Wyoming News Snapshots and Local Vignettes
Wyoming items list visitors and travels including Godfrey Kuhner and wife from Wheatland and John Mast returning to Laramie. George Walker joined the England party on a camping trip north. Local construction expands as public building walls rise and a new central heating plant at the university begins. Over 400 men are employed in shops and a batch of eight more workers arrives. Reports of audits, visits, and moves include I S Bartlett planning hotel remodeling, and an irrigation expert Prof. Mead visiting Cheyenne. Two Denver detectives search for John Doyle in Cheyenne.
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Wyoming
Frontier
Godfrey Kuhner
Wheatland
John Mast
Laramie
George Walker
England
Park
Shelton
Buford
Mike Fitzgerald
Union Pacific
Mead
Department of Agriculture
Marlatt
Douglas
Bartlett
Platte Valley Company
Laramie University
Conrad
New York
Officers School
Fort Leavenworth
Centennial and Rambler
James Mathison
West
Yellowstone Park
J. E. Stimpson
Cheyenne
A. J. Crowe
Buffalo
N. Y
The Bicycle On its Merits
The article notes large bicycle production in the United States during the 1890s and early 1900s with millions of machines built and many factories, despite a perceived boom bust. It argues a lasting user base remains, as millions ride regularly and the industry survives beyond fashion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Saturday Evening Post
East Bound Excursions At One Fare Plus Two Dollars
Rail travel offer via Union Pacific includes Chicago St Louis St Paul Minneapolis Duluth and other points. Gold tickets valid on select June to September days with final return limit October 41. First dates late June 6th and 7th. For house listings see The Daily Leader ad column.
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Union Pacific Railroad
Chicago
St. Loulh
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Duluth
Thought Dr. Hillis Was Joking At Edinburgh Banquet
A Metaphysical professor from Scotland asks about American scholars at a dinner during an Edinburgh educational conference. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis from Brooklyn corrects him with precise facts. The professor realizes a mistaken chain of American humor and leaves in disbelief.
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Hillis
Newell Dwight Hillis
Plymouth Church
Brooklyn
Hills
Edinburgh
Scotland
New York
America
Chicago
Dr. Hille
Symposium on Girls Books Sparks Anglo American Debate
Saturday Review of London hosts a symposium on girl’s books pondering the English miss’s tastes and America’s stance. The piece laments sixteen to eighteen year olds devouring novels or plays with gushing praise, noting vulgar sophistication and influence on tender maidens.
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Saturday Review of London
America
Sweet Sixteen
Workaday Pastimes Split: Golf Pingpong and Croquet
The Philadelphia Bulletin muses on leisure activities noting golf and pingpong plus croquet as popular pastimes. It contrasts these with tennis and imagines a world where such activities are treated as paid work rather than recreation.
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Philadelphia Bulletin
A Summer Evening Walk Reveals Veterans and a Grandfather
An August evening after a showery day shows sunlit beech and plane trees while homeward crowds move with a springy step. An old man sits, then an elder wheels a perambulator with a baby and chats softly, noting the child’s resemblance. A passerby calls him “chip of the old block” as they share a quiet moment. A brief classroom quip, a Knights of Pythian notice, and a railway fare snippet close the scene.
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Army of Labor
Wyoming division track inspection address by Superintendent Park
Superintendent Park delivers a two year track inspection plan for the Union Pacific Wyoming division. Foremen are organized into committees A through E to inspect curves, slopes, switches, ditches, sidings, and right of way features with a goal of improving surface, gauge, and overall track quality. The speech urges careful use of tools, emphasizes discipline, and notes a $25 cash premium for the best section after the fall inspection.
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Union Pacific
Park
Committee C
Wyoming
Duty and heroism expected of railroad foremen
The article urges section foremen to safeguard lives of workers and travelers and to act with fidelity under all conditions. It cites the engineer’s trust in crew, recalls heroic acts such as a Union Pacific foreman who sacrificed himself to flag a passenger train after a rail incident, illustrating dedication under danger.
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Union Pacific
Ita
Stors
T Haniear
North German governess seeks teaching position
A North German governess with excellent references seeks a position as teacher for a family. Specialties include German English French and music. Address Olga Grohmann 486 Degraw Street Brooklyn NY. Also listings for home goods real estate and cut flowers with contact notes.
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Olga Grohmann
Degraw Street
Brooklyn
N. Y
For Rent Listings With Room Descriptions
Several rental notices offer furnished four room houses and rooms for rent. Applicants should inquire at Twenty second and O’Neil streets Twentieth and Ferguson streets and the Opera House block. Some units include electric light janitor service and starting at five dollars monthly with options at Warren Emporium.
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Twenty-second
O'Neil
R. W. Bradley
Twentieth
Ferguson Streets
Conway
Opera
Warren Emporium
Cut Flowers and Designs at Chaffin's Green House
Advertisement lists cut flowers and designs for weddings parties and funerals at Chaffin's greenhouse located at the corner of Eighteenth and Central Avenue. Also notes hot and cold baths for 15 cents at Padgett's Barber Shop on Sixteenth Street.
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Chaffin
Green House
Eighteenth and
Central Avenue
Padgett'’s
Sixteenth St
Capitol Avenue
Sixteenth Street
Citizens Oil and Gas Company Dissolves Under Wyoming Law
More than two thirds of the capital stock voted to dissolve the Citizens Oil and Gas company under Wyoming corporate law. Upon newspaper publication ending in Laramie County and filing with state and county offices, the corporation is deemed dissolved. Dated June 30, 1902, signature of President L C Paddock and Secretary John A Hall.
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Citizens’ Oil and Gas Company
Wyoming
Laramie
Secretary of State of
Citizens' Oil and Gas Company
A. D
L. C. Paddock
John A. Hall
Land Office notices of final proof and preemption in Wyoming
Notices from the Cheyenne Land Office dated July 9 1902 announce settlers filing for final proof and preemption in Wyoming. Witness lists include Keenan Thogias Meanea and Perry with August 13 and September 3 1902 hearing dates at Cheyenne Granite Canon and Box Rider Colorado, with maps offered by the railroad railway company.
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Department of the Interior
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Wyo
Martin Breither
H. E. No
Peter Keenan
Hillsdale
John Thogias
Egbert
Frank Meanea
Robert Perry
South Bend
W. E. Chaplin
John Nielsen
Therkel Vonson
Granite Canon
Vis
Soren Yennen
Granite
Hal Strong
Christ Christensen
William Boyes
Colo
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Osteopathic
Normandie Hotel
BE. A. Black
George H. Evans
City Baitor
W. F. Daiber & Bro
Crescents
Ramblers
Tribunes
Stearns
Clevelands
Nationals
W. 17
St. le Pe House
Manewal
Ferguson
Louis Manewal
West Sixteenth Street
Davia
Grocers
China
Tust
Depot Exchange
L. Kabib
Thos
Longhurst
Bape
J. ¥. Barron
Daily Leader
DR. Hillis
Michigan
Hilda
Mr. Hillis
Girls” Books
George
Tom
Bobby
Knights of Pythian
San Francisco
J. Barron
Wyoming Division
Smith
Brown
Napoleon
Chaka
City Matters
East Sixteenth Street
Dinneen's
Twelfth Street
Thames
Albert Chapman
W. B. Chaplin
Regiater
Colorado
Alveston
Texas
Ogden
Utah
and &, Railway
Y. & Fisher, Gen
Denver
Cole
Hood River
Davis & Kelley
N. B
East 16Th and
van Lennan Streets
Riner & Schnitger
Rock Springs
Mall
Black & Clark
Reed
Cheyenne and Northern Tracks
Air Reeset
Southern
Galveston, Liouston
San Agtopio Rockport
el Paso, Louisiana
New Orleans
Lake Charles
Mexico— City of Mexico
Monterey, Guadalajara
Florida
Jacksonville
St. Augustine
Ccuba
Havana
New Providence
Nassau
Ours
South
Torough
T. BE. Fisher
Union Late
Otor
Kest
Chicago & Northwestern
Union Pacife
Northe-Western
Uchete
Éaloe J
Barron
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