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Newspaper
Casper Press
Location
Casper, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1908
Page
2
A collage of notes on science, travel, culture, and society. Mentions cheap wheat in Canada, Yatewood’s iron strength, parliamentary libraries, high society marriages, poets, fashion trends for summer, and rising auto imports. Commentaries touch on polar exploration, Salvation Army in Pittsburgh, editor edits, football, global death rates, and speculative journalism about modern tastes.
A new men's church in Atlantic City seeks popularity through positive and negative qualities. Positive features include pipes elgate and moving pictures during sermons while negative traits note the absence of Merry Widow hats and feminine frivolity.
Miss Harriet Knight appointed principal of Cheyenne High School succeeding Prof. Fee. Judge John A. Riner named deputy Masonic Inspector General. Frost and Richard trap many predators near Cody. Cheyenne council to build cement sidewalks. Western Oil and Gas Co forms to develop nearby field. Pat Linehan dead from revolver accident. Electric street railway planned linking Cheyenne with Frontier Park and Fort Russell. Hotchkiss horse accident yields no injuries after 30 foot fall. Fox terrier survives 60 foot fall in Centennial winze. Large bobcat stopped by father saving daughter near Newcastle. Drowned snakes in Chugwater flood noted as ranchers’ grim relief. Wyoming & Southwestern Rail road Co incorporated to build Encampment line. University of Wyoming trustees reelect faculty. certain posts filled. salaries raised. Lawin reports eighteen cattle electrocuted by storm near Sheridan.
A mail pouch carrying $50,000 in cash and $100,000 in diamonds and jewelry stolen from a Kansas City Union Station mail car was found days later in Kansas City Kansas. The thief left four empty envelopes. federal agents pursued and offered $2,000 for arrest. A negro suspect was identified from photos, later traced to Denver, with detectives recovering unopened packages.
Col. C. J. Jones, owner and superintendent of the Grand Canon Kune preserve, shipped full blood buffaloes and mixed animals to Denver with five mountain dogs. Among the herd is Old Joe the outlaw bull captured recently. The group also includes five mountain Hong in cages. They are bound for Kansas City, Missouri.
New Jersey state political figure Frank Katgenbach Jr of Trenton, twice Democratic mayor, nominated as New Jersey's candidate for vice president at the Denver national convention. Efforts are under way to secure unanimous support from New Jersey delegates for his candidacy.
Queen Victoria of Spain and King Alfonso welcomed their first son in Madrid on a Monday night. The couple, married in Madrid on May 81, 1906, celebrates the newborn whose birth follows their May 10, 1907 earlier child.
In St Petersburg on Monday, verdicts were handed down for participants in the 1905 Bialystok killings where eleven Christians and seventy three Jews died and many were wounded. One man received three years penal servitude, thirteen were sentenced to six months to a year, fifteen were acquitted.
Washington society fans out to summer resorts as diplomats host open houses from Manchester to Bar Harbor. Embassies from Britain Italy Germany Russia and Siam set up along the coast with Barons Counts and princes among the prominent guests. Bar Harbor hosts several bachelor diplomats while Beverly Farms Magnolia and Cape Ann see embassies and society figures mingling in seasonal hospitality.
President Roosevelt plans a yearlong hunting expedition to British East Africa starting after his term ends March 4. He will be accompanied by his son Kermit, a Groton pupil, and will take an armored outfit of high powered rifles. The voyage from New York to Cairo is slated for April 1909 with no other countries visited. Mrs Roosevelt stays at Sagamore Hill during his absence.
One of the Essentials of happy homes is a fund of information on health and right living. The Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, an ethical remedy approved by physicians and Well-Informed of the World, is promoted as a wholesome family laxative manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co and sold by leading druggists.
An amendment raises the district appropriation for playgrounds from 1500 to 15000 dollars. The piece argues play areas aid health and behavior, condemns street play, and notes Washington lacks adequate grounds. It calls Congress to do more than the initial raise and praises the move as a good start for families and children.
A prankster in Washington posed as President Roosevelt in a staged ride down Pennsylvania Avenue. An ad offering $500 for a valuable portfolio appeared in a local paper, claiming foreign agents hid papers that could spark international fallout. In truth the “papers” were a political puzzle featuring Roosevelt with Bryan and Taft balls, hinting at a third term plot.
A famous authoress, anxious over unknown correspondents, seeks revenge in an odd way. She reads a letter from a woman who says the writer named her last baby after the authoress and asks for views on the choice. The envelope is sealed tight and worries her about its contents.
An old broker interviews a saintly candidate who answers with air and restraint. He notes the man’s purity and jokes that his ambitions fit “paradise” rather than a lowly office. The brief anecdote ends with the Chicago News framing the scene as humorous fate.
A Sunday Magazine piece notes that Podunk once signified rural obscurity while Oshkosh and Kalamazoo are now sizable hubs near central population points. It questions Podunk's existence, citing no Podunk in 62 000 federal post offices and a geographic names board remark about Quaboag in Brookfield Massachusetts.
A testimonial touts Grape Nuts as perfectly balanced and nourishing for all ages from infancy to old age. The narrator, over sixty, reports improved nerve and brain power, memory, and vitality after two years of breakfast use with milk and cream, noting family improvements as well.
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