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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1916
Page
6
Bondurant items report Bondurant returning from Salt Lake City and Evanston on business. Local residents visit, fences being built, and horses moved from Idaho. The weather turns cold with snow and rain while grass stays green and cattle roam in stormy times. Waugh Hibben plans to leave Wyoming. Holt loses cattle this week.
Norman Duncan’s Harper’s Magazine visit to Thursday Island recalls bold coastal aborigines who fight sharks in fair water. Tales include a Japanese diver losing an arm and thigh after a crayfish encounter and a black boy pulling his head from a shark and striking it to escape with a scarred cheek as proof of the tale.
Willow Creek Kems School opened May 15 with eleven pupils taught by Mrs. Florence Heard of Denver. The town reports hay scarcity and a six inch snowstorm Wednesday evening. Several residents, including Mrs. Chas Lehimer, Mr. Ray, and Thomas, engage in sawmill and timber work with plans to start sawing by June 1.
Cassie Moncure Lyne portrays Mexico as a land of grand cathedrals from the Bravo del Norte to tropical shores. She notes post revolutionary church property seizure, enduring Spanish Renaissance architecture, massive domes called Media Naranja, ornate wood carving, onyx columns, marble altars, silver rails, gold tabernacles, and traditional mantillas and rebozas among worshipers.
Emerson Keough addresses the Denver YMCA on improving efficiency in correspondence. He argues modern business letters should read as clearly as personal notes, criticizing reversed phrasing and archaic ledger-like wording.
Dr Bernhard Dernburg spoke at the German American Chamber of Commerce in New York comparing Turkey to the sick man of Europe and the dying man of Düsseldorf while recounting a raucous tale of a Lutheran pastor and a dying man who eats a funeral biscuit as plans unfold.
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