RAI ROAD Meeting Pushes Bonds for Rail Route
Mr Loveland of Golden addresses a large gathering urging Weld and Boulder counties to vote 150000 eight per cent bonds for a Union Pacific line to Golden. The plan favors the Greeley and Longmont valley route over Fort Morgan directto Denver, arguing long term value from miner and farmer traffic and rail competition. Evans and Greeley residents urged bond support as the next steps.
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Loveland
Golden
Union Pacific
Colorado Central
Julesburg
Greeley
Longmont
Weld
Boulder
Denver
Platte
Fort Morgan
Colorado
Evans
Weld County
Immigrant land prospects as railroad project spurs growth in Greeley
The piece urges immigrants to consider land near the upcoming railroad in Colorado, offering irrigated parcels of twenty feet by twenty seven miles, water included, at six dollars an acre. It praises Greeley’s growth, schools, mills, stores, and planned sawmills, noting population boom and extensive cultivation and fruit orchards.
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Colorado
America
Greeley
Canal Land Offers Farm Colonies Near Greeley
The article promotes canal lands west of town priced at six dollars an acre with water rights, urging Eastern buyers to settle. It highlights a 5 000 acre canal area plus river lands for a hundred family colony, claims soil richness and health, and warns against paying salaries to officers to avoid public distrust while aiming to build a railroad from Julesburg to Greeley and Golden to connect with the local colony.
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Ilinois
Greeley
Laporte
Jalesburg
Platte Valley
Julesburgh
Greeley and
Golden
Organizing a Colony Plan Emphasizes Land Shares and No Salary
The plan calls for buying good land in a suitable location, forming a central town, and dividing land among members at cost. Lots to be sold cheaply, proceeds funding improvements and schools. No individual speculation. members must improve land to receive a deed. A locating committee, a modest superintendent, and a permanent secretary are approved. salaries beyond these are prohibited.
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Union Colony
Rural Homes and Prosperity in Greeley Vision
The article argues Greeley will boast many handsome rural homes with water, trees, and lawns as larger five acre lots near town attract residences. It envisions water pipes, fountains, windbreaks, and fruit gardens, claiming the valley’s future is bright with temperance and industry guiding growth and health seekers drawn to Colorado.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greeley
Virginia
Tennessee
Colorado
Cache la Poudre
Wendell Phillips on Education and the Path to Practical Learning
The speaker asserts the state should provide universal access to books and trades training, criticizing a brain-focused education that neglects basic needs. He argues for a broader curriculum connecting literature with real life duties. Sam McBride's Advertiser in Pueblo, Colorado, gains favorable reception Territory wide.
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England
Phillips
Sam McBride
Pueblo
Colorado
Rocky Mountain Country
Notable Flood Threat Near Cache la Poudre Bridge
Record of rising Cache la Poudre waters threatening bridges and canal head-gates near town. Kennedy and Deacon Abbott organized efforts to shore embankments and save Canal Nos. 2 and 8 while rail bridge embankment endured heavy flows.
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Cache la Poudre
Jackson Street Bridge
Canal No. 2
Deacon Abbott
Canal No. 8
Colorado Bound Ministers Hear Beecher and Greeley Sermons
Readers report a rail bridge repair saga as water washed out bents and trains were moved by transfers. Adams writes from Champaign about Greeley and state politics while a Congregational Sunday School concert impresses with drill and discipline from teachers Hazen Harrington Hollister Inman and Cooper as the Hall overflows.
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Brother Adams
Colorado
Greeley
Dean Frimap
Champaign
Mr. Dunlap
State Senate
Chicago
Cincinnati
Ill
Congregational
Hazen
Howard Mission
New York
Harrington
Hollister
Inman
Cooper
Parlor Skating Gains Popularity in the East
A recent exhibition by Prof. Kent in Colony Hall showcases indoor parlor skating with boxwood rollers. Ladies and gentlemen admire the graceful performances, while calls rise to open a permanent rink in the town for wholesome amusement.
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Russia
Kent
San Francisco
Colony Hall
Fannie Guiney
Frank Wright
Washington
Boston
Greeley
Grand World Peace Jubilee Festival in Boston
The Boston Jubilee festival announces an immense World Peace Jubilee and International Musical Festival in Boston from July 17 to July 14. It features a 20 000 voice chorus, 2 000 instrumentalists, renowned soloists, bands from Britain Germany Ireland and France, and a grand organ. Season tickets cost fifty dollars and single-week seats five dollars, obtainable through A P Peck Music Hall and Henry G Parker secretary.
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Boston
Madame Peschla Lauther
Permisson
Grenadier Guards
London
Dan, Godfrey
Arabella Goddard
William
Germany
Imperial Arty
Kaiser Franz Grenadier Regiment
Johann Straus
Thiers
Garte Republicane
Paris
Europe
Franz Abt
Old
Ireland
Madame Erminia Rudersdorff
Herr Franz Bendell
United States
Emperor William’s
Imperial Household Cornet
Anvil
Boston Fire Department
A. P. Peck
Music Hall
Bogton
Henry G. Parker
Sec'y
A Stranger’s Gratitude Card From Greeley Readers
A stranger in Greeley thanks the city’s ladies for kindnesses shown during a stay. She names Mrs. Ruth ven and many others, praising their ministering acts as “angels” and noting Greeley’s founding principles will bring prosperity. Dated June 4, 1872.
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the Tribune
THE
Tribune
Greeley
Ruthven
Eli Hall
Hanna
Canfield
Thompson
John Abbott
Flower
Flower, Miss Flower, Mrs. N. D. Wright
Henry Brockway
Benson
Keeler
Onion devotion and a garden devoid of their scent
A reflective piece laments a garden’s failure to yield onions and the nation’s picky appetite for the vegetable. The narrator argues onions symbolize strength and soul in food, urging reformers to embrace onion appreciation and share its gospel.
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Lorraine
New
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Shakespeare
Virgil
Wendell Phillips
Colony
MR. Adams
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