Learning to Queen: The Tragic Tale of Lady Jane Grey
A London Spectator obituary recounts Lady Jane Grey as a prodigiously educated girl who mastered languages, philosophy, and politics at Bradgate and court. At sixteen she was crowned queen for months, then deposed and beheaded for usurping the throne, with her ambitious father sharing a grim fate.
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Jane Grey
England
Tower of London
Plato
Jane
Bradgate
Lady Jane
Roger Ascham
Ascham
Pilate
Lady Jane Grey
London Spectator
The Art of Seeing and Self Culture
Long reflection on learning and perception. An exhortation that true education comes from constant study and observation rather than formal schooling. It urges youth to cultivate the mind by reading, daily learning, and attentive living, treating life as a universal classroom.
Striking It Rich in Australian Gold Mystery
A young Whitmarsh and his partner Sam mine chloride silver in Australia after finding a green stone in a hollow seam. The pair follow a hill crest to a seven foot ore seam, peg a claim with a miner’s right, then return to secure tools, guarding their fortune.
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Mr. Whitmarsh
Sam
Australia
Sonny
Ink and the history of writing in the press
The essay argues about ink quality and pen reliability, noting flaws in inkstands and inks while urging patience and perseverance. It connects the word ink to its historical roots and praises literary devotion tied to cloister traditions and intellectual guardians.
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New York Press
French views on marriage as social contract and love
H D Sedgwick in Atlantic contrasts French and American ideas of matrimony. He notes the French treat marriage as rational regulation balancing individual and societal rights, while Americans idealize love. He praises discipline but criticizes social scrutiny and the French focus on future prudence over romance.
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H. D. Sedgwick
Atlantic
Costumes and Awe in Costume Plays
Henry Arthur Jones argues in Atlantic that costume plays set before 1840 claim literary merit and significance beyond modern prose drama. He notes audiences feel superiority from such works, regardless of verse or mixed diction.
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Atlantic
Chaucer
Whitechapel
Gentilhomme
Henry Arthur Jones
Fly Casting Dictators Slammed by Fishermen
A satirical attack on fly casting supremacy in trout fishing cites Grover Greveland's sketches. The writer condemns "superrefined" methods and hypocritical chase for worms when trout refuse to rise, urging unity against pretentious practices in the fishing fraternity.
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Grover Greveland
Birthday Congratulation Traffic For Prince Bismarck
The article notes a surge in congratulatory messages as Prince Bismarck reached eighty. Friedricherah post office expanded staff to thirty while telegraph links to Hamburg and Berlin increased. Telegrams and mail numbers grew from late March into early April with thousands of items and hundreds of thousands of words processed.
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Bismarck
Prince Bismarck
Friedricherah
Hamburg
Berlin
England
Hospitality Icon General Toombs Refuses Hotel Offer
In Washington Georgia the birthplace of the Father of His Country General Robert Toombs hosted a committee seeking to build a hotel. He declined saying there is no need for a hotel as respectable guests can stay at his house. If guests are not well behaved they should not come. The anecdote is cited in Dixie After the War.
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Washington
America
Robert Toombs
General Toombs
Dixie
Bfe
Sil
Local Notices and Social Greeley Happenings
Local items record visits and travels of residents and shoppers in Greeley Colorado. Mrs L G Moss visits Denver. Warren Douglas travels to Caldwell Idaho. Mrs A D Preston travels from Weldon to Greeley. Sam Moore returns from Wheatland Wyoming. Miss Louise Poirson visits Fort Collins. Park Congregational church hosts a chicken pie supper. Lyon Bros and Park Merchandise promote sales. Greeley Building and Loan reports 80 000 asset base. D M Faris hosts a dinner for Finley Faris and John Reed with local guests.
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Lyon Bros
Marks’ Market
L. G. Moss
Denver
Swift
Warren Douglas
Caldwell, Ida
D. G. Murchison
A. D. Preston
Weldon
Greeley
G. L. Gabbert
Sam Moore
Greeley Building and Loan Association
Greeley Homes
D. M. Faris
Fourteenth Avenue
Fourth Street
Finley Faris
John Reed
Sparta
Alice, Moore
Miss Hosack
Belle Faris
Mona McAfee
Minnie Tedrow
Finley
Melville Faris
Mae
Charley Moore
Jackson Heckert-Windsor Couple Wed in City Church
A. J. Jackson of Windsor and Mamie Heckert of this city were married on Tuesday January 1 at the First Presbyterian Church. Rev. R. J. Hunter conducted the ceremony.
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A. J. Jackson
Windsor
Mamie Heckert
R. J. Hunter
First Presbyterian Church
Wedding of Miss Josie Schaub and A D Frost at Grand Island
Miss Josie Schaub and A D Frost were married last Saturday January 5 in Grand Island Nebraska with Rev Gregory of the Methodist church officiating at the parsonage. The ceremony was quiet due to the recent death of the bride's father. The bride is a former clerk with Mrs C A House and the groom works for H H Shaw. They arrived in Greeley Monday and will reside there.
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Josie Schaub
A. D. Frost
Grand Island
Neb
Deaths Moore
James Moore longtime Platteville resident dies at home from Bright's disease at 77. Funeral Saturday with interment in Platteville. He leaves a wife and two daughters, one Mrs. T. J. Fuller of Canon City, the younger daughter at home.
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James Moore
Platteville
Brigit
T. J. Fuller
Canon City
Platteville Man Dies of Spinal Meningitis
Hiram Stewart aged about forty years died at his Platteville home last Thursday from spinal meningitis after only a few hours illness. His wife, visiting in Iowa, was summoned and arrived Sunday morning for the funeral held that afternoon. Interment followed in Windsor. He left a wife and four children.
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Hiram Stewart
Platteville
Iowa
Wsa
Windsor
Notice to Stockholders of Lower Latham Ditch company meeting
Notice to stockholders announces annual meeting of The Lower Latham Ditch company in Greeley Colorado on Saturday January 12 1907 at 1 30 p m. to elect five trustees levy an assessment and transact other business. J B Phillips secretary Greeley Colo Dec 27 1906. Midland Concert company First Presbyterian church tonight. Tribune tecture Course
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Lower Latham Ditch Company
Greeley
Colorado
J. B. Phillips
Colo
Midland Concert Company
First Presbyterian Church
Tribune Tecture Course
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Resources
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Japan
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Sabeorie
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Sealtary
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