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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1873
Page
2
The piece reviews the New York Weekly Tribune and its influence on agricultural literature, praising Greeley and contrasting daily and weekly press. It also reports on European emigration reaching 291,217 last year, its economic impact, and shifts in American attitudes toward labor and prosperity.
The phrase asserts that humanity continually grows and evolves through all future eras, emphasizing an enduring potential for advancement in civilization, science, and culture. It frames development as an intrinsic, timeless feature of the human species.
A reader argues lotteries violate the golden rule and harm society. Citing Confucian and Christian ethics, the letter condemns gambling as favoring self at others expense, likening proceeds to poison and treachery. The writer recalls church reforms in New England and urges moral restraint. Dated January 2, 1878, Greeley, with sign-off L. Waratrow Allied.
Last week’s Lyceum event at the Methodist church drew a large crowd despite cold weather. Alice Stevens and Jennie Cameron debuted with a duet that pleased audiences. Mr. Boyd’s New Year poem touched on lottery sympathizers and Havana library plans.
The Union Pacific superintendent, long in Colorado for Colorado Central work, renews interest in a brake concept. Involves a weight and spring to apply the brake with steam or air pressure to release it, aiming to improve safety on steep grades. The Chicago Railway Review compares Sickels brake with the Westinghouse design.
The device places the train under either conductor or engineer control via an ear cock leading to the air pipe. It allows gradual or sudden braking by regulating air discharge. The inventor claims wheels cannot slip, brakes are automatic on a train break, and only a properly ordered apparatus lets the train run.
Mr William N Bachelder of Fort Collins Colorado returned from Vermont with a car load of Merino sheep described as the finest yet seen in the region The purchase cost over 4000 dollars and the journey covered about 2000 miles by rail then sixty miles by wagon Only one thirty dollar lamb was lost The flock of one hundred ewes and fifty bucks came from Vermont breeders William R Sanford Son Orwell BR Gleason Benson and J Benedict Castleton The herd will be bred at Vermont Rancho the largest sheep ranche in the mountain country and Bachelder a Vermonter plans to expand the region with this high quality flock.
A marked Omaha Tribune copy reports the Masonic fraternity of Omaha denounces and repudiate the Omaha Lottery Scheme. They claim to aid trustees in a Classic Temple project, condemn the scheme as unwarranted and unworthy, and warn members and the public against involvement. The piece questions reform from Greeley supporters and calls for a temperance protest against intemperance.
Mr. H. H. Bayley reports extreme cold influencing travel from Milwaukee to Chicago with zero as the norm and trains halted in Wisconsin. He notes bitter weather on the Kansas Pacific and confirms Colorado shows milder temperatures around 38 to 50 above zero. Back East thaw delays persist while Colorado Central workers grade tracks and prepare new construction. the Minnesota colony site visit is postponed due to cold.
At the latest town board meeting Mr J Moore moved to adopt a preamble and resolution opposing a circular lottery enterprise in Greeley Weld County Colorado. The board declares it has not consented to supervise the lottery drawing or prize distribution and disclaims any connection with the scheme.
A montage of Grace Greenwood’s praise of the Lyceum and a jab at the Senate’s debates. The piece notes veteran debaters like Sumner and Conkling, then shifts to John J Pardee, arrested on a U.S. lottery fraud charge tied to mail misuse and a Post Office special agent’s complaint.
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