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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1908
Page
8
Entry details show second class matter registration at Cheyenne Wyoming post office dated September 6 1907 under the 1879 act. Advertisement lines present corrupted subscription rates for daily and six month terms with unclear pricing.
Editorial snapshots note Taft dodges tariff questions in Boston while a naval doctor leads a ship. Roosevelt Brownson affair clouds Hobson funding. court splits 5 4 against common people. Muncie mob subdued without Funston. Bob Evans crosses the equator. Taft avoids moving pictures. London gets a sharp press agent.
A reflection on how the financial crisis prompts uneven frugality among the well off. Some retain comfort yet curb gifts and new clothes, while others cut payrolls or delay purchases, worsening hardship for merchants and workers. The piece notes many have grown paralytic about spending.
The passage urges those with stable investments and incomes to spend according to custom. It says they owe the community a share of outlay with merchants and businesses, employing clerks, workmen, and servants as in ordinary times.
Newly elected Leader Publishing directors pass resolutions against leasing the public range and vote to oppose leasing as a democratic measure.
A compact remark asserts the Tribune is the sole statewide Wyoming newspaper, noting the statement in bold type as a boastful claim about the paper’s reach.
Harris Friedman the dentist sued Michael J. Doyle for 1650. Friedman testified Doyle gambled and drank and gave money to questionable characters to spend all he had. He spent over 4000 to claim he had no money to pay the bill and avoid judgment. Doyle was found guilty of fraud and sentenced to three months in prison.
Washington reports the only official news of an alleged Haytian revolution from Lieutenant Commander George Marvell aboard the gunboat Engle. He says revolutionists landed at St Marc, government troops engaged, some combatants were killed, and no Americans were harmed. He left for Guantanamo as Des Moines and Paducah wait off the Dominican coast to be sent to Haitian waters.
The Record Herald reports Chicago packers sell gall stones at high prices to Japan, with a Canadian commissioner in Yokohama noting a firm sold stones for 14.94 a pound and the importer retailed at 90.60. The Japanese bought all they could obtain as prices rose.
Emil Mittag of Everett Washington writes to Pension Agent Coe that he will stop drawing an eight dollar monthly pension he has received since June 1906. He claims divine intervention and notes he severed two fingers to avoid service, and that he surrendered to authorities at Vancouver.
Donald Stevenson a Breckenridge Colorado mining company salesman was probably fatally shot by O B Hewitt a lawyer at Taylorville today Hewitt surrendered and was released on bond
A jumble of satirical exchanges covers divorce price without publicity, society gossip on a vulgar millionaire’s wife, and quips about bridge, grading, and lovers. The scenes volley witty lines from college papers and city papers, framed as light social discourse.
Rome January 17. The pope, suffering an acute gout attack with knee swelling, reluctantly suspends audiences. His private doctor Dr Petacci urged bed rest. the pope’s sisters arrived to nurse him.
The will of Peter Cumming former president of the Broadway Savings Institution leaves 60000 dollars to Presbyterian Hospital to endow a perpetual room or beds for the benefit of the bank’s former employees or depositors. Only 30000 dollars goes to relatives, with several relatives ignored.
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