New Fork News Highlights Local Happenings
H R Mitchell and family visited the J W Glaze home on Sunday. A crowd attended the Valhalla Hall dance Monday night and danced until sunrise with music by Boulter and Cook. Wamsley returned from Rock Springs with freight for the store on Tuesday. The Newfork East fork roundup began rounding up cattle for the summer range on Wednesday. Wm Alred, a Newfork businessman, was in town Monday. Representatives for Lez Shoe Co Chicago and Byrne and Hammer Dry Goods Co Omaha called on Newfork Wednesday. Nelse Jorgensen and family of Pinedale visited Newfork Wednesday.
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Valhalla Hall
Boulter and Cook
Newfork-East Fork
Wm. Alred
Newfork
Lez Shoe Co
Chicago
Byrne and Hammer Dry Goods Co
Omaha
Nelse Jorgensen and
Pinedale
Notice for Publication Isolated Tract Public Land Sale
Public Land Office Evanston Wyoming announces a sale under General Land Office rules to Mary E B O Neil for Serial 0440. The entry highway tract NW quarter of Section 4 Township 20 North Range 111 West, Milestone Meridian. Minimum bid 1.25 per acre, August 7, 1915 at 10 am. Sale closes when bidders stop.
Cossack Stations Spread Across Central Asia
Stephen Graham describes government backed settlement of Cossacks in Central Asia and Tur Westan. Trained for years they receive land and housing while Kirghiz and Chinese labor build irrigation and towns. Stations include church vodka shops and military life with recruitment songs and battles.
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Central Asia
Tur Westan
Stephen Graham
Fought His Own Battles and Self-Reliant Man
An essay extols human self made resilience and independence while recounting a West Philadelphia homeowner fending off a burglar with a baseball bat. Jobs Kearney subdues the intruder in his cellar after a dawn break in a struggle that leaves jars broken and the assailant subdued.
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Jobs Kearney
West Philadelphia
Kearney
Better Kind of Dishpan Invented Says Ledger
A new square dishpan of heavy retinned ware shaped to fit sinks features a bottom plug with wire netting to keep food scraps out of the drain. The piece is praised as a practical improvement over round or oval pans. The dialogue includes quips about jitneys and five cent autos.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Unreadable Text Fragments From Historical Page
Fragmentary OCR passage shows garbled dialogue and partial names with unclear events or setting. No verifiable facts or coherent report available to summarize meaningfully.
Tainted Politics From Coast to Farm
The piece denounces tainted politics as the nation’s main malady. It attacks campaign deceit, personal gain, and secret alliances, urging honesty, courage, and wisdom in government. It promotes farm and rural leaders as remedies, arguing sunshine and fresh air cleanse political systems.
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Uncle Sam
Star of Bethlehem
Watered Securities and the Farm Industry Critique
Peter Radford argues farmers suffer from watered stock and usurious rates with real estate and chattel loans. He cites four billion dollars in fictitious value created by interest, equating it to annual crop value, and urges public servants to drain the liquid from industrial properties to preserve permanent agriculture and national prosperity.
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Peter Radford
United States
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H. R. Mitchell
J. W. Glaze
Land Wamsley
Rock Springs
Public Land Base
Department OF the Inteerior, U. . Land Office
Evanston
Wyo
Ming
Alex Nishet
Register
Paramount Pictures
The
Valley Theatre
Ed Yeadon
Marbleton, Wyoming
Mike’s
M. D. Meeks
Marbleton
Kemmerer
the Emporium
Harry Lb. Clark
Kansas City
Cleveland
Von
Watered Securities
Jas. Black
Smith Bros. Com. CO
Union Stock Yards
Omaha, Nebr
Piney
Big Piney, Wyoming
F. D. Chapel
Prop
Ceneral Merchandise
Wyoming
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