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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1908
Page
8
A collage of local quips on currency bills school recruitment and culture. It notes Congress delaying a currency bill and mocks Esperanto and canned music while cataloguing satirical poems and songs. The quirky fragment ends with a Bavarian style doggerel about a singer named Melba and a marching band.
A regional reminiscence recalls William Jennings Bryan as a junior at Illinois College Jacksonville in debates with Richard Yates. The piece notes Bryan and Yates were college rivals for honors and references a song about Bryan’s prospect of a third presidential nomination as the Denver convention approached.
The Great Southwest Magazine argues against locking up 350 million acres under private leases. It posits big cattle owners push the scheme to benefit bureaus and revenue, while western settlers fear exclusion of smallholders and homesteaders from land near the Rocky Mountains.
A Rawlins Republican editorial argues that public desire matters little without votes. It stresses that publishers and state committees influence opinions, but actual ballots determine outcomes, noting straw polls are ineffective and quiet voters are the real force on election day.
In Magdalena bay the fleet will fire at 4800 foot distant targets made of 10 by 21 foot canvas sheets on rafts. Ships will relay in motion over marked courses and fire with various guns. Weather ignored. Admiral Evans commands 360 rifled guns in a record scale never seen before. The former best American hit rate was 80.6 percent.
Excerpts from Simeon Ford's famous Boston Taft banquet speech feature quips about abstinence whiskey and milk political shifts and party loyalties. Ford jokes about Roosevelt bank loans and the president's message while noting mixed loyalties and a need for calm healing in politics.
A collage of humorous clippings shows quips about change at a post office, stock speculation, labor versus capital, marriage proposals, temperance satire, and a Globe parlor scene ending with an engagement. It references Ally Sloper and multiple city papers.
From ex Governor Var diman to Hancock county kids and New York churchgoers, this page threads social notes. Prohibition doctors and patients in Charlotte face whiskey prescriptions while Old Swimming Hole is saved for local youth.
Boys receive a free baseball or bat with every pair of boys shoes purchased at the Jenkins Shoe Co. The promotion adds a sporting bonus to their footwear sale in this local advert.
A brief classifieds note states old papers are available at six cents per bundle, with the delivery or collection details unclear due to partial text.
Washington, D C March 24 forecast for Wyoming calls for rain Wednesday with mountain snow and colder north and west. Thursday expects snow or rain and continued cold. Local data show 6 pm March 24 high 59 low 46 none precip 0, wind 36 mph from the north.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions places and names but lacks coherent events or clear persons. No identifiable incident, date, or outcome to summarize into a factual card.
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