Grasshoppers, politics, and regional sympathy in 1870s notes
The excerpt discusses grasshopper threats and potential control measures, with Bishop Musser’s views from Salt Lake City and regional attitudes toward easterners. It references parasites seen as unlikely to end the grasshopper problem, concerns about future swarms, and a debate on Ulysses Grant’s possible third-term candidacy. It cites the Denver News description of parasites and a Pennsylvanian Republican convention letter.
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Tre GareLer Tarnene
Grasshoppers
UTAN
Musser
Salt Lake City
Daan Sin
Trave
A. M. Muamen
A.M. M
East
Greeley
Seaboard
The
Denver News
Grant
Pennsylvania
When a nation relies on a single man to save it
The writer critiques reliance on one figure to avert disaster and questions the imperative duty claimed. He notes the Aldine June has fine pictures and draws a comparison between Pyrenees waterfalls and Rockies streams. Objection is raised to a five million dollar grasshopper loss estimate for Colorado, reducing it by two million to claim greater wealth.
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Pyrenees
Rocky Mountains
Colorado
Grasshoppers
Pass Creek
North Platte
Fort Steele
Elk Mountain
Snake River
Stage Road
Ethigrads
Tosaby
Rock Creek
Medicine Row
Iito
Wyoming Territory
Jacos CockRay
Bayard Taylor to Visit Colorado Amid Insect Threats
A Chicago Tribune Des Moines dispatch recounts Iowa fruit history with James Smith orchard near Des Moines, prize apples, and canker worm loss. It cites a home method using arsenic to destroy grasshoppers, including setup, safety cautions, and practical field application for large West fields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Tribune
Des Moines
United States
Chicago
Iowa
James Smith
Des Moises
Kansas
Nebraska
J. C. Saerra
Camplike Encounter Between Stock Camps Described
The Denver News reports a large encampment of twenty to thirty tents with a camp atmosphere. Cow punchers watched a staged fight while stock owners supervised to prevent foul play, and sentinels stood nightly, with the event run in orderly fashion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver News
National Temperance Conventions Move Toward Prohibition Platform
A Greeley Tribune summary traces four National Temperance Conventions over ten years, highlighting Saratoga Springs 1866 and Chicago 1874 1875 debates on prohibition. It notes resolutions favoring total abstinence, legal prohibition, party alignment, and the rise of a potential Prohibition Party with strong women delegates and calls for unified temperance action nationwide.
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Greeley Tribune
United States
Saratoga Springs
Buckingham
Conn
National Temperance Society
Friends of Temperance
Congress
District of Columbia
Territories
Guch
Chicago
Hiram Price
Iowa
Wilson
Wm. EB. Dodge
Schuyler Colfax
New York
Resolution
Saratoga
National Prohibition Party
John Russell
Prohibition Party
Call of the Nations
Congressional Action
Aaron M. Powell
J. N. Stearns
Vineland
N. J
Doomed Talk of Bagshot and the Mortgage Economy
In a rambling scene on Salomon's box, Mr. Bagshot laments rising prices, scarce fish, and stagnant credit while a weary General questions remedies. The dialogue shifts from economic despair to satirical mores as Bagshot rails at labor and prosperity, then wanders to nostalgic recollections before ending on Maple Street.
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Mr. Bagshot
Salomon's Good
Bagshot
Pope
Signal Service
Repose
Bron
Local Notes Share Strawberries and Wheat Prospects
A. Z. Salomon picked the first ripe berries while Benj Eaton and J. C. Abbott report promising wheat and stock interests. Capt Boyd to have raspberries. McClellan to Kentucky for a thousand-dollar colt. Probate Court led by Judge Haynes with routine business. water distribution under canal Three stable. Thompson’s log drive to Greeley by mid July. A social at M. B. Church and a 30th wedding anniversary celebrations noted.
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A. Z. Salomon
Boyd
Kelsey
Key
Benj. Eaton
J.C. Abbott
Mr. McClellan
Kentucky
Haynes
Thompson
Greeley
Plumb
Platte
M. B
J. Shattuck
Johns
H. T. West
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Matle Piberi
Greeley, Colorado
N. ©, Merker
RE. J. Carver
Asia
Bayard Taylor
Waterbury
Old Fort Morgan
Bijou
Ghorsebeck
Living Springs
Old Fort
Catire
Rigath National Temperance Convention
Citixens
Republican Party
Powell
Waldron
Prohibition
National Temperance Organization
Temperance Party
Women's Temperance Alliances
Ilinois
Ohio
Massachusetts
Indiana
W. EB. P
Dear River Country
Colle Ryoning
Black Hills
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