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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1912
Page
2
A worried mother seeks relief for her baby’s whooping cough and finds guidance in text about Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. The passage promotes this cure as a trusted family remedy for female health issues and notes a mother's positive testimonial of improved strength and daily tasks after using the product.
U S Geological Survey estimates Wyoming holds more coal than any state except possibly North Dakota. Powder River field covers about 14 000 square miles with beds over three feet thick in places. Wyoming second in Rocky Mountain coal production behind Colorado and may soon rival it.
The semi annual meeting of the Wyoming Good Roads Association will open in Rawlins around September 12 with representatives from each county to discuss road improvements and seek state aid. A Saratoga fish fry is planned for delegates as part of the program, promising entertainment and instruction.
Eb C Peterson editor of the Courier was assaulted by D A McCullock last Friday evening amid fallout from a liquor exposé. Peterson told McCullock the story could be read as he saw fit if guilty, while noting the confrontation centered on the paper’s coverage. Local items and ads follow, including medicine and beauty parlor promotions.
Advertising copy promotes TIZ foot treatment for tired feet, claiming it relieves aches, corns, calluses, and blisters. It offers a free trial package via Walter Lauther Dodge & Co. in Chicago and urges purchase at stores for 26 cents a box.
Thermopolis Wyoming report indicates Burlington's southern extension advances at about a mile per day. Chief Engineer Mongland says the line is within thirty miles of Powder River Junction with the Northwestern, despite earlier rumors of a disconnect. Hempleland notes right of way arrangements for the connecting track should be settled soon, suggesting traffic may begin once the link is finished. A through schedule may wait until after year’s start, but a Northwestern connection appears imminent.
Columbus an elderly Ute, 70 summers, is stranded at Cumberland after leaving Bannock agency Idaho. He woke to find his entire outfit missing near Bik Mountain during a noontime nap. Deputy humane officer Angus McDoural initiated a search but found no clues. Cumberland residents offer support and wonder if tribe members may guide him home from White Cloud Utah.
A morning meeting of the miners union sub committee and operators association at the labor temple discussed a compromise between two divergent proposals. No agreement is expected for several days as talks proceed in secrecy. Local operators host visiting operators at a Sheridan Inn banquet tonight.
Chief Justice White and Justices Lurton and Van Deventer lead a three member panel using a card index system to draft revised federal equity procedure rules. Expected to submit findings before the fall term, the reform aims to curb delays and costly bills across the federal judiciary.
M. Gebhardt of Oriole Pennsylvania reports a single dose of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy cured diarrhoea. The note adds there is nothing better and states the product is for sale by all druggists.
Mrs. Kate Weber 60 died after pouring kerosene into a stove in a tent kitchen near Johnstown Colorado. The stove exploded and she caught fire, neighbor Mrs. Scott Kent helped extinguish the flames. Grandchildren aged three and five were in the kitchen but unharmed. Deputy Coroner S. J. Alnutt investigated. husband and several grown children survived.
Mrs Scott of Buckner Missouri details over a year of female trouble and failed treatments before writing to Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co The response advised the Vegetable Compound and she reports rapid improvement now keeping house and recommending the remedy to other suffering women
Petition presented at churches calls for a drastic saloon ordinance restricting hours from 9 p m to 6 a m on all days and Sundays and on holidays. It would ban displays and require bright lighting to ensure visibility inside saloons. Local officials await a copy of the proposal and details.
The convict ship Success, a full-rigged East Indiaman with a storied bushranging past, toured ports after 1851 gold rush fever. Described as the fleet’s flagship among five ships used as privon hulks, she carried relics and lectures on convict life, contrasting with her antique square stern and heavy mahogany walls.
A lightning bolt during a storm struck a tree on Clarence Gilbert’s Yorkana area farm killing three thoroughbred cows that had sheltered beneath it. The deaths remove highly valued livestock from the operation.
A compact reflection on suffering proving divine love and the warning that wasting God given talent leads to self-destruction, urging moral accountability.
The ordinary brown kitchen soap proves a strong disinfectant in everyday cleaning. It emphasizes practical use for surfaces and utensils with basic sanitizing claims.
An earthquake centered near Williams Arizona shook Holbrook and other towns this morning, lasting five minutes and damaging buildings and glass from 2:05 to 2:10 p m. The震震震震震震震震
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