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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1873
Page
2
Greeley boosters urge capitalists to fund new enterprises as the town plans a round house and machine shops. They call for a brick hotel, butcher, ice house, woolen mill, tanning yard and dairy expansion to capitalize on irrigation and stock-raising, stressing competition as growth fuel.
Mr J B Flower plans to open a sanitarium in Greeley to provide better lodging for invalids and those in delicate health. The town now lacks suitable accommodations besides a few private houses and hotel rooms, while Denver already shows strong demand. Flower and Gen Cameron see the need and intend to act to fill it.
Residents vent about lacking urban luxuries while thousands enjoy seaside baths. The town has a river nearby, described as pleasant though not a surf nor deep, and locals mention a Malay connection plus nearby places such as Malasian Acneeo WN.
Proposal from Greeley and Fort Collins residents to escort Agricultural Editors visiting early August up the Cache la Poudre valley. Editors are among the best papers in the United States and are described as friends of Colorado. many will be accompanied by their wives.
A venomous critique targets a man who feigns friendship while pursuing women like Miss Palmer. The piece mocks his sanctimony, calls him a “white sepulchre,” and expresses ironic gratitude for his alleged purity as it rebukes him and those who fall short of its standards.
N. Meeker notes severe grasshopper damage across Kansas and Nebraska and cites desolated counties in Iowa and vast areas of the Atlantic states. Denver leaders launch a town library gift project. critics quip about gaming and prison history in other states.
Mr. Crofutt of the Western World says he will not publish $1,000 worth of disreputable advertisements and may close his columns if forced. The Greeley Tribune cites Mansfield Tracy Walworth as deserving hanging, while the Denver Tribune questions such claims by citing Walworth’s letters and apologists.
Miss Rebecca W. Esterbrook formerly of Warren Rhode Island sister of Mrs. Nelly Ames died of consumption in Brooklyn last Friday evening. She contributed to Harper's Weekly the New York Ledger and other journals with poems reports and sketches widely copied.
Friends recalled plans for Colorado as the patient deteriorated and began to breathe air more celestial than ours, beholding glories her poetic mind never dreamed of.
The Crofutt's Western World article praises Greeley colony residents for banning liquor on their lands and destroying a rogue groggery. It notes no gin mills near their town site and urges colonists to extend temperance and rout gambling establishments nationwide.
Mr Byers joins Dr Hayden and Prof Gardner in an expedition from Fairplay to survey the Arkansas headwaters. They will measure altitudes and extend triangulations from Denver through Saguache and Lake Fork to the Holy Cross, then proceed to the Blue River and Grand River canyons. The goal is to record loftiest summits. The trek continues around Middle Park then north toward Longs Peak. The New York Watson mocks the Republican Party as a government office run concern with no political doctrine.
The Grand Central Union Depot covering three blocks from Forty-Second to Forty-Fifth streets is among the continent's largest buildings. It is 730 feet long and 250 feet wide with towering facades, ranking just after the National Capitol in Washington.
Mr. I. Vale of Gorham Silver Manufacturing Co Providence R I visits Greeley spending a week near the river barge Ise and owning property in town He plans to relocate once affairs are settled noting greener farms around Greeley than Rhode Island He left Monday for mountain trips around Central and Black Hawk The Eureka Sentinel recalls a bullion shipment of 80113 pounds by Prichard with a large mule drawn convoy Beecher cites a policy of avoiding personal comments about remarks heard about him
The Latest News notes Longfellow at Nahant cholera in Cincinnati. Pere Hyacinthe to revisit next Spring. Fremonts at Saratown. New York Editorial Excursion to Colorado. A fruit- shipping venture to Nevada and Utah forms. Apples and apricots near ripe in St George Utah for a large crop. Nilsson said to be child of American mother and Swedish father. Major Powell leaves Salt Lake for Colorado River exploration. Mrs Dr Walker wins a $900 Treasury clerkship in Washington. Body of a woman found in NYC tenement half eaten by rats. Dr Hazenfeldt blown to pieces by giant powder while fishing. Greenbush fire near Albany destroys $150,000. boy Bradt named. Grand Rapids fire destroys $300,000 and 200 buildings. Persian king rumor of conspiracy to rob him in Europe. Mark Twain at Edward’s Hotel in London amid company. Spanish decree ends embargoes and restores seized property in Cuba. Beecher preaches last sermon before Colorado vacation. Mrs Walworth and son at Sing Sing jail. no visitors for Frank. Mormon colony to Arizona a failure. 700+ return to Utah. scarcity of water and pasture. Jay Cooke and others form NY-Philly association to create Bucks County park for game propagation. Sixty acres timbered tract with cleared land for pasturage noted. Wendell Phillips quote about best education.
A compilation of Colorado frontier notes includes Teller and sister traveling east, reorganization at Boulder News, fires in Canyon City, new steam mill near Fort Collins, ore transport by Kansas Pacific, corner stone laid at Colorado Springs church, Broadwell House sale to W L Dunn, Hayden party mishap on Gray's Peak, Evans flouring mill progress, Denver packing and rail developments, and upcoming state fairs.
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