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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1905
Page
8
An eastern cement man advertises cement walks as economical with expert workmanship and guarantees all work. Also promoted are Ball and Graphite Bearing Windmills with a claim that bearings no longer require tower climbs for greasing. G W Nichols and Son, well drillers, agents.
In Weld County Colorado the article details several settlers and plots. Chas Billings oversees a new ranch for H V Makee of Windsor with a dwelling barn and an irrigated forty acres. George Emerson owns an exceptionally improved farm with a two story house, lawn, evergreens, and outbuildings. J M Kelley, once a miner, seeks farming fit in Colorado. Thomas M Jennaway, English by birth, praises a two year old colt. W Devine runs an eighty acre ranch and is among the first Union Colony members. Nick Redding tends beets and potatoes on eighty acres. J J Evans champions Weld County as the best farming region. Forbes place hosts two families on 160 acres. Mrs Jessie Forbes enjoys Colorado to avoid hail. G A Johnson grows beets and potatoes on Eaton’s half section with flowing well water. F L and D J Weiler rent ninety acres from W H Rice and previously worked with George Emerson.
A Fort Collins stone mason testifies Doan's Kidney Pills cured his kidney backache after other medicines failed. The ad urges Greeley readers to visit H Reynolds & Co for Doan's at 50 cents, with Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY as sole US agents.
Through Portland to Lewis and Clark exposition with connections to Tacoma Seattle Bellingham Victoria and Vancouver. Round trip $40 May 24 to Sept 30 with selected dates 851 to Portland and return one way via California. Stopovers allowed. Tickets limited to 90 days but not later than Nov 30. Full information from J G Ferguson Denver office 941 Seventeenth Street.
The piece notes that mice migrate when food scarce, with farmers in Perthshire witnessing large populations moving to new fields. It asserts rats are highly migratory, moving in annual cycles to enjoy seasonal food, then returning before winter. It details lemms journeys from northern Scandinavia southward, facing predators and river deaths, with none surviving to return.
A reflective note from the Atchison Globe urges listening when an attorney offers to settle. It contrasts business tactics with perseverance, noting discouraged people should hold on. It quips on gendered views of marriage markets and everyday sayings about sharpening knives.
The passage notes that many medieval rulers claimed parts of others realms and included those claims in official titulatures. To avoid implying a real claim, negotiators often inserted non praejudicando, signaling the titles were ornamental and not legally binding, despite appearing in lists and documents.
A Chicago girl fashioned a publishing scheme using newspaper query columns. She sent a line from her verse asking for the poem title and author, then a friend would respond with the querist’s own poem to be printed, continuing the loop until many poems appeared.
Birds such as crows gulls ducks snipe plovers woodpeckers cormorants and swans show restlessness before storms. They fly abruptly and scream loudly as weather turns.
A letters row in this morning’s edition shows a tailor seeking an immediate settlement. The editor directs returning the item with a printed slip stating that communications written on both sides of the paper are unavailable.
A judge notes how Mike and Katy embody old fashioned traits through family history, remarking that ancestors lived nearly 400 years ago in a reflective aside about character.
A fragment shows Signa and Gayboy discussing expectations of visitors as a tense morning unfolds. A line hints at a wife making the house unfit for anyone to live in, signaling domestic strain and disrupted life.
A fisherman aboard a Seymour Canal fishery recounts an enormous sea creature with a twenty four foot long tail wielding a giant club to strike surfacing rorqual. The creature relentlessly shadows whales at four to five second intervals, causing injuries but rarely killing, with nighttime offshore and nearshore attacks near the fishery.
The text warns that debt in Siam leads to perpetual servitude with physical punishment, while interest rates trap borrowers. It notes drunkards cannot testify in courts and describes Bangkok’s Buddhist priests in yellow robes, with many youths entering the priesthood for lifestyle ease.
Scholars suggest a fifth century Buddhist priest may have crossed the Pacific and returned reporting a land called Fusang. The tale, translated into French in 1791, describes a voyage eastward of 20 000 li with people like Indians and American plants. The key doubt concerns the distance implied by 20 000 li.
A London Telegraph exchange recalls a church scene where a parish priest and elder discuss observed watch checking during a morning sermon. The warden notes the congregation’s habit as the parson sighs, both reflecting on the moment.
A brief antique note praises Figg-Goodman as dead and exemplary while recounting a whist game memory in which Fogg trumped the speaker's ace. The reminiscence contrasts public virtue with a moment of competitive betrayal in a card game.
A witty exchange from the Boston Traveler notes a sister reacting with surprise when told of a visitor. The line echoes light regional humor as Tommy recounts his sister's stunned blessing with thunder as an exclamation.
Quote by Dr. Joachim on rhythm and time in music stemming from heart rather than machine.
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