Basin Citizens Decry Lease of Town Utilities
A 1913 notice from Frank A. Wise and J. Frisby outlines a proposed lease of Basin town electric light and water plants to private operators. It cites deficits, depreciation, and alleged managerial shortcomings, argues extensions and heating upgrades, and compares water rates with Thermopolis. The proposal seeks a nine cent per thousand gallon charge and a new 76 KW generator, urging voters to decide if the town should lease the utilities under a council-approved agreement.
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Basin
Sim
Thermopolis
Frisby
Frank A. Wise
At the Opera We Spot the Gottroxes On Time Again
A lively exchange notes the Gottroxes arriving on time for a performance, a rarity for the couple who typically arrives after the show has begun. Mrs Stylese-Well remarks they likely rode a streetcar this time, contrasting with their usual habit of arriving by automobile.
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Stylese
Stylee
Tenants Union Shares Plan To Cut Rent 10 Percent
New York tenants union launches a program to aid 800000 rent paying families amid high living costs. Clergy will back landlords who remit ten percent of rent until prices fall, aiming to boost support from wealthy tenement owners and ease burdens on poor renters. Mayor Gaynor’s market panel seeks better handling of perishables to curb waste, citing losses of millions in fruit vegetables eggs and fish under the current docking system.
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New York
Tenants’ Union
Gaynor
Market Commission
New York Board of Health
Health Department
War toll in fifty years record shocks Bavarian readers
A Bavarian paper lists deaths in major 19th and early 20th century wars. Crimean 750000, 1859-60 Italian 45000, American Civil War 800000, Danish 8000, Austro-Prussian 45000, Franco-German 215000, Russo-Turkish 260000, Russo-Japanese 200000, totaling 2313000 killed across the wars.
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London
American pie blamed for divorces by Kansas professor
Miss Elizabeth Fulton head of the domestic science department at the State Normal school of Kansas warned that the American pie sinks nerves and causes marital strife. She urged a return to fresh fruit and denounced pie obsession as a social problem. A. B. Hageman of Greybull, Wyoming seeks farm exchanges for livestock and town property.
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Elizabeth Fulton
State Normal School of Kansas
America
Milking In Finland Smoke Drives Cows to Shade
In parts of Finland swarms of mosquitoes force dairy farmers to burn wet wood or green boughs at milking time. Cows instinctively seek leeward, standing in thick smoke for relief as Finland exports dairy products worth millions yearly despite insect plagues during the short summer.
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Parte
Finland
Red Bank Cattle Co. Horse Brand On Left Shoulder
A shorthand note from Red Bank Cattle Co. describes a branding mark with the letter H on the left shoulder and a partial BFhoulder mark. The sketch indicates branding practices or cattle identification on the ranch.
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RED Bank Cattle Co
Geo. B. McClellan
Orue
Changed His Tuns Visitor Surprises Professor With Baby
A visitor startled a professor as he spoke to his baby, repeating a garbled phrase. The moment ended abruptly when the professor noticed the intruder and reacted, creating a brief, curious scene in a quiet setting.
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J. E. Frisby
Henry
J. Be, Freeman
G. J. Schenk
H Street
Big Horn County Bank
New Yorker
A. B. Hageman
Greybull
Wyo
Bazin Republican
John Deere Plow Co
New Deere
van Brunt
Hoosier
John Deere
Ajax
G. W. Black & Co
G.W. Black & Co's
Paint Rock
Nowood
P. O
Hyattville
Thos, M. Hyde
Pioneer Building
D. W. Rodgers
Paris Dougherty
Range
Tensleep
Philip M. Gallaher
Shell Creek
Anheuser Busch
Big
Keio
Luxus
Agenta
Louis Luft
Atherly Engineering Co. Civil, Engineers
J.H. Tully
Little Canyon Creek
Postofice Nowood
Wyoming
JAS
Pattemn Notar Public
Aeanbin
J. E. Frison
Wye
Ci Elth
Rosk and
Tensleep Creeks
W.b.cropsey
Grey Bull
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