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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1910
Page
5
A fragmentary discussion on planetary features including Venus possibly having life, Jupiter’s cloud bands and rifts, and Mars’s hazy obscuration. Observations from Flag Observatory are cited with speculation about atmospheres, moons, and weather effects on the planets.
An African man named Igocero, attached to a hunting party, estranges cubs with playful advances. The cubs react fearfully and aggressively, scratching and circling as the man trembles. After a tense standoff, the cubs back away and disappear into scrub, leaving onlookers wary of further danger.
Fragmentary historical note recounts Ao Artiat facing poverty and repeated career changes before finding work. It mentions Professor von Herkomer, Pinter, early failed art efforts, a first sale for two fincas, a modest weekly allowance for food, minstrel and carpet design attempts, and eventual employment at a weekly journal. Also references Drake of Mary Va and early oil discovery turning profitable after skepticism.
The Malay archipelago yields the most costly Malacca walking sticks noted for length and straightness. A yard long, under an inch in diameter, with a dark chocolate color and lacquered finish, the stick is valued for its delicate edging and pristine form.
Fragmentary OCR style note references relief and patience with unclear context. Appears from Baltimore American material. Details about relief actions or individuals are not fully readable.
Historic note on Dr. Mather Byles born Boston 1706 first pastor of Hollis Street Church. A famed humorist and Tory, he was jailed in 1777 then confined at home with a guard. Thanksgiving day moment: he told the sentinel he would stay put while the guard fetched cider for him and his family.
The piece traces bow forms from the Scythian C shaped weapon to Greek and Roman bows, noting Greek bows as short and stiff made from goat horn, and the English longbow fame at Crecy Poitiers and Agincourt. It mentions two bow types, the teogbow and arbalest, with arbalests using steel or bone and carrying quivers of fifty arrows in battle.
A Philadelphia broker phoned his home and was amused when a sweet voice replied Hello dear I have been thinking about you all morning Meet me downtown for lunch and a show The caller learns the voice is not his, but the person says her husband is home and objects.
The atmosphere is a four to one mix of nitrogen and oxygen with carbonic acid gas and water vapor. It reaches about fifty miles thick, possibly extending to 500 miles, inferred from luminous meteors. Pressure at Earth's surface is fifteen pounds per square inch, weighing over eleven and a half trillions of pounds. An adult inhales air each minute and uses thirty ounces of oxygen daily. A typical gas jet consumes oxygen equivalent to five persons.
In a Puck quip from The Scoffer, a Bostonian notes General Warren fell while a Chicago observer ponders the Bun ker HW monument as film material. The exchange blends humor and historical reference in a mock dialogue tone.
A fragment quotes a dialogue where a woman declines a proposal saying she would marry once he settles into steady work. The excerpt also includes a line about knowing one’s tastes signaling aging wisdom. The source presents informal remarks on love, work, and maturity in a newspaper column style.
The article recalls a subscription for a Lord Byron monument in Westminster Abbey. Thorvaldsen completed the statue about 1833 but Westminster’s dean refused its installation. After twelve years it moved to Trinity College Cambridge in 1846. The piece notes Thorvaldsen's birth on November 19 1770 and his death on March 24 1844.
The London Globe recounts how a barber’s apprentice known as that awful boy Jones repeatedly infiltrated Buckingham Palace in the mid 1800s. He trespassed, slept in royal rooms, helped himself to leftover food, and befriended Queen Victoria yet refused to reveal how access was gained. He vanished amid state protection, leaving a lasting mystery.
The article recalls a standout moment from Grant at the academy when, on the famous horse York, he cleared a barrier higher than a man’s head during foul mounted exercises. The leap, performed with seamless unity, is remembered as Grant’s peak achievement, recorded in academy history as Grant’s upon York.
A Washington Star excerpt describes a Kurdish wedding custom where the groom, guarded by 20 to 30 youths, carries his bride home on a scarf as irate women pelt him with sticks and stones. The scene includes possible former flames among the pursuers and ends with a joke about debtors and jail.
A householder in a store asks for an easy chair while a satesman asks what sort. They decide to consult the boss in his office who “ought to be a judge.” At a reception a somber gentleman is asked if he is a marrying man and replies yes, he is a clergyman. Talent creates a work, genius keeps from dying.
In the Weld County Court a guardian advertises a private cash sale of the undivided one fourth interest in Lots 7 and 2 3 of Block a repens West Quarter of the South Quarter Section 6 Town 5 North Range 65 West in Greeley Colorado. A minimum price of 500 dollars is set with sale on July 11 1910 at 1 oclock noon in Coronado Building Room 2060 Ninth Street Ninth Avenue Greeley. Attendees may bid as they wish.
Special to the Tribune reports Eaton ditch farmers face severe losses from a river-ditch water shortage. Only 150 feet of flow versus 720 feet normal threatens 30,000 to 40,000 acres. grain and alfalfa suffer while beets and potatoes rely on reservoir water. Countywide scarcity prompts purchases from Boyd lake and earlier reservoir calls than usual.
At the executive committee meeting Tuesday W. M. Boomer was elected chairman of the reception committee. The new committee will organize activities for the Pioneer Day event.
The complete committee list includes W. M. Boomer H. C. Watson I. Rothschild and many others such as Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Williams O. O. Russell J. F. Fezer Oliver Howard and Mrs. Calvin Randolph, with Mrs. Mary Hall D. B. San born and Mrs. Charles Cousins among attendees. The Denver Laramie and Northwestern organization is named.
Denver dispatch reports the Burlington Railway company has let the contract in Omaha to build an extension from Hudson to Greeley about twenty five miles. Construction will start soon and finish in time to ship crops from the Greeley region this fall. The extension boosts regional freight competition and ties into the Gulf to the Sound plan by Hill interests. The Union Pacific has long dominated Greeley traffic, now challenged by the Denver Laramie & Northwestern and new double tracking near LaSalle to Denver.
A well filled house welcomed Normal students in their class play Beckett last night. The cast included Henry II Asa Chestnut and Thomas Becket with Gilbert Foliot. The performance showed careful drill and preparation and earned praise for the students and instructors. Senior promenade and alumni reunion are set for this evening with commencement exercises tomorrow morning at the opera house.
A roster of historical names appears, including archbishops bishops nobles monks and various companions from King Henry II's circle. The collection names Roger Jean Crosby Katherine In man Hilary Grace Davis Jocelyn Walter Map Flora Farrington Louis Geoffrey Rosamund Henry Betty Clark Grein Miss Dohner Reginald Fitzurse Nell Clendenen Richard de Brito William de Tracy Hugh de Morville Kate Kenahan Le four knights of the king’s household De Broce Saltwood Irene Cambay Lord Leicester Mayme Ogle Philip Eleemosynn Nellie Bennett Two Knights Templar Della Twombly Ethel Angove John of Oxford Olive Graham Eleanor of Aquitaine Isabel Kistler Rosamund de Clifford Martha Snoddy Margery Norma Hansen.
Albert Shearer 1-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Shearer died at 11 30 last evening at the family home on a ranch near Kersey after three days illness from scarlet fever following a recent bout with typhoid fever. The boy, patient throughout his winter illness, left a sister Nellie Shearer in Greeley employed at Park Merchandise. A private funeral was held at the home with interment at Linn Grove cemetery.
Burlington buys the Home Gas and Electric company plant for 11000 to complete the right of way through Greeley. The path had rails on both sides of the site and court delays over the price, which was initially set at 15000. The plant will be torn down and tracks laid to finish the road.
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