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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1873
Page
2
The piece defends rail bonds for Monday vote and highlights Campbell’s track work and Julesburg road rails. It contrasts Plymouth Colony’s and Greeley’s temperance culture, praising prohibition and noting minimal crime. It also previews Parton’s Plymouth lecture and praises women’s role in skilled labor and the Boston banknote recovery.
An editorial argues for women's education and influence in science and industry, praising hidden power and urging equality as essential to progress. It condemns liquor smuggling in Greeley and warns temperance supporters will resist lax whisky schemes, including selling alcohol in drugstores.
Mr Jastus Squier travels from Fayette County Ohio to Greeley with a twelve head blooded cattle herd valued at 16000 dollars. He plans to pasture them on Mr Canfield’s Big Thompson ranch and raise cattle for market. Gardiner brothers from Chicago accompany household goods and horses valued at about several thousand dollars.
A Fairmont Minnesota resident writes to Mr. Graham in Greeley dated February 26 about a severe snow storm. He notes that state papers downplay the storm as an accident, compares Minnesota winters to Siberia, and cites a neighbor’s pig found alive in a snow drift after twenty-two days as a cautious hog-raising tip.
From the Denver News in Greeley the Kennedy & Co flouring mill is highlighted as among Colorado’s best. Water power drives a two mile race with a seventeen foot fall and a four foot turbine yielding about 110 horsepower, enough to use only a fraction of the supply. The piece also notes census findings listing numerous women employed in diverse trades.
The article discusses the Greeley Colorado colony’s growth under an anti liquor framework, irrigation success, and potential population rise by 1890. It contrasts temperance with widespread drinking culture, urges community support, and critiques barroom ridicule while noting a Digger concert in Denver with mixed reception.
Friends collected a generous gift for Mr BE H Abbott, Denver Pacific Railroad station agent, who heads East to run a business. Bates and Canfield with Park Joslyn of Cheyenne sold a $90 gold chain and a fine Masonic ring at reduced rates. The Mazurka Club honored him at a meeting with an appropriate speech. Abbott and his wife left for Ogdensburg New York last week.
The letter from Ames, N Y, notes an emigrant who plans to move West next fall and hopes for the best location. He mailed a note to The Tribune in Greeley Colo but it returned, likely due to a postmaster unfamiliar with Greeley and Horace Greeley’s Tribune.
Greeley Farmers Club discussion led by Captain D. Boyd and J Max Clark on March 12 1873 explores transferring Canal No 2 to Union Colony Investment Company. Proposals include lease or sale of the canal with stock shares tied to land deeds and enlarging works, while concerns about joint stock structure and legislative support are raised. Information on officers and meeting cadence is noted.
Captain Post recounts life in Colorado foothills with a famed inn and ranch. He jokes about hay debts and a ten dollar balance, promotes Credit Mobilier, and mentions starting a beekeeping ranch and crossbreeding hornets for better molasses. A cheeky note ends with adieu from Wm. M. Post, M.D.
The meeting elected Peyburn, A. J. Wilber, J. Max Clark, Benjamin Eaton, and Arthur Hotchkies to the committee, then the club adjourned.
Circular from the Eoronavo Stock-Growers' Association Dewiver Cotonapo Manca urges members to report full stock, breed, and sale data. Requests numbers of beef cattle, thoroughbred and grade bulls and cows, dairy stock, mares, sheep, farms, and pedigrees. Proposes a weekly live stock report and asks timely responses to bolster Colorado publicity.
The March Herald of Health previews articles on pregnancy imagination education nursery training smallpox statistics and hygiene editorials on eating drinking ornament and dress and tobacco effects. Howard Glyndon will edit Women in Council for 1873 inviting women to contribute brief letters and suggestions. Also notes Denver land sales and impending Valley Home of Colorado publication by agents for sale of Cache-le-Poudre region properties.
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