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Cheyenne State Leader

Location

Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America

Date

Aug 24, 1912

Page

16

Women’s Club event at Lake Minnehaha hosts brunch and play

The PF. E. O. Sisterhood and families planned a Lake Minnehaha gathering this afternoon at 9:00 with committee chairwomen Kinkead Fox Hert Glea con and Rosalie Stone organizing. Guests including Mesdames Morten Sherman Hitchcock Garey Biron Rimmer London Baerresin Burns Warbaugh Bartley and Misses Jack Mollie Lee Fessie Sadie Large attended a pleasant social afternoon with a scrumptuous lunch at City Park after sewing and a spell binding spell.

PF. E. O. Sisterhood Lake Minnehaha Kinkead Fox Hert Gleacon Rosalie Stone City Park Mesdames Morten Sherman Hitchcock Garey Biron Rimmer London Baerresin Burns Warbaugh Bartley Misses Jack Mollie Lee Fessie Sadie Large

Methodist Ald Society Hosts Welcoming Social

In church circles the Methodist Ald society met at the church then traveled to Mrs Prosser’s home five miles south of town for a Kenning social. Frontier Meals committee reports proved highly gratifying with $406 clear profit, all for the new parsonage building and furnishings. Hosts Mrs Prosser and family received generous praise for their hospitality.

Methodist Ald Society Mra. Proscot Frontier Meals

Jewish Ladies Circle Dance and Card Party

The Jewish Ladies Circle hosts a social dance and card party at Fraternal hall on Monday evening August 26. Refreshments will be served and the public is cordially invited.

Jewish Ladies’ Circle

Jolly Picnic For Presbyterian Sunday School Children

Mrs. Leon C Hills supervised a picnic at City Park for about sixty children and their mothers on Thursday afternoon with Meadames Spring Morton and Miss Mabel Knight assisting. The event featured games and refreshments while mothers rested and watched.

Leon C. Hills The Presbyterian Sunday School Meadames Spring Morton Mabel Knight City Park

Mere Matter of Choice in a Mirror Scene

The text presents Marle pondering a fateful decision between stepping into the bathtub or stepping onto the stage. She asks herself aloud what course to take as she faces uncertainty, with the maid paring and the judge’s voice implied in the scene.

Marle Mademoisel Je

Legless Boy Learns to Swim and Wrestle in Philadelphia

Charlies F. Parvis, swimming instructor for the boards of education, teaches 14 year old Tyson Wetchler, who lost his legs to a freight accident, to swim and wrestle. The boy, in Hackett School's seventh grade, performs stunts on a bench and dives from a six foot platform after four lessons weekly. He can swim half a mile using arm movements and has learned several difficult strokes.

Philadelphia Charlies F. Parvis Board of Education Tyson Wetchler Hackett School Bath House Parvis

Gardens in Japan Inspire Quiet Monastic Landscape Practice

Excerpt cites Eliza Rubi n Scidmore's The Famous Gardens of Kioto noting widespread Japanese garden fascination across eras. Children model gardens, soldiers craft home landscapes, emperors join monasteries to meditate and design, with priests nobles and court ladies following landscape art rules.

Japan Kioto Eliza Rubmab Scidmore

Oregon Children Make Gardens Initiative Plans

More than 60 000 Oregon children are said to be busy making gardens under an industrial contest designed to teach the true dignity of labor. The superintendent urged parents and teachers statewide to assist with the plans provided by the board.

Oregon

Land Commissioner Hopkins Details Segregation Delay

G G Hopkins, Commissioner of the General Land Office, recounts the push for immediate segregation of reduced lands in a long regulatory sequence. He cites letters to and from Washington, Geological Survey reports, and irrigation progress as of 1912, noting delays beyond his control and ongoing field examinations amid public notices.

Smith General Land Office United States Land Office Geological Survey Washington Land Office Avery Scological Survey G. G. Hopkins

Marking with pyrography preserves names on wood items

The article notes using a pyrography tool to burn names into wooden objects such as hockey sticks bats and rackets. Painted names may wear off but burned marks remain visible and help identify ownership.

Sherman Co Varnishes Wall Paper Leads

Local ad section highlights The Sherman Company offerings in wallpaper and varnishes. Potential buyers are invited to inquire about materials and finishes from a regional supplier lineup.

Sherman Co

Birth birthday party for Master Tae Golden Bath

News item covers a Wednesday birthday celebration for Master Tae Golden Bath with flowers, cake, ice cream, and attendees including Ruth Burns and Helen Bledsoe. Also mentions Mrs Helen Beach’s horse accident, local railroad men buying building lots, a lawn party hosted by the Mumm sisters, and a bouquet sent to Mrs Thomas Gordon in hospital.

Tae Golden Bath Wm. Rath Doak Gage Mise Helen Hwidso Ruth Burns Margarethe Bresnahen Helen Bledsoe Edna Gage Heith Montigue Donia Varnim Horace Burns Floyd McCloud Lawrence Folck Floyd Pattee Herbert Gage Lam Joseph Olden Rath Francis Gage Harry Gage James Keolder Arthur Bachman Portland Ore O'Connell Helen Beach Lota Vina Bertha Martha Mumm Munim Thos. Gordon

Oldest Denver Policeman Patrolled Union Square Site

Patrolman Charles Hacock, 61, the oldest in service in Denver, has been ordered to apply for a pension by the fire and police board after medical exams show incapacity for further duty. For 22 years he has patrolled the Fifteenth and Arapahoe beat, recalling era of Queen Victoria and London bobby days.

Denver Colo Charles Hacock Fire and Police Board Wacock Fifteenth Arapahoe

Money trust and underwriting syndicates shape railroad finance

A historical analysis explains how underwriting syndicates of New York bankers pool capital for large public works. J. P. Morgan & Co plans a 170 million system financed via a five year syndicate with bonds at five percent, attracting investors at around 960 per unit. The article argues these bankers provide quick funding and security, forming a powerful money trust.

New York House J. P. Morgan & Co

The Weary Business Man and The Weary Willy Ruse

A discussion argues that the notion of a tired business man is a fabrication used by theater managers to justify musical comedies. It contends the average business man is industrious, not weary, and rejects the excuse of tiredness as a stereotype and manipulation.

Murderer Confesses in Silverton Double Shooting

Victor Pangrazi confessed to fatally shooting Max Dallavalle in the Dallavalle home on September 15, 1911. Rosa Dallavalle and Pangrazi were bound over to the September district court term. Zanott is being sought by authorities.

Silverton Colo Victor Pangrazi Rosa Dallavalle Max Dallavalle Justice of the Peace Watson Pangrazi Dallavalle August Zanott Zanott Pangras

Clara A Ligter Hairdressing Ad At 411 W 19th

Advertisement for Shampooing and Manicuring and artistic hairdressing by Clara A Ligter located at 411 West 19th with phone number 817 cent.

Clara A. Ligter

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