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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1907
Page
8
Editor notice enters as second-class matter at Cheyenne post office September 5, 1907. Subscription rates listed: One year six dollars, six months three dollars, one month. End of excerpt shows party leader and publication details.
The piece mixes holiday wishes with quips from various papers. It references the Albany County Wool Growers Association, Mark Twain earning 33 cents a word, party line humor about fighting and winning, and satirical lines about bishops, soldiers, and a blue hen poem.
A collage of quotations on Christmas from Shakespeare Milton Scott Wordsworth and a biblical verse. It links seasonal joy with old ballads and a church scene, ending with Luke 2 10 about tidings of great joy for all people.
A riddle from Puck asks which man will regret his choice. One buys a house and a business and saves for a rainy day with four thousand and three thousand spent, ten thousand in all. The other spends all ten thousand on a car, gains high credit, can buy a fifty thousand dollar house and become a partner earning a hundred thousand per year. Both have wives and daughters. who lives to kick himself.
In a private office scene Antionette asks her father if he told Marry Harry could not have met. The old man notes Harry has no legitimate claim of working for another and presses that he is not in business for himself.
A distressed girl pleads with a man named Harry who fears business trouble. A caretaker urges that true business requires advertising and predicts Harry may awaken to reality someday.
A poem in January Young's Magazine portrays courtship leading to marriage and then divorce. A maiden and a knight exchange a rose, a proposal follows, but the bride cites incompatible ways and chooses divorce, reflecting on modern marriage.
A retracing of social fades and ruined loves as old friends recount vanished romances. Names nicknamed figures and a twist ending reveal a surprising husband among the group, all in a witty, satirical exchange from January Young's.
A burst of humorous items crosses American life from navy travel and tobacco profits to weather tricks and Prohibition era quirks. Oddball notes include a 60 percent dividend claim, Lipton’s cup bid, Jim Crow law talk in Oklahoma, and peculiar anecdotes from Chicago to Cleveland about payrolls, funerals, self surgery, and password politics.
Roy B. Taylor, imprisoned in Rawlins for forgery, has not yet applied for a pardon. He was sentenced in this city on September 25 for forgery, a case that drew considerable attention due to its circumstances.
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