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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1902
Page
2
The page lists B. A. Slack as Editor and Proprietor with Robert Mickel as Business Manager and George H. Evans as City Editor. The line confirms the paper’s leadership and staff credits.
Daily June happenings include three weddings in the city, a Masonic lodge joining by President Smiley, local stock capital increase at Meeteetse Hall, and ongoing events from dances to boat rides. School, church, and civic activities span Cheyenne and surrounding towns with building, music, and travel notes.
Contractors delay tearing down walls while awaiting an inspector after submitting Utica cement for testing. Department tests approved the cement but a delay arises as the supervising architect’s office in Washington reviews the case amid allegations of a mixed up process.
A collection of humorous quips on love politics and society from an early 20th century New York Press column. It riffs on opportunity, marriage, Eve and clothing, manners, and a playful verse about a suitor doubting his appeal.
Jimmie Ross a.k.a Willie Gumesth defies adults in a New York World tale. The knickerbockered boy boards the Chicago Express at One Hundred and Twenty Fifth Street, pays fare with two dollars, and ends up in police custody in Poughkeepsie. He frets, misleads, climbs pipes, and escapes court before being detained again at the station.
John Long of Kemmerer Wyoming attempted suicide at his home cutting his throat with a razor twice, severing the windpipe. He sent a note to his cousin Joe Sayers and wife, and despite medical aid the prognosis is poor. Mrs Long is in Salt Lake City expected to arrive tomorrow.
Classified item notes show rental and wanted ads appearing in The Leader. Readers seek apartments houses and rooms with fast responses from property owners and prospective tenants. Local agents report brisk activity and prompt inquiries amid seasonal listings.
General Miles offers Senator Hoar to delay a Philippine bill vote to reveal damaging army disclosures. Hoar rejects any postponement, wary of Senate commitments. The tale sparked comment as Miles’ bid surfaced in Washington before the bill's passage.
Major Pebbles will arrive in Cheyenne on June 21 to present a flag to the corps that has not yet received one. Several new recruits will be sworn in during special exercises. Pebbles was yesterday promoted to brigadier. his wife holds the same title under Salvation Army rules. Next Monday Rev. 5 C Davia of the First Baptist church will preach at the Salvation Army barracks. An estray horse has been taken up in our pasture, a sorrel gelding two years old branded EL on the left jaw, picked up May 1, 1902 by LA PASH & TUPPER, six and one-half miles west of city.
WANTED jobs include general house work at 201 East Seventeenth street and room and board with light housekeeping. Also a good cook sought at 212 East Eighteenth street. FOR SALE items include parlor organ, folding bed, sideboard and walnut bedroom set at 622 West Twenty-fourth Street. FOR RENT lists unfurnished rooms at 607 E Seventeenth Street and nicely furnished room at 306 West Sixteenth Street with brick blocks and janitor service at $6 a month upward. Inquiries to Warren Emporium and Albert Chapman real estate agent, plus cut flowers and phone 646.
CUT FLOWERS AND DESIGNS for weddings parties and funerals at Champ's greenhouse corner of Eighteenth and Central avenue hot and cold baths 15 cent at Padgett's Barber Shop Sixteenth St Real Estate for Sale Eight residence lots well located in east part of town on Maxwell and Twenty fret and Twenty second street Inquiry of Albert Chapman real estate agent.
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