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Newspaper
Basin Republican
Location
Basin, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1911
Page
5
Official Basin Wyoming paper notes daily train departures No 312 northbound 1131 PM No 311 southbound 130 PM. Editorial urges confidence in town and municipal growth, states congress in session affects business, and encourages residents to promote a positive town image while swatting pessimism.
P B Eustis advises expanding livestock to utilize grains and boost exports. Basin farmers could profit from cows for milk, creamery soon, butter market, and hogs show profitable potential. Livestock farming would raise land value and overall profits as settlement grows.
Miss Emme Hall founder of the Suffragette Retreat announces only women may work the California farm for a year with bonds of 1000 dollars. They will wear overalls cut their hair and prove no “man’s work” exists by learning to cut wood and farm chores. Includes remarks on women’s suffrage and rail labor pay debates.
Washington letter notes Bryan plans to leave politics for the ministry and mocks rivals Billy Sunday. Industrial troubles reach Liverpool and London with rioting suppressed by troops. Commentary on equality and living, and a Wyoming pigeonhole notice. Market report lists grain and livestock prices, including wheat, barley, oats, corn, flour, butter, eggs, meat, and honey.
Poultry items offered include live spring chickens Hens and roosters priced per pound and turkeys priced per pound with details incomplete due to OCR errors. The listing appears to be a market or sale notice for live birds with weights and prices.
Bas'n residents enjoyed a return by the Meistersingers last evening with a stronger, better program than their spring engagement. The quartette sang well and blended, the chorus shone, and the organ chimes on the largest mode of forty nine notes impressed the musically inclined crowd. The group is welcome to Basin again and the overall performance was highly satisfactory.
Notice records Erastus P Geertsen of Otto Wyoming who filed homestead entry 3721 for nyne% sec 30 and nknwh sec 2 15le1. He intends to complete five year proof before W F Grown at Basin Wyoming on September 20 1911 with witnesses Joseph Yorgasen Roy Sprague Otis G Grout and George Nelson. W F Brittain Register. Plus listing of miscellaneous household goods and tools from Wilbert R Howell.
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