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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1907
Page
4
A December 3 1907 note urges buying nuts from a store with large stock for freshness. It lists English walnuts pecans almonds filberts with prices per pound and ends with the writer mentioning a downtown nut purchase from a local shop. The piece reads as a friendly persuasion letter about holiday eating and shopping.
The Modern Woodmen of America will buy 1000 acres near Colorado Springs for a national sanatorium for members and families. Buildings cost 60000 dollars and patients pay only expenses. A. R. Talbot announced the project and 268 candidates admitted in Denver as the order marks its 25th anniversary.
A. Covington returned to Hartville while Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smith visited from Davis Ranch. J. M. Crandall of Rock Springs attended to business in the city. A. J. Wharf, a Union Pacific division engineer, came back from Laramie. Traveling Engineer A. J. Stevens of Union Pacific was in town yesterday. Jay Hartman, formerly of Cheyenne, arrived from Salt Lake. D. A. Preston of Rock Springs, en route to Lander, was in the city. L. Williams, editor of the Guernsey Gazette, returned to Guernsey yesterday morning.
Police were alerted to an intoxicated woman found in a drunken stupor near the Union Pacific stock yards. They determined she had been assaulted by several men and placed her in custody in the city jail's women’s department. The woman, known as Sadie, is not unknown to the police.
Baptist ladies announce a bazaar at the church parlors on December 12 delivering an afternoon and evening program. Supper priced at 25 cents and offerings include pies, hats, and old clothes made new by Union Dye Works.
W. L. Morris of Denver is remodeling the south half of the Metropolitan hotel basement to house a modern Turkish and Russian bath establishment. The facility will have twelve rooms with new equipment, private suites, a barber shop, and a large office. The owner, with fifteen years in major western bath operations, expects operation within about a month barring delays.
Dr Anthony Spitzka reports in a study of six famous American scientists that Walt Whitman’s brain was lost when a hospital employee dropped the jar containing the poet’s brain. The specimen broke and no fragments were saved, depriving science of the brain that inspired a global philosophical and religious movement.
Governor Gooding honors Colorado regulation for Steve Adams to be tried in Telluride for the Arthur Collins murder. Adams and his counsel seem not to oppose the extradition or fight the case. Clarence Darrow says Adams wishes to return for trial and DNA Hilton of Denver has the Adams case.
A basketball game at Keefe's Hall scheduled for Saturday is followed by a High School dance after the match. C B C competes against a local high school in a community event with a social program for attendees.
Arthur Belcher a strong Wheatland blacksmith died after his team bolted and a wagon toppled trapping him beneath two horses. Friends attempted to lift the animals but could not free him, with coroner stating suffocation as the cause. Funeral held at Wheatland on Wednesday.
President Roosevelt sent to the Senate the nomination of John C. Bryan to be receiver of public moneys at Mitchell South Dakota. The item appears amid a page with assorted advertisements for medicines groceries and new books. The notice confirms a federal appointment set before a December session.
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