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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1920
Page
11
The notice lists the paper’s founding in 1867 and daily publication with AP usage rights. It details subscription options and pricing for various terms, noting Monday exclusions and republication rights.
The article discusses aging optimism as seen in Dr. William S. Welch on turning seventy. It notes longer lifespans, modest vigor into the 80s, and the need for the elderly to yield to younger workers. It contrasts natural aging with the soul’s enduring youth and the afterlife’s new beginnings.
The piece argues organized price protests backfire, noting a 300 percent jump in overalls after the Birmingham curb effort. It cites a New York case where thrift orders led to a profiteering conviction and urges individual, quiet restraint to restore normal conditions.
The article warns of a hidden labor faction forming a secret brotherhood that has infiltrated traditional unions. It claims Bolshevik Russian influence drives radical leaders from socialist, communist, IWW and anarchist groups aiming to unite all labor under one big union to control the world.
A Mississippi man proved innocent after escaping hanging and receiving 5000 dollars. Trotzky argues mobilization is needed to manage peasants and unskilled labor under military rule. A Massachusetts Communist spokeswoman warns capitalists they face consequences, echoing the slogan money or life.
In Medeira's capital Funchal home of sleds on steep cobbled streets fascinates the children. They watch drivers propel passengers downhill, lift riders at the bottom, and dream of entering a lush garden behind iron gates. The scene blends travel notes with playful banter among Button Night Day and the cat.
A reader writes of marital strain from an affair crush and contemplates violence. Mrs Thompson urges self control, truth with husband, and escaping temptation. Additional letters seek guidance on an officer’s daughter, a young man’s voice, and swimming with boyfriends with parental chaperone.
A fragmented household hints list outlines dishes for breakfast and luncheon including dried apricot poached eggs on toast and meat gravies. It also gives pastry instructions for a lemon nutmeg custard and a pineapple pie with a sugar cornstarch filling, describing crust brushing and lattice steps.
Favorite pie recipes describe making fried pies from dried apples or peaches with a biscuit dough and generous lard, rolling, filling, folding, frying, and browning. Lemon Apple Pie outlines lining a plate with pastry and cooking thick apple sauce with brown sugar and cornstarch in a saucepan for filling.
Steamed Suet Pudding recipe uses one cup suet sugar raisins molasses two eggs sour milk baking powder salt cinnamon or nutmeg and flour. Steam two hours in a greased pan then serve with pudding sauce. Also notes suet and raisins amounts with partial garbled text.
A compact old fashioned dessert guide lists a bread pudding method using bread crumbs, milk, sugar, butter, eggs, vanilla, and citron. It instructs soaking milk into crumbs, creaming butter and sugar with eggs, then combining and baking in a buttered dish for about forty minutes with optional sauce.
The text provides a dated kitchen method for making tapioca pudding. It describes combining one and a half cans of water with tapioca, boiling, simmering, adding milk sugar and a beaten egg, then cooking fifteen minutes. Gelatin soaked in milk is added, mixture stirred until dissolved, then poured into a mold, rinsed, cooled, and chilled. Serve with crushed fruit.
General Sir JarhIbate Murray who commanded the British expedition in Palestine is said to be born 600 years ago today. Dr Clarence A Barbour president of Rochester Theological Seminary was born in Hartford Conn 53 years ago today. Gilbert N Haugen congressman from Iowa born in Rock County Wisconsin 641 years ago today. Princess August Wilhelm wife of the German ex Emperor’s fourth son born 383 years ago. Joseph McGarthy manager of the Louisville American Association baseball team born in Germantown Pa 82 years ago today.
Ogden Utah April 20 four wireless telephones will be installed in the Thunder Mountain forest Idaho for use by rangers in reporting fires. The set will be modern and Navy patterned with a range of seventy five miles. Initial cost less than half that of regular service and upkeep is minimal. Last year they were used in Montana forests with great success.
A light column mixes a playful verse about hats and a brisk stream of witticisms. It riffs on fashion choices, a tax raid in Seattle, urban travel quirks, marriage irony, cheaper meat, and a quirky sale notice, all in a breezy, newspaper column tone.
On this day in 1920 U S declares war on Spain and Texas celebrates San Jacinto victory while diverse gatherings begin in Kansas City St Louis Boston and San Francisco including Methodist Episcopal Spring meeting General Oil Jobbers Association convention National Cotton Manufacturers meeting and a Mars signal watch with aero clubs federation formation under way in the west. events reflect broad religious industry and science themes of the era.
Racing continues at Havre de Grace Maryland as spring meeting persists. Baseball opens the International and Piedmont leagues seasons. golf action includes West Baden Open at West Baden Springs Indiana and Florida amateur championship in Tampa. Indoor Athletics of the Fourteenth Regiment meet in New York. Shooting hosts North and South Amateur Handicap at Pinehurst. The 28th Brooklyn Horse Show opens in Brooklyn New York.
Jimmy Wilde faces Battling Murray in an eight round boxing match at Camden New Jersey. Johnny Kilbane opposes Alvee Miller in a grueling forty round bout scheduled for Lorain Ohio.
The eminent Harvard chemist Professor Theodore W. Richards receives election to the Danish Society of Science. Richards, famed for atomic weight research, is a Germantown native who studied at Haverford and Harvard, became Harvard full professor in 1901, and later earned the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1914.
A collection of brief entries notes births over years 1816 Charlotte Bronte at Bradford England 1836 Sam Houston San Jacinto victory 1848 Samuel Mills founder mission society 1870 David Montgomery comedian 1898 war declarations US Spain 1895 Japan Emperor ratifies peace with China 4917 Nebraska grants partial women suffrage.
One year later a general strike in Berlin ended while in Vienna Communists failed to seize government control. Frigates withdrew from port as political instability and naval movements reshaped regional power dynamics.
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