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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1873
Page
1
Business cards and notices show Garis and Marsh practicing homeopathy with Maple Street offices, Allen real estate agency on Main Street, and jewelry repair services. Kirby promotes a steam-driven setup for cutting and polishing agates and making rings and brooches with skilled watchmaking service.
Two thousand settlers have built a thriving town with brick blocks a schoolhouse and churches. Wheat yields rise and agriculture flourishes as rail links expand with Union Pacific branch lines. A Scotland style co operation scheme shows how shared buying lowers prices and returns profits to members.
Preparations for extensive exploration of Clear Creek above Fall River House with a 40 horsepower engine on site. Report notes rich deep channel potential, prior failures due to lack of proper machinery, and expectations that skilled miners will succeed. Also covers Grass Valley Bar value, hydraulic mining interest from California, and a Bullion Statement preview for November 1872.
Wm. Z. Cozens Eng., halted on a ranch wintering on a central range, fought a brutal storm at 12 000 feet. Dense clouds and snow hurled him against rocks as goats struck him during four hours of peril. He inched to safety down the mountain and ended at Silver City after nineteen hours, crippled and cane-bound, likely to remember the crossing forever.
Correspon dent from Dec 19 notes discussions in New York and states to honor Horace Greeley with monuments in Central Park and a Western project depicting his virtues. He describes a vast 50 000 acre monument plain 5000 feet above sea level with fields canals schools churches presses and industries symbolizing Greeley’s era.
Last week brought bitter cold across the states with readings near or below zero in many cities. Chicago saw 24 to 38 below, St. Louis 12 to 15 below, Cincinnati 2 below, and rivers and roads frozen, while Memphis measured 5 to 10 above and New Orleans 51 above. Telegraph wires snapped in Michigan, water and gas pipes froze in Chicago, and Greeley registered 20 below. overall, thermometers varied and scientific readings differed on exact figures.
The St. Louis Democrat reports the rumored death of Barnum's gorilla Briggs in the museum fire. Once a celebrated performer, Briggs supported aging parents in Jersey City and earned admirers for his playful antics and peculiar temperament during tours and at exhibitions. The piece extols his talents and laments his loss, noting Barnum's search for successors while praising Briggs as unmatched.
A Lyceum debate uses Tyndall on disciplined imagination guiding scientific work. The article contrasts Pilate’s truth with inward, lifelong truth felt in action and character, noting truth grows with years and is lived, not merely spoken.
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