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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1908
Page
8
Cheyenne Daily Leader details subscriptions and rates for six months three months and one month with pricing for one year. John Bartlett listed as editor and the paper indicates second class matter status at the Cheyenne Wyoming post office dated September 6 1907.
The piece surveys Billy Bryan versus Billy Taft in a looming presidential contest. It notes Roosevelt backing the Republican convention and mentions the platform and candidate. It also comments on public reading habits, La Follette’s popularity, a judge’s injunction against goats, labor, Aldrich Vreeland act panic funds, and taunting remarks from various papers about racing and Taft’s likely first ballot victory.
A historical note highlights American manufacturers calling for a modern tariff. They seek a scientific tariff that treats all interests justly, open markets abroad, and built on facts rather than suppositions. The drive gains momentum from the National Association of Manufacturers and Beveridge in American Industries for June.
A Scotland Yard detective avoids warlike bravado as he leaves home. Meanwhile con men from Coney Island trick a member of a group, swindling him out of $200.
An Encampment Herald summary notes the New York Post and others attack Speaker Cannon and Mondell. The piece portrays Mondell as a trapped figure under a powerful delegation, while criticizing congressional autonomy and party cant. It reflects strong editorial distrust of the era’s congressional leadership.
New York newspapers publish columns on widespread suffering as hundreds of thousands face prolonged unemployment. The crisis hits women and children hardest while wealth contrasts with poverty in the city.
The Casper Tribune remarks that the university faces no fault beyond excessive democratic meddling and questions whether thirty of Wyoming’s forty Republican papers, which have been loud in criticism, exert any real influence.
Over Garland area an oil well is reported to flow 75 to 100 barrels daily. The note compares this output to Pennsylvania fields, arguing that gradually the county's resources are being developed and prosperity will follow.
A collection of short jokes and humorous exchanges. The items include a chicken garden quip, a hospital dress code joke, a spelling comparison, a divorce quip about a pink tea, a capsule ingestion pun, a boarding house remark, and an agricultural editor's cow milking riddle told through an office boy’s reply.
Chicago on June 8 reports petitions circulated by Negro politicians in the Republican Party protesting the national committee decision that denied seats to black claimants from southern states at the national convention.
In St. Louis on June 8 a suburban street car from Creve Coeur lake jumped an embankment ten feet causing one death two dozen injuries. Three people were critically hurt and expected to die, with about twenty others seriously hurt.
The Sheridan Enterprise loses F HM Barrow and the Wyoming Tribune gains him on its staff. Barrow strengthened the Enterprise and is expected to raise the Tribune to a higher level than its current standing.
A collection of brief, scattered items notes temptations offered to Chicago dealers during the June 16 week. The summer plan aims to cut costs by “burning the waters” of Bubbly Creek.
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