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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1909
Page
9
Publication detail for The Greeley Tribune Publishing Company lists management and contact data including H Wolfe as manager, and subscription rates for daily and weekly editions, with postal filing under March 1879 act. It notes Greeley Colorado as the post office location and circulation terms.
The Tribune rejects a quarter page Boca Grant Development Company ad offering to insert twice. The paper says the proposition benefits only gamblers and deters the state and San Luis Valley, and it will not lend its advertising columns to the scheme.
The Rocky Mountain News attacks a contract lottery land parceling scheme by Boca Grant Development in the east slope of the San Luis Valley. It warns most buyers will gain little as the mountainous tracts are poor homesteads, condemning fake land schemes as harmful to Colorado investments and politics.
The editor critiques the daily fines on gamblers, noting county court fines plus costs reach about 75 dollars per offense, while city police court imposes 33 dollars for the same offense after state payment. It argues for proportional penalties and questions why affluent offenders are not prosecuted with equal vigor.
The first Memorial Day order was issued by John A. Logan on May 5, 1868 and sent to posts to read above graves. Colonel White delivered the duty this morning, invoking guarding the graves with sacred vigilance and honoring fallen comrades.
The passage urges reverent observance for fallen defenders with flowers and an undivided republic in mind. It calls for no vandalism, upkeep of sacred grounds, and renewal of pledges to aid widows and orphans, proposing yearly remembrance led by the commander in chief until a survivor can sustain it.
A reflection on Decoration Day urging that remembrance be paired with daily kindness. The piece notes genuine sentiment exists but lambasts neglect of the departed in life and calls for making every day a decoration day for the living to keep memory alive. It warns memories fade and lessons are forgotten unless daily conduct improves.
The Eaton high school graduating class presented Rip Van Winkle at the Palace opera house with Guy Dettke as Rip and Hallie Keener as his wife Nel lie Brown. The cast included Alice Oscar Hurich and others, with June Eaton and several others as mountain spirits. A well attended matinee accompanied by Emma Grant and others and Miller's orchestra provided evening music.
A health advertisement touts Cham berlain s Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy as affordable and reliable for diarrheal attacks, claiming one or two doses suffice. It notes available price in cents and that Miss Reba Day of Longmont and Miss Carlotta Day of Fort Collins visit their sister Miss Abbie Day, with Carlotta planning a summer in Illinois.
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