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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1908
Page
2
A misfit Ohio man offers 3 million dollars to replace Harry Thaw, hoping to free Thaw by impersonation in prison. He states he seeks wealth for his family, accepts any verdict, and would endure the electric chair or Matteawan. The letter includes his resemblance to Thaw and vows to aid in a court fight.
Beatrice Gordon formerly of Laramie Wyoming and Rich Hill Missouri moved through Walden North Park and Denver. She worked as a domestic and dressmaker in Laramie and later cooked for Art Hill at the Independence Land Cattle Co near Walden. After Hill’s death she mourned claiming to be his fiancée and is connected to a claim that he jilted another woman.
A note urges the person who disturbed the congregation last Sunday by coughing to purchase Foley's Honey and Tar. The product is sold by A. E. Roedel in New York, with pints and quarts available at the Palmer restaurant. Turkey dinners are served daily there.
In Newton two men, Thomas Green and Martin Tierney, acted swiftly when a fallen telegraph pole lay four feet above the tracks near Franklin Junction. Tierney signaling to stop, Green lifted the pole just enough to let the Lehigh Valley express pass. He feared the pole might drop and cause a terrible wreck.
Advertises a cough syrup for coughs colds croup and whooping cough with gentle laxative action. Claims prompt relief immediate results and poison and phlegm exit the system. Promotes Palace Pharmacy Co. as supplier.
A reader notes the Atlas Theater shows engaging films described as informative mellow dramatic farcical and comic burlesque. The ad promotes ManZan for piles with a collapsible nozzle tube sold by Palace Pharmacy Drug Co at 50 cents.
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