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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1873
Page
1
A reader proposes two construction methods combining economy warmth and durability. The first uses bricks on the exterior and adobes inside with a two inch hollow wall to improve insulation and longevity. The second plan adds a brick exterior to a joisted frame with lath and plaster, suggesting adobes between joists for extra cost efficiency.
F L Childs sells bread cakes and pies with Boston Brown Bread special. J Menry contractor builder offers masonry and plastering. W W Hilton on Walnut Street does various work and Morse-Shoeing. F J Percival carpenter builder and estimator. D Buckley surveyor offers irrigation and land locations. De Joyce boot maker guarantees French calf boots. Colony Office notices for details.
A Scottish hymn on brotherhood urges unity and shared joys despite differences. The piece contrasts coarse and fine coats with genuine heart and calls for mutual handshakes in a spirit of unity.
Five years after Major Powell’s Colorado expedition, the Grand Canyon area was explored revealing its waterfalls and geology, while Yellowstone’s headwater geysers amazed readers. Reports note Powell’s Green River voyage and the now-known Grand Canyon as well as Yellowstone tours by Doane and Hayden.
A mother seeks discipline for her daughter Vieve by placing chestnuts in reach and punishing with obedience. The child suggests prayer as a solution, and a newspaper clipping about temptation fuels the moral ending. The vignette closes with the National Baptist note on temptation and guilt.
This excerpt outlines a method to run church singing with a hired experienced chorister, weekly meetings to train a growing choir, and using the choir to lead hymns while fostering reverence and sympathy among congregants. It urges kindness over satire and the effort to elevate religious feeling.
A Choctaw paper recalls a summer in Illinois when doctors left for a medical convention and returned to find patients healed, nurses running dancing schools, the cemetery repurposed, the undertaker off making fiddles, and the hearse turned into a circus wagon. The piece ends with a religious proverb about fearing God over man.
Henry Ward Beecher warns that corporate wealth from the Pennsylvania Erie and New York Central lines wields tyrannical influence over politics and courts. He argues the money power endangers liberties and predicts reform or revolution within twenty years if unchecked.
The London Saturday Review argues that if spiritualists truly held powers to reveal distant events, they would prove it quickly by exposing Lincoln's assassination soon after it occurred. Since no such proof has appeared, the piece concludes the power does not exist.
The text describes 18th century dress of Governor Hancock, Massachusetts judges, General Washington, and John Adams. It contrasts Continental and British styles, then shifts to reflections on immigration, social mixing, and the interdependence of rich and poor, using metaphors of trees and roots.
John Hf. Tice describes the Greeley region in Weld county as the best watered, highly fertile plains with irrigation potential. He highlights Boulder county as the top producer, Larimer and Weld counties’ locations, and vast water resources from the South and Main Boulder, Left Hand Creek, St Vrain forks, and more. The area spans about 1,250,000 acres with strong water power prospects and ample grazing for cattle and sheep amid buffalo grass.
The oldest timber used with ancient temple stonework in Egypt is tamarisk or chittim wood. Ties fitted into shallow recesses between blocks lock stones in place, remaining as sound as when inserted. The article notes fuel scarcity and argues bronze ties would have tempted looters, preserving the temples longer.
The piece reflects a plan by Mr. Weed to cast a thousand centimeters of type as a tribute to Mr. Greeley. It notes their long alliance and past political strife, praising mutual respect and friendship. The article urges the dedication to be kept in the same order and with a fitting inscription honoring their shared work.
A reader recalls wood lasting longer than iron underground and shares a cheap method. Basswood posts aged seven years remain sound when dug up. Boiled linseed oil is mixed with pulverized charcoal to paint the timber, yielding rot resistance.
Governor Washburn in his annual message rebukes raffles grab-bags and prize packages at church fairs as beginnings of gambling. He warns money or property gained without labor demoralizes especially the young and urges laws to break up these practices.
A Virginia paper reports a man manufacturing mad stones from bone to treat hydrophobia and tetanus. The stones, resembling porous bone, cost $5 a piece and are saturated with chemicals. The editor quips about the need for a cure for limber laws in the state.
Dispatch from Minneapolis reports that farmers hold more wheat than ever for this season. Warehouses and elevators are full, forcing some to haul grain back from stations. Many fields still unthreshed with an estimated 10 to 12 million bushels awaiting shipment.
A multi-quote summary recalling Beecher on influence, a British Channel steamer disaster with 300 dead, Ruskin on civilization’s law of work, and lumberman Thomas Murphy’s ice hole escape on the St. Louis River. The piece links nature’s force, human peril, and perseverance in a single compact note.
Five bright little girl pages brighten the legislative halls of Kansas as women have largely filled minor offices in both houses for five to six years, consistently delivering complete satisfaction.
The excerpt cites Lavater praising true greatness through quiet endurance after remarkable feats. It notes the Credit Mobilier Congress and the Nebraska Legislature have adjourned sine die, with a dismissive exclamation attributed to Omzh2 Horeld.
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