West Point Commencement Week Draws Nationwide Attention
West Point marks its annual commencement week with graduation ceremonies for second lieutenants and a vast influx of sightseers. Visitors witness guard mounts, parades, boat races on the Hudson, and the Farewell Ball while cadets enjoy a tented summer, camp life, and final inspections by the visiting board. The event blends official military rites with public spectacle and social duties.
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United States Military Academy
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis
West Point
United States
Army
Military Academy
Weat Point
Graduaion
Lkely
Board of Visitors
Cera
General Leonard Wood rises through ranks to chief of staff
Lt Baker profiles General Leonard Wood highlighting his rapid ascent from surgeon to leading the Rough Riders in Las Guasimas and his administration in Santiago before being named chief of staff. Roosevelt praise and Emerson references frame his extraordinary career and endurance.
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Baker
Leonard Wood
American
Army
United States
Emerson Herves
Wood
Leonard
Geronimo
Old Mexico
Congress
Theodore Roosevelt
Las Guasimas
Washington
Santiago
Ward Wood
Acm
Indians Ignored Cremation Ban On Yuma Reservation
A brief news item recalls officials asking Yuma reservation residents to stop burning houses of the dead to avoid fire risk to government property. Despite a warning, after a death, some locals cremated personal effects and set the house alight, apparently defying California law that reserves ownership of the deceased’s belongings to heirs.
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Yuma
Los Angeles Times
California
Tragedy at Kuster Hotel Cafe Yeager shoots police chief
C E Yeager manager of the Kuster Hotel Cafe in Laramie shot and mortally wounded John Johnson chief of the night police force after a conflict over an attachment writ. Johnson died later. Yeager was overpowered by manager Peter Smart and night clerk Dave Sarver. Yeager claimed amnesia from drinking. Morgan county report notes coyotes nearby.
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C. E. Yeager
Laramie
John Johnson
Johnson
Yeager
Cheyenne
Euster Hotel
Peter Smart
Pacific Market Company
Sam Wallace
Wallace
Smart
Sarver
Big Plowing Contract Awarded to H. Atkinson
The Douglas-The North Platte Valley Irrigation Company awarded a contract to H. Atkinson of Nebraska to plow 2,000 acres this season using a traction engine gang plow of immense capacity.
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Douglas
North Platte Valley Irrigation Company
H. Atkinson
Nebraska
Fatal Crap Game Stabbing in Cheyenne
James Henry stabbed Levi Tracy to death during a craps game in a Cheyenne rooming house. Henry, a murder suspect, is jailed awaiting trial as officers classify the incident as a lethal altercation between two Black men.
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Cheyenne
James Henry
Levi Tracy
Henry
Postmasters Get Raises Across Wyoming in July Increases
Washington D C Increases in Wyoming postmasters salaries take effect July with raises varying by town. Sunrise from 1000 to 1100 Cambria Sundance 1100 to 1200 Gillette Shoshoni 1200 to 1400 Kemmerer Newcastle Wheatland Green River 1500 to 1600 Thermopolis 1500 to 1700 Buffalo 1700 to 1800 Yellowtail Park Cody Lander 1800 to 1900 Douglas 1800 to 2000 Evanston 2200 to 3400 Rock Springs 3000 to 3100 Cheyenne 1400 to 1800 Encampment one decrease.
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Washington, D. C
Wyoming
Sunrise
Cambria
Sundance
Gillette
Shoshoni
Kemmerer
Newcastle
Wheatland
Green River
Thermopolia
Buffalo
Yellowatony’ Park
Cody and
Lander
Douglas
Evanston
Rock Springs
Cheyenne
Industrial Club in Cheyenne Aims to Entertain Labor Delegates
The Industrial Club forms a committee to handle finances for entertaining labor delegates during the convention. Local unions in Cheyenne are rallying, preparing plans for the visiting team and events as speakers and organizers coordinate efforts.
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Cheyenne
Industrial Club
Canyense Yease
Mothers Who Have Daughters Mothers Who Have Daughters
Mothers laud Lydia E Pinkham's Medicine for relief of painful and irregular periods and related symptoms. Letters from grateful mothers highlight the tonic's perceived health benefits and promise free medical advice from Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lieetel
George Strickler
Hudson, Ohio
R. No. 6
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lynn
Miraein Shamar
Mass
Coca Cola advertising flier and odds and ends
A jumble of ads and quotes promoting Coca Cola benefits at soda fountains and bottles, a call for The Coca Cola Company literature, a baseball record book offer, and scattered humorous lines and slogans from newspapers and public figures.
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Coca-Cola Co
Atlanta
Coca-Cola
Coca Cola
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Roy Greaser
Bye Shaw Live Stock Company
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Fort Ruegell
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