Rocker sale reduces price for children’s gift pick
A small rocker originally 75 cents and later marked 1.35 is now 90 cents as a New Year toy bargain. The item is pitched as a good and enjoyable gift for the little ones during the holiday season.
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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1900
Page
1
A small rocker originally 75 cents and later marked 1.35 is now 90 cents as a New Year toy bargain. The item is pitched as a good and enjoyable gift for the little ones during the holiday season.
Fragmentary ad style text praising Anheuser Busch beer and a New Year greeting. Mentions quality claims and a motto not how cheap but how good. Also includes scattered notes on Wyoming area, Palace chronicle, prosperity, and an epidemic remark.
Havana reports the central committee completed a constitution draft to be read to the convention with private sections, then publicly discussed. Adoption is expected January 16, with a three month window for Cuban officers to be elected before transfer to the people. The plan includes a US defensive offensive treaty allowing fort control and possible American troop use if needed.
London reports steady disasters in South Africa as British losses mount after Helvatis capture. Kitchener notes Boer forces retreated from the plage area and Helvatis reoccupied. New York dispatch cites imperial court inquiries on five questions about Taku forts, executions, and allied plans.
A heavy gas explosion at the Holl enback coal mine in Wilkes-Barre Pa caused a fire and left several miners entombed. Reports indicate multiple men are trapped as rescuers work in difficult conditions.
Boxing figure Kid McCoy was jostled by two pedestrians in New York causing a bloody nose and a cut hand. Reported swelling and potential complications raise fears of a serious injury amid a busy December news cycle.
Washington observers with ties to the London and Globe Finance venture say the firm failed due to Wright’s price manipulation of London market stocks. Senator Turner recalls Wright’s tactic of rotating authority companies and buying sinking shares to prop up prices, and notes Turner’s dispute over the Lero mine in Rossland B C. Wright ultimately paid Turner's quoted price to secure the mine.
Two men died from poisonous gas at the 1 200 foot level of the John A Logan mine on Ball hill near Victor Colorado at 10 o’clock. The victims were shift boss John Connors about 55 and miner Fred Mauchin. Connors was unmarried and long employed as chief prospector on the Independence mine. Coroner Bunn is investigating.
A dead man was found Thursday morning beside the Union Pacific tracks east of Evanston. Injuries indicate he was struck by a train. Authorities suspect mental imbalance. A memorandum in his pocket suggested a possible name but it was not confirmed.
Reports from the northwest and nearby areas show extremely low temperatures across cities. The early morning readings ranged from the teens to the low forties in some points, with telegraph communications deteriorating throughout the day due to the cold.
The Leader reports rising interest in the legislator contest with voters clipping coupons. Corrections fix typographical errors and list standings for Breckona Hanna Madden Sullivan Stone Wilson Roberts Ren Davis Rossman Emigh Brittain Creaswell, noting possible vote exclusion by final count.
Martin Hayes becomes father to a baby boy while Mrs. B. B. Patton is recovering at home. Various city residents, including Hon. EH G Hay and Superintendent W L Park, are traveling or visiting nearby cities. A nurse Adele Rafter is seriously ill with pneumonia. Dr J H Conway’s bicycle was stolen. an accident injured machinist A Haggerty with an air hammer.
A well known young male clerk in the city was discharged from service after refusing to undergo an examination on throwing a slate. The notice lists multiple names and places associated with the case, including Denver Chicago and New York connections, with a reward offered for a missing watch.
Special correspondence from Rawlins Wyoming notes the death of D Haley age 77 last night. He arrived in Rawlins in 1871 and was father to City Marshal Haley. Also mention of railway delays on Sixth division due to a freight train break, and Hos C F Fishback confined at home with a frozen foot. Work on the pen progresses slowly with weather favoring completion. New passenger compounds on Sixth and Seventh districts cause hot journals trouble.
A Evanston Press report notes a machinist sleeping on railroad tracks and narrowly surviving after a yard engine operator saved him. In a separate item, St Mary Cathedral plans a pontifical high mass for New Year with Bishop Leni han, midnight service, Eucharistic adoration, and benediction, featuring Adeste Fideles.
Fireman Vassig, injured months ago in the sixth district by a bursting water glass, sues Union Pacific for 910,000 in damages. He alleges the accident resulted from the company's lack of precaution in providing safe water glasses.
The funeral for the four year old son of Conductor Jersey Fowler took place this afternoon at 2 o clock from the family residence. Rev Young officiated and many friends attended the service.
Michasl O Neil buys the cigar store on Sixteenth Street beside the Germania saloon from Bush Clark and takes immediate possession. The purchase price remains undisclosed.
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