Greeley’s irrigation boom fuels prospering colony
The narrative details the Cache la Poudre irrigation system feeding vast farmlands and thriving crops. It highlights Greeley’s rapid growth since 1869, its 2,500 residents, impressive brick and frame homes, and a thriving economy with noted potatoes shipped to Kansas City, plus a welcoming hospitality scene during a Denver area tour.
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Cache la Poudre
Platte
Greeley
Kansas City
Colorado
Great
Greeley Fair Ground
Mary Bassett
Whitewater
G. W. Currier
Willian Birge
Young Universe and Wheat Mills Highlight Rural Colorado Visit
Journalists visit Weld County Fair Grounds near Greeley for opening day events, marvel at a 150-pound pumpkin and irrigation yields. tour Greeley and Meeker area, hear hotel praise, and learn of wheat shipments to Monte Vista mill. Also notes on Midland railway impact, artesian wells, temperance meeting, and Fulton ditch expansion plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cooper Institute
New York
Meeker
R. A. Cameron
Horace Greeley
N. C. Meeker
A. C. Fisk
Tl. T. West
Colorado
Wyoming
Utah
Denver
Weld County Fair Grounds
Rocky Mountains
Greeley
Oasis
Weld County Fair
Texas
Acre
Bowen
William Halloran
San Diego
California
Halloran
Meeker Herald
Midland
Garfield County
The
Monte Vista
Presbyterian Church
John Hipp
John Dove
Independent Order of Good Templars
Brighton
Fulton Ditch
Brighton Register
Estes Park Reservoir and Water Supply Company Formed
Charles C. Welch John G. Hamnei and Alexander Q. MacGregor incorporated the Estes Park Reservoir and Water Supply Company to acquire construct enlarge and maintain reservoirs on the Big Thompson creek Fall River and tributaries. Six reservoirs are planned near Estes Park Willow Park Horseshoe Park Lawn Lake and St Marys Lake with capital stock to $50 000 and Denver as principal office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles C. Welch
John G. Hamnei
Alexander Q. MacGregor
Estes Park
Big Thompson Creek
Fall River
Black Canon Creek
Big Thompson
Willow Park
Horseshoe Park
Lawn Lake
St. Mary’s Lake
Denver
Republican
Reform of English orthography bill proposed by Warner
Congressman Warner drafts a bill to appoint a three member presidential commission to study spelling reform. The Missouri county teachers’ convention resolution urged a simpler system. Commissioners receive twenty dollars daily, serve six months, and must report by December 1 on any practicable alternative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wastinton
Warner
Missouri
Lexington
Congress
United States
The Pleasures of Life by Sir John Lubbock review
The Consolation of Science and Learning offers essays on happiness duty books friendship travel and home. The chapter on home stands out for its style and substance. Price fifty cents post free from J Fitzgerald Publisher 24 East Fourth Street New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir John Lubbock
J. Fitzgerald
East Fourth Street
New York
Supreme Court of Michigan bans liquor sales to minors
The Michigan Supreme Court held that the prohibition on selling liquor to minors is absolute and cannot be overridden by an adult’s order. A saloon keeper was convicted for selling to a minor, and the ruling underscores that child purchases in saloons would be curtailed, potentially ending the growler trade in large cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Press
Supreme Court of Michigan
Supreme Court
Philadelphia
Colorado Farm Conditions and Plans for 1888
A Denver Republican farm notes column discusses securing land for a Salida area warehouse site and resettling ranchers for independence. It covers Colorado oat production, navy bean profitability, beet honey and alfalfa prospects, new cheese factories at Fort Collins and Fort Morgan, grain and fruit potential, bee industry, and the value of deep plowing for soil health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Krom
Colorado
California
St. Louis
Denver
Fort Collins
Fort Morgan
Chamberlain Cough Remedy praised by merchants and travelers
Still on Earth still in use. Mr F H Goodrich of St Louis representing Graham Paper Co commends Chamberlain Cough Remedy for coughs and colds. L Harry of Sweet Home Missouri also vouches for quick relief and constant use. Also notes T C Henry seeks to market Empire company land and ditch stock with Coffin as Monte Vista agent. Land holdings span thousands of acres south of the Rio Grande with perpetual water rights. A new survey and ditch construction to aid settlements in Monte Vista valley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. H. Goodrich
St. Louis
Graham Paper Co
Chamberlain
L. Harry
Sweet Home
8. C. Coffin
Alamosa
T. C. Henry
Empire Company
Henry
Mr. Coffin
Monte Vista
Rio Grande River
Coffin
Monta Vista
Monte Vista Journal
Testimony of clergyman on Swift's Specific cure
A Greenville clergyman, Rev. R. M. Pickens, describes years of neuralgic rheumatism, erysipelas, and heart pains, saying Swift's Specific restored his health after eighteen months of illness. He reports weight gain and lasting relief except hand stiffness and urges others to request a medical treatise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. M. Pickens
Methodist Protestant Church of South
Swift
Swirt Sprerrie Co
Atlanta
Dr. J. H. McLean's Liver and Kidney Pills Ad
For sick headache female troubles neuralgic pains in the head take Dr J H McLeans Little Liver and Kidney Pillets 25 cents a vial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. McLean
J. H. McLean
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Tribune
Herald
Hurley
Dakota
Young Universe
Western Star
Lebanon
Ohio
Joolyoke News
St. James
Glenwood Daily News
Antonito
Chaffee County
Sauipa
Colo
Grange
Salida
Buena Vista
Denver Republican
Perrin
Pacific Slope
Jim Carlisle
Arkansas
Pueblo
Bent
Huerfano
Billings
Mont
Havana
Standard Manufactures
J. Max. Clark
Wilson’s Book Store
A.J. Eaton
Potato Planters
Aspinwall Mfg.co
Three Rivers
Michigan
A.e.mead & CO
A. J. Eaton, Eaton
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