Robert Dale Owen on Agassiz and spiritual seances
Robert Dale Owen writes to the New York Tribune defending Agassiz's refusal to engage in spiritualist inquiry as prudent yet respectful. He argues science must study phenomena tied to human nature and ethical progress, noting Huxley and Beecher similarly urged open consideration despite personal disbelief.
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Robert Dale Owen
Agassta
New York Tribune
Agassiz
Henry Ward Beecher
Yale College
Huxley
Cose
Petition for a national inquiry into liquor traffic effects
Citizens urge Congress to appoint a commission of five or more to investigate the liquor trade in crime poverty health and morals and to study the impact of prohibitory laws in Maine and Massachusetts and other states with a view to recommending further federal measures.
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Congress
J. N. Stearns
Reade Street
New York City
United States Senate
House of Representatives
United States
Maine
Massachusetts
Union
Europe
National Academy
Aldine
T Moran
J. D. Woodward
Allan
Thomas Moran
Colorado
White Mountains
New Hampshire
Green
Dundas Dick
Dundas Dick & Co
Dundas Dick& Co
Dandas Dick & Co
Wooster Street
New York
General Agency
Public Prayer Against Whiskey Taxes and Social Plight
A 19th century sermon laments ministerial salaries and church spending, contrasting religious costs with the suffering of drunkards' children. It notes possible tax increases due to treasury pressures, a 1955 loan redemption, and calls for voters to elect relief. The piece links liquor traffic to pauperism and crime costs.
Despotism and Prohibition Compare In Historic Talk
The speaker argues that republican America first proposed total abstinence and prohibition while despotic rule resists it. He claims distilleries and breweries symbolize tyranny and the old slave power, contrasting despotic influence with republican virtue in a vivid political posture.
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America
Colorado prospects for families and men without means in Greeley Colony
The column assesses migration to Colorado with cautions for families and poor men. It notes limited incentives in Greeley, compares opportunities to Nebraska and birthplaces, and urges saving earnings to gain independence, warning that a malarial climate can waste savings. It also targets readers with means in the East who might consider moving there.
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Nebraska
Colorado
Republican Party
Prevent
Sisterhood
Greeley Tribune
Greeley, Col
Greeley promises lure of cheap land and irrigation farming
The article extols Greeley Colorado as a growth center with fertile irrigation farms, cheap land at six to ten dollars an acre, and rapid development. It notes a 2000 population, churches and schools, the Denver Pacific railroad, and Union Pacific expansion, predicting a boom toward a 100000 inhabitant city and strong cooperative farming.
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Greeley
New York
Denver Pacific
Colorado
Union Pacific
Julesburg
Great Platte
Denver
Free Church
United States
Country Gentleman
Luther Tucker & Son
Albany
Cultivators and Mowers Price Snapshot From The Markets
Readable market listing shows prices for cultivators and mowers including Stooth 9.4 Q-tooth at 14.00 Buckeye items 125.00 and 135.00 for Champs Buckeye quotes 7s 00 and 10 Buckeye 10.00.
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Greeley Colony
Rps Greeley Tribune
Malaseen
Burley
C. Ber
Tata
PRICI
Squer
Adzeeye
Jenning
Cook
Coitee Mills
Anes
Ohio
Sandusky Too
Shnsston
Pr Ib
Amex’ Gould
Coe
Mitations
Univer
John Deere
Mincete Angers
Wyoming
Seeweiet
Reeley
Denver Pacific Railway
Cheyenne
Boulder Valley
Paghes
Erie
White Rock Mills
Valmont c. C
Boulder
C.c. Junction
White Reek Mil
E Erie
The
W. Fisher
de E. Mi. Anson
Hughes Junction
Arre Denver
Arkansas Valley Railway
Kit Carson
North Las Animas
Edmund
Bowen
Rocky Mountain News
Missouri River
California
Daily News
Mail
William N. Byers
Denver, Col
Springfield
Express
C.O. K
T. Roath
Larimer
Remington
Remington Sewing Machine
E. Remington & Sons
Ilion, N. Y
la Poudre Lodge
Masonic Hall
Honace Crank
Gro
Mansh
Bec’y
O. F
Poudre Valley
Richele Hall
Main Street
Friends
Colorado Agriculturist and ~ Stock Journal
Stock Man and Family
Great West
E. Strahorn & CO
Denver Weekly Times
United Fuk
Rh. W. Woodbury
New England
Springfield Republican
Samuel Bowles & Company
Evans Journal
Evans, Colorado
FPUE
Colorado Farmer
Feebles
Evans
Colorean
J. HW. Jonas
Theodore Tilton
Spruce Street
Rocky Mountain
Ciicuit
A. Olds
Greeley, Colo
ART Department
James Surton & Co
James Sutton & Co., Publishers
Maiden Lane
the Tribune Association
Publishers of the
Denver Tribune
Holladay Streets
Denver, Cou
Toansas Pacific Railway
Baza
and Western Territories
Ransas
Po Nis
Kansas City and
ST. Louis
Pullman Palace Cars
Kansas City
Chicago
H. Abbott
Beverley BR. Keim
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