promoter credits D L Don the German comedian for the show’s success. His depiction of a bucolic waiter in Newlyweds and Their Baby is hailed as his best work. The Boyle Commission seeks potato Cull at the Greeley Opera House on Wednesday December 21.
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D. L. Don
Red Mill
Greeley Opera House
Hotel West Promoted for Visitors in Denver
Travelers to Denver can find the Hotel West at 1357-9 California Street a quiet, well furnished, respectable stop priced from $1 daily. It is one block from the Denver Dry Goods company and recommended by The Tribune. it is suitable for ladies traveling alone.
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Denver
California Street
Denver Dry Goods Company
the Tribune
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Colo
Walker
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Electric Corp
TOR
BIG Western Stock Shu
Lester
Scott Bros
Ninth Avenue
J. Zimmerman
Erie
Fezer
Mary Christamer
Mayo
Rene
Park ‘Theatre
I. M. DeVotie
John DeVotie
Vernon, NY
J. T. Clough Furniture CO
Eaton
Boyle Commission Company
Kersey
Art Hammond
Hammond
Farmers’ Supply and Machinery Co
Hotel Crest
Colo. Cor
Welton
Broadway
20Th Ave
Reals
Ala Carle
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