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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1905
Page
6
The fragment mentions The Pacer and a Big Subscription List, suggesting a sports or publishing item. No clear names, dates, or places are readable to establish a full event or outcome.
The article notes Colorado has opened a new era for small fruits with heavy shipments to markets like Kansas City and Chicago, including strawberries and cherries from Canon City. It warns that government rate controls could threaten these new prospects if a distance tariff becomes necessary, urging careful study.
The Tribune compares two excursions over the Moffat road with the average Fourth of July trip. It notes many riders crowded seats and crowded spaces. The cheap Boulder trip left people tired and some did not wish to return to their homes promptly. The last train arrived around 2 AM, with a week needed for full recovery.
The party rode in cool cars with a full seat per car. The train departed in the morning and returned to Greeley around :30 in the evening, travelers rested and in good spirits. An Eldora trip on Friday July 21 supports the Greeley band with Tribune staff handling passenger comfort.
The Colorado & Southern seeks to buy 6000 tons of 80 pound rails from Colorado Fuel & Iron to replace 150 miles of track on its northern division. Sherman gravel ballast will cost over 100000, and overall improvements reflect heavier locomotives and cars. General Manager J M Herbert ordered extensive line upgrades with about 15000 set for Denver shops. Chief Engineer Cowan had shops expanded six years ago for twenty years’ growth.
W E Haynes a carpenter died at his Evans home about midnight Friday from injuries after a fall three weeks earlier while working on the Jack O Grady building. He broke one arm and suffered internal injuries after the bracket broke as he swung between scaffolds. formerly a contractor in Greeley he was associated with N W Moss who died last summer. He left business in Greeley for a farm and later moved to Evans seeking health.
A petition by about fifty Greeley merchants urged C B Richardson to have the Cook drum corps stop in Greeley for a concert on September 2 en route to Cheyenne. Richardson agreed if train schedules aligned, and Union Pacific official J C Ferguson confirms he will fix the schedule so the concert can proceed.
Ruth Dewey of Agnewville Virginia fell ill with cholera infantum last summer. Her father E N Dewey says a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy brought rapid improvement within five hours and the child recovered after part of a bottle was taken. The remedy is sold by all druggists.
The Switzerland Trail offers a special excursion Friday July 21 with train leaving Greeley at 7 45 a m. The trip invitation notes children pay half price and the package costs only three dollars.
Advertisements tout LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE tablets as a one day cure for colds. All druggists guarantee a refund if the remedy fails. Each box bears the signature of E. W Groves.
A boulevard resident boasted of a musical ear and mocked his wife for lacking talent. She tested him by asking him to judge a piano tuner’s work. He declared it fixed, then learned the tuner had not come that day. He realizes the tune remains uncertain.
A historical prayer urges landholders to temper rents and excessive charges. It asks God to remind owners they are stewards and to let homes and lands at fair rates so tenants can live honestly, pay rents, support families, and aid the poor.
A passerby barber asks a stranger about a Mark Twain lecture. The stranger, Mr Clemens, plans to attend but has no ticket yet, prompting the barber to note he may have to stand. The exchange emphasizes the popular appeal of Twain's talks in a modest town.
Joseph Jefferson recounts a Springfield calamity when a young Abraham Lincoln, then a lawyer, argued before the town council to reduce a heavy license on the troupe. Lincoln’s eloquent plea mixed logic and humor, saving the players from ruin and enabling their small theater to survive.
A Dundee Advertiser tale reports a doctor leaving a patient a bottle labeled Before taken to be well shaken. On a later visit, the patient’s vigorous young son shakes him head to foot between doses, arguing that if the father drinks too much physic he cannot die.
A Worcester bishop alighted at Paddington and asked a porter to check his luggage. When asked how many items there were he answered thirty nine in an abstruse manner. The porter returned with only two articles found.
A manager jokes about casting Hamlet and praises an actor as uniquely fitted, offering him a job in a humorous exchange cited by the Chicago Record-Herald.
The Burmese mile equal to two English miles is defined by a word meaning to all and marks the distance a man walks before it feels necessary to sit down.
A brief exchange shows a writer reporting steady progress with magazine submissions. The respondent notes mutual exchange of drafts and revisions, indicating ongoing collaboration and perseverance.
A reflective line hints at rebellion as a path to happiness, suggesting a philosophical stance on embracing freedom over conventional life constraints. The fragment evokes a quest for joy beyond societal norms.
Dr Glover and Dr Marsh report early loco investigations with negative results. They note that loco weed provides no nutrition and that a horse fed solely on loco died, suggesting a possible locoed condition in cattle and horses. Researchers plan further analysis in Washington to uncover causes.
A Greeley resident E Heaton reports kidney pain from back strain and cold. After using Doan’s Kidney Pills from H Reynolds & Co and hearing strong recommendations, he says the pills eased symptoms and did not upset his stomach or bowels. Sold everywhere with Foster Milburn as U S agents. Remember the name Doan’s.
The Burlington railway issues two new publications. A irrigation bulletin summarizes the latest government reclamation report with statistics on projects including North Platte Belle Fourche and Crow reservation. The Cody Road into Yellowstone Park describes sights along the new government road from Cody to the park.
Frank J. Cheney tests a general cure offer in Toledo Ohio promising one hundred dollars for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary public A W Gleason witnesses sworn affidavit. الشركة sells Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills via druggists for 75 cents.
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