The Greeley Schools Unfold Graded System Findings
A visiting report assesses Graded Schools in Greeley, praising Miss Knowles primary class and the Oswego method while noting its flaws. It highlights crowded conditions, uneven pupil progress, and calls for dividing the school and broader teacher strengths across Miss Backer, Miss Campbell, Miss Flower, and Mr. Robinson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greeley
Miss Knowles
Miss Backer
Miss Campbell
Miss Flower
Mr. Robinson
Oswego
New York
Europe
Worthwhile town schools backed by faithful teachers
The speaker notes the town’s schools are well managed and teachers are faithful and industrious. Despite high costs for adequate buildings, investigations show pupils progressing through grades will gain discipline and strong study familiarity, yielding long term value beyond expense.
The Coal House Plan and Other Home Topics
A reader advocates building a coal house to store fuel in a dry, level space with a weatherproof roof for easy shoveling and steady temperature. The piece also touches irrigation limits in Denver, harsh eastern winter weather, anticipated spring work, and a proposal for a Stay at Home Society with no fees. It notes low money supply and suggests a local loan trust to ease credit pressures.
Mercury and Adirondack Survey Highlighted in Local Notes
A mix of items reports a 46 below reading and a 39 below instrument. Verplanck Colvin’s Adirondack Wilderness report enriches state legislative work with maps and engravings. Protracted church meetings anticipate up to forty new members while a canal sale aims to fund dam building. Beecher trial updates, Grand Lodge proceedings, and Colorado licensing news accompany broader color on industry and politics.
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Verplanck Colvin
Albany
New York
Adirondack
Grand Lodge of Good Templars of
Colorado
Wyoming
New Mexico
W. E B. Pabor
Death in the Colorado Mountains Trapper Hennessey Mists to Grasp
Michael Hennessey, a 26 year old trapper living alone near Middle Park, Colorado, died after wandering in blizzard conditions for days. He was found in his cabin severely frostbound and with gangrene spreading from frostbitten feet. Mrs Grimshaw and Sandy Campbell tended him until his death a week after his return.
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Colorado
Grimshaw
Middle Park
Berthoud
Georgetown
Michael Hennessey
Mr. Grimshaw
Sandy Campbell
Mrs. Grimshaw
Hennessey
Mr. Campbell
Campbell
Republican Valley described from Northampton Free Press
The Republican Valley extends east from Porter Kearney north into Nebraska and Colorado, about 250 miles long and 100 miles wide. It features plains and timbered river valleys watered by the Ippeliern and its tributaries, with grasses suitable for grazing and cattle. Rail lines are expected, and grasshoppers last season troubled locals. a separate note reports sixty sheep shot on Louis Hoffman’s San Luis range amid cattle-owner tensions.
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Northampton Free Press
Republican
Port Kearney
Nebraska
Colorado
Ippeliern
Platte
Missouri
Nuhe
Republican Valley
Saguache
San Luis Valley
Louis Hoffman
San Luis
Questioning Time and Power in Stanton’s Democrat
The Denver Mirror quotes a Stanton's Democrat passage lamenting the passage of centuries and the future’s dim vista. It asks where humanity stands and whether any word has been written to warn future times of mankind’s insatiable drive for dominion and power.
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The
Denver Mirror
Stanton
Democrat
City Ordinance Violations Spark Ongoing Liquor Sales
Since the ordinance was adopted there has not been a day without violations. Two locations have remained open selling intoxicating liquor with little effort at concealment. The new jail received its tenants on Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colado Springs
Pueblo Chieftain Becomes Sole Paper For Pueblo
The Pueblo People sold its office and subscription list to the Pueblo Chieftain, uniting the city’s newspapers under one title. With a 3,000 population, only one paper is now deemed sustainable, ending the era of competing dailies in Pueblo.
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Pueblo People
Pueblo Chieftain
Hints to butter-makers and Greeley women
A reader replies to a prior column on butter making, praising Greeley women and criticizing Wisdom’s harsh view of local butter quality. The letter urges pride in local technique, notes butter costs, and pleads matrons and maids to learn proper butter making to protect the town’s reputation.
India rubber sidewalks spread in western towns
India rubber sidewalks gain fashion out West with economy and durability. Danville Lawn in Danville first trial covered three hundred yards of a main street. Boys ran over it with no noise while a merchant leaped, then landed on his feet on the roof, and a test rider made a flying squirrel-like landing on steps. Odor from hot weather can be neutralized by borax and coal tar. As towns grow, the path extends toward suburbs at a rate of three miles daily with two yoke of cattle aiding lengthening.
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Danbury
Ralph
India
Danvill Lawn
Ripple by a four year old child in Sunday School
A late girl of four inspired a remark to her Sunday School teacher about a dead dog. She said the angels would be scared when they saw him coming up the walk, adding that "she's cross to strangers."
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James Archer
Holly
Denver
Gen. Pierce
Steangers
Amateurs stage Jesuits to America in Nichols's hall
Pouedo Lodge of Good Templars presented a drama The Jesuits to America and a farce The Merchant of Venice at Nichols hall. Local residents played many roles with skill and emphasis on costume and stage effect. A few weak lines and forgotten actors blemished the evening but overall praised performances and musical interludes.
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Good Templars
Nichols
Tias
America
Jackman Baxter
Abbott
Beatrice
Miss Backer
Rory
Gardner
Catherine
Adele Knowles
Clara
Sarah Graham
Abbess
Eva Knowles
Campbell
Harley
Solon Martin
Carlton
George Carlton
Ed. Baker
Ed. Clark
Monk “Pierre
Frank Baker
Mr. Williams
J. Max Clark
Miss McCord
Fred Williams
Sesson
Dr. Boyd
Abner Baker
Shylock
Mr. Burchill
George Eaton
Ed. Scott
Bassanio
Horace Clark
Miss Lowther
Bloomers
Local notes on prices events and entertainments
Wheat advances to 2.30 per cwt and flour to 25 cents a sack. A coldless winter, cattle views, new engine at Canfield and Eaton coal mine, and a San Francisco baby report. Snow on Long's Peak, expected high river, Lyceum and Arion Society concerts, hay trade at $20,000, and warnings after a Friday disorder with whistles.
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Platte
Canfield & Eaton
Long's Peak
Greeley Lyceum
Park Church
Jean Ingelow
Mary Meeker
Arion Society
Nichols’ Hall
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East River
Eoan
Sud Trust Company
Talinte
Beecher-Tilton
Montana
Suamier
M. E
Mr. Fisher
Colony Board
Connecticut
Beecher
Washington, D.C
St. Vrain
Pueblo
Bessie Turner
Oliver Johnson
Mr. Bowen
Bessie
Ben Butler
Congress
Chicago Journal of Commerce
Committee On Patents
Houses of Representatives
A. B Wilson
Wheeler & Wilson
Grover & Baker
Wilcox & Gibbs
Siner
Howe
Scientific American
Greeley Tribune
Tam
Greyney
Madaim
Wisdom
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