Cheyenne Leader Op Ed Summary 1905
The Cheyenne Leader notes rapid rail time reductions between New York and Chicago due to intense competition between the New York Central and Pennsylvania railways. It cites global strife, with Russia facing setbacks in Manchuria and Japan, and discusses Jerome’s critique of Equitable Life. It reports a near-end to Chicago’s teamsters strike and cautions against war in Europe and Asia, highlighting costs and prestige.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Central
Pennsylvania Railways
New York
Chicago
Great Nes
Woman’s Best Profession Says Stage Talks
The article notes a wave of over a hundred young women leaving stage careers to marry. It argues marriage suits women better than professional life, claiming homemaking fits women’s nature and avoids male competition in business. It asserts women are often less suited to direct business rivalry.
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Ciiy
Alwayvn
Matrimony as Woman's Best Profession Says Tribune
The Chicago Tribune opines that a wife's chances of winning success lie in matrimony. It argues evolution may raise her status to equal a man, but for now matrimony spells success. A home manageress role would let her shine and humble the male breadwinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Tribune
University of Wyoming Graduation Sermon Delivered by President Tisdel
In Laramie Wyoming on June 19 the University of Wyoming held its baccalaureate in the university auditorium. Dr Frederick Munroe Tisdel delivered the address on Modern Democracy before faculty students and citizens. The sermon framed the university as conservator and interpreter of the laws of the land.
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Liaramie
Wyo
University of Wyoming
University
Frederick Munroe Tisdel
Knopf
Cheyenne
Tisdel
Young Sheeppowner Weds Laramie Girl
Herbert J. King will marry Miss Millie Thompson of Laramie at 7 20 this evening in St Matthew's cathedral. After the ceremony they plan to sail from New York on the 27th for Liverpool and visit England for four months. King is connected with a major local sheep concern. his father is an English clergyman.
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Laramie
Wyo
Herbert J. King
Millie Thompson
Ole Thompson
Arnold G. H. Bode
St. Matthew's Cathedral
Chicago
New York
Liverpool
England
King
White Woman Elopes With Sioux Buck Near Cody
Special to The Leader. A full bladed Sioux man and a white woman were escorted through Cody toward Meeteetse to Red Lodge Montana to marry if a license could be secured. The woman left behind a husband and four children. names of the couple are not known locally.
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Cody Wyo
Meeteetse
Red Lodge
Mont
Encampment Smelter Set to Open This Week
The Peno-Wyoming Copper company smelter overhaul is finished and the plant will start up this week. Improvements to the sixteen mile tramway to the Ferris-Haggerty mine are done and 600 tons of ore daily will reach the smelter. Copper output this year is projected to be twice that of 1904.
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Wyo
Peno-Wyoming Copper Company
Ferris-Haggerty
Laramie Girl Dies After Operation
Miss K. V. Naismith daughter of William J. Naismith died in Chicago from complications after surgery performed last Friday. Mrs. Naismith attended her daughter at the bedside and Mr. Naismith is en route to Chicago. Funeral will be held in Laramie. Miss Naismith was a University of Wyoming graduate, class of 1902.
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Laramie
Wyo
K. V. Naismith
William J. Naismith
Chicago
Live Stock Markets Report From Chicago and Omaha
Cattle receipts in Chicago reach about 25 000 with prices mostly 16 cents lower for top lots and ranges from 2.50 to 5.50 for various classes. Sheep receipts around 20 000 with steady demand and prices mainly 4.50 to 5.00 for quality wethers and 4.00 to 6.00 for Western lambs. Omaha shows 5 700 cattle with slower trade and prices from 3.25 to 6.60 for different groups, and sheep receipts about 3 00 with steady market and lambs priced 5.00 to 6.35.
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Chicago
Omaha
Catllo
Daughter of Revolution Dies at 95 in Kenosha
Susan Atwater Gillette widow of Judge Carolin Gillette and an original Daughter of the Revolution has died at her Kenosha home at age 95. She was the daughter of John Atwater of General Washington era and served as a bearer of dispatches between Washington and Lafayette.
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Kenosha, WI
Susan Atwater Gillette
Carolin Gillette
John Atwater
Chicago Rock Island Pacific Pays Stockholders Improvement Loan
The Chicago Rock Island Pacific railway extinguished its stockholders' improvement loan of 1,222,041 dollars by paying 1.69 dollars per share. The remaining pro rata payment due on the loan was settled today.
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Chicago
Chicago, Rock Island Pacific Railway
Jtem
Stockholders
Iman
Proposals invited for frames at North Platte Project Wyoming
The United States Reclamation Service invites sealed bids by July 13 1905 for constructing frame buildings at Wyncote Wyoming in connection with the North Platte Project. Inspect plans in Denver or Fort Laramie. Bid deposits and bonds required. service may reject any or all bids. E A Hitchcock secretary.
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United States Geological Survey, Reclamation Service
Washington
United States Reclamation Service Chamber of Commerce
Denver
Colp
Wyncote
Wyo
North Platte Project
Reclamation Service
Colo
Fort Laramie Wye
Secretary of the Interior
North Platte
E. A Hitchcock
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Sun-Leader
We de Bondoi
Ccds
Coe Sete
H. A. Clarke
Cheyenne, Wyo
Dairy Leader
Russia
Far East
Orama
Manchuria
Jerome
Equitable Life Assurance Company
Great Insurance Company
Teamsters
France
Germany
Woman's Best
DR. Tisdel
Young Sheepowner
Buck
Rock Island
Interior
Chevenge Gyele Works
M. L. House
Prop
Bacycles
Tribunes
Cleveland Bicycles
Ferguson Street
Hawkes
Buechner Jewelry CO
Truckey & Son
Eddy Street
Rarchmer
Lakeview Ice CO
Houck & Cook
Sloan & Bell
Gleason Mercantile CO
Burlington Block
R. A. Hopkins
16Th Street
BTV
Hopper & Bartley
R. S. van Tassell
15Th and
Eddy Streets
Williams & Myers
Home Ranch
A Gentleman’s Resort
West Seventeenth Street
Wyoming
Fain
John Brown
Propr
Ellis
Lem H. Ellis
Opera House
Mike Eder
Manewal's
Shaffer's
Neef Bros
Theo
Adams
W. 15Th
Mras. Smith
East Sixteenth Street
Oliver
Henry Sweet
Keeley
Iure
Picror
Union Pacific
Kansas City
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