Grasshoppers Threaten Wheat as Colorado War on Bugs Intensifies
Reports from Weld County describe extensive grasshopper swarms damaging fields from Greeley to Platteville. Farmers like Benj Eaton fight to save acres of wheat and corn while new insect control devices and experiments emerge. Local events include a baby show at Mr. Salomon's and community gatherings, with ongoing weather rains affecting the season.
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Weld
Mr. McClellan Jr
Wm. McClellen
New Mexico
Colorado
G. H. Adams
Lucinda Root
Central
Col. Gipson
Greeley
A. E. Gipson
Kansas City
Retief Fund
Benj. Eaton
J. ©. Abbott
Eaton
Withan Foote, Jr
Namaqua
Big Thompson
Max Clark
W. Ferguson
Missouri
Hibney
Board of County Missioners
Grasshopper Fund aids farmers faces crop loss
Funds funded by Greeley citizens support seed loans for farmers ruined by grasshoppers. Applications for seed set for June 6 1876 at Haynes Gipson office. Subscriptions total 1000 dollars to loan without interest. Also mentions marriages and local notices, trade ads, and diverse community updates from Greeley.
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Greeley
Haynes & Gipson
J. Max Char
Grasshopper Fund
Lawnds' and Marx & Co Offer Latest Goods in 19th Century Ads
Go to Lawnds' for shot guns and rifles with latest improvements. Marx & Co promotes Mohair and Cassimere skeleton coats and a broad sale of hats, ready and custom clothing. A. Z. Salomon advertises men and children's shoes and suits from eight dollars upward. Kansas Pacific Railway touts through tickets and Pullman service to the East with key officials named and connections via Kansas City depots.
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Goto Marx & Co's
Marx & Co's
Colorado
Kansas Pacific Railway
Union
Kansas City
Leavenworth
Lyford
Beverley Rheim
Soap and tea and travel tips in one notice
A retail ad offers cash sales of soap sugar tea and fruit with all goods in proportion and urges travelers to choose the Chicago and North Western Railway via the Old Pioneer Route. It promotes the line as oldest shortest between Omaha and Chicago with steel rails modern depots sleeping cars coaches and maps available from agents in Omaha and Chicago.
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Omaha
Chicago
Iowa
Marshell
Cedar Rapids
Clinton
Ilinois
Wisconsin
Fulton
Chicago & North-Western
United States
J. H. Movwrarys
Western
Neb
W. H. Steinert
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Platte
Sterling
Julesburg
Grasshoppers Uied
G. Horrer
T'S Mo
Ee G. Lapp
D. Martin, A. E. Gipson
Faurote Stevenson
R. Stevenson
Dan’ N. ‘Alien
Mies Ns Stevenson
Chas
Faurote
Alder
Weather Report
W. Huntington
Court House
Washington
Perth
Scotland
Buffalo
N. Y
Canada
A. B. Cannon
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A. Z. Salomon
Greeley Grange
Auvis J. Witper
General Commission
Flower
Cameron & Benedict
Emerson & West, Greeley
J. L. Bailey
Denver
J. L. Bross
Fuller & Humphrey's
A. Z. Salomon’s
T. Koffee and
Lasses
Futter & Humputer's
Youse America
Greeley House
J. H. Jones
Fenton & Humparey’s
Potter & Humparey's
LA Poudre Mills
Tiel
F. W. Thompson
Dolar Marx & Co's
Kenned & Co
Emerson
Salomon
J. L. Brosh
Monk & Seasate HP
Olop Cesena Reene Sane
Ste Sees
D.C. Wratt
D. Hawks
OFS
Piomb
M. Freeman
Mar
Thoreday
Frida
G. Mo
Greeley Mills
Graham
Kennedy & Co
Grasshoppers
Marx & Co
Mus
I. H. Paine
Spruce St
Barnum House
St. Louis
Tom Lots
Borrrengi
Boettcher’s
Co-operative Mining Company
Erie
Freeman & Shattuck
Board OF Equalization
S W. C. Sanders
N** Palace
Monk & Ingallee
Northern
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Boettcher
TIN
Greeley, Colo
Denver Pacific Railway
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Ioreeley
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Cheyenne
Ain—Express
Boulder Valley
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Eric Mitchell
White Rock Mills
Valmont
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White Rock Mills Field
Can Mitchell
Eric
Arkansas Valley Railway
Kit Carson
North Las Animas
Paw
C W. Fishe
Briggs Coal
Joseph Moore
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Canfield Coal
P. Tifft, Sons & CO
J. C. Mostier
Bollers
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U. S. Lanp
Conn
Mary E. Ayres
Avid C. Wells
Weld County
Herman Livek
T. Thomson
J. M. Freeman
U. S. Land Office
Cono
Otice
Richard Armstrong
Harvey Townsend
Range 66
Herman Silver
Register
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Strauss
Heipal
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Boston
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Batiste
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