Fort Collins Area News Roundup and Court Plans
Northern Colorado notes from Fort Collins and Sterling report a six inch snow, rail tax totals for 1886 of 17814.88, new post office plan at Miner, court house plans to be examined in Greeley Golden and Boulder, and local incidents from Brown and Donath beefing debt to a near shooting. Other items cover bone shipments, school divisions, church contracts, armory entertainment, elk meat trade, new bridges, and district court activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rom
Box Elder
Fort Collins
Manhattan
Court House
Greeley
Golden
Boulder
Mr. Donath
Brown
Donald
Mr. Swenson
Pinkham
Aldrich
Annis
A. M. Nicholas, Esq
North Park
School House
Sterling News
W.L. Henderson
R. J. Patterson
Wallace & Gaige
J. B. Griffis
F. P. Jones
Denver
Cme
Sterling
Sterling Ditch
H. T. Sutherland
Bulletin
Lake Hollister
Methodist Church
A. H. Lucas
George E. Osterhout
Main Street
Rogers & Alters
Fannie McRown
Red Rock
Sherman Smith
Sam P. Milner
Buckhorn
Grand Army Post
van Bramer
J.S. McClelland
Courtroom Quiz Leaves Witness in Dike of Satire
In a mock probate of a trial between House and the Greeley Irrigation Co the court and jurors quiz a surveyor about the ditch and orchard. The piece mocks legal tactics with the badgered witness groaning under a sharp-voiced examiner as satire wafts through the scene. A final product pitch for Hackmetack perfume is noted with prices.
Needed Advice for Some Librarians
E H Woodruff argues libraries should resemble hospitals for crippled minds and employ oral advisers. He compares librarians to floor walkers, information agents, and railway men, urging public libraries to have officers guiding readers, locating books, and clarifying connections on the road to learning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Library
E. H. Woodruff
Boston Traveler
French Tax System Aims High In Paris
In a Cleveland Leader excerpt Frank G. Carpenter describes France’s heavy tax regime. Direct and indirect levies apply to rent, trades, land, goods, octroi duties, tobacco, legal stamps, and pawnbroking with high interest. He notes Paris collected and spent over $600 million last year and criticizes surplus spending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
France
Frank G. Carpenter
Cleveland
Porters wages and scams across early rail and urban scenes
A Glimpse from the era shows wage scales for porters on different lines with monthly pay and tips shaping earnings, contrasting with conductors’ lower salaries. Other notes cover Lucci’s post fast recovery appetite, a Moscow gambling house fraud using wired signals, and a Shiloh’s Cure ad for respiratory sickness.
How It Is Done in Swindle Contracts for Farmers
A newspaper reproduces a contract form used to swindle farmers where a signed agreement at first appears ordinary but later converts into a promissory note. The piece explains the mechanism behind the transformation and how sharpers exploit farm owners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucci
New York Evening Post
Xpress
Terms for Magazine Subscriptions Offer
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MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Independent
New York
the Independent
Broadway
New York City
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Colorado
Fort Morgan
the Times
Frank Hotchkiss
Omaha
Ladies of the Aid Society
Frank Mott
Company I
Pawnee
Atwood
T. L. Watson
North Bend
Nebraska
Pawnee Creek
Ebbs & Taylor
James Patterson
Windsor
Evans
A. C. Todd
Wyoming
House
The
Greeley Irrigation Company
Shiloh
J. F. Fezer
J. F. Beves
St. Louis
Chicago
Palace
Globe Democrat
Moscow
New York Graphic
Ads & Kg
Newspaper IN the World
Pall Mall Gazette
London
England
States
the Spectator
Sunday School Times
Philadelphia
Becore Tion
H. B. Jackson
New York Weekly Herald
United States
the Foreign Department
James Gordon Bennett
NEW York Herald
Occidental Lodge No
A. F
A. M
H. A. French
W. M
A. Wooppury
Roy Mansfield
Secry
Greeley Commandery
K.T
E. C
J. A. Wooppury
Garden City
Order of the Eastern Star
W. F. Curips
Chas
Stanley
Sec
Greeley Lodge No
Knights of Pythias
Warre
McDownaup
Forest City Lodge No. 14
Baygettr
Dawley
Recorder
U, 8
Grant
Watson
Post Com
Txos
Rossins
Post Adj
Grant Woman’s Relief Corps No. 15
Emmy H, Jongs
Pres
Saran M
Inman
Sec’y
Poudre Valley Lodge No. 12
Benner
Weld
Exowurox
Fievo
Scribe
Gaesing
Winuarp
Carver
Chosen Friends
J. Jones
C. C
C, H. Forp, Sec
Greeley Guards, Co
1St
B. D. Harper
F. P. Frost
Sec’y. Greele
Poudre Valley Hook and Ladder Co. No.1
M. Booner
Foreman
Wm. J. Cumups
Sec'y
Greeley Steamer Co. No
Fuuarr, Sec’y
D. F. Camp
A. Z. Salomon & Company
A. L. Welch & CO
Weld County
City
Sixteenth and
Champa Streets
Denver, Colo
Randolph & Jacobs
Sthaks
Oasis Block
G. Cook
A. A. Woodbury
W. A. Miner’s
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