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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1874
Page
3
The column reports on crops and prices in Greeley and surrounding areas. Mentions potato, corn, and wheat yields, grasshoppers, and prices. notes a large potato crop potential for Potato Clark of Denver. wind damage in Boulder. Utah fruit shipments praised. local business expansions and a Bible Society meeting scheduled.
Farmers prefer seedling apples and peaches and choose varieties from them. Pears remain predominantly standard sorts and are considered good.
Avant Courier readers are treated to a Yellowstone Ranch encounter full of playful banter about raspberry patches, fences and wealth, with a mountaineer wooing a city belle in a comic backcountry scene. Interleaved are brief notes on Gen Garfield’s congressional renomination controversy and social reformist comments by Miss Emily Faithfull.
A large varied stock from New York arrives for sale in Greeley, with items from clothing to furnishings, spectacles, coal, groceries, and more. Local merchants promote discounts, new store openings, and special offers while warning of tax deadlines and cash for wheat.
The article announces a fruit supper hosted by the Young Ladies of the M. E. Sabbath School in Nichols Hall on Thursday September 24. Admission is 10 cents and supper 25 cents with California fruits and music. It also notes wheat and produce business activities and demands for sod breaking and potato sales by local residents A. Z Salomon J Max Crarx and O Austin are listed as involved vendors and communicants.
All who owe A Z Salomon must call and settle now as balances are overdue. If not settled by October 1 they will be turned over to an attorney without further notice. Prompt payment saves trouble and expense.
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