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Newspaper
Casper Press
Location
Casper, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1910
Page
2
A wild mix from Casper with weather woes, rising living costs, equestrian musings, and cultural notes. The piece riffs on markets, food prices, naval academy age policy, fire safety, and a jokey social quip about a Missouri gentleman seeking attar of rose.
Various items report on tech bets and mishaps. The Cage telicopter in Denver draws belief it may become the next airship, while Glenn H. Curtiss moves from Los Angeles to Hammondsport to start a heavier aeroplane. Other notes cover a destructive ice gorge near Decker Ind, bank evasion schemes, a Missouri Pacific train robbery, Denver & Rio Grande dividends, Wyoming sheep losses, forestry salary rises, school uniforms proposal in Waterloo, Kansas marriage trends, and Northwest Mounted Police crime figures.
Paris reports actress Sarah Bernhardt plans another U S tour. News items include NEA 48th convention slated for Boston in July 1910, a nitroglycerine tunnel blast near Ashokan Dam, and a naval neutrality notice by Rear Admiral Kimball in Nicaragua.
The beef trust will face federal prosecution as Justice Department officials push for price controls on fresh meats. Taft cautions no federal law can govern insurance companies, urging uniform state laws. The Payne tariff case seeks Supreme Court review of its constitutionality. Ballinger Pinchot probes gain new Senate members. Mint data shows state gold and silver shifts. Senator Warren seeks Cheyenne hotel plans. Ballinger reallocates land for power and irrigation programs.
Wheatland farmers plan 1600 acres of sugar beets next season with 600 more to be planted by local merchants as the crop is tested for a potential sugar beet factory. A Sheridan report notes feed shortages for stockmen and stray antelope on Powder River, while Cheyenne crews organize to oppose a Laramie river diversion and Cheyenne firemen mark the old brigade’s final days.
A historic remedy claims a cure for rheumatism using one ounce syrup of sarsaparilla compound one ounce toris compound plus half pint whiskey taken before meals and at bedtime with daily shaking. The ad notes druggists can supply ingredients from wholesale houses and promises strong results after initial doses.
A conversation quotes a young Roman calling a poet ambitious and devoted to the muses while an elder critiques him, saying he mistakes Bacchus for a muse. The exchange echoes a satirical meditation on literary pretensions.
The passage lists a string of phrases and names, mixing Shakespearean quotes and early medical product mentions. It references All the world’s a stage and an uneasy line about men and women as supers, with stray fragments about regulation, elixirs, and ingredients like agar coats.
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