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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1886
Page
7
A Confederate account recalls efforts to destroy a Union balloon used for spying at Yorktown during the war. Volunteers attempted a daring rear-guard mission with heavy rifles and later muskets, but sentinels, capture risks, and a near miss from a balloon drop thwarted the plan.
Judge Kelly called the House of Representatives too large for efficient work. Walt Whitman, now in Canada, plans to publish a new poetry volume titled Novem ber Bouzhs in the near future.
The Kansas State Industrial College at Manhattan is highlighted as a progressive state institution with diverse programs beyond agriculture. Founded after a 1862 land grant, it features Horticultural and Mechanics halls, extensive grounds, a student-run newspaper, a strong science and chemistry setup, and an endowment near $500,000.
The college admits both sexes with shared classes. Girls receive cooking sewing and dairy work instruction in a model kitchen while boys drill in a large hall. A natural history department will open. the 250 acre farm attaches a stone barn. Graduates become farmers or teachers.
The death of Anne Sophia Stephens at Newport R I on August 20 at age 73 ends a prolific career. She wrote over thirty books in twenty years and helped found magazines in New York Philadelphia and Washington. Her best known work was Fashion and Famine and she was the first American woman novelist of note. Her husband died years ago leaving a legacy of literary achievement.
The Land League names its officers with John Fitzgerald of Nebraska as president and the Rev Dr Charles O Reilly of Detroit as treasurer. The piece profiles Fitzgerald’s rise from immigrant laborer to prominent businessman and notes his charitable support for Ireland. It also recounts Kendall’s Niagara rapids swim and contrasts public perception with personal struggles in a broader social vignette.
A reader poem describes loving scenes of summer nights and courting under moonlight. The verse contrasts winter parlor warmth with summer grove walks and balmy breezes while praising a fair maiden and the courtship moment.
Lieutenant A W Greely reports on canned fruits and vegetables from the Arctic expedition noting that items such as apples peaches pears and tomatoes remained solid and tasting fresh after repeated freezing and thawing. Cranberry sauce and fruit butters showed minor flavor changes, but no cans burst and no illnesses occurred among the party.
A Hanover Courier correspondent recounts guide Laboisse and a German brewery involved visit in Spain. Andalusian peasants sample a new drink called cerveza in a festival setting, using two corked bottles and a soup dish to mix lager with lemonade style liquid. The result is a flat lemonade flavored beer.
Tale from the Indian River Sun recalls a Rockledge crew member sleeping in a screened state-room who woke suffocating as mosquitoes crowded the mesh. He ripped the screen in a panic and faced possible death by bites. A homestead worker also reports three days under a net as swarms blocked daylight.
A reflection on the difficulty for lads to begin professional life without genius and grit as competition grows in the US and abroad. It notes many graduates fail to rise in life and ads for nonmanual work draw many graduates. Estelline fire brigade fought a Sioux River blaze with four and a half minute response, river damage limited, no insurance, water drawn from a barrel, navigation expected to resume soon.
The Times of Philadelphia reports hotel patrons consuming high volumes of alcohol. One hotel counts six customers drinking over sixty five whiskies daily. another shows two regular champagne drinkers, ten to twelve who take over twenty whiskies, eight or nine who drink forty beers after eight, and one who uses two bottles of cognac each day.
An advertisement describes piles symptoms including back weight and indigestion with itch after warmth. It promotes Dr Bosanko's Pile Remedy absorbing tumors and curing the condition. Price fifty cents. Address The Dr Bosanko Medicine Co Piqua Ohio. Sold by Flower and Petrikin.
G Cook a veterinary surgeon lists compounds for Black Pleuro-Pneumonia Hog Cholera and Fowl Cholera as government calls for. He treats enlargements removes bone muscle and ligament issues and offers trocars for bloated cattle. Services at A A Woodbury's shop and W A Miner's Livery Stable with facilities for invalids.
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