Organize Small Manufactures Before Woolen Mills
The author urges starting smaller, cheaper ventures such as cap gloves candy crackers plaster and matches to build profits before seeking woolen mills. Emphasizes local capital modest investment and learning by doing while inviting Eastern mills to invest if they can run a woolen operation profitably.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Paris
Colorado
Michigan
New York
Nichols
Golden
Plans for a Greeley Loan and Trust Company
The article discusses forming a Greeley loan and trust firm to borrow from the East at around twelve percent and reinvest in local real estate with solid security. It notes dependence on reputable organization and strong management to attract eastern capital and boost the valley’s business, alongside a digression on The Daily New York Tribune’s rising circulation due to Beecher Tilton trial reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greeley
New York City
Daily
New York Tribune
Boston
Massachusetts
Tribune
Beecher-Titan trial advances with new witness planned
The Beecher-Titan case continues in court after two months with the defense just beginning. A rebuttal witness, Henry C. Bowen, is expected to illuminate disputed facts as the trial moves forward. Local notes mention assorted topics from soap root tanning experiments to water questions in Denver and freemasonry convention plans in Mansfield Ohio.
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Beecher-Titan
Mr. Beecher
Henry C. Bowen
The
Golden Transcript
Colorado
Eph Witcher Reports Expedition Reach Near Harney Peak
Eph Witcher of Yankton Dak reports the Black Hills expedition started Oct 6 with 27 men a woman and her son six wagons and provisions. They built a stockade 80 feet long found rich gold and silver bearing quartz lodes and encountered 200 mounted Indians in a peaceable parley.
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Eph. Witcher
Yankton
Dak
Black Hills
Harney
Niobrara River
Cheyenne River
Witcher
Sioux City
Gordon
Greeley Growth and Buffalo Robe Trade Featured
A Denver News correspondent extols Greeley Colorado’s development since 1870. The piece highlights a thriving economy with $900,000 in annual trade, three firms over $75,100 in sales, and a booming buffalo robe and tanning industry led by Fuller Howard and Brown Hall Co. It notes flour milling, lumber, and extensive rail freight, plus a progressive school building and substantial water power from Cache la Poudre. The letter ends with J Newton Warren’s Black Hills report affirming rich prospecting areas.
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Denver
Nes
Greeley
Col
Union Colony
Cache la Poudre
Colorado
New England
New York
Minois
Threeslire
Denver Pacific Railway
Hide and Fur
Greeley Hide and Fur Company
A. N. Fuller
A. A Howard
Messrs
Fuller & Howard
A. C. Koogle
Koogle
Far East
Messrs. Brown, Hall & Co
Messrs 8. S. Kennedy & Co
Comlete
Enue
Mesre, Kenn & Coa
Union Pacific
Uncle Sam
Greeley Mills
Forts Steele
McPherson
Russell
Omaha
Cheyenne
Platte
Boom Iit Lake
Atrrr Eno
Denver News
J. Newton Warren
Custer
el Dorado
Sarney City
Black Hills
Sioux City
Casirr
Old friend Chester and literary pursuits across continents
An obituary of Joseph L. Chester born in Norwich who pursued poetry in Ohio and New York, worked at Godey's Magazine and Veal's Gazette, later joined the Philadelphia Inquirer, lived in England as Col Chester, aided the Harleian Society, and sent notes on George Washington. The letter recalls Bulwer, Dickens, and a long literary career and travels.
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Greeey Tarnum
Joseph L. Chester
Norwich
Ohio
New York City
Lewis Tappen
Fist Mercantile
Miss Davidson
Ailadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia
England
Col
Chester
London
N.C
Nuker
Chicago
Duke of Manchester
Col. Chester
George Washington
Chester’s Labors Enable 1875 Westminster Registers Volume
The Marleian Society notes Col Chester offers to fund and present to members the complete baptism, marriage, and burial registers from the earliest times to the present day with original notes. The work will cover English kings families and notable poets and writers shaping English-speaking culture.
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Marleian Society
Col. Chester
Col
Chester
England
Dried rhubarb as winter staple and commerce prospect
A reader describes drying rhubarb stalks in the sun reducing 30 pounds to about 1½, then soaking and stewing with sugar. He warns of strong acidity, notes a tablespoon of dried stalk needs half a pound sugar, and suggests rhubarb could substitute fruit in Colora do. The note also mentions a brick wall collapse in Denver killing one and injuring several, the Centennial fair dates shifting to May 10 through Oct 19, and remarks on local weather trends.
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Greeley Tribune
Colorado
Rich gold find head of the Big Thompson area
The piece notes a reported rich gold mine at the head of Big Thompson, plus local economic activity. It mentions improvements in flour production for Denver, shifting seasonal migrations to the Platte, and several town updates including the Barnum House and Exchange Building hotel.
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Big Thompson
Mentsworth
Denver
Platte
Graham
Barnum House
Exchange Building
Baker
Baptist Church
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C. G. Finney
Oberlin College
Mansfield
Foster
Magasine
Pueblo
East
Dillon
Clark
Chicago Times
Inter-Ocean
Japan
Nand McNally & Co
Gold Country
Jean Monthly
Messrs. Bliss
Onebley
Europe
Kent
Rome
Pompeii
Bulwer
Dickens
Gaeeby Tammour
Brooklyn
Gen. Tracy
Tilton
Beach and
Fullerton
Tracy
Mr. Tilton
Brother Shearman
Beach
Evarts
Westminster Abbey
Lyceum
Creeley
Boetteher
Vree Church
Park Church
Ministry of Christ
P. W. Putnam
South Platte
Wisconsin
Stirling
L. K. Perrin
M. J. Wilconson
Cis
Religious Philosophic Society of Chicago
Boulder
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