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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1908
Page
7
The Cheyenne Leader publisher announces daily morning editions with Sunday delivery and official city paper status. Subscriptions run yearly and monthly, with carrier delivery and office contact details listed for circulation and editorial staff.
The United Democracy argues that the Democratic Party is mending its internal rifts as leaders like Waterson Ridder Harmon Francis shift to support Bryan. Seven core principles unite the party from coast to coast, opposing the Republican platform, with Bryan likely to be nominated and elected if the Denver convention solidifies the stance.
The secretary of the treasury George Bruce Cortelyou says the year end deficit of 64,000,000 is a surplus due to an old bookkeeping system. The article notes the government spent 64,000,000 more than its receipts for the fiscal year ending June 30, the largest deficit since the Civil War. It criticizes the new system as insufficient to change the fact of the shortfall.
The text argues the discrepancy cannot be blamed on old bookkeeping methods and suggests the matter could become a subject for bankruptcy courts or a lunacy commission. It states Cortelyou’s explanation is incompetent and fails to account for the issue.
Western railways including routes through Wyoming consider planting rows of trees along both sides of the Union Pacific right of way from Columbus Nebraska to Cheyenne. The project aims to supply ties telegraph poles and timber while acting as snow fences and windbreaks improving soil moisture and value of land beyond offsetting initial costs.
The piece argues vice-presidency is not a dead end citing eight of twenty six presidents rising to the top. Roosevelt is highlighted as an energetic national figure who would not be sidelined by a second spot. It asserts leaders must advance on merit and that no one is too big for the vice presidency.
A jumble of notes covers Edison ironies on sleep and invention, Alfred Vanderbilt income woes, a booster editor predicting a future Laramie, and a bank scandal in Allegheny. The piece muses on life from many voices from preachers to grafters, jokers to laborers, ending with a reflective question on life.
Odd items across the West mix booster efforts in Denver with Cheyenne’s pamphlets. Observations include a hat price joke, fireworks sales, platform politics, and a playful take on Secretary Cortelyou and Jack London. The fragment ends with a Turkish decoration motto and a clipped note on a badge.
A collage of witty lines from Le Rire United Presbyterian Washington Star Brooklyn Life Puck and Nashville American features quips about fireproof wooden legs chilly drinks accidental acquittals and a man improving his finances after leaving drinking. The items showcase light satire and social banter across era papers.
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