Casper hosts busy week of celebration plans and events
Casper prepares for a large town celebration with out of town visitors. Merchants decorate stores while committees plan races musical shows fireworks and parades. Local clubs host rest rooms and entertainers as families travel, with Norse and Irish connections noted in weekend plans.
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Casper
Fair Grounds
Temple
Center Street
Gilbert
Williams
Cline Club
Natrona Hotel
Ahulies
Hydraulic mining cartridge touted to replace dynamite in coal mines
Experts tout a water pressure hydraulic cartridge as a safer coal mining method replacing powder blasting. It reduces premature explosions and fire risks while producing cleaner coal with fewer fines. The device has seen broad adoption across over 90 percent of trial districts and a Sheridan demonstration drew favorable response with expectations of near exclusivity within five years.
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United States
Sheridan
Denver Fighter Dick Gilbert Set for Fourth Clash
Dick Gilbert arrives with trainer Dr. Chas Maher ahead of his Fourth of July bout with Charles Williams. Gilbert trains at Prudential club rooms and is reported in peak condition for the big fight at the remodeled Butler warehouse with seating for around five hundred. Williams’ camp says he is also in fine form and expects a quick win over Gilbert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dick Gilbert
Denver
Charles Williams
Chas. Maher
Gilbert
Prudential Club
Butler
Western Hide & Tur Company
William
U S Asbestos Expert Visits Casper Mines
J S Diller government asbestos expert from the geological bureau arrived from Washington to inspect the Smith creek mines in Casper. He previously visited two years ago and again praises the prospects, calling Casper asbestos as fine as any he has seen and forecast fortune and fame for the town and state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. $. Diller
Geological Bureau
Casper
Washington
Smith Creek
International Mills prep for Casper fiber mill at Smith creek
President A E Minium and supervisor HL Parker arrived in Casper to inspect the leased Smith creek property and test the new fiberizing mill before acceptance. Full operation planned by July with a large workforce to separate high priced fibre from serpentinite rock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A.E. Minium
International Mills and Power Company
HL. Parker
Casper
Smith Creek
International Company
Kimball's
Caledonian Bar
Comepanies
Deed Received for Casper High School Site
Mayor Kimball accepted a donated site from Judge Carey for the Natrona county district high school. The deed requires use for education and athletics, at least 41000 in improvements within a year, a start of building within three years, and completion within five years. The donation is praised as generous and timely.
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Kimball
Judge Carey
Carey
Natrona County
Mr. Carey
Casper
Fire and Flood Tragedies Mark Rock Springs Losses
The Rock Springs items report WiIl Clarkson losing his Miller Creek home to a careless fire after lighting a pipe with a match and dropping it in a wood box. A two year old child of Mr. and Mrs. John Jamison drowned in the Fontenelle river after playtime in the yard. Levi Reese, a MW-year-old Elkol resident, died in a road accident near Elkol and Diamondville when a wagon accident tore him and a horse beneath wheels. The note also covers a marriage at Tenry Bayer’s home, Victor Mokler’s bank return, a Rocky Mountain Bell Inspector’s Casper visit, and a postal savings bank outline with many rules and limits. Sheriff Messenger searches for a county offender. Sennett and McGrath travel to Reno for a boxing bout.
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WiIl Clarkson
Miller Creek
Rock Springs
John Jamison
Fontenelle
David
Levi Reese
Elkol
Diamondville
Ab & We
Tenry Bayer
Sarah Fry
Albert Miller
Villiers
Bayer
Daniel Fry
N. M. Geary
Casper
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Matinee Girl Musical Comedy Co
Elf Theatre
Dan Russell
Charles Anda
New York
Norway
Stavanger
Jim
Nick Voy
Omaha
Andas
Liverpool
Ireland
Miss Wetzel
Wheatland
Manager Young
Franco- Wyoming Oil Company
Pennsylvania
J. L. McIntosh
Rongis
Grieve
Hattie Clark
Weber Store
Bates Store
Dr. Cook
Bueckmum
Powder River
Franklin B. Johns
Evanston
State Hospital For
Rev. H. Coen
Olney
Ilinois
Will
Glen
Leo
Ile
Nellie Cope
SL Mark’s
Mears
Litschurel
Mate Wheeler
Liramiec
State University
Fred Root
Foley Bros. & Kelly
St. Paul
Minnesota
Rapid City
South Dakota
Macabee Lodge
Don Lobdell
Capitol Mill
Haviland
Mark Sullivan
Great Falls
Montana
Big Horn Mountains
Anna McKenna
East Liverpool
Ohio
U. S
Hlere
Lauder
Landerites
Lander Mountaineer
Victor Mokler
Shoshont
First National Bank
Lightner
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company
the Postal Saving Bank
Postal Savings Bank
Postal Savings Depository
Secretary of the Treasury
Postal Savings
Sims
Bmnks
National Treasury
Messenger
Converse County
Hsm
Douglas
Dick Sennett
Jacek McGrath
Reno
Nevada
Pacific Coast
Il, Ras
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