Paris and London Exposures From An English Traveler
An English observer compares Paris hospitality with London lodging hardships. He praises Paris Splendide Hotel and a comforting Madeleine market dinner, then details grim London stays from Langham to Fleet Street with rude clerks, smoky rooms, and shabby servants. He contrasts English vice, manners, and policing with Parisian refinement and order.
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the Madeleine
Paris
Rothschilds
London
Fleet, Street
Langham
California letters praise Napa Valley and climate from St Helena
A letter to the Greeley Tribune from J. E. Amprosa in St Helena on January 7 1878 describes California prospects. He extols Napa Valley vineyards near Vallejo and Mt Selena, notes mild winters, growing wheat and fruit, and compares California life to Colorado. The piece ends with a brief note on a New York jeweler misdeed and ministers defending hell.
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Greeley Tribune
Str
Colorado
San Francisco
Greeley
Cheyenne
Sacramento
Bay
Vallejo
Union
Kearney
Market Streets
Broadway
New York
Napa Valley
Mt. S.ifelena
St. Helena
Golden Gate
J. E. Amprosa
Jan
Notable Colorado Journalist Samuel Bowles Dies After Long Career
The Denver News reports the death of Samuel Bowles with remembrances of his influence in journalism and politics. Bowles chaired the Republican from 1844, trained in printing, and authored travel books including Across the Continent and The Switzerland of America. He married long ago and had seven children, funding their majority gifts of 25 000 each. His travels with Colfax through 1865 and 1868 boosted his Colorado writings and tourism legacy.
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Denver News
Bow'es
Colorado
Mr. Bowles
Morehan
Bowles
Mr. Greeley
Case
The
Republican
Samuel, Jr
Colfax
Pictures From Life in the Black Hills Portraits of Frontier Figures
The article satirizes frontier archetypes in Deadwood and nearby towns. It lampoons a poet novelist and evokes characters such as Petite Kittie Calamity Jane Monte Verde Captain Jack Aunt Sally Wild Bill and others with humor about their exploits and mythic status in the Black Hills frontier. It notes the claim of Jeff Davis’ daughters studying in Germany.
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Black Hills
Kittie
Calamity Jane
Deadwool
Monte Verde
Deadwood
Captain Jack
Sally
Wild Bill
Colorado and the West News Roundup
Reports of smallpox in Denver and Garland plus a concert disruption. Local industry notes include a $75,000 Colorado Springs Live Stock Co. and coal discoveries in Jefferson and Pueblo counties. Wool scalps and hawks heads paid by the state, and roundups planned by the Colorado Cattle Growers association in Arapahoe and Weld counties.
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Colorado Springs
Colorado Cattle Growers’ Association
Arapahoe
Weld
George Aux
North Fork
Republican
Evans
Platte River
Cherry Creek
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K. Thompson
Main Street
Qreeley
Exchange Hotel
Hotel DE Comfort
Mail and
Jefferson Streets
Graham
J. & Dunas
M. Freeman
Attorney At Law
J. D. Brewer
Union Colony
Japan
Buckley
Union Bank
H. N. Rogerson
Greeley House
Greeley, Weld County
D. L. Dawley
F. L. Childs
R. Bennett
Amaleo
Pioneer Paper
London Weekly World
Regent Street
Piccadiily
England
Europe
France
America
Custom House
Arabia
Liverpool
Dover
Imperial Polytechnic School
Edmund Yates
London World
Florentine
Duke of Wellington
Constitution Till
St. Stephen's
Crystal Palace
Surrey Hills
Windsor
Harness
Ek. M
Fdmand Yates
Madeleine Market
Monsieur
Cannon-street
Charing Cross
Madame Emile
Monsieur Emile
Emile
Ney
Madame la Marquise
California
Stamford
Hell
Beecher
Samuel Bowles
New York Tribune
Jeff. Davis
Germany
Denver
Denver Liberal League
Thomas Paing
Tim Coleman
Jim Airfield
Julia Palmer
Garland
C. C. Welch
Golden
Coal Creek
Jefferson County
Boulder County
Denver Democrat
Pueblo
Ira W. Davis
Black Hawk
John Nichols
Friend Nichols
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