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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1908
Page
8
Entry records indicate this item was entered as second class matter on September 6, 1907 at Cheyenne Wyoming post office under the 187% act law.
The piece bundles quips on fashion, politics, weather, and nature. It scoffs at a milliner’s rule for hats, mocks Taft era factionalism, notes Wyoming discontent with labor and sugar positions, and ends with spring imagery and a flutter of birds and toads.
Isaac N. Stevens denounces the current government as tyrannical oligarchy not a republic or democracy. He urges Americans to abandon talk of forefathers rights and declare devotion to special privilege as the true system.
Cheyenne bankers back local development with a $30,000 hotel stock pledge and a $25,000 offer to finance a street railway. The Laramie Republican lauds bankers who support city progress and civic projects. Mrs. E L Teape and Vera McKelvie plan a cross country automobile rug to Portland, eight weeks away. Senator Stephen B Elkins, age 67, from West Virginia, is noted for Spanish fluency and substantial railroad stock holdings.
The Evanston Press attacks the Taft instruction at the Wyoming state Republican convention. It says the Lander delegation’s guidance did not reflect the people or Uinta County. It denounces a Chicago convention approach and a Cheyenne Tribune editor’s influence, urging uninstructed delegates to be free and timely support for Taft or any suitable Republican nominee.
More rebelling tribune criticism targets the Cheyenne Tribune and its editor for pushing Taft instructions against Wyoming Republicans. Editor condemns the Tribune for biased editorial policy and for overruling party principles while urging a representative Republican press in the state.
Thaw's belief in limited chances for freedom is linked to his first sign of sound mind. Miss Jean Reid's bridesmaids for her June 23 wedding to John Hubert Ward include Miss Bessie Crocker and Miss Mills and Ward nieces Lady Gladys Honor and Lady Morvyth Lillian Ward. Reverend William W. Wilson, rector of St. Mark's Chicago, spoke after the acts at The Man from Home at the Chicago Opera House, praising the play as clean drama during its 300th consecutive Chicago showing.
A digest of humorous snippets from several papers shows editor ill with tonsillitis. Jokes touch politics, writing, and schoolboy antics with satirical lines about ambition and future jobs.
A brief dialogue recalls a boyish moment about attending grandma's funeral, with a remark about two bits for tickets and a playful reply. The exchange hints at family ties and a lighthearted memory from a past era.
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