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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1912
Page
13
A health ad notes many women suffer from backache dizziness and headaches from girlhood through old age. It describes fatigue irritability and nervousness and hints at a remedy used by neighbors for persistent pains and menstrual discomfort.
An advertisement extols Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a private aid for delicate and pain racked women over 40. It invites sick women to consult in confidence by letter free and lists address and payment terms for a medical adviser and a comprehensive medical book offering plain English answers to intimate questions.
Classifieds report divorce granted to Mrs. Philip Stewart and marriage licenses issued for Walter B. Biss and Mabel Cressline. Also listed are repair shops, trunk makers, incorporation filings for several firms, and updates on Mountain States Telephone manager C Campbell plus social notes and sales ads.
A Fitchville reader thanks Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for restoring his daughter’s health after prolonged illness. The letter highlights severe pains head and side and nervous prostration, noting best results and ongoing endorsement of the remedy.
A widespread publicity contest across central and eastern Wyoming offers a $100 first prize, $40 second, $25 third and five $5 prizes, drawing rapid replies and promising statewide exposure for the letters home scheme. Papas, a Greek, was escorted to Mower county by a sheriff after abducting another man's wife. he protested innocence as the woman remained in the city awaiting departure. For rheumatism, Chamberlains Ointment offers quick relief, available from dealers.
The funeral for Irene Cheyenne Anderson, four year old daughter of James A. Anderson, will be held at 10 a.m. April 16, 1912, from the family residence at 2020 ONeil. An auction sale is listed for The Sherman Co at 1607 Capitol Ave.
At a regular meeting the Laramie County Medical Society voted to discontinue evening office hours after May first for Cheyenne practitioners. Cheyenne residents living outside the city limits will follow their own schedules.
The 4th Field Artillery Band under A D Alutolo will give a concert in F Battery quarters at 7 30 p m on April 16 1912. The program includes The Pageant from Richard I Bloch William Tell Fantasia Nautical by Gobert Pretty Jane theme variations Polonaise by Barilotti Grand Selection Il Trovatore Verdi and a Remick hits medley.
Twenty five delegates from four states gather in Cheyenne for the annual convention of the Railway Postal Clerks. The ten o'clock opening at the Carnegie Library will feature Robert O Belén presiding, with Rev Van Winkle giving the invocation and General John Charles Thompson welcoming. An evening reception and dance follow at A C U W hall with delegates from Wyoming, Ohio, Lincoln, North Fork, Li Junta and Billings.
A soldier recalls writing a long letter with the Lows and jokes that the entire book Aunt Tom's Cabin was written by Jar riot Beecher's toe, reflecting in a humorous wartime exchange about authorship.
Theodore Roosevelt will command sixty-five of Pennsylvania's seventy six Republican delegates to the national convention with a possible sixty seven. Woodrow Wilson is set to secure seventy four of the seventy six Democratic delegates in the state. The Philadelphia convention will also elect twelve at large delegates and thirty eight presidential electors while the party gains and losses shift influence over state chairmanship and national committeeman position.
This afternoon marks the formal opening of the Aldrich-Bowen Company new store in the Tupper Block 1817 Capitol avenue Cheyenne devoted to ladies and children's ready to wear apparel and furnishings The interior features mission finished woodwork and handsome show windows The firm aims to display the newest and daintiest creations Miss Bowen formerly of Pierce Cloak and Suit Company and Mr Aldrich recently from Auburn New York headline the opening
The article notes John Whitamaker and EB. T. Stotebury among those who escaped the Roosevelt storm and were clues to Taft delegates. Governor Wilson won seventy four of seventy six Baltimore convention delegates, with two Democratic organizations in Pennsylvania backing New Jersey governor. A few candidates backed Champ Clark and Harmon in three districts.
A colonel, leaning against a tree, politely declines a general’s invitation to his tent, apologizing in stuttered Italian as he prefers to stay where he is. The exchange shows comic reluctance and a light military interaction.
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