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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1906
Page
11
A circus pageant opens with Jocko the champion monkey rider in a pony race. The crowd roars as Jocko leads, slips, and is dragged by a fleeing pony. Attendants rush in while the crowd watches the dramatic finish of the Rough Ground course.
A story of Jocko the trained circus monkey who rose to fame riding a pony in front of crowds. He grew close to his circus guardians, learned acrobatics, and delighted spectators until a fatal accident ended his life as the band played and the ring emptied.
A reading class discussion about furlough reveals a child’s mix up as Mary recalls a mule meaning. The teacher corrects her, then Mary brings a book showing a soldier with a mule and the caption Going home on his furlough.
The piece notes that while the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D C, is widely known to have been founded by an Englishman, few realize that the British Museum was founded by Benjamin Thompson, an American.
On Christmas Eve a cabin bound family of two elderly enslaved caretakers endure寒 hardship as memories of slavery mix with faith prayers for a visitor. A white child arrives calling herself the little angel, guiding the caretakers to the mansion. There they reunite with their former mistress Miss Alice, who recognizes them and welcomes them to the mansion feast. The tale ends with a hopeful Christmas dawn as the two worlds converge and love heals.
St Peters at Rome is described as the largest temple of worship. The structure rises on ground once Nero's circus, shaped as a Latin cross with a dome 448 feet high. The vast bell weighs over 9.25 tons. Foundation began in 1450 A D, forty three Popes lived and died during construction, dedication came in 1826, finished around 1850, with a total cost of $70,000,000.
A reflective meditation extols sleep as a universal blessing. The speaker cites Sancho Panza praising the invention of sleep and notes its calming effects binding fear and hope, hunger and thirst, warmth and cold, and even economic equality among people.
In a mercantile house, clerks weighed a $1 bill against a 20 gold piece and gave varied estimates from 500 to 1,200 bills. The likely count depends on the bill condition and cleanliness, with guesses converging around thirty to thirty one, reflecting the old weighing practice.
A fragment shows a young man with a bright red hat band answering a shore outing question. He notes having a monthly headache pattern for two weeks, hinting at a lively yet uneasy seaside social scene.
Seashore resorts reportedly use sea water as a medicinal drink to aid weight loss. Fishermen bring the water from distant areas to avoid pollution, and a typical daily dose is three times the usual amount.
In a Dutch cathedral monks display a dark phial that appears empty but is claimed to hold some of the darkness spreading across Egypt. The relic is described as one of their most precious treasures kept under guard for centuries.
A playful exchange between grandma and Margery about a little sister who cries often and sees the dark side of things. The scene shifts to a humorous note on America owning the Declaration of Independence written in 7,800 letters on a space the size of a pin so small it requires a microscope to read.
A Nuremberg toy maker reportedly enclosed within a cherry stone a plan of Sevastopol a railway station and the Messiah of Klopstock. The anecdote underscores wartime espionage style tricks circulating as rumors in the era.
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