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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1886
Page
3
The poem urges landowners to rebuild homes on abandoned farms. It contrasts ruin with the call to restore ancestral soil, long neglected fields, and rural life. Whittier’s lines evoke hollow houses, overgrown plots, and a citizenry urged to toil again to reclaim prosperity.
A New York Morning Journal report recalls a bookbinder from Boston named Harry Johnson who, amid zero temperatures, endures a brutal night wandering Manhattan. He describes cold, hunger, shelterless basements, a Bowery lodging attempt, and a police wakeup before continuing to seek work in Jersey City.
The report lists expenses for Lord Hartington in Rosendale Lancashire at £1136 14s 8d with major items for returning officer charges agents clerks and messengers room hire printing and advertising and personal costs. Opponent Croyds expense set at £984 8s 4d. Electors total 11 450. Similar returns cover Worcester city Kidderminster Gloucester and Bristol areas with amounts for candidates and officers and payments to election agents and returning officers.
An article debates Texas etymology. It argues Texas means welcome in some sources, then notes Spanish archives show Tejas refers to land inhabited by Tejas Indians and that the term extends to several tribes across Texas and Mexico with locality prefixes.
An extract from the Detroit Free Press includes an ad for Bosan ko’s Cough and Lung Syrup claiming it cures coughs colds chest pains bronchitis and primary consumption with one dose relief. Pricing listed as 50 cents and 1.00 with samples free and sold by Flower and Petrikin.
A humorous 19th century vignette from Harper's Monthly recalls Azariah and Sarah Ann in a long courtship. He jokes about buying a graveyard plot to share bones after death, she quips they could lie together while alive. The exchange blends affection with macabre wit.
In Odessa a new cemetery caused a quarrel as two Greek merchants bought the same grave allotment. The district judge resolved the clash by a first come first served rule, letting the one who dies first secure the favored plot. The parties left reconciled, unsure about guarantees against self-harm.
A quick sequence of vignettes captures a stranger seeking time to catch a train, a young wife deflecting late evenings, and a country editor reflecting on a rival in death. The editor notes earning ten cents a line for the obituary, contrasting bitterness with unexpected warmth.
A humorous exchange features two characters debating a baby’s potential value. One suggests the infant could be worth mentioning, prompting a sudden idea about trying it, reflecting a light, stagey dialogue tone.
Advertises vacancies for active young men as Farm Pupils to receive tuition board lodging and washing in exchange for twelve months service. Applicants to contact T Tonar Room 22 Symes Block Denver.
An advertisement claims Parker's Tonic cures fatigue and irritability in women by promising relief from many ailments said to affect their sex. It portrays modern housewives weighed by child care and nerves, asserting tonics restore vigor and bloom.
The undersigned has purchased the drilling machinery of W. H. Morton of Greeley and is now fully equipped for drilling boring or inking walled wells. Parties wanting wells drilled call or address L. T. Haynes Greeley Colo.
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