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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1918
Page
8
Cadet show billed as biggest school event will be held Friday May 3 in the high school gym. The program features a fourteen foot wall encasement, a miniature night attack, cadet drills and a wall seating exhibition directed by Captain Mullin and Second Lieut Alden Peabody with judges including Major E W Stone and Adjutant General Weaver.
Two carloads of infantry reached Port Russell and were sent on to Fort Ruggell amid rumors of more arrivals. Roy O. Hill Mars Secretary toured to reopen the YY fortifications as preparations intensify for a large troop influx. Pence from Penny reports a Philadelphia arrival.
A Union Pacific employee reports a freakish accident at Hock Springs where a Japanese carman walking with a bucket of oily waste was struck by a switch engine. The man escaped unhurt after the engine knocked the waste from the bucket and dragged him a short distance. He calmly resumed work and kept going.
Swift & Company of Chicago releases its thirty third annual profit report led by VP Edward F. Swift. The booklet includes department earnings tables a beef restocking diagram cold storage plans oleomargarine market notes and farm methods plus a financial statement by Arthur Young & Co detailing earnings expenses dividends and funds managed in 1917.
O Ward of Center visited Cheyenne yesterday on business. O Wegermann of Casper spent yesterday in the city handling business matters. Also noted was a move from 1612 Pebrican to 1713 Thames Street next to Geyser Laundry and a Ford repairing mention. Cahill and Holliday proprietors advertise Phase 46 Order Today.
Hereford Mas Here J F Becker arrived from Hereford Colorado yesterday. B J Schune from Boone Iowa and a Cheyenne traveler named Chris tenson from Lincoln Nebraska visited for a few days. H R Robinson came from Milwaukee yesterday and Jack Elliot traveled from Chalk Bluffs ranch to Cheyenne. Ray Cobb from Kimball Nebraska also appeared in the city.
Work on the county detention home at the poor farm progresses rapidly Says Warren Richardson chairman of the board of county commissioners. The building will be of cement and brick with seven rooms and a porch all around Facing east and south to ensure warmth in winter The poor farm ward will be renovated and a peat house added according to Mr Richardson.
A forthcoming event invitation is delayed as the commission finalizes plans. The notice notes a new sale and completion timeline expected within about a week, with an invitation to be extended by the commission.
A fragment mentions a sheriff’s office and an OK public visit with a house-warming party planned about a week later. Details are incomplete and no location or names are fully identifiable.
The Salvation Army drive reports partial tallies from Big Horn Crook Fremont Johnson Lincoln Perkins Platte Sheridan Uinta Washakie Weston and others totaling thousands of dollars toward a $20,000 goal. County reports are incomplete and expect a state allotment once all counties submit.
Incoherent OCR text shows shouting and police arrival during a disturbance. The fragment mentions a character named Kamorad and a belikx erent facing a confrontation, with friends nearby and forward movement implied. The passage is severely garbled and lacks clear facts.
A New York Tribune pictorial shows a French village saloon near the front with a large sign reading Cheyenne Saloon. The caption notes the name painted in bold letters across the front, highlighting the establishment’s moniker.
J Wipper was arrested by city police and jailed on bootlegging charges after three gallons of hard liquor were found in his trunk. Union Pacific secret service agents uncovered the haul and notified police. Wipper planned to take the liquor to Denver and hired a porter at the Albany hotel to buy his ticket to divert suspicion. he faces investigation by the secret service.
Plans are completed for the firemen's dance Tuesday at the coliseum to benefit the Firemen's fund. Tickets are selling, with many already placed. firemen will sell remaining tickets. Good music is arranged and the coliseum floor is noted as excellent.
Preliminaries to the Willard Fulton dream bout in Cheyenne ended with C. Pacheco Vililsta and Peter Garcia Carransista jailed after a street fight.
Louisville April 27. Western state men named for second lieutenant appointments after third officers camp at Taylor. Recipients include Fred C. Alexander Walsenburg Colo and John C. McCammen Sheridan Wyo in infantry. Charles B. Wood Cripple Creek Colo in field artillery. Hough H Hastle Fruitland Idaho also listed.
Allied positions in Flanders remain precarious though gains are reported south of the Bomme. British and French forces push from Villere Bretonneux toward Hangard while German efforts to reach Amiens are repelled. several German divisions suffer heavy losses in ongoing fighting on the Somme and Avre fronts.
Germany announced imminent action prompting Tom Holland of Coone to flee in a panic. Police report he vanished after hearing the news and is being sought by local authorities led by Chief Embery.
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