New York War Mobilization and Food Price Pressures
New York volunteers and potential draftees are reshaping the city as eight million dollars more is added to the dairy bill amid rising food costs. Saloons close, illegal drink dens vanish near armories and docks, while a hotel on lower Broadway is razed for a modern loft as cartoonists pace Dutch war artist Raemaekers in wartime morale efforts.
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New York
France
Washington
Navy
Uncle Sam
Ste Thies
Lower Broadway
St. Denia
General Grant
Sarah Bernhardt
Roscoe Conklin
Chester A. Arthur
P. T. Barnum
Mark Twain
A Terrifying Prospect Warns of Traitor Threats
A Gombwin's Weekly feature warns that WoW factions threaten national stability. It urges swift police action to arrest and jail alleged miscreants and to prevent an internal collapse by driving out outlaw elements. The piece calls for due process while favoring decisive enforcement against traitors.
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Lend
Larce
Ewcep
America
Uproar Over Lawlessness and War Sentiment Across States
The piece warns against violent anti-government action and urges swift official measures while recalling wartime France where syndicalists faced harsh punishment. It notes American draft exams finding only one perfect recruit, an Austrian, and highlights Senator Kendrick’s oil leasing amendment as a step toward correcting inequities, with further analysis in a Denver interview.
Kendrick Amendment to Walsh Bill Boosts Wyoming Oil Claims
Attorney for operators lauds Senator Kendrick for an amendment to Senator Walsh's oil leasing bill. The measure preserves bona fide oil and gas locations not withdrawn and protects holders who have begun diligent work toward discovery. It requires timely drilling to maintain rights and creates a preference for certain withdrawn areas, aiming to shield small operators from abrupt loss of titles during the act's passage.
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Warwick Vo Deaning
Qa Center
Biormey
Wraeming
Walsh
Kendrick
Air Downing
Lawning Untis
Whetun
Kendry
S Enaite Public Lands Committee
Wyoming
Persen
United States
Kiner
Secretary of the Interior
Territory of
Alaska
Kendrick Amendment Changes Oil Leasing Rights for Wyoming
The passage describes a Senate amendment advancing preferential lease rights on mineral lands, protecting active work on claims, validating discoveries under the Riner decision, and urging further amendments to the Walsh bill. It notes opposition from naval and conservation interests and lauds Senators Kendrick and Shafroth for their efforts in securing the amendment.
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United States
Kendrick
Public Lands Committee
Wyoming
Senate
House
Washington
California
Standard and Midwest
Secretary of the Navy
Secretary of the Interior
Department of Justice
Shafroth
Colorado
All Men
Wheatland Man Drowns at Local Swimming Hole
In Wheatland on August 6 Johnny Blose, 18, drowned while swimming with J. L. McCaddon near the Curtis beet dump north of town. The two had ridden the hand car to the water. Blose cried for help and sank. life was extinct before recovery. It is believed heat and cramps from pumping the hand car caused the drowning.
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Wheatland
Johnny Blose
Curtis Beet
J. L. McCaddon
Johnny
Blose
Western Wyoming horse thieves strike again in KEMMERER
Lige Christensen wakes to missing two top horses and saddles after corral gate left open. Tracks lead toward Bear River as witnesses report a rider seen near Christensen ranch. A saddle from John Green and another from Fred Stofler were stolen the previous night. Authorities suspect an organized gang targeting multiple ranches amid government horse buying stations scrutiny.
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Kemmerer
Lige Christensen
Corral
Bear River
Bear River Bridge
Christengen Ranch
John Green
Cokeville-Afton
Fred Stolfers
Christensen
Adulteration Rises as Food Prices Climb in Paris
Paris reports rising food fraud since January with 25 percent of 1076 May samples impure. Milk and wine most fraudulently altered while substitutes for meat and butter appear as new artificial foods. Despite prosecutions, inspection force limited by mobilization hampers enforcement.
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Paris
Municipal Laboratory of
Chem
Women who Fade Early and the Pinkham Remedy
A narrator discusses aging women and the phrase fade away. It praises Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a long standing remedy claimed to restore health and happiness for women facing female disorder symptoms.
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Lydia EK. Pinkham
Tennessee Resident Held for Burglary
Sheridan police arrested J. nr. Smith from Tennessee for the Newcastle Nichols Supply burglary on July 31. He attempted to pawn watches at a North Main shop the next day, and a search of his grip recovered the stolen items including a .22 caliber Colt revolver razors watches and knives.
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Sheridan
J. Nr. Smith
Tennessee
Nichols Supply Company
Newcastle
Smith
North Main
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Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Burke HW
Sinclair Ee A
Swezka
Lester Osporne
Monttes
New Filster
Pace
New York News Letters
Roemackers
Raemaekers
Gombwin's Weekly
Alyvedy
Menaylom
Oeran
Aeeen
Pranre
Midi
Frances
Philadelphia
National Army
Senate Public Lands Committee
Warwick M. Downing
Denver
Kendrick Amendment
Wheatland Man
Waterman’s Ideal
Logan’s Book & Curio Store
Carey Ave
Cheyenne, Wyo
Cheyenne Tru
Cheyenne
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