14 Jul 1875
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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1875
Page
1
Buckley, county surveyor of Weld County, will lay out irrigating canals and perform all surveying tasks. William Stein offers house and sign painting, carriage painting, glazing, papering, and mining work from a shop on Main Street opposite the Tribune Office. also lists collections and conveyancing services, property conveyance, and auctioning.
Correspondence from Huron describes a Denver News reader’s trek across the high country from Trail Creek to the Laramie Basin. The party crosses the Wyoming line regularly, camps near the Laramie River, notes prairies, pine forests, and abundant wildlife, and details Laramie City’s rapid growth, industry, and the vast hay production on the Laramie Plains.
The Springfield Republican notes Herbert Spencer's Principles of Sociology appearing in the United States as a quarterly serial by Appleton, four-divisions planned, three volumes issued so far, with each number about 75 to 80 pages. The piece explains the author’s terms such as super-organic evolution and discusses climate's influence on race and civilization, highlighting hot dry regions as cradles of mastery and noting the Attic region of America as a cultural center near the Merrimac river with many prominent families and figures connected to its lore.
Mrs. Spofford’s Harper’s July feature extols Newburyport’s Essex worthies with portraits of Judge Parsons and Whittier, notes on Adams, Paine, King, and the Boston bard, and recalls Whitefield’s tomb by the Merrimac, along with refugees, diplomats, and local signers and reformers.
The narrator visits Northampton to seek relics of the great divine Edwards. He admires the Edwards church site and the two ancient trees planted by Edwards, noting a grotto like room in a major branch and a millstone doorstep relic. He humorously recalls the Edwards grog shop and Pine Street landmarks.
A long letter discusses whether parental instruction shapes birdsong, arguing birds sing by instinct with males as singers and teachers only in limited cases. It contrasts repetitive mating calls, nest-building sound patterns, and species identity notes, then includes a reader’s English perspective on American education and society, ending with a personal sign-off from William Dover of New Jersey.
Wilson Flagg observes in Birds and Seasons of New England that the male's singing quiets when the female sits, resumes during incubation atop a neighboring tree, possibly to lure her away, while males show increased vocalization when the mate is absent and may coquet with other females.
The New York Sun describes the Schuylkill Fishing Company as America’s oldest social club, founded in May 1732. It owns land by the river with a historic dining hall, aging chairs and utensils, and a prized pewter coat of arms once lost at sea. Officers include a Governor, Council, and Coroner, with about 25 members and a few apprentices.
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