Unclear OCR fragment from Casper Press page
Fragmentary text appears to reference a company at 121 and local events in Casper. Details are unreadable. no clear people, organizations, dates, or outcomes emerge from the legible portions.
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Newspaper
Casper Press
Location
Casper, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1913
Page
4
Fragmentary text appears to reference a company at 121 and local events in Casper. Details are unreadable. no clear people, organizations, dates, or outcomes emerge from the legible portions.
The editorial page explains the Press favored the People's ticket after supporting the citizens mass meeting. The editor attended as temporary secretary but asserts the Citizens nominees are honorable yet less suited for governing. The paper pledges support for the People's candidates, claiming broader fitness and urging readers to follow.
Casper voters face a mayor and two council seats with two rival slates. The Citizens’ ticket promotes sweeping reform while the People’s ticket fields conservative business candidates N S Wilson E P Rohrbaugh and others. The piece argues for measured utility regulation, notes electric rates and dividends, and urges electing the People’s ticket for honest, progressive leadership.
The piece endorses N. S. Wilson for mayor on the People's ticket, praising his rise to general manager at Midwest Oil and arguing he would run Casper honestly and efficiently. It also backs W. F. Henning and L. L. Gantz for town council, highlighting their integrity, business sense, and commitment to economical governance.
The text urges voters to elect Wilson Henning and Gants on the People's ticket, opposing radical legislation and advocating regulation of public utilities in taxpayers’ interests. It emphasizes nonpartisan, cautious governance and asks if residents want a clean administration.
Readable fragments present a political endorsement praising Mr Wilson as Casper’s longtime resident and capable mayoral candidate. The text defends independent, unbiassed selection for city positions and criticizes opposing claims, asserting Wilson’s executive ability and suitability for the coming two years.
The text extols Mr Gante’s extensive interests and steady presence in Casper, noting his capability to handle important town business with honest ethics, mature judgment, and ripe experience during an anticipated two year period.
Casper will form a first class ball team led by Newman who has played with Colorado amateur clubs. A Sunday tryout showed several new Casper arrivals and returning players are ready. A matched game is planned at the Athletic Fields next week against a Douglas or Fremont county team.
Dr Miller the Midwest Co physician is installing a drug store at the home camp and a flavor ice parlor. Construction on the planmacy is under way and should finish in two weeks. Salt Creek gains metropolitan comforts minus street cars and sewer system. Forty five miles from a rail line. Mrs Barney Burris returns from Casper. Builders widen cellars at the Midwest home camp. Harry and Ed Loa seen in Salt Creek in a new car. The new bungalow is complete and ready for occupancy. The world is being fitted with new furniture, reflecting town progress.
Lakeside Park in Denver is described as a premier amusement area known as the White City. Visitors enjoy sunsets from the balcony, bright gates and a tower, and attractions including a roller coaster, chute, steam launch, scenic railway, a third degree spectator area, a crowded merry go round, pony rides, and bands playing in the distance as night falls onto the lake and grounds.
The Secretary of State Cheyenne Wyoming records the incorporation on April 2 with the object to establish and conduct an oil business. It plans to acquire lands and properties, develop and dispose of them, explore refine transport and market oils and products. Capital stock is one million shares with par value one hundred dollars each. The term is forty years with operations in Natrona County and other Wyoming counties.
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