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    100 years ago: Huge prehistoric lizard found in Weld County


    100 years ago: Huge prehistoric lizard found in Weld County
    By Mike Peters
    Published: October 31
    100 years ago: Huge prehistoric lizard found in Weld County – Greeley Tribune

    The first week of November, 1920, from the pages of the Greeley Tribune-Republican newspaper, as compiled by Mike Peters.


    In celebration of the national election, everyone – men and women – over 15 years of age, are invited to the YMCA on election night. There will be a party, refreshments, music, recitations and community singing. There will be a checkers contest between Greeley and Pierce. Election returns will be announced as they come in.

    Owners of the Rex Theater have arranged a free movie for adults and children this coming Saturday. To set up the program, an aeroplane will drop 3,000 advertising notes over Greeley at 4 p.m. Friday. Three hundred of the notes are free tickets to the theater Saturday.

    ADVERTISEMENT: Does your iron kitchen range sweat too much, producing rust throughout the range? Sweat-Rust is a disease that eats up and rusts out range bodies from the inside. Our copper coating inside the range stops this rust. Greeley Hardware and Implement Co., 8th Avenue and 7th Street, opposite the Rex Theater.

    Letter to Charles Hansen, editor of the Tribune-Republican newspaper: "Enclosed you will find a check for my subscription to the Tribune-Republican. We cannot do without it, as we wish to see the authentic news of Weld County."

    In the Presidential Election, Warren G. Harding won in a landslide. It was the largest turnout ever for a national election, because in most states, women were allowed to vote for the first time.

    Greeley City Council discussed paying a policewoman as a censor for local movies. There has been a censor in Greeley for a while, but she hasn't been paid. She is the chairperson of the Greeley Censor Committee.

    A man arrested for fighting in Frederick went before a Weld County judge this week and demanded "The best Democratic attorney." The judge answered "That's too bad, because the best Democratic attorney will be prosecuting you from the District Attorney's Office."

    Letter: "On Tuesday evening, between my home and the Teachers College, I lost a black and green plush robe. If found, please return. J.M.B. Petrikin."

    A huge prehistoric lizard has been found in Weld County, Archeologists have put together the bones and it indicates the lizard was 50 feet long from the tip of its tail to the top of its head. It had a brain which was one inch in diameter.







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