Colorado Wheat and Potatoes From a Canadian Farmer
Canadian farmhand Moses Ouellette details Colorado growing, irrigation, and yields. He praises Sonora and Chili wheat, oats around forty bushels per acre, barley from Colorado, and potatoes up to sixty pounds per bushel. He notes grasshoppers, beets, cabbages, and vegetables prosper under irrigation. He also cites prices, labor, and diverse crops despite wind and arid conditions.
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Amos Cummings
New York Sun
Manirow
Con
Moses Ouellette
Colorado
Denver
Ouellette
New York City
States
Sonora
New Mexico
Salt Lake
California
Mr. Ouellette
Mr. Quellette
Mr. Oullette
Quellette
Norway
Farrer
Hermann Damhorst
St. Louis
Upper Canada
Divide
Rocky Mountains
Local Advertisements Promote Goods and Services in Greeley
A collage of local notices lists vendors along Main and Walnut streets offering bedding plants bulbs and produce, as well as bread cakes pies and specialties. It includes mill and wagon services, contractor and builder ads with surveying and irrigation work, painting and glazing, boot making, real estate and legal services, and a note directing patrons to Colony Office for details.
Manpower and machinery compared with British slave-like power
The author cites Robert Dale Owen and English statisticians estimating modern world labor at about six hundred million adult workers, against a world population of about twelve hundred million. He argues Britain’s machinery equates to two worlds of labor, with seven and a half million adults directing vast inanimate slaves.
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Robert Dale Owen
Great Britain
Ireland
British Isles
Waiting for the Right Moment Longfellow Quote
A Longfellow quotation urges patience and steady effort. It emphasizes that success comes from doing well at the task, not seeking fame or others approval. It warns against restless ambition and constant attention to public judgment.
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Longfellow
Watering by skin soaking and salt water cure thirst
A 1869 Dodgson annual note recounts Captain Kennedy's voyage where soaking clothes and washing with salt water twice daily eased drought thirst. The account claims thirst relief and renewed vigor, while warning that drinking salt water proved deadly for four crew members.
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Kennedy
Dodstey
Barroom confession and temperance plea from a wrecked man
A young man pleads to bar patrons to halt drinking after a delirium tremens episode, while the landlady vows to stop selling alcohol. The tale follows Lucrezia Borgia and Brinvilliers as infamous killers, then compares the Kansas Bender sisters as utterly vile criminals with Parisian detectives pursuing Katie Bender for alleged crimes.
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Lucrezia Borgia
Marchioness
Brinvilliers
Bender
Kansas
Amart
Withal
France
Katie Bender
Paris
Quotations Highlight Humility and Labor Values
A clipped text presents two quotes: a critique of imitation and a biblical nod to fair pay. The fragment contrasts mindless copying with the notion that workers deserve wages, reflecting classic moral aphorisms.
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Rt & Allen
Denver Pacific Railway
Cache la Poudre Valley
Main St
Madison
Jefferson Ste
Greeley
Solierren
R. George Pyburn
Monroe Street
Maple Street
Reeley Livery Stable
Madison Street
Greeley House
A. B. Cannon
Geo. F.inman
McPhail & Co
Boston
Wir
Iam Stein
Male Street
Tribune
W. Hilton
Kansas City
Clear Creek
Platte
Arkansas
Minnesota
East
Massachusetts
Mexico
Jay
Fairplay
Howard
Doston
Philadelphia Press
W. I. S. Murray
Guilford
Conn
Halleck
Rhode Island
Mareco Bozzaris
Murray
Ida
Sandusky City
Ohio
Maple and
Madison Streets
N. M. Boynton
A A. MC Allee
the Bank, Main Street
Greeley, Colorado
Grant
Sherman Ste
EO. Pyburn, C.E
Willlo
B. C. Adams
Childs
Colony Stall
A. Henry
Madison St
Main and
Walnut
F J. Percival
Walnut and
D. Buckley
Survetor
Bubcrile
Walnut Street
A. Joyce
J. M. Freeman
Oscar Eaton
U.S. Land
L E. Marsh, M. D
Main Street
Jefferson
Ol. M. Moss
Monroe St
Higley
Cae
Dinah Mulock Craik
John Halifax
Christ
National Temperance Advocate
Jord Greville
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