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Newspaper
Casper Press
Location
Casper, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1912
Page
5
Roller skating is all the go at the Coliseum as residents attend events and notices mention travel, business trips, and local services. Listings include vendors Henning's plumbing fixtures, Gem restaurant meals, and a range of repairs and trades around Casper with several references to local people and shops.
Seariot fever is epidemic in Douglas with schools closed. Quarantine under Park C Moyes home in Lander. Mrs Townsend and Leigh delay return until term end in late June. Roy Spuriock arrives from Oklahoma planning Wyoming work. George Coleman family back from Pasadena with a Bowth Durin street residence sale to Roy Harding. Cement sidewalks and concrete work offered with patent steel forms.
Bills proposing grants to Mount Thermopaia at Sundance and Newcastle totals 75000 and 77600 respectively, introduced in the Senate, but await passage by the House before becoming law.
Ror W. Sehenck, commissioner of hometeration, declares our sister city to the north the livest town in state as winter drives workers to oil fields while hotels and rooming houses fill. Cheyenne Leader notices postal law compliance requires box rent in advance, or rents are overdue and boxes closed.
H A Duncan of the Duncan Lumber company visits Casper to establish a third yard. Bids for lumber sheds are in, work starts immediately, and contracts for the office building and yard fences will be awarded later. Stock lumber is arriving, and W H Preston will head the Casper yard.
The O' Well Supply Company received a 72 foot Standard drilling rig made entirely of structural steel with a galvanized housing. The rig is sold to a local company and will be transported soon. more steel rigs are arriving for local drillers and one will be kept in stock in the Wyoming fields.
An audience interruption at a lecture escalates as the speaker answers a question on the greatest common divisor with intense glare. The man who asked the question leaves the hall a wreck amid cheers and shouting.
Hank Weber, local wrestling champion, plans a match in Casper against Keegan of New York en route to the West. Keegan holds the World Champion belt. weigh in expected near Lid pounds. Weber trains daily at the Coliseum with Van Nelson as preparations begin. Local sports report optimistic to see top contender Keegan travel for a bout.
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