Local Business Cards and Services Adverts
J D Buckley surveyor offers surveying ditching and land locations on government or colony lands. F C Beckwith real estate agent in Burlington Colorado buys and sells farms and lands with abstracts. Dr J B Scott professional services in Greeley Pine Street Bakery on Madison Street. F L Curmps bakery goods on Main Street near Colony Hall. S Joyce Root Maker Maple Street offers top quality boots with perfect fit.
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J.D. Buckley
Daniel Witter
Arapahior County
Denver City
Washington
F.C. Beckwith
Burlington
Colo
Colorado
J. 8. Scott
Greeley
Pine
Madison St
Joyce
Maple St
Letter from a Colorado temperance booster on colony life
A long missive in a period voice discusses the Union Colony at Pike's Peak, temperance rules, hotels, and the push for work and self sufficiency. It cites local hotels, Benson's Park Hotel, Longmont, Long's Peak, and the Denver scene, urging residents to embrace industry and avoid rum holes while praising wheat and crops.
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Canal No. 2
Main Street
Monroe Street
Friend Roberts
Pike’s Peak
Saratoga
Union
General and Company
Pike's Peak
Long's Peak
Yosemite
Long’s Peak
Benson’s Park Hotel
Denver
Benson
Corrado
Longmont
Benson & Co
Lyceums
Farmers’s Club
Greeley Tribune
Leavy
Foster
Boyd
Sam
Colorado
The Louvre Through Time and its Grand Facades
The Louvre was mainly built under Louis XIV and finished under Napoleon. Its eastern front by Corinthean columned galleries, grand central pediments, and bronze gates defined a premier facade. Interiors housed priceless art while later sieges risked loss. some foreign curiosities may have survived.
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Louvre
Louis XIV
Napoleon
Surroun
Charles X
Louis Phill
Louis XV
Are Arts
Claude Perrault
France
Paris
America
China
India
Europe
Model Woman's Rights Young Lady Miss M. E. Dyott
The American Society profiles Miss M. E. Dyott editor and proprietor of the New Rochelle Pioneer in Westchester County. At about eighteen she runs a weekly paper from a cottage printing office, assisted by two boys, and displays notable talent and fortitude as a young woman in publishing.
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The
American Society
M. E. Dyott
New Rochelle Pioneer
Westchester County
Miss Dyott
Church Street
New Rochelle
Pioneer
Definition of the two forms of love from Ideal Womanhood
An excerpt from Overland Monthly July outlines lower forms of love as crude and brief while contrasting a higher love aligned with spirituality. It describes a full reciprocal union where two complete beings harmonize moral life, taste, affection, and spiritual nature to become true lovers in a divine sense.
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Beecher
Heaven
Overland Monthly
Potatoes a Century Ago Promote Cultivation and Use
The article extols potatoes as a sturdy fodder crop and food for both cattle and people. It notes easy boiling, storability, and value when mixed with wheat meal for bread, urging farmers to adopt cultivation despite scarce wheat.
The Climate of Italy and Its Varied Climates
The author notes that Italians and visitors rely on published works for climate ideas yet fail to gain practical insight. He warns that a place being in Italy does not guarantee good climate and that travelers often reach the wrong spot despite widely discussed theories.
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Italy
Atlantic
Sol
Horrid Murders Enthralls Widow Bedott and Husband
A widow speaks of her fascination with the book Horrid Murders. She recounts how her husband treasured it, reading aloud and staying awake late. She offers to lend the volume to Mr Crane, praising the tale of Miss O Kill em and her multiple murders.
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Mr. Crane
O’killem
Literary Locusts in Colorado Mining Territory
The Colorado Miner laments an influx of shows exhibitions lecturers advertising agents and itinerant correspondents, arguing many are gullible and their hurried reports misrepresent the mining camp resources. The piece condemns unreliable writing and the hurtful impact on the Territory.
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Colorado Miner
Colorado
Gray's Peak
Leap of Faith in Love: A Maiden’s Quiet Courage
Leigh Hunt's essay on marriage closes with a vivid portrait of a young woman leaving her safe, cherished past to face an uncertain future. She finds strength in trust, whispering a hopeful pledge to her lover as she leans on him. The passage emphasizes devotion, belief, and the enduring power of love.
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Leigh Hunt
Bower
Smallpox Suspected Visit At New Orleans Clinic
A starchily dressed man called at a backstreet shop on Howard Street in New Orleans seeking Dr Jeffries. A dilapidated colored man claimed the doctor, but when asked about smallpox the man panicked and fled, insisting he was the doctor yet not proficient with smallpox.
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Howard Street
New Orleans
Jeffries
Sambo
Women Fight For Rights Amid Imagined Racial Voting Shifts
The writer decries universal suffrage as unrealistic and fears Indigenous and other groups will gain political power before women. She compares governance to a schoolboy’s capricious cake prize, claiming Christian women lack access to government and taxation influence.
Soda Lake near Independence Rock offers soda production
A soda lake was found near Independence Rock in the Territory near Sweetwater river, about sixty-five miles from Rawlins. The site could yield sixty thousand tons of soda annually at under two dollars per ton with rail freight around twelve dollars per ton. Samples tested by McDonald and Dr. Waters show sesqui carbon ate of soda with a trace of sulfuric acid, deemed valuable by some.
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Independence Rock
Sweetwater River
Rawlins
Union Pacific
McDonald
Waters
Carson City
Miscellany of Wit And Wisdom In Moss Agates
A collection of short quips and quatrains featured for amusement. It includes puns on rye stalks, seeable contrasts of vanity and virtue, editor’s fortunes, and light moral maxims. Notable lines joke about contractors, manners, character, and a playful exchange between David Roberts and a critic.
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David Roberts
Roberta
D. Roberts
Ode to a Heroic Ghost from a Binghamton Poet
A romantic wartime lyric by N. S. B. of Binghamton New York laments a fallen hero. The speaker recalls marching troops and a bright company then meets the hero as a ghost amid battle memories and aching longing. The piece blends surreal hauntings with grief for a lost beloved returning as a specter.
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J. HW
Bones
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Babcock & Taylor
U. S
Fr. M. Babcock
Phillip Taylor
Marx & CO
Maple Street
New York
E. C. Monk & Co
BOOTS
Proneun
Greenley
H. G. Bond
Hussey’s Bank
F and Holladay Streets
Dexven
Percival
Carpenter
Cor
Walnut
Madison Streets
Park House
Park
J. W. Benson
A. E. Gipson
ELLEY
Tribune
J. H. Paine
Spruce Street
Madison and
Jefferson Avenues
Harvey Townsend
SI Air
Walnutst
S. BE. Cor
J. CO. Hwigly
Freep & Save SraBee
L. van Gohren
F. L. Curmps
Boston
Main St
Colony Hall
S. K. Thompson
Madison & Spruce Sts
J. Leavy
Grant and
Sherman Sts
G. H. Webster
California
MR. Mac Smith
Henry Ward Beecher
Grace Greenwood
Moss Agates
Hartford
Tease
Miss Cross
Cross
Moore
Putney
Thomas
Mrs.riffin
Chicago Tribune
N.S. B
Binghampton
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