Our Chicago Letter A tale of love and ruin in 1878
Special correspondence describes a Chicago man who fell from wealth after the Civil War, drank, repented, and sought reunion with his wife and daughter at a church. The scene shows estranged family members and the city’s volatile fortunes, with many former elites now struggling patrons of daily life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greeley Tribune
Chicago
Michigan Avenue
Mark
Wabash Avenue
Rhou
Albert Race
State Street
John Lamb
Leicester Sheep Dominate Britain’s Long-Wooled Breed
The Leicester, the largest long-wooled type in Britain, is favored for early weight gain and fattening efficiency. Bakewell’s system boosted its prominence since 1760, eclipsing other breeds. Leicesters breed true, with ovate form, strong forequarter, and fine wool, though not highly prolific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Leicester
England
State canvass by Routt team tallies Colorado results
The November canvass by Governor Routt Secretary Wm. M. Clark and Auditor Crawford opened at the Secretary of State office to tally returns for Representative to Congress Regents of the University and Legislature. Official figures show Belford and Patterson outcomes with county by county gains losses and totals across Arapahoe Boulder Clear Creek Lake Gilpin Las Animas, and the San Juan group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John L. Routt
Wm. M. Clark
D. C. Crawford
Secretary of State
Congress
Colorado
Belford
Patterson
Douglas
Hinsdale
Fremont
Conejos and
Lake
Arapahoe County
Boulder
Clear Creek
Gilpin
Las Animas
Arapahoe
Conejos
Bent
Grand
Huerfano
Park
Pueblo
Saguache
San Juan
Summit
Costilla
Elbert
el Paso
Jefferson, Lake,La Plata
Larimer
Rio Grande
Weld
Bente
Castilla Custer
Eas
Aera Sone
Eeeneer
University
Aethoe
Cangros
Costalla
Custer Douglas
Weeaweee
Gratober Neae Gunnison
Bruce the Manchester fire horse Our Bruce dies after calcified stone found
The Manchester Fire Station recounts the life of Our Bruce a beloved fire horse born in 1864. He served with the fire engine and police patrol, entertaining crews and deterring crowds, until illness and a post mortem revealed a six inch calculus weighing five pounds eleven ounces as the cause of death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Tozer
Manchester
England
Bruce
Our Bence
Manchester Carriage Company
Carriage Company
Manchester Corporation
Seteneée Gosaip
Palmer's railway poem honors progress in Colorado and Mexico
A poem by W. Be. Pabor read at the State Press Association extols the railroad’s spread from the Divide to Alamosa and beyond. It praises engineering, nature tamed, and the economic promise of rail lines linking Colorado Springs, Cheyenne, La Veta, and the Rio Grande region toward Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Press Association
W. BE. Pabor
Colorado Springs
Alamosa
Rio Grande
Verdure
Rome
Colorado
Palmer
Fame
Oldest House in America Hosts Village House Warmin
A benefit for the Presbyterian church of Southold, New York, featured a tour and old fashioned house warming at the Horton mansion, claimed as America’s oldest house built in 1689. Attendees wore colonial costumes, with relics like a sword from Bunker Hill and a 1599 Bible, as townsfolk toured rooms, kitchens, and slave quarters amid a large crowd. The house faces demolition by new owner Dr. Amos L. Sweet, with a modern dwelling to replace it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Herald
Presbyterian Church
Whitaker
Horton
America
England
Barnabas Hoerton
Captain Wells
Court of Sessions
East Riding of
Yorkshire
Southold
Margaret Horton
Ladies’ Society
M. F. Carpenter
Dr. Sweet
Metta Horton
Mattie
Ettie Wells
Carpenter
George
Bunker Hill
Washington
London
Jonathan Tuthill
Jonathan Horton
Mary Goldsmith
Widmas
Bloom
Amos L. Sweet
Southold, L. I
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Hotel DE Comfort
Main and
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Greeley
Graham
R Bennett
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Ighest
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Minnie S. Devenport
Jefferson and
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Greelny
F. L. Childs
H. N. Rogerson
M. Freeman
Sec'y & E
Union Colony
Freeman & Buckley
Union Bank
Masonic Block Greeley
Greeley House
Greeley, Ward County
D. L. Dawley
W. Stein
OUR
Lamb
Josephine Chapman
Haverly’s Theatre
Hooley’s
Robson and Crane
McVicker’s
Katie Mayhew
M’liss
Erneson
Leicester Sheep
Ganvass
Denver T Mes
Cci
Ases Vardeess
Erika Vhnetic
Wm. M. Girickler
Disdeess Lack
Gilpin Henry R. Wolcott
Dennis Sullivan
Iss Foo
Jiss
Es Tuerfano
Titus W. Fouech
Clemente Trujas
Juan Antonio Bacca
Francisco Sanchez
Francis F. Brune
Edward O. Wolcott
Hubert O. Old
G Z Custer
J. Alkire
Marriah
Ouray
la Plata
THE
Manchester Fire Horse
Montezuma
Fair la Veta
de Christo
Bill
Hunt
Mesereau
Mexico
Brothers of the Mystic Press
New England
Chapman
Middlebury
California
Government of
South Australia
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