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This folder contains the particularly detailed and informative diary of a Boulder businessman, covering the period of 22 May 1891 to 1 June 1901. J. B. Hiskey writes of his family life, the weather, local deaths, local, regional and national news, and his work in the grocery trade, in railroad construction, coal shipment, and other daily events that came to his notice. The ledger-size diary contains numerous newspaper clippings, some loosely filed in the volume., Notable occurrences that Hiskey mentions are his first shipments of coal in Feb. 1893, Denver bank failures and the fall in silver prices in July 1893, the Boulder Creek flood in May 1894 (with many clippings), the Daily Camera office fire on 18 Jan. 1895, laying of the Masonic Temple cornerstone in Boulder on 19 March 1895, first operation of Boulder's electric streetcar railroad on 24 June 1899, and his purchase of a horse on 29 June 1899 which had a disguised blemish., The pages of the diary are numbered. Three commemorative U. S. postage stamps issued for the World's Columbian Exposition are attached to page 61 (February 1893).