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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1918
Page
8
The piece argues united national effort is essential for war and rejects exemptions or slackers. It supports a broad selective draft extending to age 50 for industrial classification, aiming to protect essential industries, place willing slackers to work, and prevent disruption of war plants.
German prisoners at Fort Springs transformed a river bank site into a village with an alligator stump entrance. They built a 200 by 150 foot bath house school, stocked with English, French, Spanish, shorthand, and chemistry classes. Officers’ camps hosted performances, canteens, and shops run by Germans. They organized volunteer labor, taught trades, and planned a forest park development as a future regional recreation area.
United Press report from London on April 15 quotes General Maurice describing a definite crisis in Picardy. He notes the enemy is a short distance from Bailleul near Armentieres, with seven miles of German advance south of the town and 17 German divisions engaged from Hollebeke to Labassee. The Allied line holds Menaines and Armentieres, where gas shells are dousing the area as the assault continues.
The Yukon council met on April 18 but most of the business will be deferred to a formal gathering in June or July. The delay comes as federal parliamentary actions for Yukon administration have not yet been completed.
Cora King a 25 year old white woman living at 321 Twenty Ninth Street Cheyenne fired a .32 automatic bullet into her right temple at 2 20 Friday afternoon. Death was instantaneous. She had a history of drug and liquor use and had recently begun drinking again. Her husband claims he urged her to quit and she promised but could not break past habits. She used a pistol left by a Jap staying in the house after entering the room and shooting herself. The couple married seven years ago in Sidney Nebraska and moved to Cheyenne years ago. he owned a chicken ranch on the Happy Jack road.
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