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Newspaper
Basin Republican
Location
Basin, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1914
Page
6
Numerous shoppers sent item lists claiming to buy from us if our prices matched mail order houses. Each time our prices proved lower while customers saw the actual goods. The comparisons draw on Montgomery Ward & Co. catalog and price list No 141, showcasing items like 2AGI96 SAG14 SAGE 2APE eb ZAGISO.
Fragmented OCR reads like a grocery advertisement with item names and prices scattered. It mentions Ginger Snaps, White Laundry Soap, Ivory Soap, corn meal and various unclear brands, suggesting a general early 20th century retail catalog entry.
Basin Gardens community news reports on local families and business visits in Basin, including Hartranft and Kelley activity, stock improvements, a trout fry at Reed home, and a Beaver Creek correspondent joining the team. It notes an oil field visit, a winter stock boost, and the Basin Local No 4 Farmers Union meeting with plans for an alfalfa mill and cooperative buying.
In Beaver Creek the cold snap and new snow boost farmers and stockmen. Local residents and businesses, including F. Mackenzie of Shell town, report activity and an upcoming Farmers Union meeting on February 14. The article describes a veterinary bulletin on equine diseases, detailing stages from initial swelling to paralysis and possible recovery, diagnostic tests, and control measures.
A Wyoming Stockman-Farmer note explains dourine or equine syphilis in horses. The disease, transmitted mainly by colts in breeding stock, has three stages with genital symptoms in early stage and varied signs later. It covers historical outbreaks since 1892 across Nebraska Iowa and the Dakotas and current (1913) eradication efforts.
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