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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1908
Page
9
A big crowd turnout greeted Republican speakers in Greeley on Saturday evening. Bonynge praised Roosevelt policy and attacked Democrats as thieves while taft backers touted sugar tariffs and Philippine policy. Local candidates praised the city and urged Taft’s 2,500 countywide majority as women joined in the applause.
A man from Creeley Colorado reports to police that he was swindled out of 12800 by confidence men from Omaha Denver and Council Bluffs on a fake horse race. The victim, a local cattle feeder, is absent from the city and his identity cannot be confirmed. The steering con artist is said to be in Denver. The scheme mirrors other fake prize fights foot races and wrestling matches used by thieves in several cities with little chance of recovery or justice.
A notice warns that ordinary colds can lead to pneumonia chronic catarrh and strengthen vulnerability to diphtheria scarlet fever measles and whooping cough. It urges using Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as the quickest cure and notes its widespread sale by druggists.
John E. Miller of Miller and Stacy, Denver decorators, is in the city arranging for decorations for Odd Fellows Week. His card promises services from storefront displays to city streets, likely adding more decorations to his credit than any other firm when the visitors arrive.
In 1863 George M. Felton of South Gibson Pa suffered chronic diarrhoea in the army. He reports trying many remedies without lasting relief until A W Miles of the city recommended Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. One bottle stopped the ailment at once. For sale by all druggists.
A Colorado Interurban company plan aims to build a 48 mile electric line from Denver to Greeley via La Salle and Fort Lupton to tap coal fields and boost freight. Construction would start after $700,000 Colorado funding is raised, with $1.3 million eastern backing and a goal of year and a half car service.
A woman attempted to pass two forged checks signed Joe Cook at the First National Bank on Monday afternoon claiming to be Cook’s wife. Authorities say Cook lives on a nearby ranch and is not married. After hours at the police station she was identified by three witnesses and sent home to about eighty miles away. she is believed demented.
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