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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1919
Page
8
Billy Sunday, famed evangelist, spoke in Cheyenne on Victory Liberty Loan, addressing Rotary, high schoolers, soldiers, and a gym crowd. He railed against Germans, urged immediate peace terms with force, praised Wilson yet urged unyielding support for the loan, calling for subscriptions to fund the war effort.
Berlin reports Bremen under siege with senate proclamation ban on newspapers pamphlets and placards. Privacy restrictions curb telephones telegraphs letters are censored and streets are closed after 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. Public order measures surround churches and moving picture houses as authorities enforce curb on public gathering.
Report from Hamburg states a state of siege has been proclaimed in the German port area including the suburbs of Allena and Wilbeck as authorities order measures against prisoners fighting in the city.
The text argues for a postwar order based on independent states and a league of nations, with Italy and its allies shaping a new balance of power. It notes the pact of London’s private understanding, argues for applying the same principles to Austria-Hungary and the Balkan states, and discusses Fiume’s assignment to Croatia to avoid enlarging a foreign power’s commercial reach.
Citizens in Cheyenne dispute Major Fraser's accusations of vice and liquor law violations. Local officials note lack of specific cases and question the scope of investigations. Albert Hearst and Pred L. Babcock remind papers they publicized Fraser's charges to inform the public.
Washington reports the United States may exceed three billion dollars in trade balance for the fiscal year as exports surge. March shipments reached 101,197,255 dollars, up from 66,093,630 a year earlier, while exports of manufactured goods declined due to European embargoes.
Mystery of the silver figure of Justice from the 1894 World’s Fair in Chicago persists after a Medford resident’s inquiry recalls a 25 year disappearance. The pure silver statue, guarded during the exposition, was moved to Helena and later swapped with a wooden substitute, its fate remaining unknown.
A Cheyenne Rotary Club session adopts three provisions urging a thorough investigation into charges raised by a government representative. The club calls for a citizens committee to review facts and prevent whitewashing, amid sharp exchanges led by Major Praser and others.
England reports a novel seaweed use for waste mineral products. The material is mixed with seaweed and other waste to form a kind of concrete bricks and binding blocks. A large number of houses in the Hiwel Valley are to be built using these blocks due to their low cost.
The article describes using new concrete for doors window frames and mantels. Houses built in sections are bolted together with a single large glass pane fitted into a slot and edged molding turned to grip. Repairs to broken windows would not need a glazier and concrete dwellings are said to be warm and damp proof.
Wyoming voters at a special election approved a 2,800,000 state highway bond issue by a wide margin. County returns show Goshen, Sheridan, Laramie, and Lincoln counties voting heavily in favor, with only a few dissenting ballots. The state canvass is expected after full results are counted.
W Glass, an American worker for British American Tobacco, was assaulted by a Japanese soldier at Pamienching near Mukden in Manchuria. He was arrested, held at a Japanese police station, liberated, re detained at the military headquarters, and later summoned before authorities before leaving the town.
JAUMEZ Mexico April 24 Amoritg soldiers in France rode in stock cars marked for 30 men or 150 horses. Compared to Mexican federal troops, they had the better of it. Troop trains carried horses on one side and soldiers with families on improvised tents on top. Women and children suffered while wagons and guns rode in adjacent cars.
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