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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1891
Page
1
New dress goods including black and imported fabrics arrive as March delineators advertise. The store continues a big reduction sale with ladies cloaks, children cloaks, men’s overcoats, blankets, comforts, woolen hosiery and underwear, yarns, and more. Only two plush sacks left sizes 32 and 34, offered as bargains if they fit.
Limited stock of White Blankets and various yarns offered at deep discounts. Ladies' Newmarkets priced low, Bear Brand Germantown Yarn and Repucep skeins, Best German Knitting Yarn reduced to 1.00 per pound or per tb. Amana Knitting Yarn advertised as best value.
Local items list the Exchange Hotel for sale and note baled hay and ground feed at the Colorado Seed House. Selections cover seed barley and onions, stage service, theater scenes, and regional moves including residents visiting Denver and public events. The column mixes advertisements with social updates and weather notes.
In the Boulder University contest Wesley Putnam narrowly missed first place by one point, earning a place with Harry C Hall to represent the school at the state contest in Boulder on March 20. Denver News lauds Putnam for the oration Charles Sumner, praising the masterly effort and strong delivery that drew loud applause.
Alfred Mulford, age ten, shot himself with a small 22 caliber toy pistol in his father's barn last Saturday. The ball narrowly missed the heart after passing through a thick coat. Parents, unaware the pistol could fire live rounds, fault sellers for supplying the cartridges and provoking concern over safety.
Arapahoe Lodge 24 hosts Union Lodge 1 initiates. A silver gavel is presented. Canton and Lancers plan a big ball. Rumors of a new Odd Fellows building are denied. Grand Lodge alcohol rules tighten, with charges for violators.
The Silver State Lodge of the Knights of Pythias was established in Denver on Friday with thirty members initiated. Grand chancellor of Colorado Don M. Heywood presided over the ceremony.
Miss Bartlett a bright Greeley girl and student at Philadelphia Medical College died at about 23 after pneumonia contracted in Boston. Her mother and the body returned to Greeley for a Unitarian church funeral with solo by Miss Effie Palmer. Burial followed at Linn Grove cemetery.
At her son's Kane residence in Kane Pa Mrs Eliza Stevens Rathbun aged 66 died after a visit east in June. She had lived two years in Greeley with her brother J J Stevens. Low altitude and damp climate worsened her health and she could not return home. Mrs Rathbun was a genial estimable lady.
The school board awarded first honors to Nana Wright after four years of records. Maggie Doolittle and Mabel Mead tied for second, sharing equal prominence by each delivering a salutatory and a Latin oration. The class is among the largest, split evenly between English and Latin courses.
The Methodist church will hold morning and evening sermons with class meetings at 9:45 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Sunday School is at 12:15 p.m. The children’s class and pastor’s Bible class meet at 6:30 p.m. The evening service at the Methodist church honors the late General Sherman. The Baptist church will suspend evening services temporarily due to the pastor’s illness.
At the bride’s father residence on February 18 1891 Rev Thos Baker Rector of St Luke s Fort Colling James Albert Smillie of Richmond P Q to Mary Esther Minnie second daughter of John Montgomery Eaton Cole. Pianos and organs tuned and repaired H B Jackson.
A list offers annual subscriptions to Harper’s Weekly Harper’s Bazar Harper’s Young People Cosmopolitan Ladies Home Magazine North American Review Harper’s Magazine The Century Saint Nicholas and related titles with rates to Jan 1 1892. The piece also notes a new electric mineral ore detector enabling quick ore presence checks by nonexperts.
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