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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1919
Page
16
A satirical piece on a self styled Wyoming oil venture by Bill Hixon and a cynical investor, detailing misrepresentations of oil wealth and the risks of amateur investments. It contrasts flashy promises with real oil exploration costs and emphasizes prudent, level headed investing. The piece also includes an ad for Geyser Laundry Rough Dry washing service.
Douglas representative on the national committee of the Episcopal Church receives notice of an important meeting in New York City on Wednesday September 40. The conference schedules a comprehensive program extension of the nationwide campaign for home and abroad.
Sheridan receives 46 tons T N T for road work. Riverton braces for $50 000 apartment project while Manville plans a $200 000 hotel. Burns Lumber builds coal sheds as rural school consolidation eyes a section. July crude production surges with Cheyenne Harvester building underway. Wheatland oil prospects emerge with a petroleum spring. Newcastle oil well monitored in Cheyenne River district. Greybull votes for $45 000 water bonds. Casper expands mail carrier service and oil royalties selloff. Dozens of acres validated for future oil, Mule Creek region shows activity. Cokeville Electric Light Co installation spurs new mills. Thermopolis oil field opens with good prospects. Cokeville road and bridge contracts total $1590000. Casper Lost Soldier field second well completed. Casper McPherson well drilling at 4230 feet optimistic. Wyoming school board sells oil royalties as large companies operate in Wildcat district. Kemmerer Fossils field spuds two companies to prove property. Peerless well down 8600 feet in brown shale. Ohio Oil contracts eleven more wells in Rock Creek district after nine producing and five drilling.
Fragmentary box score notes list batteries and players for multiple games. Mentions Philadelphia and Brooklyn teams, multiple pitchers and batters, with unclear final tallies and lineups across first and second games.
Charles Stuart, the youngest of the family, has arrived back in the city after returning from France. He is reported in good spirits and is expected to resume his regular activities shortly.
A group of prominent oil executives led by Teagle of Standard Oil of New Jersey Donnell of Ohio Oil and Blackmer of Midwest Refining will arrive in Cheyenne today en route to inspect Wyoming development. They are scheduled to visit central Wyoming oil fields with a two hour stop as guests of the Industrial club.
Casper Wyoming reports a pocket razor strop saved the wife of Camden Streffner when a German bullet struck her husband in Fismes. The strap deflected the bolt, causing a superficial wound instead of a fatal one, carried by Young Shreffner in a breast pocket was the strop.
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