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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1872
Page
1
T Clayton dealer advertises wholesale and retail dessert hats caps and gents and boys furnishing goods on F street above Larimer Denver. Goods shown with pleasure and prices guaranteed as low as any in the West.
An essay warns readers of two Libertines one vile and one refined detailing how both corrupt youth and morality. It condemns the lauded deceivers who cloak vile acts in virtue and urges young men to discern honesty from pretence in public life and private conduct.
A long discussion contrasts mental vigor with physical strength, arguing that robust bodies sharpen writing and oratory. It cites Horace Greeley, Thoreau, and Sydney Smith as examples, urging writers and ministers to exercise and work with their hands to deepen thought and delivery.
A saddened wife of a state prison convict seeks par don and restoration. The speaker recalls Phillips’s father's benevolence but notes the son grew up under a roof that sheltered criminals and poor choices, shaping a life of generous, if troubled, ambitions.
The essay argues war springs from rulers' quarrels not peoples. It contrasts Dumbradge villagers feeding French and British workers then sending 60 men to fight and kill 60 from the other side, leaving only 60 dead bodies to bury. It condemns kings for inciting blockheads to war and foresees a bleak peace era shadowed by persistent conflicts.
The excerpt praises George Eliot's Middlemarch for terse expressive sentences and compares tragedy to the pace of human life. It contemplates how full engagement with ordinary life would feel like hearing grass grow and a squirrel beat, yet notes society remains numb and dull.
Excerpt explores death its inevitability and how self obsession distorts perception. It discusses how love duties and trivial ties shape joy and sorrow, the impact of pride on others, and how passions blend with daily life to form a shared, flawed human experience.
The piece offers practical dairy husbandry tips on cow care, feeding, calving, and milking routines, stressing gradual changes, handling, and early calf management. It shifts to economic views on debt, landholding, and farm consolidation, then notes rising university attendance despite low prices, attributing growth to wealthier farmers investing in education.
The Country Gentleman notes Central Illinois has seen rapid capital expansion at about 12 percent with long loans at ten percent plus broker and legal fees. With corn at 20 to 30 cents and oats at 15 to 20, most land mortgaged beyond cash value, the writer warns of tight times, little public spirit, and scarce money despite abundant crops and livestock.
The writer argues repeatedly that small farms cost less to run, require daily personal attention, leak less, feed the land better, and yield higher efficiency. He notes fences, roads, schools, churches, and mills depend on dense population, concluding small farms are best for value and management.
European farmers seek to maintain and raise soil fertility through manure and fertilizers. Experiments by Mr. Lewis show a thousand year old English field yielded 15.56 bushels of wheat per acre after long cultivation, versus 36 bushels after applying fourteen tons of manure, plus 200 pounds of sulphate of ammonia and 300 pounds of phosphate, with barley reaching 36 bushels and bent 48 bushels. A Beecher anecdote follows, depicting a polite encounter with a pompous horse-stable suitor at Twin Mountain House.
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