Rail progress and town boom hit Warpwxer Idaho
The first freight and passenger train reaches Cam eron a new town at end of line as snow and cold grip the area. Hunter mine bonded for 20000 dollars moves to development while real estate climbs fifty percent in three months. Treasure Box mine near Murray yields a rich ore sample as Bank of Murray loans 800 for a specimen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greeley Tribune
Warpwxer
Idaho
Cameron
Hunter
St. Louis
Mollen
Murray
Treasure Box
Bank of Murray
Littlefield
Cour P’alene
Odd Fellowship ceremony and local items from Otis
A well attended event featured a choir conducted by Prof. Gwilym Thomas and an installation of Grand Lodge officers. Also noted are buffalo hunting by N M George, a proposed Eaton county bill with detailed boundaries, hay shipments, a leased Akron boarding house, a train derailment, and roaming cattle causing train collisions and burnt grass across miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gwilym Thomas
Vallentine
Davis
Powell
Effie Golding-Dwyre
Thomas
Mosely
Hedley
Teagarden
Buzzell
Annie Powell
Grand Lodge
J. W. Nortoan
Denver
Odd Fellowship
J.W. Pruyn
Timothy Hay
J. W. Tillett
Akron
Hillsboro Weather And Local Notices From Record
The entry notes 21 below zero in Hillsboro last Saturday night. Local events include Rev. Geo Cram’s Advent sermons at the Hillsboro schoolhouse for four evenings last weekend and several visits by D Von Gehren and Eugene Williams. G B Hill plans hog shipments to Fort Collins and recently acquired Clydesdale mares from Jesse Harris for 2500 dollars. Other items mention a Hillsboro store shelving upgrade, skating rink talk, school resuming after holidays, scarlet fever and measles cases near Brighton, New Year’s track incident near town, and testimonials for Red Star Cough Cure and St Jacobs Oil with prices and addresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hillsboro
Geo. Cram
von Gehren
Eugene Williams
Louise Seelbach
Greeley
Hill
Fort Collins
Brighton
For Rent A Five Room House In South Town
A comfortable five room house is available for rent in the south part of town. Apply to Mrs Edward Skewes at 14th street and 9th avenue. A fire at Lawrence Kansas caused losses totaling 150000 dollars with less than 50000 dollars insured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Skewes
14Th Street
9Th Avenue
Lawrence
Kansas
Mysterious Electric Phenomenon Strikes Nine at Maracaibo
A family of nine in a hut near Maracaibo awoke Oct 24 to a loud hum and bright light. They suffered facial blotches, skin peeling, and hair loss on one side, with swelling receding next day. trees nearby withered on day nine. The house remained uninjured, no heat or lightning observed, and no blast noted. Consul Warner Cowgill reports from Maracaibo, Venezuela, via Scientific American.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maracaibo
Warner Cowgill
U. S
Venezuela
Scientific American
Centenary Mission Parade In Santa Barbara Stuns Onlookers
The celebration of Santa Barbara's mission centennial featured a grand procession with 4000 participants and about 10000 spectators. A Spanish cavalry style band led carts carrying early plows drawn by oxen, with Indians aging up to 80 and many in period costumes. The parade traced a century of dress and agricultural and mechanical progress, making an impressive scene reported by the Chicago Herald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Barbara
Cal
Chicago Herald
Holiday railroad fares for round trips to California and Colorado
Union Pacific announces holiday excursion fares for Colorado routes under two hundred miles and a six month return option. Dates include December 25 24 80 and January 1 with return by January 3 1887. San Francisco and Los Angeles trips priced at sixty dollars from major western cities.
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Union Pacific Railway
Colorado
Denver
South Park
Union Pacific
Geo. Any
J. W. Morse
Omaha
Golden Gate
California
Kansas City
Leavenworth
Council Bluffs
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Missouri River
Salt Lake City
Rocky Mountains
Sierra Nevadas
R.callaway
Thos. L. Kimball
B. Jones
Nebraska
Oregon lawmakers weigh repeal of Chinese pheasant protection
The Cleveland Leader reports talk of a bill in the Oregon legislature to repeal a law shielding Chinese pheasants shipped to the U S by Judge O N Denny. Hunters say the birds drive native game from fields and farmers claim they devastate grain crops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon
O. N. Denny
Cleveland
Dissolution Notice of Elliott & Mosher Partnership
Elliott becomes sole proprietor of the Business College and assumes all debts of the firm. D. W. Exiorr, F. W. Mosier, Greeley, Colorado, January 6, 1887.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elliott & Mosher
Elliott
Business College
D. W
Iorr
F. W. Mosier
Greeley, Colo
Jan
Kalamazoo Celery Boom Runs To Overproduction
The Kalamazoo celery trade faces overextension as marsh lands become beds for mass planting. Growers race to add stalks lowering quality, spurring talk of a growers association to control supply and restore price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kalamazoo
New York Sun
Arthur and McDonald Meat Market Form Partnership
Jas. H. McDonald sells half the meat market to Jas. H. Arthur creating the partnership Arthur & McDonald. Arthur is a well known local figure in Greeley Colorado. Announcement dated January 6 1887.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jas. H. McDonald
Jas. H. Arthur
Arthur & McDonald
Sannorn Denies Engineering Association Mill Engine Theft Rumor
I B Sannorn states a circulating report in the Association of Engineers about boys removing parts of the Model Mill engine is a base falsehood from the foundation up and offers to prove the claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Association of Engineers
I. B. Sannorn
Lively Fragments From News Across Town and Far
A tramp moved a long pipe in B town then spent a night inside and crawled out a mile later. Miss Ward in The Queen's Favorite faces chatty patrons at Chestnut Street Opera House. Bad Lands two hunters report a geyser fire near Bismarck melting snow over a quarter mile. The Youth's Companion uses drawings by the Princess Louise for an article on salmon fishing. Proceeds aid English and Scottish families emigrating to Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fliegende Blaetter
Chestnut Street Opera House
Miss Ward
New York Sun
Bad Lands
D. T
Bismarck
Princess Louise
Marquis of Lorne
Canada
Brooklyn Eagle
Readings obituary and notices mix of appeals and classifieds
A. E. Gipson calls for all debts to be settled before the New Year. Judge J. Bright Smith, once prominent in Colorado, dies in Reading Pennsylvania. The notice lists preserved fruits stored in glass jars with refined sugar and varieties of jellies jams and pickles. Apply to Mrs Enwarp Skewes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Bright Smith
Colorado
Reading
Pennsylvania
Insect Losses in U S Farmland Reach 400 Million
The Chicago Times notes experts estimate annual damages from agricultural pests in the United States total about 400 million dollars, a figure reflecting the widespread impact on crops and farmers nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Chicago Times
Native horses for sale and furnished rooms ad
Native horses for sale broken or unbroken to harness or saddle. Joan C. Youn. FURNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT in a new house with large rooms and new furniture. Terms reasonable. One block north of post office, Greeley as an agricultural city supported by an agricultural community, to be kept prosperous must encourage its producers and manufacturers by using home grown and home manufactured articles. At the Greeley Meat Market you can purchase home grown and home manufactured Buckwheat flour at four cents per pound. J. T. Wo ons. Manufacturer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Price -Lamb- Jordan
Greeley Opera Howe
Bush Street Theater
San Francisco
Music and Drama
Mark Price
M. Jordan
Edward Lamb
Street
Dramatic Journal of the West
Mr. Price
Mr. Jordan
Ed. Lamb
Thalia
Rio Grande
van Dykes
Post Office
Greeley
J. T. Woo
Ens
Choice 20 Acre Fruit Farm For Sale Near Greeley
A. E. Gipson offers a 20 acre fruit farm for sale near Garden Side within one mile of the Greeley post office. It features diverse fruits in bearing, good irrigation land, an eight room house, out cellar brick office, large sheds, stable and chicken yards, making it a premier Colorado property. Terms and further particulars by application.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Garden Side
Greeley
Colorado
A. E. Gipson
For sale and rewards listed in Greeley notices
A June 1887 style classifieds page lists rewards for a stolen tools incident and a two year old mare, a six room house for sale at Sixth and Sixth, money to loan, cleaning services, gas and brick work, a dissolution notice for Haynes Dunning & Annis, cigar and hardware ads, a January 22 auction of a phaeton, and Red Star Cough Cure claims.
For Sale An Upright Piano and Local Ads
An upright cabinet grand Gabler piano offered as a bargain with easy terms at Box 71 Greeley Colorado. Also home made bread pies and cakes at Mrs. O E Taylor's. Advices to mothers promote Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup teething remedy claimed to cure dysentery diarrhea regulate stomach and bowels reduce inflammation and provide energy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greeley
Colorado
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On the Rio Grande
Vert Collins
the Express
Sheriff Love
Henry C. Wood
Adam Fredricks
Agricultural College
Lindell Mills
Hottel
Hyde
N. M. George
Otis
Eaton
Arapahoe County
Platteville
F. W. Ingham
Madison Street
Chicago
Hil
Price
A. Fueger
Walnut Street
Venezzuela
John Callaghan
D. B. Wyatt
KK. E. Hart
Old Stand
Royal Newspaper Writers
Joan C. Youn
Browm
F. G. Fisher
English Ditch
Fairbanks Great White Star Soap
M. C. Per
M. C. Marreson
J. E. Snyper
Harte & Hovenkiss
Chamberlain
J. F. Fezer
Camp & Nusbaum, Contractors and Brick Layers
Greeley, Colorado
Haynes Dunning & Annis
Ek. T. Dunning
H. N. Haynes
F. J. Annis
von Gohren & Scott
Creeley
von Gehren& Scott
Tom
Connolly
Dubuque
Iowa
E. H. Abbott
Caroline Gates
Johnson Gates
Hunter & West
H. Hatlert & Co
Portland
Maine
Grand Outfit
Terk & Co
Augusta
Percheron
M. W. Dunhams
Draft & Coach Stallions
France
America
South
Ohn
A. Witter
Colo
McNamara
J. K. Thompson
East Greeley
D. F. Camp
E. M. Nusbaum
Camp & Nusbaum
Alaska Grape
Alaska Grape Co
Larimer Street
George Stinson & Co
Portland, Maine
New Windsor
Lester Brothers
Comet
Victor
Minn
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