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Newspaper
Casper Press
Location
Casper, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1913
Page
6
Pope Pius X has rallied with a wonderful improvement following a serious attack. News reports indicate a significant turn in health and a cautious outlook from church officials.
Rome April 11 Pope Pius XI shows signs of recovery after a severe attack Sunday. Doctors report the danger point passed as his temperature and respiration stabilize and he receives nourishment. The pontiff, speaking briefly about a dream of Venice, expresses gratitude and hope for continued improvement.
Washington reports indicate persistent moves to place cattle on the free list and modify duties on wine as the Ways and Means tariff revision bill faces defeat in the House Democratic caucus. Rep Francis Durton Harrison of New York chaired the leadership contest amid Rep Underwood's absence, with the majority leader not present.
The article reports Governor Huot urging a direct election for U S senators as the legislature opens its third special session. He recommends machinery to implement direct senatorial elections in line with a recent federal constitutional amendment.
The Morgan plot at Cedar Hill cemetery in Hartford rests the body of J. P. Morgan. A monumental headstone and a pyramid of flowers mark the grave, with tributes from friends and relatives arriving from New York after services at St Georges church. Chicago police former chief George M. Kippy dies at fifty. Westminster memorials for Morgan at Westminster Abbey attended by King George, Queen Mother and others. Water rights sold to cover 1,290 acres as Stewart Investment buys land from the Tet Lekee company.
A roundup of events from Western and foreign lands including a California state building spend for a Pacific exposition exhibit, a Salt Lake City shooting and attempted suicide, the death of former Common Pleas Judge Fred L Taft in Cleveland, and social concerns raised by settlement workers about the causes of youth downfall. Also noted are strikes, a proposed liquor sale restriction bill, and indictments of Maury J Diggs and Drew Caminetti for white slavery stemming from elopements in Reno.
The report notes Dr Euepble A Moralon named minister from Panama to the United States. It also covers 1908 fiscal moves, tariff reform, currency changes, Panama Canal issues, railway projects, and other federal actions amid a flood and national shortages.
A wide range of items fill the page: bills on currency reform introduced by Prouty Nelman and Palmer. calls for government furnished residences for American diplomats. a fatal aviation accident in Buenos Ayres. golf club memberships granted in Dawson and Santa Cruz. Northwestern athletes criticized by male students over track event access. a speedway dispute at Indianapolis. Johnson’s Siberian wolves lead in a long Alaska dog race. the death of Madame Poincare. Emmeline Pankhurst’s release after hunger strike. Turk reprisals against Christians near Rhodes. Belgian politics and manhood suffrage strikes. King Alfonso narrowly escapes assassination for the eighth time.
A batch of brief items reports new births near Ithaca New York and a long lived Ocean Grove resident dying at age 104. It notes a San Francisco banker pleading guilty on counts tied to a large shortage and mentions suffrage card fashion. Also listed are deaths, weather readings, levee patrol changes and a marriage in Tenafly New Jersey.
Denver market notes show cattle bids with steers and cows mixed by pulp fed and corn fed, with prices ranging around 6.00 to 7.00 per hundredweight for various classes. Hay feeds list upland, alfalfa, and timothy per ton with regional spreads. Grain and produce prices include wheat, corn, oats, bran, potatoes, flour, and eggs across Colorado and Nebraska markets.
Markets report mixed prices for grains and provisions in Chicago with cash wheat quotes across No 2 red and other grades and oats, corn, barley, and durum listed. Livestock prices at Omaha include cattle, calves, and western steers with ranges for buyers, while pork and lard values and river trade figures appear in the same brief.
Governor Joseph M. Carey proclaims Arbor Day statewide on Friday April 25 urging participation by private and public schools state institutions officers and citizens to plant trees and shrubbery. The piece also notes a Duffy consecration ceremony in Cheyenne with Archbishop James J. Keane presiding and Bish op Duffy described as among the youngest U S bishops, born September 1872 in St Paul.
In Laramie a Black woman was fatally injured in a rooming house where others, including a white suspect, were present. Bertie Gordon, a Black man or woman name appears in this report, with Mabel Clark cited as arrested for the crime and William Betts and Frank Ives detained as accomplice and witness respectively. The State Board of Pardons meanwhile parolees after commuting sentences.
Lovell district host growers prepare land for weed reception as recent snow warms soil for prime planting conditions. Andrew Stell shot musician A J Hamy after following him from a theater. witness Mrs Stell. University of Wyoming to offer agriculture course for teachers at Laramie. Shoshone creamery output in March hits 6 705 pounds, a record month since establishment.
A fragmented report mentions a miner and two named individuals in a cryptic context involving a train and a voyage. The readable text references Sheridan and Whersuk among others, with unclear actions or outcomes. Further readable details are insufficient to confirm a clear event or date.
June events loom as Casper hosts a Trena Association meeting while Laramie plans a new city wall. Rawlins elects Mayor Morgan to a fourth term amid Wyoming river chatter, wolf bounty notes, and a revived Niobara County club.
Fragmented clippings note the decline of traditional pie shops in London, with mentions of the te nous eel pie shop in Fleet Street and a rise of fried fish shops over twenty years, alongside comments on Sweeney Todd lore and vanished peripatetic vendors.
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