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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1920
Page
4
Cheyenne state news and editorial content from the Tribune Publishing Company. The paper lists John C. Fleming as manager and John Charles Thompson as managing editor and notes Associated Press affiliation and republication rights.
Miss Agnes Samo ponders if men today are as gallant as her mother's era after a streetcar incident. A baby in arms, all seats full, a young man stays seated while others offer seats to the elderly woman and a gray headed passenger. The column defends enduring courtesy in past and present.
A historical meditation on loyalty, tribal rivalry, and human striving. It argues repressed fighting instinct harms society and suggests channeling it into cooperative, competitive efforts in science, exploration, and industry to serve all mankind.
Economist William S. Rossiter argues in Atlantic Monthly that nearly 55 million Americans have British ancestry, forming a homogeneous governing element half the population. He asserts the United States remains an Anglo Saxon commonwealth guiding global leadership. The piece notes cotton and tobacco trade, cheese cloth protection, and U.S. ownership of most Mexican petroleum shipments.
A partial newspaper fragment shows team lines and players from Chicago Washington Philadelphia and Detroit with RBI and runs. It mentions an army draft literacy statistic and a call to request the Tribune or Leader by messenger service. The text is incomplete and reads like a sports box score snippet with stray names and figures.
Charles B. Boyce resigns from the Wyoming state board of live stock commissioners effective September 1. He cites demand from business ventures in Idaho and Colorado. Boyce has served since February 24, 1919 and will be replaced at the next board meeting.
Generally fair Friday and Saturday with warmer conditions on Friday and in the extreme east portion Saturday. There is a personal notice announcing August 17th in Laramie County referencing LAI DR and W. K. MYLAR.
The article explains raw sugar rose to over 28.5 cents in May 1920 and fell to about 16 cents by July. Despite raw price declines, the American Sugar Refining Company fixed wholesale price at 22 cents from May 26 through July end, keeping consumer prices high.
A 1916 Ford coupe with green top and yellow border was stolen from in front of the Plains hotel while J L Dixon of Denver and a companion went to lunch. A witness saw a matching car heading toward Wheatland and police alerted nearby areas. The car, notable for an L C Smith typewriter in a leather case, was seen near the Metropolitan hotel around midnight as shots were fired at fleeing thieves.
Ralph Palmer aged 17 and Jack Palmer aged 16 from Kansas City Missouri, under an indeterminate sentence to the Wyoming Industrial Institute Worland for stealing 184 dollars worth of goods from tourists, are wanted in Kansas City for stealing a nearly new Ford with modern appliances. They were arrested at Rock Springs with Angel Boluno and pleaded guilty to grand larceny. The older Palmer claims to have purchased the car.
A man in Kansas City paid 400 for a car but lacks a bill of sale and cannot recall the seller's name. The vehicle sits in Rock Springs awaiting an investigation into Palmer's account. Other notes mention Miss Olsie Ulrich visiting Wyoming, Jr. Boyce returning to Texas, engineers linking the Black and Caspian seas by a sixteenth mile tunnel, and a Denver mark exactly one mile above sea level.
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