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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1912
Page
9
Mrs Evelyn Goonell hosted a garden party at her father's home for twenty eight guests. Decorations included electric lights and Japanese lanterns with woodbine, asparagus ferns and chrysanthemums. Music by Mrs Kennedy and Miss Minnie Haas accompanied singing and piano selections.
Pleasant Kensington hosts Bessie Stuart entertained Friday with a thimble party at her home. Guests enjoyed yellow flowers, musical numbers, and a religious summer menu. Several attendees from Garden City, Chicago, Omaha and Pocatello joined, then travel and visits across Denver, Colorado Springs, and Kansas City are noted.
A flurry of nonlocal travelers return from tours to Yellowstone via Denver and Colorado Springs with letters of travel for Rathfreteh and others. Local society notes include parties in Omaha Pueblo and Cheyenne and expected troop returns to Polo Mountain, plus a Fort Russell bridge club and a Pioneer Park dance agenda.
Wyoming opens its game bird season across the state from August through September with sage grouse, Mongolian pheasant and quail, curlew and snipe hunting optional on specified dates. Hunters must obtain a $1.50 license and the sage chickens are reported plentiful this year.
Washington Aug 3 1912 Thirty two miners were killed in Colorado mines during the first four months of 1912 according to a report by the Bureau of Mines. The figures compare with eighty in 1911 and 328 in 1910 with risk measures noted per tonnage of coal mined.
W. E. Mullen assistant United States District Attorney holds preliminary examination before United States Commissioner Mason in the case United States versus Private Bala. Harrington was killed in a fight with Bain over a trivial matter and the killing was declared self defense.
The piece urges using Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin to regulate bowels during summer heat. It promotes a gentle, safe laxative for all ages, claims relief from constipation and diarrhea, and offers a free trial bottle by writing to Dr W B Caldwell in Monticello Illinois.
W. B. Stone, chairman of the weekaye committee, reports that Woodrow Wilson cannot attend the local Frontier Days celebration this month. The planned Western trip by Wilson, which was to start yesterday, has been abandoned, leaving organizers to adjust plans for entertaining visitors.
The Duke of Cannaugh governor general of Canada and his family will stop in Cheyenne for a few hours during celebration plans maturing for Frontier Day. The royal visit follows announcements of a Democratic nominee launch and Calgary events. Railroads are promoting the celebration with posters in depots across the Western system.
The fragment recounts Julius Kahn of San Francisco once a stage performer with Pooth and Barrett who later entered politics and served in Congress. A California hotel breakfast episode shows his irritation as a waitress delays service, prompting a wry exchange about who took the order.
A note in the Animated Weekly lists a Denver flood report and a Dtk convention scheduled in Portland at the Lyric. The item notes local events and venue names of interest to readers.
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