Ladies Propose Greeley Sanitarium Plan With Cottages
At Nichols Hall about fifty to one hundred Greeley women discussed forming a sanitarium to care for invalids. They envision land between Washington and Monroe, with thirteen acres under Canal Number Three, to be developed into four acre blocks with central boardinghouse and up to fifty cottages, funded by shares and large donations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greeley
Nichols’ Hall
Colorado
Washington and
Monroe Streets
Hunter’s
Smith's
Colony Board
Inter
Highland Park
Denver
Colorado as a Sanitarium and a Cabbage Patch Tale
The piece rebukes Colorado as a supposed health cure for consumptives noting that air may harm tubercular patients. It recounts a Greeley Tribune exchange on the issue, then details Mr. W. S. Taylor’s Larimer County cabbage farm yield, hauling feats to Cheyenne, and market prices, with Grasshopper impacts on value.
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Colorado
William N. Byers
Rocky Mountain News
Greeley Tribune
Cuba
Minnesota
California
Grant
Herald
Nebraska
Greeley
Cleveland
Ohio
Long's Peak
Working class housing boom and charity building trusts
The article notes over 1,000 housing applications reflecting demand for well designed dwellings with pleasant surroundings. It highlights four London associations building for the working classes: the Peabody trustees, the Metropolitan Society, the Artizans and Laborers Society, and Sir Sidney Waterlow’s society. It mentions daily messenger runs between Golden and Denver and proposes a Greeley to Denver service, plus a claim that Vinegar Bitters advertised as temperance contains seven and a half percent alcohol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
The
Peabody Fund
Metropolitan Society
Artizans’ and Laborers’ Society
Sir Sidney Waterlow
Wills in Kansas City and Colorado Canal Plan Folly
The report catalogs Wills dispersing 3000 currycombs in Greeley jaunts and a proposed Big Platte to Colorado canal fifty miles long to irrigate the west. He allegedly forged deeds, offered farms for property, and baffled authorities with plausible stories. Local notes mention Park County guide posts and a quip from the Boston Post about Olympia Brown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wills
Kansas City
Times
Greeley
P. B. Wills
Big Platte
Colorado
Mike Ward
Mr. Keller
Mr. Wills
Mr. Smith
Smith
Climate's role in curing consumption debated in Colorado article
The Colorado Sun piece argues high and dry climates like Colorado and the Rocky Mountain foothills aid recovery from pulmonary consumption. It cites Dr Coolidge and Dr Cheever, notes Colorado’s milder seasonal variation, and highlights Greeley as a thriving, low-cost, alcohol-free community with extensive agriculture and churches. The text emphasizes gradual acclimation, long residence, and open-air activity for recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado Sun
Laennec
Niemyer
United States
Europe
Himalayas
Asia
Andes
South America
Rocky Mountains
North Platte
Wyoming
Santa Fe
New Mexico
Atlantic States
Colorado
Coolidge
U.S. Army
Upper Platte
Rio Grande
Bennett
Cheever
University of Michigan
Missouri River
Greeley
Denver
Canyon City
Colorado Springs
Speaking jackass stages at Frederick fair draws crowds
Among the curiosities at the Frederick fair a talking jackass entered by Groves of Shepherdstown W Va attracts attention and amusement. A spectator asked the animal to drink and it replied in good English Why not. The beast resembles his species aside from his ears.
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Groves
Baalam
Baltimore Sun
Frederick
Shepherdstown
W. Va
Independent journalism and the duty of the press
An editorial stance from the Fort Collins Standard arguing that newspapers should critique political measures impartially, assess public figures by character, and distinguish truth from falsehood. It contends honest political criticism benefits states and the nation, urging editors to separate grain from chaff and serve the public with pure wheat.
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Times
Fort Collins Standard
North Park exploration yields coal and gold prospects
Mr. David E. Dulaney returns from a three week survey of North Park reporting level landscape and rich alluvial soil in the central and eastern areas. He found two coal mines a northwest vein twenty feet thick and a central vein of high quality bituminous coal. Dulaney filed a claim near the Rabbit Ear Mountains twelve miles from the gold diggings, where three men work frozen gravel gold, nuggets large and coarse, with the miners claiming solid progress despite hardships. Grass and timber cover the foothills and game abounds. no Indians remain in the park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David E. Dulaney
North Park
Rabbit Ear Mountains
Messrs. McMallen
Gibson
Georgetown
Mr. D
Dunlaney
Lectures Begin at School of Mines and Local Transport Finds
Capt E L Berthoud starts a geology lecture series at the School of Mines with weekly Thursday talks. Colorado Central Railroad offers excursion trains at 50 dollars round trip, while C B Ayers runs a Denver Golden daily express at 1 25 per round trip. Bullion worth 8000 and 6000 pounds of lead shipped from Golden Smelting Works. Colorado fruit trade expands with Denver firm Martin Cornforth handling about sixty car loads this season.
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Golden Transcript
E. L. Berthoud
School of Mines
Colorado Central Railroad Company
Denver
Cnvil
C. B. Ayers
Golden
Smith & Harris
Reichmann
Colorado
California
Salt Lake
Martin & Cornforth
Messrs. Martin & Cornforth
Colorado Irrigation Law Roots Reach Back to Moses
The text traces Colorado irrigation statutes to New Mexico and Mexico before Spain, then Moorish law, suggesting modern frontier Colorado lawyers consult ancient detail rather than guiding principles. It contrasts European legends with these enduring legal precedents across centuries.
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Colorado
New Mexico
Mexico
Spain
Mediterranean
Egypt
Moses
Atlantic
Charles Reade
Ridley Creek
Painfully New The Legendary Love Of Our Cat
Fragmentary note reflects a rhetorical comparison of affection and authenticity, questioning schooling in Colorado and urging contemplation of instruction through a dated Provencal phrasing. The fragment hints at themes of literary critique and educational choices in a historical Philadelphia press item.
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New West
Colorado
Phila. Press
Colorado Springs visit noted and local life described
Miss Mary Meeker visits Colorado Springs while Clark Boughton founder of the Collins Standard dies. The town hears sermons and notices farm sales and local events. Cattle shares advertise, migrants arrive, and church and lodge activities continue with meetings and lectures.
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Mary Meeker
Colorado Springs
Clark Boughton
Collins Standard
Tennie Nichols
Greeley
Benson
Es Summer Hotel
Wyoming
Pabor
Capt
Boyd
Pennsylvania
Langkee
Sing Lee
Main Street
Valley
Massachusetts
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Wyman
Early York
Winningstadt
Schweinfurth
le Man's Wonder
Large York
Wakefield
Fiat Dutch
Cheyenne
Taylor
W. 8. Taylor
Larimer County
Larimer Express
Park County
Fairplay
Fairplay Sentinel
Olympia Brown
Boston Post
Independent Journalism
Home News
Weld County Bible Society
Methodist Church
Arion Society
Park Chapel
Pinkerton
Presbyterian Church
Platte
Annear
Africa
Park Church
Max
M. EB
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W. ¢. T. Joseph Seeley
E. Lowther
E. J. Carver
W. F
L. W. Webb
W. M
John Mesher
W.T
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Ruth Maltbie
E. Clark
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