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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1907
Page
4
Dear Friend recounts a tired morning shopping for Christmas groceries in downtown and hosting many friends for a festive dinner. The writer notes the goal of serving the very best groceries and promises readers can obtain everything they want for Christmas.
The Alert Hose company held its fourteenth annual banquet at Capitol Avenue fire hall, with fifty guests enjoying a refined menu by Misa Ollie Smith and music by Nagel's orchestra. Toasts were given by many members and volunteers ensured continuous refreshments and smoke-free cigars as stories and compliments flowed amid Havana smoke. The event highlighted hospitality, wit, and culinary praise, featuring notable attendees including Fire Chief Phil Kerrigan and numerous community figures.
George W. Sieber head of Union Pacific education dept in Omaha was robbed at Union Station amid crowd. His suit case with Christmas gifts and several annual railroad passes, clothing, jewelry, and a cane were taken. Other items and local ads fill the page.
A long list of local social notes reports residents and visitors including Frank Weybrecht W Berry J Smalley T B Kennedy and Governor Brooks. Also mentions N J O'Brien C England and others plus travel plans illnesses and a public notice about John Cassidy and Barry dispute with legal details.
Henry Hoffman shifts night hack service from Hynd's bar to Senate bar at Sixteenth and Ferguson streets. Carriage calls daytimes from Metropole stables. Contact numbers 15 for calls, 75 for stable lines. Hack service operates night and day at Capital Bar with W. E. Dinneen at No. 13.
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