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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1920
Page
14
Four states Wyoming Colorado Western Nebraska and Kansas are hit by a severe blizzard. Train service is canceled or paralyzed and wire communications are cut off across much of the storm area. In Denver outgoing trains halt and thousands walk home as a 40 mile per hour gale rages.
Washington April 18. Swift & Co Libby, McNeill & Libby and related firms were cited by the federal trade commission for unfair competition and for acquiring competitors' stocks. The filings allege these Chicago and Honolulu based companies sought to monopolize pineapple growing and sales in Hawaii by gaining control of five rival firms.
The cases of Jack Dempsey and manager Jack Kearns, charged in a federal indictment for alleged draft evasion conspiracy, were called in San Francisco district court and continued for two weeks to set a trial date.
Two Cheyenne police officers chased a herd roaming the northern city by night for two hours and corralled the animals in the Union Pacific stockyards. A colt under a week old was among them. The herd will be held in the stockyards for owner identification.
The remains of Mrs Ellen Lacurran Lacur ran who died at her Burns home Friday were sent from the W W Dumm mortuary to Ulysses Nebraska for funeral services. Mrs George Harberkorn accompanied the body to Ulysses.
Funeral services for Mrs. Adrea Gamino were held yesterday morning at W. W. Dumm mortuary. Her remains were placed in a receiving vault until weather conditions permit further arrangements.
Police and the sheriff's office worked on the cases all day yesterday but by evening reported no leads on the identity of the high jackets or the liquor. Chief Emberg refused to discuss the matter or identify those involved. Exact quantity of booze stolen remains unknown.
SAN FRANCISCO April 17 State officials in two states sign agreements to wear overalls to curb clothing prices as the Overall Club movement expands in the west. The Helena Montana state house is noted among participants.
Audrey Munson is touted as the perfect model in a feature at the Atlas with her screen appearance cited as proof of expert selection by famous artists. The edition also includes Kinograms weekly, the Lyon & Moran comedy Stop that Shimmy, and Topics of the Day.
The state house in Sacramento lists Martin Madsen and Warren Bovard as governor Stephens secretaries while Judge W W McClellan says he will go on the bench in denim for a mass meeting in Albuquerque tomorrow to form an overall club.
Washington April 18 The American Federation of Labor through secretary Frank Morrison urged Congress to abrogate labor department orders allowing temporary admission of Mexicans and Canadians to work this year in the beet sugar industry across Colorado Wyoming Iowa Utah and Nebraska to curb influx of migrant labor.
Des Moines April 17 Governor Lowden is the choice of a majority of Republican delegates to the state convention to be held April 22. Counties heard from tonight show many instructing for Lowden and others reporting delegates at headquarters as favorable to the Illinois governor. The convention will have 41 042 delegates and Lowden forces claim 640 as theirs.
In Omaha on April 48 United States Senator Hitchcock denounces W. J. Bryan as a party wrecker and out of sympathy with the Democratic administration. He claims Bryan defeated compromise on Lodge reservations to the League covenant and the senate's peace treaty ratification.
Fragments describe multiple 1919 era matches with batteries listed for each club including Shocker, Billings, Cicotte, Schalk and others. Notation shows Detroit, St. Louis, Washington, New York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati and Chicago games with innings and scores partial, plus postponed contests.
Corrine Griffith stars as a society girl in Tuman Collateral shown at the Atlas theater. Stephen Langdon, a Wall Street operator, faces severe financial trouble and must negotiate a large loan with Roderick Duncan who is engaged to Patricia.
A subplot reveals Duncan’s supposed upcoming wedding to a daughter and a possible loan tied to the family. Patricia learns of the loan plan and suspects she will be treated as human collateral, envisioning a legal money transfer through her engagement to Duncan to humiliate the men.
The document indicates the girl is deemed to have a literal value exceeding $1,000,000. This assessment stands as a key element in the proceedings, highlighting a substantial estimated worth asserted in the case.
A formal agreement transfers her to Duncan in return for the loan, leading to a remarkably dramatic climax in the narrative.
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