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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1920
Page
2
Barbara Burke urges summer skin care focusing on sun protection and prevention. She notes rapid skin renewal every 60 days and recommends cold cream before swimming, non rubbing bathing suits, and post swim salve. Daily massaging with nourishing skin food and ongoing prevention are key to lasting youth and good grooming.
Chicago reports four thousand more children at work than a year ago while Minnesota sees nearly double, and Texas shows about ten percent higher child labor. Officials cite cost of living, wage incentives, and adult labor shortages as main drivers. Kansas and North Dakota show negligible increases.
A statewide decrease is reported across multiple sectors with the Federal tax on child labor named as the primary cause. Officials note impacts ripple through employment and wage patterns, though precise figures are not provided. The analysis points to policy effects as the key driver behind the drop.
Former French premier Paul Painleve, en route from America to China, calls for France to engage with China’s modernization through intellectual, scientific, and technical guidance. He stresses education and cultural exchange over finance, aiming to attract Chinese students and build ties, with Paris initiating a club for visiting Chinese.
A well dressed woman who stayed at the Santa Cruz railway station for three days flung herself under an incoming train. She was killed and no identification has been made public.
Reports from the navy department say the R-38 airship for the American navy is over 60 percent complete at Bedford and should air in late November. With 2,724,000 cubic feet gas, six engines totaling 1,950 horsepower and a top speed near 75 mph, she will be the largest rigid airship yet built, surpassing the L-71 and R-84. The crew will be trained American sailors who have flown the R-33 trials and plan a trans Atlantic flight next spring.
Lengthened to 700 feet and taller, two large hangars at Lakehurst New Jersey are under construction and unlikely to be completed before July 1921 or after the B 38 arrives.
New York will spend 50 million to replace 32 antiquated Hudson piers with 18 larger structures over ten years. Work starts next spring and includes modern freight handling, electric cranes, and a sea wall. The plan, endorsed by Murray Hulbert and the sinking fund commission, aims to expand dock space and efficiency along 578 miles of waterfront.
James O'Brien, former conductor and head of the Chelsea Carmen's union, testifies before an arbitration board that single men require higher pay to attract wives. He argues they must "look better," while noting married men need not. He contends $6 a day is sufficient.
Miss Dolores L Ehler named by the new Mexican government to head propaganda and censorship for Mexican motion pictures. She will develop films for exhibition in the United States showing Mexican life and culture and improve US Mexico relations.
Road conditions vary across lines from fresh gravel to rough stretches west and east of Cheyenne with wet spells noted Wednesday. Side trips show Rock Springs to Pinedale good and Opal to Rock Springs improving. stray rough segments near Otter Creek, McKinley, and Shoshoni. Scarlet flowers bloom along the western approach to the capitol, signaling early spring color along the routes.
San Francisco drafts aviation ordinances to regulate night flight requiring port and starboard lights, ban stunt flying, and grant airplanes right of way over balloons dirigibles and kites.
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