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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1887
Page
7
An article on home wax modelling notes its educational value for anatomy and artistry. It describes how beginners quickly improve, observe family features, and gain skills for evaluating sculpture, suggesting wax work fosters broader arts appreciation.
Prof Newberry of Columbia College at a New York Academy of Sciences meeting extolled Colorado coal fields. He showed coal specimens from western Colorado with sulphur as low as three percent, including anthracite and bituminous varieties with strong coking coal potential. Veins measure 18, 14, 10, 8 and 6 feet, and three railways near the field promise export to a vast treeless stretch from Dakota to Texas.
La Junta aims to start a sugar mill as part of broad town development. Across the Arkansas River in Pueblo, several iron bridges are rising. Colorado smelting works process about 1,700 tons of ore daily, while Glenwood Springs plans $75,000 in improvements aside from hotel spending. F B Koen & Bros of Lamar spearhead a ditch and reservoir project with five excavators, 200 mules, and 80 workers moving dirt daily. over 100 miles of ditches and nearly 1,000 miles of laterals will carry water by spring. A $5,000 school is proposed.
A critique decries the American tipping culture at summer resorts. It argues tips drive service, shape expectations, and burden travelers, noting examples from waiters to public figures and even funeral and wedding tips as outrages. The piece cites Emerson Longfellow and Lincoln praise while urging abolition of tips to the dead and fairer practices for the living.
The canning of fruits and vegetables in California has risen sharply in recent years. Production has nearly tripled in a decade with last season surpassing 760 000 cases and 1887 expected to be at least 30 percent higher, nearing 1 000 000 cases. About 80 percent of the output is marketed east of the Rockies, with a portion exported to Europe.
A Philadelphia Press remark notes that many charming women wear five to six pairs of stockings beneath bathing costumes to give legs a fuller look while preserving a small foot. It describes a belle peeling off six sea soaked pairs in a bath house.
General Butler tells a Boston paper that the first colored troops in the Civil War were not enlisted in Massachusetts. He states that in 1862 he recruited three regiments of colored men in New Orleans and sent them into action long before colored troops were used elsewhere.
An advertisement proclaims Dr J H McLean's Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier will brighten pale cheeks and transform a pale dispirited woman into one with sparkling health and beauty.
A daily rider recalls a raw hand from Ireland who shouted to passengers to move up front to “git in off the balcony” and they complied. The item ends with an aside on kidney and bladder irritation and a promotion for Dr. J. H. Mc Lean's Liver and Kidney Balm.
The notice describes The Springfield Republican lineage since 1824 and its weekly and daily editions. It lists subscription rates for Daily, Sunday, and Weekly papers including annual, quarterly, monthly, and trial terms. It emphasizes independent liberal editorial stance and broad coverage of national and world news.
An Extraordinary Offer includes The Weekly Republican and The Farm and Fireside sent to any address for one year at $1.25. Subscriptions to The Weekly Republican for 1888 may start from December 1, 1887. Send for free samples and clubbing list. Address The Republican Springfield Mass.
The prospectus describes Harper's Young People as a weekly aimed at young readers with serial and short stories scientific and travel articles historical sketches athletic topics and games. It promises numerous illustrations parental teacher supplements and strict editorial screening to ensure wholesome content.
Announcement for a periodical beginning Vol. IX on November 1 1887 with Postage Prepaid at $2 a year. Specimen copies available on receipt of two cent stamp. Remittances by post office money order or draft. Newspapers barred from copying without express order.
Harper's Bazar presents a home journal blending literature and fine art with fashions. It features serials poems sketches etiquette decor cookery and practical essays to aid households and promote economy.
Harper and Brothers advertise per year rates for Harper's Bazar Harper's Magazine and Harper's Weekly with postage free to US Canada and Mexico. They offer bound volumes for three years back at 700 dollars per volume cloth cases at 1.00 each and payments by money order or draft.
A reader from Sibley Missouri credits Ely's Cream Balm with curing ten years of catarrh sores inside the nose after two bottles. Another testimonial from Grand Rapids Michigan notes his daughter improved after one bottle.
Florence currently ships around twenty cars of oil weekly and expects a larger production rise once refiners finish preparations to treat oil.
For physical ailments of aging, the advertisement claims Dr. J. H. McLean's Liver and Kidney Balm offers the most satisfactory results with a genial, invigorating effect on the liver and kidneys.
The text notes croup can be sparked by minor causes, urging emergency readiness and endorsing Chamberlain's Cough Remedy sold by J. F. Fezer. It also reports the solemnized marriage of Senator Joseph R. Hawley of Connecticut and Miss Edith Horner of England at St. Clement's Church in Philadelphia.
Newark Arkansas resident says he recovered from a lung illness using Dr King’s New Discovery and is now able to work the farm. Decatur Ohio man credits the remedy with saving his life after doctors gave up. Free samples available at J F Fezer’s drug store. Also promoting Dr McLean’s Little Liver and Kidney Pills for headache relief.
The note touts Dr. J. H. McLean's Volcanic Oil Liniment as a remedy for many stock diseases and ailments causing farmer losses. It suggests the product can quickly remedy issues affecting cattle and livestock, implying economic relief for farmers.
Electric Bitters is praised as a purer medicine that cures liver and kidney diseases and removes pimples and other skin issues from impure blood. It is claimed to drive malaria from the system and treat headaches constipation and indigestion with a money back guarantee. Price 50 cents to $1 at J F Fezer’s drug store. The New Jersey Central Railroad reorganization is nearly complete and the line will exit receivership on January 1.
An advertisement touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the best cure for cuts bruises sores ulcers and many skin conditions with a money back guarantee and a 25 cent price per box sold by J F Fezer. It also promotes Dr J H McLean's Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier as tonics to boost vitality.
Advert reads that appetite and sleep improve and bodily systems strengthen with Dr J H McLean’s Stroneremene Cordial and Blood Purifier. It claims to restore vitality and buoyancy of spirits through this tonic.
The New York Herald claims the Arrow Steamship Company never planned to build ships and was organized solely to float stock. The expose questions the company’s purpose and fundraising, suggesting a fraudulent motive behind its formation.
An advertised remedy titled Original Abietine Gintment claims to cure old sores burns wounds chapped hands and all skin eruptions. It also promises to treat piles. Sold by W B Mason at 26 cents per box or 30 cents by mail.
A vintage medical ad urging women to use Dr. J. H. McLean's Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier to restore strength and address weakness and back lameness. It emphasizes supplying needed energy and correcting irregularities.
Lewis Emery, an elderly resident about ten miles west of Loveland, Missouri Canon, fell forty feet from a ledge while moving a large rock and was killed instantly. The note also touts Prickly Ash Bitters for dyspepsia and Dr. J A McLean’s Chills and Fever Cure, priced at 50 cents.
An ad touts CALIFORNIA CAT-A-CURE as a cure for throat and lung diseases urging investment of $1 for relief. It claims endorsement by ministers and physicians in California and offers W. B. Mason sales at $1 per bottle with a three for $2.50 deal and six months treatment for $1 by mail $110.
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