Colorado fruit shipments spark new era in 1905
The year 1905 opens a fruit shipping boom for Colorado with two new markets in a month. Canon City cherries reach Chicago and Kansas City receives a strawberry car, signaling rapid industry growth and raising concerns over potential government railroad rate changes and distance tariffs.
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Colorado
California
Florida
Kansas City
Green Hill
Canon City
Chicago
Tribune Tours Show Moffat Road Trips Compared
The Tribune compares this season’s two Moffat road excursions with the Fourth of July trip and notes the Boulder cheap excursion drew crowds. From three to four persons shared each seat and riders crowded, stepping on others toes. The last train arrived around 2 AM, with a full recovery likely to take a week after the trip begun a week ago.
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the Tribune
Moffat Road
Boulder
Moffat road excursion offers comfortable travel and rested travelers
The report notes a smooth ride on cool cars with full seating and a 8:30 pm return to Greeley. An Eldora excursion is planned for Friday July 21 to benefit the Greeley band with Tribune staff ensuring comfort. The trip promises a good rest in the mountains with a reasonable start time and a normal bedtime.
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Moffat Road
Greeley
Tribune
Eldora
Tribune Force
Colorado & Southern Plans Rails and Roadbed Overhaul
Colorado and Southern to buy 6000 tons of eighty pound rails from Colorado Fuel and Iron to upgrade its northern division. 150 miles will be ballasted with Sherman gravel at a cost over 100000. 175000 for rails and track work, with 15000 set for Denver shop improvements. Chief Engineer Cowan had shops built for twenty years growth.
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Colorado & Southern
Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
J. M. Herbert
Denver
Cowan
Carpenter W. E. Haynes Dies After Evans Fall
W E Haynes a former contractor and builder in Greeley died at his Evans home around midnight Friday from injuries after a fall from a roof while working on the Jack O Grady building. A bracket broke while he moved between scaffolds causing a fatal impact with the ground. He previously partnered with N W Moss in Greeley. After leaving town he farmed then moved to Evans for health reasons.
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W. E. Haynes
Evans
Haynes
Jack O’grady
Greeley
N. W. Moss
Music in the Air for Cheyenne Frontier Day Stop
Petition by about fifty Greeley business men urged Cook drum corps to perform in Greeley on September 2 en route to Cheyenne. Manager B Richardson agreed if train schedules allowed. Union Pacific agent J Ferguson says he will fix the schedule so the concert can happen.
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B. Richardson
Cheyenne
Cook
Greeley
Richardson
J. C. Ferguson
Union Pacific
Cholera Infantum Stricken Child Recovers With Remedy
Ruth Dewey of Agnewville Virginia suffered a severe cholera infantum attack last summer. Her father E N Dewey recalls nearly giving up hope until a bottle of Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy was used. In five hours improvement appeared and after half a bottle she was well. The remedy is sold by all druggists.
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Ruth
E. N. Dewey
Agnewville
Chamberlain
Special excursion to Eldora and Glacier Lake on Switzerland Trail
Train departs Greeley at 7 45 a m Friday July 21 for Eldora and Glacier Lake with a special excursion. Children travel at half rate.
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Eldora
Glacier Lake
Switzerland Trail
Greeley
To Cure a Cold in One Day Teke LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE
Advert confirms a remedy promising rapid cold cure with bromine quinine tablets. It notes a drugstore refund if ineffective and carries E. W Grove's signature on each box. Sold for 25 cents.
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Crregiste
E. W Grove
Atte
Tuner Trick Exposes Husband’s Musical Claims
A Kansas City Times anecdote tells of a husband who mocked his wife’s lack of talent and boasted of a musical ear. She testifies by asking him to play. he agrees the tuner fixed the piano, unaware the tuner will come tomorrow.
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Massent Mar
Kansas City Times
Prayer for landlords from a Tudor prayer book
A prayer from King Edward VI's era asks landlords to temper rents and avoid greed. It calls on the Holy Spirit to move tenants to treat dwellings justly, ensure inhabitants can pay rent and support families, and remember they are temporary stewards rather than owners.
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Edward VI
England
Mark Twain Lectures Draw Standers in Town
Mark Twain arrives in a small eastern town and visits a barber before a lecture. The barber learns a Twain talk is in town and asks if the stranger will attend. Clemens replies he expects to go but has no ticket, remarking he always ends up standing for Twain.
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Mark Twain
Mr. Clem
Mr. Clemens
Man Twain
Lincoln Saves Springfield Players In License Row
Joseph Jefferson recalls how his father and company faced ruin in Springfield HI after a religious revival led to a heavy license for actors. A young lawyer named Abraham Lincoln argued before the town council, securing a license fee reduction and saving the troupe.
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Joseph Jefferson
Springfield
Council
Abraham Lincoln
Why He Was Well Shaken
Rural Scottish nursing is depicted as primitive as a Dundee Advertiser tale explains a doctor left a patient a bottle labeled before taken to be well shaken. The subsequent visit shows a strong son vigorously shakes the patient head to foot before dosing again, arguing the father’s drinking keeps him alive.
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Scotland
Dundee Advertiser
Bishop and porter clash over luggage at Paddington
The bishop of Worcester alighted from a train at Paddington and asked a porter to count his luggage. He gave the figure thirty nine, but the porter returned with only two items found. The anecdote appears in the London Sporting Times.
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Worcester
Paddington
London Sporting Times
The Only One of His Kind
A manager consults an actor about playing Hamlet and deems him exceptional after he declines the role, stating his lack of fitting nature to impersonate the melancholy Dane. The exchange appears in the Chicago Record-Herald.
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Hamlet
Dane
Chicago Record-Herald
The Burmese Mile Described as Sit-Point Distance
The Burmese mile equals two English miles and is defined by a word meaning to sit, marking the distance a man travels before he sits down.
Holding His Own Writing Exchange Reveals Rejections
In a brief exchange the writer notes they are “holding my own” with magazine work and editor feedback. They say magazines return as much as they send, indicating a steady but reciprocal relationship with publication submissions.
Spirit of rebellion fuels quest for happiness in a lie
A terse line reflects on rebellion’s allure and the pursuit of happiness within a deceptive frame, suggesting skepticism toward comfort found in falsehoods.
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Ibsen
Starved on loco Dr Glover studies loco weed starvation
Dr Glover of the state experiment station joins Dr Marsh in loco investigation at Hugo. Early results are negative except that loco weed provides no nourishment. A horse fed solely on loco died likely from starvation. Cattle and horses avoid loco unless forced. Large samples are sent to Washington for analysis to uncover its role.
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Glover
State Experiment Station
Hugo
Marsh
Washington
Positive proof of kidney relief from Doan's pills
Mead it E Heaton of 711 Ninth street testifies that kidney and back pain from cold or strain improved after taking Doan's Kidney Pills from H Reynolds Co. drug store. The pill package sold for 50 cents with Foster Milburn Co Buffalo as US agents. Remember the name Doan's.
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Greeley
Mead
E. Heaton
Ninth Street
Dean
H., Reynolds & Co’s
Eighth Street
Ninth Avenue
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
United States
Burlington Publishes Two New Railway Folders
The Burlington railway issued two new publications. A bulletin on irrigation compiles the latest government report with statistics on reclamation projects including North Platte Belle Fourche and Crow reservation. The Cody Road into Yellowstone Park describes highlights along the new government road from Cody to the park. Both are illustrated and valuable to western railroad literature.
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Burlington Railway
North Platte
Belle Fourche
Crow Reservation
Cody
Yellowstone Park
National Park
Wyo
West
Hall's Catarrh Cure advertised by J Cheney & Co
Frank J. Cheney of F. J. Cheney & Co. swears the firm will pay one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The oath dated 1886 lists Toledo Ohio as the firm's location and notes the medicine is taken internally and affects the blood and mucous surfaces.
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State of Ohio
Toledo
Lucas County
Frank J. Cheney
F. J. Cheney & Co
Hall
Ank J. Cheney
Aaa
Ason
Seal
J. Cheney
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Paris
Farmers’ Mercantile Company
Aigo, Mer
O’grady
Doan
Clayton Lumber Co
Lincoln Paints
Kansas City Southern Railway
The
Gulf
H.D. Dutton
Warner G.P
T.A
E. Roesler
Trav
Imig
Nant ST
Chas.e. Sloat
St. Denver
M. L. Mowry
Trav. Pass, Agt
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