Local Trades and Services Advertisements
Business notices show plastering and house work offered by Paris SCIEN FT SIMPSON corner Madison and Mape Streets with low terms. Alexander Boyd M D surgeon and Whys Can provides medical services from Oak Street near Jackson. Hart accessory to Ringer advertises saddles and leather goods from Main Street opposite the Post Office. Buckley, surveyor, offers surveying and ditch work for government lands at the Colony Office. Higley, agent for Kirby Mowing Machine and Temple Pump promotes affordable prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SCIEN
Alexander Boyd
Ciizens
Greeley and
Vielity
Oak St
Jackson
Rosa Robbins and the Dicks Farm Settlement Welcome
Rosa and family arrive at the Dicks farm in prairies country. Augustus and Goodman seek cows and wood while Caldwell greets the newcomers and shares homestead life, health worries, and tips on farming, bees, and living in a new settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rosa
Augustus
James
Mr. Goodman
Goodman
Mr. Caldwell
Dicks Farm
Martin
Sartin
Sorrer
Robbins
Zion
Colorado frontier tale of work and manners in 1800s
The narrator recounts daily hard labor, family kitchen mishaps, and a harsh critique of idlers in Colorado. He urges able-bodied work, describes mining and farming paths to independence, cites Ben Eaton’s rise from debt to ranch, and laments social rot cited by editors.
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Lewis Whipple
Chicago
N. C. Meeker
Union Colony
S. A. Cameron
Westingham
Bankers
Greeley
Colorado Territory
Mac Smitel
Tribune
Sim
Colorado
Platte
Ben Eaton
America
C. MacLara
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R. E. Hart
Ringer
N. B
Main St
Omec
N. B. Exchange Hotel
Russell Fisk
J.D. Buckley
J.C. Higley
Kirby
Mitchell
Temple
J. Leavy
Urseryman and Florist
Main &J
Grant and
Sherman Sts
G H. Webster
California
J. Ss. Scott
Pine
Madison Street
S. K. Thompson
Car
Madison and
Spruce Sts
C. Higley
Ivery
L. van Gohren
G. W.& J. L. Stotts, Lvery
Spruce Street
L. Childs
Boston
Colony Hall
Pearyvey Townsend
Eenanerers
Walnut St
Park
Daniel Witter
Arapahoe County
Denver City
Washington
Ren
Spruce St
Jefferson Avenues
B. Talbot
Hollister & Savage
Maple Street
Salomon’s
Babcock & Taylor
U. 5
Lande
F. M. Babcock
Philip Taylor E. C. Monk & CH
Pioneer Stone
Crerey
Cor
H. G. Bond
Ofice Over Hussey’s Bank
F and Moladay -Tree's
Denver
F. J. Percival
Park House
J. W. Benson
A. E. Gipson
Greerey
Corogapo
Ribune Bion
A. Z. Salomion’s
E. Lowndes
Winchester Arme Co
New Haven
Conn
Adame and
Oak Streets
Adame
Monroe
The
Baptist Church
Arpenter
Maple and
Jackson Ste. P
Arthur Hotckiss
J. Wenry
Madison St
Walnut
Rosa Robbins
John Logan
BY N. C. Meeker
Fox
Roga
Augus
Elliot
the Tribune
Russell
Wilson Station
K. PL
Kansas City
Ellis
Plains
Emory
Purgatory
Roton Mountains
Illinois
Pond Creek
Wilson
Ellis Alianthus
Catalpa
Cariboo
Boulder County
Barmard
John H. Tice
St. Louis Democrat
Rocky Mountain Vena
Rocky Mountain News
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