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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1874
Page
1
A vivid poem-like scene depicts Continental troops and British Grenadiers advancing under cannon fire. Drums, rolls, and bright fire illuminate the line as St George’s cannoniers engage. Cavalry, powder clouds, and the six-pounder guns unleash deadly rounds across a grassy plain.
Excerpts from Hon. Schuyler Colfax's Denver Fair address praise for Colorado's growth. He cites irrigation, mining, stock raising, and dairy expansion, foresees statehood and prosperity, and urges civilizational progress while noting hope for Native Americans through private landholding and industry. The piece interweaves an anecdote about a hungry boy learning patience and gratitude.
R. Burchill will personally attend to all orders for painting glazing graining paper hanging and whiting. Shop on Walnut Street.
Masonry and plastering services available with prompt attention. Located on the west side of Madison Street between Main and Walnut.
A Salinas City letter argues that a population of 2000 with forty saloons ensures poverty and ruin, warning California towns against liquor traffic. It highlights Vallejo’s wealth loss to rum and cites Oakland’s saloon as evidence liquor lowers property values and harms communities.
A storm limited attendance at Association Hall for Dr James Edmunds English physician speaking on medical use of alcohol. He argued alcohol as food or stimulant is physiologically different from bread, linking its consumption to liver and lung disease and higher death rates. remarks drew applause and thanks from supporters.
A reflective meditation contrasts youth’s fragile beauty with irreversible harm from misdeeds. It recalls a child’s learning moment, a warning about purities lost, and a lecture note on Maxwell's retina yellow spot affecting color vision under fatigue.
A speaker warns against wasting divine gifts by reckless social life. He portrays a gifted young man who, through gambling, drinking, and easy pleasures, drifts toward ruin, describing a downward path from vigor to pauper’s grave and lamenting the lack of place for repentance.
A young man declares self rule while debating true mastery with a friend. A separate episode shows Jones misinterpreting signs at a deaf and dumb asylum, causing a comic exchange before reconciliation. A note ends with a hat swap mystery and a threat to return a concealed letter.
A Springfield Republican note cites repeated refusals to shelter women traveling alone in New York hotels, contrasting with better treatment in local houses. It recalls cases involving a widow, Senator Grimes, and a woman turned away, urging legal remedy and reform.
A historical quotation warns that one sin leads to another and deeper guilt, as initial misdeeds set a downward path the sinner would once have avoided. It emphasizes self-deception and the inevitability of escalating wrongdoing.
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