Wyoming News Briefs Highlight Infrastructure and Industry
Subscriptions rise as new Brick store planned in Guernsey. Forest Service to spend 845000 on Teton Pass road. California Exploration ties in Four Bear well in Park County. Casper sees pipe, gas line work and oil equipment ventures. Wyoming marks Federal highway system across 28 states. Green River to host a 10000000 chemical plant. Jackson refloors Snakeiver bridge. Cheyenne bank remodeled. Yoder cheese factory planned. State highway oiling to continue with 75 miles already done. plans to extend to 200 miles. Inland Oil Index reports gas driven pumping systems in Poison Spider field. Insurance firms in state rise to 351. Basin farmers market half million bean crop. Newcastle power plant unit three installed. Pine Bluffs sets February vote for new school building. Wyoming ends with three more banks than 1927.
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State Highway Department
Commission
Casper
Information Sought on Ivan Elich Relatives in This Area
A message seeks relatives of Ivan Elich who used the name Evan Ellis. Sheriff L. D. Divilless of Navajo County, Holbrook Arizona, holds his body and asks for any information from local readers. Contact The Examiner Office or J. A. Power with leads.
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Ivan Elich
Evan Ellis
L. D. Divilless
Navajo County
Holbrook
Arizona
Ivan ‘Elich
J. A. Power
Waves Reach Great Heights At Sea And Shore
The article notes that waves rarely exceed 50 feet in open water but appear larger from ships. It cites the Gell lighthouse and the Dudgeon lighthouse as examples of increased height to prevent being overtopped. A February 1917 storm aboard the Oruba reported 45 feet waves in the North Atlantic. Storm waves in the South Atlantic and South Pacific have reached 50 feet in full development.
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Oruba
Southampton
Barbados
North Atlantic
South Atlantic
South Pacific
Bells or drums replace church bells in remote locales
Across the world devout use bells to call worship. In some European places lacking bells a drum like device is used instead. A crank-driven hammer strikes a drum box on the roof, amplifying noise so the clatter carries a long distance.
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Europe
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L. Z. Bess
Prop
Big Piney, Wyoming
Shirley Drug Co
the House of Service
Clyde Building
South Bend
Big Piney Merc. Co
Wyoming
Examiner
THE
BIG Piney Examiner
Green River Valley
Big Piney
Geo. W. Hopkins, JR
Guernsey
Jackson
Forest Service
Teton Pass
California Exploration Company
Park County
Inland Oil Index
Utah Gas
Rocky Mountain Oil Toll & Equipment Corporation
Bureau of Public Roads
Green River
Jackson—Snakeiver Bridge
Jackson-Wilson Road
Cheyenne—Stock Growers National Bank
Casper—Fargo Western Oil Co
Poison Spider
State Insurance Commission
Newcastle—Mountain States Power Co
Pine Bluffs
State Bank Examiner
Lusk Herald
Cowley
Big Horm Canning Co
Sheridan County
Sheridan Journal
Newcastle
Saratoga—County
North Platte River
United States
Chamber of Commerce of the
Julius Klein
Department of Commerce
Buick
A. C
Tulsa Hardware
Tulsa
Burney & Co
General Merchandise
Piney, Wyoming
Hotel
Kemmerer
Kemmerer, Wyoming
C. A. St Clair
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