Love the old newspapers and the things that one finds there. Here is a classified ad from the local hotel in Boulder. This appeared in the Boulder News and Courier, Boulder, Colorado. Friday August 20, 1880, page 3.
Wanted. At Brainard's Hotel, one hundred dozen chickens.
100 dozen chickens = 1,200 chickens!
In the 1880 U. S. Census, the population of Boulder was 3,069.
Were they planning on feeding the whole town?
One wonders who all these chickens were going to feed.
What was happening at this hotel and in this town at this time.
