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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1908
Page
7
A local shop in Greeley promotes first class work for all jewelry and watch repairs. The ad notes the business does all repairs in house, highlighting self reliance and value.
The seventeen year old May Mann, traveling from Longmont to Ault, recalls her rural upbringing in Missouri and Kansas City, describes fear on trains, a past windstorm wreck near Boulder to Denver, and her plan to earn four dollars a week. She has supported herself since age ten and longs for more schooling.
Samuel Boyer of Folsom Iowa recounts twelve years of stomach trouble and costly treatments. He credits Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets with remarkable relief for his wife and endorses the medicine as widely available from druggists with free samples.
Miss Florence Blair turned seven on Monday and her sister celebrated the next day. They toasted with a joint party on Monday afternoon inviting 20 friends to join games and a tasty lunch.
A new woven wire fence factory has opened in Greeley at Eleventh Street and the U P railroad, by J H Gilbert and Sons from Denver. The single machine can produce 180 rods daily, with costs from 20 to 70 cents per rod, and can create ornamental as well as standard mesh fences by order.
The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad issued a 72 page circular and panoramic folder on fertile Colorado and New Mexico lands. It details irrigation and water rights, the San Luis and Uncompaghie valleys, Grand Junction Fruita, Route county, the Unitah reservation, fruit growing, livestock, field peas, alfalfa, potatoes, sugar beets, and the upper Arkansas valley with Saguache Conejos Costilla Archuleta Pagosa Springs.
The advert says Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy began in 1872 amid widespread diarrhoea and cholera. It claims long lasting success for 35 years, wide U.S. and international reach, and high druggist support despite alternative profits. Available from all druggists.
The Colorado and Southern with Loveland Stage Line offers daily through service to Estes Park from Greeley leaving at 1 00 p m and arriving by 5 00 p m in good weather. The round trip fare is 9 10 valid to Oct 31 with 20 pounds of baggage free per passenger and excess baggage at 1 06 per hundred pounds. Passengers are advised to check baggage about 12 hours ahead.
The Greely schools add new teachers Mabel Hanby Carrie Smith Mary Giddings and Mabel Haney. Montello Gray is elected principal at Kersey with Grace Harris and Nellie Talbot as assistants. Florence McMurtry heads Liberty school and Siddie B Rice teaches at Frederick.
Tribune reporters tour the Sells Floto circus backstage in the women's tent meet Mrs Carroll and crew. They note disciplined routines, domestic warmth, and a revelatory view of performers as ordinary people with skilled crafts. The piece praises the show and previews plans to attend again soon.
Island Grove park hosted Fourth of July events with multiple races and bucking contests. Notable entries included Atossa driven by Cooney Travirs in the One Mile Handicap Trot and various riders such as Jesse Gale, Milt Seamon, and Dan Vance Rowling in bucking events. The matinee featured "Free for All" and multi heat races with times around 2:19 to 2:29. First prize went to Harry Ruffner in bucking, with prizes shared between Vance and Elliot. other events included a 4 mile cow pony and a 5 mile motorcycle race won by U. S. Margo from Denver.
An advertisement promotes quart Mason jars of Pure Fruit Jam in flavors strawberry raspberry blackberry and plum. Selling at 3 lb jars for 35 cents, claiming purity and offering trial jars as cheaper than home made and just as good.
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