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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1891
Page
7
A stark protest poem by a farmers alliance voice denounces wage labor toll and class privilege. It calls for collective action to share harvests and end oppression by rulers and factory power, warning that freedom requires a new Way beyond swords and prayers. The piece contrasts brutal labor conditions with rising worker resolve and urges vigilance over gatekeeping elites.
A Topeka dispatch says the Citizens' National Industrial Alliance has perfected its organization and issued a call for a national reform convention in Cincinnati between May 10 and 20. About 200 delegates from six states attended the Ocala convention, with Thomas Gilruth elected president and W F Rightmeiere as secretary. Capt C A Power and others manage the national work, and the alliance plans to join the Knights of Labor stream with the Farmers' Alliance to enter politics without affecting oil interests. Leaders expect to carry the Dakotas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Ohio in 1892.
Governor Francis of Missouri comments on the farmers political movement. He cites widespread rural discontent as a natural result of thirty years of federal and state policy. He says limited currency affects commerce and prices, and that legislatures cannot fully remedy it. He urges Wise measures within the law and community support.
A convention of influential farmers in Airbury Illinois formed the Farmers Organization of the Ninth Congressional District to promote financial, moral, social and educational interests. The plan envisions county and township societies with executive committees, aiming to become a political force. Membership limited to agriculturists.
An interview discusses the art and science of portrait photography. Charles Howard explains posing, lighting, and facial features to flatter different faces, from strong masculine to delicate female profiles, and notes how mood, dignity, and home expressions shape enduring portraits. He distinguishes client types from actors to stage professionals and describes common vanity and emotions during sittings. He also mentions English show window law myths and a practical window policy.
The Wyoming state seal shows a woman holding a shield with her free arm raised, a broken chain falling from it, a star above her hand, and the inscription 44 indicating Wyoming as the 44th state. The design emphasizes liberty and statehood within the Union.
The piece highlights Harvard Latin professor George Martin Lane and his famed ambidexterity on the chalkboard. It notes his Greek and Latin scholarship and his humorous piscatorial verse The Lone Fishball, cited as a noted aside in the New York World.
A magneto telephone combines a home telephone with a crank bell pull and can be fitted without disturbing existing setups or needing a skilled workman. Any layperson can install it. a bell in the kitchen calls a servant as the order is transmitted when she answers. No battery is required, reducing future maintenance costs.
Doctors have warned against dangerous gum on envelopes and accidents from damp gum. Automatic lock envelopes, patented, use two projecting flanges on the flap to lock in a slot, preventing opening without tearing. Closing is quick and as easy as traditional gummed envelopes.
A foreign gas lamp design centers on an argand burner inside a globe. Air reaches the flame both below and above the burner with heated upper air guiding combustion through a metallic deflector to a porcelain exit. The balanced gas air mix yields a bright bulb shaped light with high illumination.
A farmer known for lengthy parting remarks heads to the city. The hired man quips that his endless last words would overwhelm the undertaker and inflate the bill, delivering a dry rural joke from the Christian Union.
A servant explains to the landlady that Mr Maccay is not ill but had a tailor come earlier to crease his trousers. The exchange suggests a quiet domestic scene in the Clothier and Furnisher era.
In a brief exchange, an Easterner asks about horse thieves. the Westerner replies with many, then clarifies the word play that the “lots” refer to cemetery plots. The cartoonish dialogue highlights a local joke about graveyard plots.
New York fashion notes describe dresses trailing longer, with skirts kept scant at front and sides to save fabric. Descriptions cover rosewood vicuna walking gowns, intricate inside seams for lifting effects, mourning and bridal robes, and tea gowns in gabrielle styles with lace, crape, and rich brocade accents.
A mother pleads for fewer questions as a little girl peppered bystanders with inquiries. The child insists people enjoy her endless curiosities and recalls a passerby who asked for more questions.
In a clipped exchange Genevieve questions pressure to wed while Laura denies urging marriage before engagement. The quip highlights cautious approach to romance and commitment in a serialized vignette from Munsey's Weekly.
A 10 year old with red hair rushes into a Fourteenth street drug store and warns the clerk of an intruder. He recounts a comical family mishap involving baking powder and Rough on Rats that caused a scare but ended well. He reassures that there will be no funeral and everything is all OK.
A short spoof play titled He Wanted to See Her presents three acts set on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday. Jones pursues Miss Smith, but she is absent or unavailable each day. The final line reveals the humorous twist as Jones asks to see the remains.
A speaker dismisses superstition yet recounts breaking a looking glass. The incident triggers family misfortune as the hired girl quits, the mother-in-law experiences hysterics, and the wife falls sick from overwork and excitement.
A Rochester Talisman quip ponders a mosquito net as a winter luxury. A humorous exchange frames the idea that luxury is something not truly needed, as a child questions the necessity of a net in cold weather.
A playful exchange from Harper's Young People uses a riddle about apples and plates to illustrate a wrong subtraction idea. The dialog features Johnny and Nhy debating how removing items affects the remaining quantity in a humorous, educational tone.
Dialogue from the Boston Courier features Mrs Greyneck and Johnny in a humorous exchange about a Sunday school lesson Johnny claims to have in his pocket. The gag highlights a child's literal misinterpretation of having a lesson in hand.
A peddler claims superior wares and resilience after being fired three times from second story windows without breaking any glasses. The remark appears in Fliegende Blätter.
Hoffy complains about standing at the club window and Rocky agrees. They decide to cross to the other window to look out a different way, in a light humorous exchange.
A Chicago Tribune brief notes social chatter about new plays at the Thes Pian and the Histrionic theatres. Patrons talk of theatre parties and fresh productions in a lively cultural snapshot.
A Texas Siftings excerpt presents a humorous exchange as the deacon asks where boys go fishing on Sunday and the boy replies that most go to the lake, calling it the best place. The brief bit captures a rural, humorous tone from a historical period.
A comic exchange between a father and son ponders whether a boy’s ascent or descent led to his fall. The humor centers on misdirection and a child’s literal reading of the situation.
A man hires an hour to teach a friend to roller skate at a Louisville rink. He accuses James Burns of cheating him out of $50 a year ago. The two duel on a single central post with insults and tears, ending with the attacker vowing to hunt Burns and skin him for fish bait.
A Detroit Free Press item recounts a 12 year old boy in an alley armed with a corn cutter and tormented tools planning to frighten a rival youth. The patrolman comments on the boy’s savage look and the boy explains his aim to terrorize the other boy with a mock war scalp lock.
A professor faced student exits during a lecture and, to deter the behavior, announced a sermon from the text Thou art weighed and found wanting. He urged the class to pass out as fast as they are weighed.
Mrs de Visite explains a progressive conversation party starts with art science and literature and quickly shifts to fashions gossip and servants. The exchange features Miss Blank and Mrs de Mugg in a social setting reported in Good News.
A man named Wamper fell violently on icy pavement near a house. He rose with bruised limbs and blamed the proprietor, exclaiming it serves him right for not scattering ashes on the surface. The remark reflects a quarrel prompted by the slip.
The dialogue notes Bingo has just moved and struggles with finances. Kingley compliments the house and questions why Bingo pays rent instead of the mortgage. Bingo explains funds went to a truckman first before paying the house.
A witty exchange notes a composer asking about his sonata. the friend replies that no one will ever play after him, captured in a clipped quip from Fliegende Blatter.
A dialogue notes that the famous young poet Warble has an elder brother who supports him. The exchange frames art and poetry as life’s endurance and hints at family backing behind literary fame.
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