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Newspaper
Basin Republican
Location
Basin, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1914
Page
6
A long recipe feature lists multiple cakes including Lincoln birthday cake and Valentine cake with ingredients and methods. It covers frosting, fillings like brown sugar and lemon, and Longfellow cake, plus a boiled frosting guide. An advertisement touts Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets from local druggists.
H O Weber of Cody plans a 5000 mile horseback journey from San Diego to Bangor Maine to promote Wyoming in a western magazine. The rider will pass Cheyenne Casper and Denver with views of Governor Carey and Secretary of State Hoax and will lecture along the route. He will log the trip for readers. Cheyenne Leader.
Last night a night session of court heard J N Nicely v J A Quiner. The jury found for the plaintiff for 1200 dollars over alleged fraudulent pretenses in selling hotel property in Manderson. Plaintiff was represented by Ingle of Billings and Thos M Hyde. defense by Wm J Snow.
Time table shows Basin daily passenger departures with Northbound train 11 31 am and Southbound train 1 30 pm as the service continues. includes a line about the average man being unhappy at home and likely to seek work away from home.
A fragment describes a Wyoming salutes section that amuses road workers and road crews, noting readers may find it interesting and that a few jokes lean on traffic and travel. The piece hints at local flavor and humor related to roads and conveyances, with a playful tone.
Traveling on any road, a vehicle must signal when desiring to pass another. The lead driver should yield by moving to the road’s right. The following driver then passes on the left and may not return to the center until at least thirty feet ahead.
At the Feb 25 meeting the church adopted a plan to raise money to cover the parsonage debt. Members call on citizens for help, stressing church and school life as community necessities. Regular services are Sundays at 11 am and 7 30 pm, with Sunday school at 10 am and a Wednesday prayer meeting at 7 30 pm. Gordon W. Racer, Pastor.
A compact quip notes spring drives people into writing verse or fishing, suggesting a humorous view of seasonal mania and creative restraint. The line contrasts creative output with idle pastime as a playful social observation.
One tract of 60 acres deeded land in the beat fruit area with four acres of fruit trees, water rights, and abundant water under a major ditch. Price 4000 dollars, half down, balance on long time at 8 percent. Also 80 acres deeded land with good water and cultivation. Call Bain Republican or address XY in Republican for details.
A brief note highlights how harsh winter keeps people from talking with their hands and mentions Hersley chocolates at the Billiard Hall. The text also includes aphorisms contrasting ethics and politics and comments on public appetite for entertainment priced at four dollars for a fifty cent pass.
Dan W Rogers announces sales including March 7 near Germania with 29 head cattle horses and farm implements and the March 11 and 12 great annual sale at Manderson featuring forty horses twenty dairy cows and assorted farm machinery.
For Sala, Silver laced Wyandottes eggs from scored birds two for thirteen dollars from general flock. m6tf 8. F, Feddersen.
Advert says we will pay nine cents per pound for chickens. Names E, A, Daris appear in the notice. Unclear location and date.
For sale two boars six sows with pigs by W F Johnson. Full blood Poland China hogs offered in a livestock listing style. Sale details are terse with animal counts and seller initials.
In town rental offering water in the house and electric lights. Apply quickly to Lou Blakesley, 120-m13 Baain, Wyo.
A concise note advertises fine watch clock and jewelry repair by Fin Whitmore with all work guaranteed. The fragment hints at a moral aside about two arguing men and a third person declaring them both wrong.
In grim lines a farmer laments chilblains and withered coal as crops and fruit buds suffer. The poem maps hardship from cold to harvest, blaming scarce sympathy for the wheat and peach buds while weather bites the season.
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