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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1920
Page
10
The Cheyenne State Lead announces its established daily edition with publication every morning except Monday under the Tribune Publishing Company. Readership is invited to follow the paper for local news and regional updates.
Fragmentary newspaper text about Associated Press rights and publication terms, with unclear dates and rates. Content is unreadable in places but indicates publication licensing and management lines. No clear events, people, or places readable.
The column ponders Babe Ruth as a national icon facing fading fervor and public doubt. It recalls Napoleon and Shakespeare to warn that fame wanes, and asks if Ruth’s batting eye still holds. The piece imagines a painful moment when the crowd discovers Ruth’s bat is no longer as deadly.
A critical column contrasts Charles Ponzi with industrial magnates like Rockefeller and Carnegie, noting Ponzi produced nothing while amassing millions. It also questions U S government money order practices and urges readers to learn how such schemes operate rather than pursue scapegoats. The piece highlights postal money-orders and exchange gaps as a common vulnerability.
In a lively city reception for a visiting royal couple the mayor and his wife drew praise for their remarks, while the queen and king offered keen diplomatic humor. The piece riffs on witty lines and royal reception manners, ending with a corrective quip about a misreported Galician town name and a mistaken Fall.
The sunflower represents constancy and adoration. Peru revered it for sun worship, while Spaniards introduced it to Madrid. Indians widely grew it for food seeds, Russia uses seeds for food and oil, oil cake feeds animals, stalks fuel, and China makes silk from stalk fibers. A Greek myth explains its sunward gaze.
July 14 Vienna report describes widespread barter as Austrians exchange goods for daily necessities amid cheap money and looming levies. A retired officer trades three roebuck hides for two dressed hides to buy wife and daughters gloves. a village glovemaker converts hides into gloves using cider, mutton, and veal as payment. Eleven sheep yield wool for yarn to make stockings, illustrating a return to barter basics.
An elderly narrator recalls knitting for winter, mortgaged apple crops, a neighbor miller paid in toll, and a host who once sailed the seas in a cruiser. The uniformed man now wears a plain civilian suit, while a cottage home fills with American and English periodicals.
The United States Civil Service Commission lists exams for multiple posts in Cheyenne with dates in September. Positions include assistant pathologist, instrumentman, plumber's assistant, poultry and egg handling investigator, wharf examiner, radio operator, mining draftsman, linotype machinist, and building estimator with corresponding salaries and per diem terms. Also notes that U.S. life insurers wrote $8.7 billion in new policies in 1919.
An inquest at W. W. Dumm mortuary reviewed the death of Leonard Steemer. Acting Coroner Hdwards and a three member jury ruled the fatal wound came from an accidental discharge of a revolver in Steemer's own hand. Remains to be transported to Kansas City for burial.
Lincoln Highway and Yellowstone routes show mixed conditions with good stretches in western Nebraska from Pine Bluffs to Laramie and Rock Springs to Pinedale, but numerous sections under new construction or grading. Fort Bridger, Rawlins, and Casper areas report rough or fair segments amid ongoing road work and improvements. Side trips and connections through Laramie, Rock Springs, and Riverton vary from excellent to rough with several graves or new grading ahead.
Cheyenne Wyoming's weather shows the twenty four hour period ending 6 am measured with temperatures 52 to 78 degrees. Highest 78 at 3 30 pm and lowest 62 at 6 am. Precipitation since January 1 totals 10.54 inches with .02 inches in the last twenty four hours. Average wind speed 7.6 miles per hour.
Mrs. Geneva Robinson of Albany writes that Foley's Honey and Tar helped her stubborn lingering cough after two bottles. The ad claims hay fever asthma and bronchial coughs respond to the product. The piece also notes internal revenue taxes cost about 55 cents per $100.
A humorous figure on London Scout Committee literature depicts the founder Sir Robert Baden-Powell as the "happiness health energy" image while King Alfonso of Spain is shown as a scout master. The illustration accompanies the Boy Scouts jamboree coverage.
Fragmentary text lists players Seon R H and Betts Enzman Wheat Ring Wingo from New York Chicago matchups and multiple lineups. Partial scores appear as 66 to 12 with second game references, names Benton Snyder Parker Bailey Killifer and Daly.
In a Deming building a man was found unscrewing a hall door lock at about 3 am. He was shirtless, wearing only trousers and shoes. He claimed to be an investigator, spoke of learning detective work, and provided the name FW. A. Crowley. Police arrested him but no charges were filed and he may be released.
In Hamilton Ohio a missing open top freight car bound for coal mines was found on a siding. The car was hidden by weeds and ash piled inside and around, appearing as a weed covered mound rather than a rail car.
The bindery twine plant at the Kansas State Penitentiary posted a net profit of 144,798.87 dollars for the year ending June 30. The figures appear in the annual financial report of state institutions filed by State Business Manager James Kimball.
Salt Lake City August 6 Oregon Short Line railroad to use motion pictures at grade crossings to prevent accidents. The release notes indicate a concerted safety campaign using cinema to educate the public about crossing dangers.
Advertises a medical compound named Munthis claiming to relieve long standing, obstinate issues in 3 to 5 issues with no harm or work interference. Prices listed 2.00 for single and 3.00 for double strength. A booklet is offered free by Dr. C B Southington Rennedy Co of Kansas City Missouri.
The Young Men's Literary club announced its annual summer picnic for Saturday night August 14. Members or families are to provide their own lunch. The meeting last night included a two hour discussion on absence excuses and a paper by R N Matson arguing for a federal transportation department with a cabinet officer.
Cleveland Aug 6 reports from four railroad brotherhoods say landlords are using the railway wage award as a pretext to raise rents for railway employees. The chiefs discussed asking the government to probe profiteering but postponed action pending reports from general chairmen nationwide.
An American flag hung by Mrs. G. W. Wilson and Civil War veterans saved a landmark giant oak tree from removal amid ongoing disputes between residents and Waterloo officials over removing trees along public highways in Iowa.
Hardships from an unusually warm month eased for soda fountain devotees as plain drinks were cut from seven or ten cents to five cents each. The price reduction remains in effect.
July 8 report notes renewed hostilities in China have left Chinese students in the United States cut off from home communications and facing financial hardship amid the conflict.
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