Greeley Tribune Hails First Year and Ambitious Era Ahead
The Greeley Tribune announces it has completed its first publication year and urges advance payments to avoid stopping. It promises a paper worthy of subscribers and predicts progress in agriculture mining immigration and temperance while inviting support for temperance advocacy and subscriptions.
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THE
Greeley Tribune
Rocky Mountain
Department of Business and Industry
Greatey Tribune
Gresley Tribune
Game Leg Tribune
Herald of Health
New York
Why Greeley Thrives Despite East Skepticism
A reader explains Greeley’s growth through local agriculture and commerce. He notes four large stores and thriving trades in boots, clothing, and groceries, with 2000 acres under cultivation producing abundant crops. The piece argues that surpluses and strong labor sustain the town beyond eastern impressions.
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Greeley
Cache la Poudre
Big Thompson
St. Vrain
Denver
Colorado’s Fertile Prospects and Coal Shortages
The article extolls Colorado agriculture and soil fertility as settlers open farms, predicting vast future cultivation and a six million acre irrigation potential. It details coal shortages in Denver, nearby mines, canal expansion plans, and a push for a mines school, plus a Winter Farmers Club meeting and railroad developments in Southern Colorado.
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Providence
Denver
Colorado
Briggs
Murphy
Johnson
Greeley
Briggs Bros
Higley
Marshall Mine
Pine Bluff Road
Colorado Colony Promises Prospects and Praise
In this edition readers see reports on Colorado’s colony plans with details from Denver and Chicago papers. The piece notes General Robert Anderson’s death in Europe and questions about his wartime role, while citing Greeley’s borrowing advice and a Colorado population estimate around 75,000. Connections to European investors, London administrator Beard, and a £100 membership price for colonists are described, along with travel routes from Liverpool to Norfolk and onward to Green City Colorado.
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Denver
Platte
Hion
George Board
London
England
Europe
Colorado
Beard
Green City
Liverpool
Norfolk
Virginia
Hutchinson
Josephine Mansfeld
Fisk
Jerusalem
Rothschild
Napoleon
New York
Chicago
Union Pacific Land Company
Dix Island
Massachusets
Chicago Relief Fund
Schenectady
Auburn
Lowell
Mass
United States
Alexander T. Stewart
Buffalo Commercial Advertiser
Democratic Courier
America
Buchanan Reed
Post
Rome
Reed
Nebraska City Chronicle
Nebraska
New Hampshire
Omaha Herald
Victor Hugo
George Bancroft
Paris
Mrs. Stowe
Christian Union
Blair
Burt County
Boas
New York Commercial Advertiser
Fifth Avenue
Wales
Palmer
Sheridan
Kansas
Denver News
Park County
New York Tribune
Trinity Corporation
Grief Stricken Chicago Wreck Reveals Family Loss
A Chicago letter describes Wabash and Michigan Avenues ruined by fire. Homeless mourners sit on a box as a sister, without jewels, endures losses of her home and a brother who died saving papers. The survivor seeks help as the narrator laments the scene.
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Chicago
Wabash
Michigan
James
Notes of the Week from a Turbulent Era
A collage of items from the era reports public events and oddities. Debts, judgements, vaccination counts, Chicago fire casualties, land sales, and labor notes mingle with world names like Josephine Mansfeld and Alexander Stewart. Local progress and distant anecdotes frame a bustling weekly snapshot.
Local Colorado Items Note Church Events and Horticultural Yields
Colorado matters reports church baptisms and a Bible Society formation in Weld County, a new fire ordinance, and a Methodist church dedication set for December. It also notes Eli Hall's experimental acre yields in Greeley, Mast growth of fruit trees, and notices on railroad photography work and a Sunday School schedule beginning November 12 1871. Obituaries record Lucy Maria Billings and infant Marsh in Greeley.
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F. K. Phoenix
Creeley
Adams
Colony Hall
Arthur Clark
Rozine Emily Meeker
Miss Clark
Misa Stansbury
Weld County Bible Society
American Bible Society
Ur. Scott
W. F. Thompson
Mr. Keith
J. C.V. Spencer
Methodist
Colorado
Eli Hall
Vine Street
York State
Greeley
Hall
Greeley Union
J. K. Thompson
Sup’t
Billings
Lucy Maria
J. E. Billings
Marsh
B. F. Marsh
Painesville
Ohio
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Canal No. 2
Colorado Farmers’ Club
Oak Street
Kansas Pacific
Kit Carson
Fort Lyon
Arkansas
Arkansas Valley
New Mexico
Rio Grande
Colorado City
Arkansas River
Pueblo
Pine Bluff
Golden City
S. R. Wells
Phrenological Journal
Rocky Mountains
Great West
Robert Anderson
Fort Sumter
Country Gentleman
Tarborough
N. C
Mr. Greeley
Ness
M. L. Dunlap
Brigham Young
Central Park
Rowell
New York City
Milwaukee Journal of Commerce
Preshtigo
Preshtigo Company
Ludington Company
Yale College
Thomas Duncan
Thomas F. Goode
Pennsylvania Hospital
Russell
Duncan
N. 2
Tribune
Presbyterian Church
Spruce St
Marx
Anthony
Main Street
Pike's Peak
J. F. Fezer
NEW Photograph Gallery
Nichols’ Block
Main St
Mr. Marsh
B. F. Manse
Frank Hall
Territory of
Iran
Prank Hall
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