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Newspaper
Casper Press
Location
Casper, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1910
Page
6
A collage of satirical musings on weather price swings trains and wars, with quirky quips about aviation slips pay as you enter cars and the Spanish Prisoner swindle. It references Halley’s comet Santo Domingo revolutions and a New Jersey graveyard liquor case.
On a second day’s flight in Denver Poulhan covered twelve miles in nineteen minutes reaching seventy five feet. French aviator Poulhan staged two short flights at Overland Park Denver February 1 in front of tens of thousands.
The article notes Colonel Roosevelt will donate to the Smithsonian Institution specimens of the white rhinoceros family. It also reports a Las Esperanzas mine disaster in Mexico where seventy five people died or went missing and potential further deaths.
Senate confirms Charles D. Ford as register of the Denver Land Office and Joseph Palmer wins the West Point seat after Nellie Smith fails the exam. J A Bronstein pays $3160 for Denver post office site buildings. Agriculture says cattle and hogs are down. Surgeon General Stokes confirmed with rear admiral rank. Senate acts on debt certificates and Pannonia bonds. Admiral Schroeder notes 2600 sailors cannot swim. Taft administration aims for Arizona New Mexico statehood postal savings banks and land withdrawals. Public lands bill lets president withdraw lands for forestry water power and more. Peary may be made rear admiral on retirement list. Civil Service exam set for March 16 17.
London reports the retirement of Sir John Fisher as first Sea Lord and his replacement by Admiral Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson on January 26. Wilson, famed as England's best sailor and a disciplinarian, ends a long feud with Lord Beresford while highlighting his gunnery and strategic prowess and a half century in active service dating back to the Crimean War. He earned the Victoria Cross at El Teb and is celebrated for leadership and battlefield bravery. The piece includes anecdotes on a contractor boosting troops' health with oatmeal and a child’s sunset remark.
Captain Wilson’s sword broke and he fought off attackers with his flats to protect his men. Soldiers and sailors rescued him with minor wounds. he earned a bronze cross from Queen Victoria and later rising to admiralty posts, becoming admiral of the fleet in 1907. The king added three super-Dreadnoughts.
Incomplete text fragment references a person nicknamed Babe and Edna, with unclear action or context. No clear events, dates, or organizations emerge to identify a factual item for a proper news card.
A clipped comic exchange shows a querulous veteran asking for a dime after a feigned shooting. The Practical Father retorts with a mock price for his daughter’s supposed favor, highlighting a sharp social irony in a terse street scene.
J G Becker of 134 Van Buren Street Chicago a wholesale dry goods dealer says after thirty years of catarrh and thousands spent Peruna cured him permanently He adds his wife also recovered and keeps Peruna for colds and attacks.
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