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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1914
Page
3
The notice states that manufacturers failing to maintain full wages will be excluded from future contracts and that such contracts may be canceled for noncompliance. It emphasizes strict enforcement of wage standards and clarifies consequences for contravention.
A concise reflection notes that many influential figures remain unrecognized despite their deeds, especially when distant from their origin. It highlights how acclaim can linger beyond local horizons and enduring legacies may be overlooked close to home.
C H Benson argues farm border clubs for boys and girls boost education and rural economy. Contests with practical aims like better seed corn, land ownership incentives, and premiums inspire discipline, leadership, and enjoyment during idle times, fostering lasting commitment to farming.
A reader letter reports a mother defending her son from college rumors and an eccentric claim of descent from four monkeys. The piece hints at family tension and social gossip surrounding lineage.
The piece argues that improving rural schools churches roads and services will curb the appeal of urban life for country youth by boosting social life and industry in the countryside. It urges better local amenities to retain young people and strengthen rural communities.
A humorous table top tag game similar to football uses an eggshell as the ball. Players blow to move the shell toward goals at table ends while staying in place and following football style scoring and rules. Both boys and girls may participate, with captains leading each team.
Doting parents seeking Christmas novelties will find a new folding sled appealing. It is strong simple in construction and light in weight. Runners are 35 inches long made of inch Bessemer spring steel and attached with corrugated clips bolted to a hardwood top measuring 34 inches by 11 and a half inches by 1 and a quarter inches.
In Cleveland a twelve year old boy, Stuart Jenney, runs a small workshop making war kites. He designs ferocious fighting kites with jagged glass tails to cut rivals’ cords. After school he tests each model personally, turning out many orders as he trades conventional kites for battle ready flyers.
An ideal serves us in proportion as there so really fo and Macy a young girl selects her ideal out of some ro
John B. Kendrick was sworn in by Chief Justice Richard H. Scott at the Wyoming capitol as Governor as 2000 cheering supporters witnessed the transition from Joseph M. Carey. New Chief Justice R. W. Potter administered oaths to Kendrick’s aides, including Justice Scott, re-elected to the Supreme Court.
Wyoming news notes thawing from across the state including a glass plant talk in Laramie and Riverton expansion, a new Epworth League in Riverton, a Park County jail escape in Cody, a freeze of Manville water, and a cedar block plant at Riverton. Other items: suicides and murders, postmaster appointments, drought and irrigation projects, and a petition by 6000 Wyoming schoolchildren to New York.
Governor Joseph M. Carey orders that the Lincoln Highway segment through Wyoming be designated a state highway. The route runs from the Nebraska line to the Utah border, entering near Pine Bluffs in Laramie County and passing through Laramie Albany Carbon Sweetwater and Uinta counties, exiting west of Evanston.
Cheyenne Col. BE Power an oil operator who developed pay bay wells and pipelines in the Popo Agie fields near Lander is sued for divorce by his wife Mrs Power who has lived in England the past two years The couple’s Wyoming interests have been under a receiver and court litigation for nearly two years.
The United States Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the Wyoming District Court ruling in Roy Montgomery’s white slavery case. Montgomery, mayor of Gillette, a lifelong citizen and hotel proprietor, will serve two years in Leavenworth Federal Prison.
The contest between defferis Republican and Fred Democrat for the state senate seat from Weston and Campbell Counties goes to the Senate floor when it convenes January 18. Schmidt was certified winner by one vote, but defferis has filed a contest that will delay the result to the Senate.
William Clayton a cowboy and rough rider, once with Buffalo Bills Wild West Show, died in Douglas Wyoming after both feet and fingers were amputated following freezing exposure.
The Wyoming Com of the Knights Templar lists officers for the upcoming year including George Birader and C. W. Bond as G C, with J. D. Preebers as Gul recorder and H. GO. Watson W. M. A. Biles among other positions. Trustees named include Samuel A lepebell and Aines.
In Leuleville Kentucky Mrs J M Resca reports she avoided an operation after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She describes persistent left side pain and endorses the remedy as restoring health and sleep. The ad invites other women to try the product if ill and urges seeking relief promptly.
A church deacon duo debates ousting their pastor by salaries. One suggests a large cut might force resignation. The other counteroffers a lethal twist: doubling the pay to cause the pastor to die.
The Bore reports a Connecticut man claiming to have built a clock that will run without winding. He speaks boldly about the invention, presenting seemingly impossible timing without manual winding.
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