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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1906
Page
1
A vivid portrait details the offspring of diplomats in Washington, their mixed heritages, languages, and customs. It notes Brazilian, Cuban, Paraguayan, Costa Rican, Haitian, Mexican, Chinese, and Chilean families, with examples like Miss Liang and the seven Casasas children, illustrating a cosmopolitan capital youth culture.
A commercial traveler recalls moonlit Gulf Stream swimming in Jamaica with friends. He and a companion faced a three foot longer than him shark approaching, he struck and lashed the sea to deter the predator, guiding his mate to safety as the shark sank below the phosphorescent water.
A Lapland custom gifts a newborn Lapp with a reindeer, which and all its descendants belong to the child as he grows. At maturity he accumulates a personal herd, a practical heirloom far more valuable than silver spoons from relatives.
In a small-group exchange, bystanders describe a near scare that kept them from swimming for about an hour. They admit lingering nerves but say the swim was not as bad as feared and they eventually resumed.
Engineering News places Panama Canal excavations as the largest earth cut by humans surpassing earlier works. Nochistongo’s twelve and a half mile, 197 foot deepest, 361 foot widest cut in Mexico required 54 million cubic yards by Native labor.
Prices for dogs hinge on buyer sentiment more than animal value. Show dogs command high figures, while practical gun dogs sell cheaper. At a Birmingham sale a two-score lot brought 3026 dollars with Coronation the top at 325 dollars and Ightfield Bang 185. In contrast bull terrier Woodcote Wonder sold for 5000 dollars in New Haven and Rodney Stone fetched 3000 dollars in San Francisco. Frank Gould paid 5000 dollars for a St Bernard.
Miss Kate Holliday Clachorn of Brooklyn is appointed registrar of the tenement house department, earning 3000 dollars a year and becoming the highest paid woman in New York State civil service. Only other passing candidate was George Hale, a veteran in the department, with an average just below hers. A very pretty young woman of modest and unassuming manner.
William E. Smythe argues that the United States must expand rural settlement to support future population growth. He urges organizing land into small farm homes, diversifying crops, and efficiently using all land to sustain a growing nation, highlighting the South as a vast untapped area for expansion.
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