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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1919
Page
12
A call to Wyoming residents to vote on April 22 in a special election to lift the state into the ranks of good roads states. The piece stresses the election's importance beyond regular races and urges turnout to support road improvements.
A stark remark on Abyssinian life notes that wives are the head of households and debtors face capital punishment. It criticizes a man who commits a large swindle yet offers limited aid as not a benefactor of humanity, asserting there is no camouflage there in deed.
A historic viewpoint argues Western Europe faces dependence on the United States for bread and essential goods after the war. It notes Europe must import hundreds of millions of bushels of wheat yearly and cites Russia India Argentina and Australia as limited suppliers while North America and Canada bear the shortfall. The piece contrasts European urgency with America’s perceived wasteful use of resources and warns of tomorrow’s scarcity.
The speaker argues Europe lacks coal and raw materials, facing bankruptcy across Germany Austria Hungary Russia and the Balkans. He claims the United States alone can stabilize world supply and employment, likening a League of Nations to a receiver that keeps people at work until Europe reorganizes after the war.
Finland owns 36.3 percent of its area as national forests covering 12,831,495 hectares with an estimated value of 3,000,000,000 marks. The forestry division manages eight districts and 81 conservation zones, trains 800 rangers, and keeps exact timber counts. In 1910 maintenance cost was 3,900,000 marks with net receipts of 9,300,000 marks, providing steady annual income.
The discussion explains divergent tonnage terms used by Americans and British. It contrasts deadweight, net, gross tonnage and displacement, noting how each measures vessel capacity differently and yields confusion in reporting merchant fleets.
March oil summary reports fewer completions and 700 fewer barrels of new production in Wyoming fields. Despite a higher total of new rigs and wells drilled, completions lag, with 14 completions and 425 barrels of new production for the month. Weather aided field work, yet government sail issues slowed drilling in some areas.
G. A. Sheels of Nebraska and J. H. Callahan of Montana are jailed in Laramie after being charged with robbing a Mexican of a watch and $55. Callahan, paroled from Montana state prison on a grand larceny charge, and Sheets, a discharged soldier, arrived seeking work. Sheets reportedly deserted his Nebraska wife.
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