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Newspaper
Casper Daily Tribune
Location
Casper, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1920
Page
7
Casper voters approve a special session permit for the New York Oil Company to lay gas pipelines within city limits. The exception allows work to begin inside the city while external lines are completed, aiming to connect with distant fields as soon as possible.
The Knights of Columbus operate a Lost Baggage Bureau at 461 Fourth Avenue New York City aiding soldiers home from the A E F by recovering trunks boxes and bags. The service is free to veterans and coordinated with the War Department to reclaim items nationwide. They also run evening schools for 100000 former service members with free books and no admission cost, plus a small fee for non members. A Lafayette statue for Metz is slated for September unveiling in France with Marshal Foch and President Polocare present and a pilgrimage by Knights planned.
The report details a heated debate over the Virginia proposal backing the League, with minority leader Walsh and allies Bryan and Pomerone opposing the administration. The minority report called for pledges to garner ratification, as Adams and Glass pressed concessions to secure treaty approval.
The article notes that ratification hope without changes seems unlikely and Congress seeks compromise. The resolution is seen as a defeat for administration forces. The plank allows Democratic senators to back Lodge reservations if they deem them necessary to ease fears.
The Associated Press reports William J. Bryan’s prohibition plank centers today in the platform committee. It lauds Democratic leadership in submitting and ratifying the federal prohibition amendment and pledges enforcement of the Volstead Act without raising alcoholic content or weakening other provisions. Fresh bakery goods advertised by Edelweiss Bakery and Rudy's Mace.
George Forins of Sublet procured a license to marry 16 year old Anna Beydna but did not perform the ceremony before taking her to Cumberland. She stayed three days with him before returning to her mother. At preliminary hearing the mother said the girl was 14, while an affidavit claimed 16. Forins bound to district court on a rape charge with $1,000 bail. Possible perjury probe into the mother noted but not officially decided.
Rawlins Wyoming July 1 a local contractor secured the bargain for the erection of a new carbon county hospital the contract specifies the main building and auxiliary facilities with oversight by county officials and the board of trustees.
County Memorial Hospital is planned to be built by the H Lars en Lumber Company for 112 044 dollars. The three story facility will house fifty patients and occupy a city site.
Three hundred National Guard troops from Utah and Idaho completed a three weeks training course at Fort D. A. Russell and departed for home.
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