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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1901
Page
2
Cheyenne readers glimpse national figures and events from May 7 1901 including debates over Depew and Platt, Morgan canal interests, Panama sale hints, illiterate suffrage delay, flag ownership, Pierpont Morgan ship purchases, Paymaster What rank issues, and tributes to President McKinley with Wyoming visit notes.
The article laments that the C B and Q Railroad will not extend west, noting two clear lessons about capitalists and moneyed men. It argues that financiers do not unite for public benefit but compete and clash with each other in the railway episode.
Theodore Roosevelt addresses seventy five homeless boys in the West Side Boys Home urging square dealing, perseverance, and hard work. He recalls Rough Riders in Cuba while volunteers serve a festive dinner with dignitaries and family supporters present.
Sherlock Holmes Jr. examines a rent notice signed by a woman yet proves the letter was not written or dictated by a woman. He deduces the author is male and continues his search for other tasks while the landlord’s letter is set aside. The mystery hinges on handwriting and the text’s underscores.
The origin of the word budget traces to English practice of presenting estimates of government revenues and expenditures to parliament in a leather purse. The term bougette, from Norman French, meant a leather bag, later returning to France. This item is sourced from the New York Tribune via a Lender subscription note.
Frank Bond of the Audubon Society argues the new Wyoming bird law bans wearing wild bird ornaments and upholds penalties for possession. W. P. Carroll replies defending fashion as a factor and explains the law applies to birds killed or caught within Wyoming. Also includes public notices, land notice, horse inspections, and ads.
Publication by the Interior Land Office Cheyenne Wyoming dated April 27 1901 states settler Benjamin H Jenkens Little Bear Wyoming has filed notice of intent to make final proof for his claim SW 14 Sec 5 T17N R67W before the Cheyenne register and receiver on June 1 1901. Witnesses named Rose L Bard Isaac N Bard Walter D Pease and A E Chambers.
A local seller advertises closing out entire stock at about half value. Men and boys suits and overcoats priced aggressively with items including $15, $20, and $25 overcoats listed at $10 each and men’s coats at $7.50 and suits at $13.50.
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