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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1902
Page
3
The copy lists B A Black Baltor and proprietor GHorgh H Evans as city editor roles, indicating a local newspaper staff roster with the two individuals in leadership positions. The fragment suggests a small-town paper structure and editorial leadership names.
Short items report A Lane back from Iowa a Board of Trade meeting at city hall tonight Elk club ball game tickets exceed 400 for the July Fourth event Indians away games pennant chances rain improves Cheyenne weather and Fourth of July plans Machinists shop meeting Sheriff Smalley returns from Rawlins with burglars and a prison transfer Lions in Sheridan host lawn social and training for upcoming games between local teams and opponents across the region
A man attempted to abduct Helen age 8 and Veronica age 6, daughters of Henry Koke, on Woodville Street. He first approached the Koke home last Wednesday, offered a price for the girls, then fled after a scream. He reappeared at 8 and 11:19 this morning, with East Side police conducting a thorough search. The Koke girls were described as very beautiful. a prior kidnapping attempt, two years earlier, led to an arrest and sentence.
The Omaha Bee reprints analysis on Cheyenne shop closures due to boilermaker strikes and rising living costs. It describes retrenchment aims, possible long stagnation, and shifting work to Omaha Rawlins Armstrong with reemployment plans for displaced workers. It notes machinists talks, car builders conferences, wage comparisons, and local community impact on Rawlins.
Last night eight young women graduated at the School of the Holy Child Jesus in the seventeenth annual commencement. Father Hugh Cummisky of the Diocese delivered the address. The program featured music, orations, a valedictory, medals and diplomas, with class members named. A tree planting followed in New York City Central Park.
Jane Toppan, a Boston nurse, admits to killing 31 people over ten years using morphine and atropine, including Mrs. Gibbs, Mrs. Gordon, and Mr. Davis. She describes her motive as a perverse pleasure in death, with no remorse, and claims physicians often failed to suspect, citing injections and mineral water doses. She seeks confinement in an insane asylum and has been moved to Taunton Insane Hospital for evaluation.
In Pratt Kansas, after a freight wreck near Pratt, farmers pressed 50 to 60 Hobo union men into harvest work at two dollars a day. Armed guards consisting of women distributed the men, who faced ten days of forced labor to cover farm hand shortages reported at two thousand in Pratt county and ten thousand statewide. David Blaine had arranged the forced labor and telephoned that the tramp camp would be held for ten days.
Perry Williams of Cheyenne reports a batch of classified notices including an experienced coach position at 2923 Ferguson Street with good wages and boarder housing at 309 East Nineteenth Street plus a sale of 250 native yearling steers.
Numerous listings offer property for sale and rent in multiple locations including a four-lot sale near Twelfth Street and Thames Avenue with Albert Chapman as agent. Also listed are various rooms and houses for rent, flower shop services, and a Denver office notice for sealed proposals by the Quartermaster in 1902. A railway map sale notice from T E Fisher advertises mail-order maps.
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