Colorado Town Booms Amid Framing of Immigrant Prospects
Over three years after Greeley settlement the town prospers with 2000+ residents, strong trade, low prices, banks, mills, four churches, and a promising health climate. Land under irrigation offers eighty acre plots from eight to fifteen dollars an acre. water rights and railroad development promise rising real estate values. The write urges careful immigration, warns against loose management, and denounces county and municipal fee abuses while calling for tax and fee reform.
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Greeley
Colorado
Denver
Gual
Colorado i
United States
Selon Robinson
Kansas
Nebraska
Ohio
Ilinois
Union Pacific Railroad
Denver Pacific
Fees and corruption stir Colorado politics and press
The Denver Mirror laments extortionate county and territorial fees and a failure to cut costs despite lobbying by officeholders. It urges the Legislature to reduce fees, denounces lending public money, and notes support from the Denver Tribune. It also previews New York Tribune scientific material and reports unusually healthy fruit trees due to moisture.
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Denver Mirror
Colorado
Justice of the Peace
Denver Tribune
House resolves against state funds for religious groups
The resolution condemns appropriating public money for any religious denomination or affiliated institution. It argues donations should be private, warns against setting a precedent, and pledges opposition to funding Catholic, Protestant, Christian, or Jewish sects for any theological educational or other purpose.
Temperance Efforts Rise In Fredonia Campaign
The Fredonia temperance movement reports strong progress as women advocate against liquor. One hundred ladies attempted entry to the Taylor House before the door was locked, then prayed at a saloon, visited a drug store, and heard temperance sermons.
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Fredonia
New York
Taylor
Columans
Obie
Wilmington
Sabina
Gallipe'is
New Vienna
van Pelt
New York Tribune
Path from tavern to gallows in one man’s descent
A dark moral vignette traces a man from cider and ale to wine and beer, then to billiards and a dance hall with liquor, leading to a fight or fire, an officer’s arrival, jail and finally the gallows, while friends weep. The speaker insists the end comes soon.
Distillery Tax Sparks Outcry Over Prolific Theft Toll
A San Francisco distillery paid $600000 in internal revenue tax last year. The liquor sold allegedly reached millions of gallons, with every gallon tied to a theft, fight, robbery, or horror in an innocent family, prompting strong government critique of its own revenues.
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U. S. Supreme Court
Wnteil Qidue
Bramwell
San Franscisco
Irrigation units and temperance notes from Pueblo January 1874
A letter urges standardizing irrigation terms by units like yards and feet per second to avoid misinterpretation. The piece from Pueblo discusses a local temperance crusade in several towns, where women confront saloons, sometimes with dramatic actions, and recounts related editorials and a long overview of the Patrons of Husbandry movement including structure, aims, and membership rules.
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the Tribune
Colorado
Prizes Awarded by Pennsylvania Good Templars Committee
The executive Committee of the Pennsylvania Good Templars offers two prizes for the quarter ending April 30. One is a silver service for the lodge with the greatest net increase, the other a handsome regalia to the winner.
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The
Pennsylvania Good Templars
Lodge Elevates In Crest Push In Term
A Lodge achieves the highest percentage growth in the term, enabling even small lodges to compete. The note suggests art as a positive force and prizes as a beneficial gesture, aligning with the watchword Y.
Treasury of the Home Grange in Workin to Receive Applications
Treasury of the Home Grange No 38 is ready to receive applications for membership and related duties. J Max Crank is noted in association with the order.
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Agedley
J. Max Crank
Town Board Proceedings Adopt Ordinance Amending No 13
The town board approved the judiciary committee report on Ordinance No 2 amending No 13 and adjourned after listing petty expenses for printing and pound services. Bills referred to the Finance Committee totaled 26.80 for printing and 2.50 for day services plus 2.00 for pound services.
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Board of
Greeley
Colorado
Nichols’ Block
Ira Canfield
Jos. A.” Woodbury
Theo, Ingalsbe
Jos. Moore
T. H. Bayley
B. W. Hilton
J. N. Rogerson
Fire Department
Jackson Street
Board of County Commissioners
B. Wright
B. Wright For Services As Con- Blbdio
Carsoapesrgeres Coccersrppans
Finance Committee
Messrs
Vickers & French
Ettabeeeetesseesssess
W. Shattioak
Ovid Plumb
Annereini
Jos, Moore
Judiciary Committee
A New Cemetery Proposal for Greeley Bluff Land
A local offer suggests reserving fifty acres on the bluff north of Greeley for a cemetery. Two hundred lots at ten dollars each would fund initial and ongoing improvements with shared ownership. The writer requests reader feedback via the Post Office Anvin J. Woven.
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Greeley Tribune
Greeley
Washington Street
Post Office
Anvin J. Woven
Chicago's Disgrace and liquor influence in city government
A Prohibitionist editorial denounces Chicago politics with mayoral corruption and liquor-keeper aldermen. It criticizes the school committee and licensing panel for distillers and saloon keepers, calling the city cursed by a long liquor reign.
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Cleveland
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Ralston
Platte Canyon
Plumb Creek
Littleton
Arvada
Fort Collins
St. Vrain
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Erie
Valmont
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Big Thompson
Froude
Wendell Philips
New England
Tabor
the Town Board
Eli Hall
Poundeer
the Tribone
Marsh
Greveley Tribune
Chicago
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