News from Colorado towns on war memories and local life
A Colorado paper reviews Civil War remembrance at Denver Times and the nation’s healing role, warns of disaster risk at Odd Fellows Hall with fire exit concerns, and quotes Wanamaker on advertising. It surveys Loveland Reporter quirks, farming pay, town beautification, and public news habits amid Otero County horticultural notes and strawberry talks at G A R Hall Rocky Ford.
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Rocky Ford
Otero County Nursery & Orchard CO
Advertiser
Denver Times
United States
Elain
Odd the Fellows
John Wanamaker
Philadelphia
Loveland Reporter
Colorado
Otero County Horticultural Society
G. A. R. Hall
J E. Gauger
la Junta
E.N. Berry
Insect Threat To Melon Vines Warns of Striped Beetle
Supt Blinn at the Experiment Station reports a new insect harming cantaloupe vines. Prof Gillette of Fort Collins identifies the striped cucumber beetle, a major melon pest. Advice includes mosquito bar coverings, dusting with road dust lime plaster or ashes, Bordeaux dust with London purple, and especially pyrethrum before sunrise to kill or drive beetles. C P Gruere.
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Blinn
Gillette
State Agricultural College
Fort Collins
Fort Collina
Colo
P. K. Bunny
Colorado
London
C. P. Gruuerre
An Otero County Citizen's Opinion of Mexico
A reader recounts a Santa Fe ride with M C Van Norman of Alfalfa Land & Cattle Co Fowler who praises Mexican hospitality and warns Americans to adapt to Mexican business norms. He notes heavy taxes, slow letters of introduction, and drought-stricken cattle ranges in New Mexico, then ends with civic exhortations about work and behavior for young men.
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Santa Fe
M. C. van Norman
Alfalfa Land & Cattle Co
Fowler
Old Mexico
van Norman
Mexico
van Normen
United States
Texas
Como
New Mexico
Mr. van Norman
Decoration Day Honors in Rocky Ford Population Memoralized
The Rocky Ford community held a patriotic Decoration Day with a large turnout. Marchers formed at the G A R Hall and proceeded to the cemetery where Union and Confederate graves were honored. Milton Reynolds led services, with W R B C and schoolchildren decorating graves and a well received address by Rev S J Greear.
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Rocky Ford
G. A. R. Hall
Woman's Relief Corps
Main Street
W. B.C
Milton Reynolds
M. Badger
DC. W. Fonlason
Gracay
J. Greear
M. E. Church
Grand Army
M. E
Flora J. Hall
Harry Robins
Milton Eade
Mr. Badger
Badger
Delia Badger
Flossie E Iser
Agnes Clark
Gertrude Kellogg
C. W. Alberts
Frances Knapp
Belle Robinoldt
Maud
Jessie Larmore
G. H. Winchell
C. G. Ament
OC. W. Alberts
Bert Hyre
Lovie Lowe
Dlene
America
Life of Christ illustrated by James Tissot reviewed
Edith Coues writes in the Century on James Tissot’s monumental Life of Christ to be published in Tours. The work recreates Palestinian settings with exact architecture and customs, drawing on monasteries, Talmud study, and Emmerich’s writings. It includes a dozen reproductions and a new Latin Vulgate translation, with a 1000 copy deluxe edition.
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Edith Coues
James Tissot
Christ
Tours
France
Tissot
Misa Cones
Palestine
Judea
Galilee
Samaria
M. Tissot
Katrine Emmerich
Mary
Mary Magdalen
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