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    100 Years Ago: $24K stolen from National Fuel Company recovered; thieves still at large


    100 Years Ago: $24K stolen from National Fuel Company recovered; thieves still at large
    By Mike Peters | For The Greeley Tribune
    March 12, 2023 at 6:30 a.m.
    100 Years Ago: $24K stolen from National Fuel Company recovered; thieves still at large – Greeley Tribune

    100 Years Ago, for the second week of March 1923, from the pages of the Greeley Tribune-Republican newspaper:


    • More than $24,000, stolen from the National Fuel Company, was found hidden in a mattress in a deserted shack west of Frederick. All the stolen money, except a $2 roll of nickels has been recovered. The men who blew up the safe to steal the money are still at large.

    • At a local church tonight, the sermon topic will be "The Unpardonable Sin." Only the pastor knows what the sin is, who has committed it and why it cannot be forgiven.

    • A woman who fooled the medical profession into believing she had the highest body temperature in history, has been proven a fake. She held the thermometer under her arm to take her temperature, and unknown to the doctor, had a hot water bottle under her arm full of the hot water.

    • Windsor High School's basketball team won the state championship game in Boulder last night, beating Littleton, 19-14. It was played in the University of Colorado gym, which had the doors locked 90 minutes before the game started, due to the size of the crowd.

    • Members of the Army Air Force have announced they are close to bringing rain to areas that need the moisture, by flying over clouds and dropping sand on the clouds, which will be turned into rain. Experiments begin next month.

    • In Turkey, women aren't allowed to attend graduations at colleges. One woman, who had two sons graduating, dressed as a man, wearing riding breeches, high boots, spurs and a jaunty outing cap. Officials said she was too pretty to pass as a man.

    • Three advertisements on one page: "Turkeys and chickens at the Camfield Hotel."

    • The city has purchased a new rock crusher to prepare gravel for the paving of streets. The first street to be covered with the new gravel is 8th.

    • Colorado Teachers College here has just completed its most successful season in the school's history. They had a 10-3 record, even though many of the opponents on the season didn't show up on game nights, or were committed to other projects.

    • Why Karo is the "Great American Syrup:" 1. Always pure and wholesome. 2. Always thick and delicious. 3. Great energy food. 4. Every first-class grocer in America sells Karo. 5. It's a wonderful food for children.


    — 100 Years Ago is taken from the original pages of the Greeley Tribune, the Weld County Republican, and when they merged, the Greeley Tribune-Republican....





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