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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1908
Page
8
Notice stamped as second class matter at Cheyenne Wyoming post office dated September 6 1907 under the 1879 act. OCR fragment ends with unreadable tail.
The piece notes Tom Lawson forming a new party and mocks civic fixes such as a twelve month water wagon. It sketches rumors about romances and a radium youth claim, then hints at a gold coin motto and a proposed presidential ticket Cannon of Illinois and Fort of New York.
A Philadelphia Record summary notes a shift in money flow from West to East. It cites a New York financial writer, the Nebraska Bankers Association president, and Kansas showing 15 million dollars of state capital invested in commercial paper in the East. The piece says the West needs long term investment locally while the East offers the best short term markets drawing surplus funds.
A Sheridan Enterprise editorial denounces taxes on grazing rights for stockmen on unoccupied public lands. It argues the Western settler previously enjoyed this privilege since Jamestown, and warns reform would harm western settlement and development.
A Wyoming editorial questions GOP reform in the state as Governor Brooks and Attorney General Mullen miss the Anti-Saloon League event. It contends both officials declined reform leadership, suggesting the Republican party rejected reform influence and drifted from a dry agenda.
The Grand Duke Constantine of Russia is hailed as the most cultured Romanoff. William K. Vanderbilt becomes New Theater president after Charles Barney's passing. Mrs. Harold McCormick orders a Browning bound at $1,000 per volume. William M. Chase plans to move his studio to Philadelphia. Secretary Shields of New Orleans hosts a spaniel who fetches bugs for chickens. Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria is praised as a polyglot. John Burns M P cherishes a copy of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations that sparked his interest in economics.
A collage of quips and lines from humor pieces and cartoons. The snippets mock stinginess training for congress library vs gymnasium debates and playful exchanges about school and jokes. The items reflect light satire from multiple papers.
A dental advertisement extols crown work by Dr. S. H. Sweatt at 1617% Ferguson Street. It emphasizes restoring tooth size shape and color, saving natural teeth, and cost savings from timely care. The offer notes a holiday reduction and urges visits to improve mouth health.
New York reports Pythagoras the toad at the Bronx Zoo ate four worms after a millennium in limestone rock. The ancient creature, buried 500 feet down in a silver mine at Butte, Montana, is regaining eyesight and limb use and slowly turning green. He has emitted feeble sounds but no croak yet.
President Roosevelt greeted a throng of well wishers at the White House in Washington on New Year’s Day. Mrs Roosevelt and cabinet members attended, though crowd size was reduced by more than a thousand compared with the prior year.
A lunch special at the Capitol Grill offered to merchants from noon to 1 pm priced at 85 cents with a promotional invite to try the meal.
Until 2 o clock this morning there had been no change in the condition of Roy B Stanley who accidentally shot himself Tuesday evening causing a wound considered extremely dangerous. He has not been unconscious and yesterday conversed with his mother.
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