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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1905
Page
5
In Cheyenne Fort Russell society hums with prenuptial events for Miss Travis bride to Lieut Mackall. Hostesses, dinners, receptions, and dances surround the June fourteenth wedding as relatives and friends gather from St Paul to Salt Lake City and beyond.
The Philadelphia Reading Railroad extends Rutherford yards costing over a million dollars while the Big Four expands passenger service. Michigan Central and Reading cooperate for better service. New Orleans Terminal buys five blocks for a $3 million site and a $1.6 million passenger station. Erie plans a Warren Pa through route to cut Chicago New York times. Wisconsin Central orders nearly $1 million in rolling stock after a strong winter. Central Vermont builds two new Montreal to Ot on trains. New York Central reports enormous emigrant traffic with frequent foreign passenger trains.
The quote reflects Seneca on the paradox of generosity and loss, suggesting true wisdom lies in giving even after surrendering something valuable. It frames loss as a measure of character and intellect.
In Billings Montana on June 6 13 year old Mabel Harper daughter of George Harper a Northern Pacific section foreman committed suicide at her home by drinking one and a half ounces of carbolic acid after being scolded by her mother for a minor offense. She bought the poison at a drug store and died a short time later in her room found by her family who believed she had gone to school.
The Pennsylvania Railroad set new speed marks by sending two special trains 877 miles from New York to Chicago in seventeen hours. The trip from New York to Pittsburgh took eight hours fifty minutes and from Pittsburgh to Chicago eight hours ten minutes.
A farewell dinner in New York honored about 200 Presbyterian missionaries set to depart for foreign service. The group includes many young cler gymen and doctors, making it one of the largest departures from the country.
In Lincoln on a June Sunday at the Fairview church William J. Bryan Jr. and Grace Bryan were received into fellowship. Mrs. Bryan teaches in the Sunday School. A difference in material makes a material difference.
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