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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1918
Page
15
The United States Food Administration urges continued food conservation to meet war time goals. It cites the August 1918 pledge and proposes saving 174% million tons of food through disciplined use, drawing lessons from sugar rationing and emphasizing restraint and efficiency in all food use.
Telegram from Director Smythe to the State Council of Nat s Defense calls for rapid establishment of employment bureaus in every city and large town. It urges use of local offices, public buildings, and volunteer aid to match returning soldiers with jobs and to drive farm reabsorption, stressing central coordination and local initiative. It highlights demobilization and winter readjustment as urgency drivers and urges telegraph and long distance calls to secure prompt action.
Seattle plans a 2 million port terminal at Smith Cove to boost postwar trade with the Orient and rehabilitated Russia. The capital issues committee in Washington granted permission to proceed after hostilities ended, enabling a major harbor facility to accommodate rising commerce.
Representatives of the Associated Press attending the peace conference include Melville EB Stone as general manager Elmer Roberts head of Paris bureau Robert M Collins head of London bureau Charles T Thompson Charles E Klosber Salvatore Cortesi Rome bureau L Robert head Washington bureau E B Conger former Berlin chief Edwin M Hood Robert Berry F Ed Grundy J A Bouman Burge McFall James P Howe Philip M Powers Stuart Maroney S F Wade and T T Topping.
Cut out this slip and mail to Foley Co in Chicago for a trial package. The package includes Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for coughs and colds, Foley Kidney Pills for kidney and rheumatic pains, and Foley Cathartic Tablets for constipation and digestion. Sold everywhere.
Public Service Commission of Wyoming announces Cheyenne Electric Railway Company seeks passenger rate hikes to 7c between Cheyenne areas and Fort D. A. Russell with other changes. Hearing set in Cheyenne on December 14 1918 at 10 a.m. Secretary Floyd signs the notice.
The Green River Water Works Company will hold its annual meeting at its Cheyenne Wyoming office on Wednesday December 4 1918 at 10 o’clock a m for the election of trustees and other business legally before the meeting Thomas Price secretary
Stockholders of the Union Pacific Water Company will meet at the company office in Cheyenne Wyoming on Wednesday December 4 1913 at 10 oclock a m to elect trustees and transact other legal business.
Stockholders are called to meet on a listed date at 10:15 a m to elect trustees and handle other business as allowed by law. Union Pacific Coal Company holds an annual meeting in Cheyenne Wyoming at 10:80 a m to elect trustees and conduct motions per company notice.
Fragmentary text lists individuals and groups including Charlies L. Rigdon Draper Fred BE Warren and Wyoming Stock Growers Assn. with scattered surnames such as Meubihousen Riner Lewinnek Neuman Myers Hendrick Jankovsky Cusack and Brisbin, plus organizations and places like Dodge Co and Minas Marie EB. Smith.
In British Columbia near New Hazelton, Awillgate Indians display ancient rope making from wild hemp. The community exports strong rope for canoe towing and twine though trade has declined since cheap imports arrived. Panels of fertile hemp promise possible shift to binder twine production after the war.
In Juneau Alaska on December 2 reports say wolves are plentiful across the Yukon valley where caribou roam. One trader sighted a pack of about two hundred wolves amid the region’s wildlife conditions.
A wide array of gatherings and meetings are scheduled today across North America. The Pacific Logging congress meets in Portland for a three day session while the Missouri State Poultry Show opens in St. Joseph. Other events include Northwestern Woodwood Lumbermen in Minneapolis, the Non-Partisan League national conference in St. Paul, Farmers National Congress opening in Jacksonville, and a Senate probe into brewers at Washington. Raleigh hosts a League to Enforce Peace session with James W. Gerard. New England Methodists convene in Boston for reconstruction talks. Saskatchewan legislature session begins. Protestant denominations discuss church union in New York and environs. New York youths aged 16 to 18 are summoned for pilary training under a new state military program.
A notice seeks information about the wife and child of the late Wm Pate a member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen while employed by Burlington Railroad at Lincoln Nebraska Also mentions J D Andrews 412 Richard Block Lincoln and New Orleans connections Also notes a Havana Cuba American rock club winter meeting Mavana and a New York City six day cycling event and a Boston boxing match Johnny Dundee versus Joe Welling scheduled for 12 rounds
Today marks the 47th birthday of New ton D. Baker secretary of war under Wilson who would wield executive power in his absence. A Cleveland mayor and Ohio political figure he has led the war portfolio since 1918 after early public safety service. a Martinsburg native educated at Johns Hopkins and Washington University.
A list of historical anniversaries notes Henry A Wise born in Drummondtown and died in Richmond in 1876. It also recalls 1810 France surrender to Britain, 1814 France’s portrait ban in Tsong, 1815 Wisconsin joining Michigan, 1870 crown offer to Prussia, 1897 Belgian policy on American residents, and 1916 German attack on Bucharest.
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