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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1939
Page
6
School news item notes students will discuss topics like school improvements and sports. A banquet and a dance are planned for Friday with registration at one o'clock. A certificate of title is referenced and weight certificates are required for licenses, with Raines Transportation Co and Big Piney Merc authorized to issue them.
The final football game last Saturday saw Eden prevail over Big Piney 35 to 14. Big Piney played Pinedale eight times this season, totaling eleven touchdowns and five extra points. The roster lists ten players with average weight 132 pounds, height 5 feet 7 inches, and age 15. Next year aims to improve despite key losses. Appreciation voiced for community transportation support. Public notices include auto license changes and a Young Republicans convention with speeches, banquet, and dance scheduled at the Country Club and Masonic Temple under state party leadership.
Large numbers of purebred cattle, sheep, and draft animals will fill the International Amphitheatre at the Chicago Stock Yards December 2 to 9. Hereford, Aberdeen Angus, and Shorthorn breeds report record entries, with 95 percent more winter faced cattle than 1938 and Aberdeen Angus up 23 percent. Over 1000 sheep and 570 head in the Junior Live Stock Feeding Contest highlight the show, with 401 youth from 13 states signed up.
The piece notes the 33rd annual Christmas Seal Sale in the United States and cites tuberculosis impact: nearly 3.5 million deaths in 30 years, one death every eight minutes, and deaths concentrated ages 15 to 45. It gives age and gender death rate details, child fatalities under 15, a mortality rate of about 39 per 100 000, 0 beds stated for treatment with 32 beds in Wyoming, and 800 000+ acute cases. It mentions collectors needing 37 designs for a complete set, noting two designs in 1907.
The text traces early Christmas Seal sales from 1902 in Denmark inspired by Einar Holboell to the United States in 1907 led by Miss Emily P. Bissell in Wilmington Delaware. It notes tuberculosis prevention as the campaign's aim and mentions Koch’s 1882 germ discovery and Roentgen’s 1896 X-Ray reveal.
Rev. Gayle V. Strickler leads Big Piney Congregational Church on Sunday November 19 with church school at 10:00 a.m. and morning worship at 11:00 a.m. Special choir music accompanies the Thanksgiving sermon, Giving Before Thanks.
Department of the Interior L and Office notices Nettie E Bailey of LaBarge Wyoming files final three year proof for original homestead Lot 11 Section 32 Township 27 N Range 414 W Sixth P M before IVAN JONES notary in Kemmerer December 9 1939 witnesses J W Musgrove Herman Gennett Herschel Bondurant Ira A Bailey all of LaBarge Wyoming Loraine Rollins Register publish dates November 29 16 23 30 Services at Episcopal church Sundays Rev Walter W McNeil pastor
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