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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1918
Page
7
Message from the United States Food Administration urging continued food conservation. It outlines the 174% million ton goal and recounts sugar ration reductions and consumer restraint as essential examples of saving food to support allied victory, regardless of war outcomes.
Telegram from Director Smythe to the State Council of National Defense urges establishing a bureau for returning soldiers in every city and large town. It calls for using local offices and public service resources to coordinate employment, with central control for information and inter community clearance, aiming to send men back to farms amid rapid demobilization.
Seattle, Wash. December 2. Seattle’s first postwar enterprise is the 2 million port terminal project at Smith Cove. The capital issues committee approved the work after hostilities ended, creating a harbor facility to handle expected trade growth with the Orient and rehabilitated Russia.
The Associated Press will send a team to the peace conference including Melville E. Stone general manager Elmer Roberts Paris bureau chief Robert M. Collins London bureau chief Charles T Thompson Charles E Klosber Salvatore Cortesi Rome bureau chief L Pobert Washington bureau chief 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 Wader and T T Topping along with others listed.
A vintage ad urges readers to cut out the slip and mail it to Foley & Co for a trial package of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for coughs and colds, plus Foley Kidney Pills and Foley Cathartic Tablets addressing various ailments. It promotes nationwide sale and includes an address in Chicago.
The Public Service Commission of Wyoming announces a hearing on Cheyenne Electric Railway Company’s plan to raise passenger rates in Cheyenne and Fort D. A. Russell. Proposed charges include 7c between city points and Ft. D. A. Russell, 10c for East of 30th Street to Ft. D. A. Russell, and special half fare tickets. The hearing is set for December 14, 1918 at 10 a.m. in Cheyenne Capitol Building.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Green River Water Works company will be held at the company office in Cheyenne Wyoming on Wednesday December 4 1918 at 10 oclock a m for electing Trustees and other business as may legally come before the meeting.
Holders of stock 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 conduct legal business.
The stockholders are called to meeting on a stated date at 10:15 a m to elect trustees and handle lawful business. A separate notice indicates Union Pacific Coal Company annual meeting in Cheyenne Wyoming at 10:80 o clock a m to elect trustees and address required matters.
An incomplete OCR reads numerous personal names and affiliations including Jess Yoder Gauft Braumech Charlies L Rigdon Draper Fred Warren William Dunstan Pine Lions Carl Meubihousen W Riner Sally Lewinnek Hal Neuman Robert Myers John Hendrick John Mf Charles Jankovsky Cusack Wyoming Stock Growers Assn Dodge Co Minas Marie EB Smith Jane Brisbin. The fragment hints at affiliations with individuals and the Wyoming Stock Growers Association but lacks coherent context or events.
Wild hemp near New Hazelton in British Columbia is shown by Awillgate villagers to produce strong rope and twine. Indigenous artisans have long woven rope for canoes and currents, with growing interest in postwar binder twine production using local hemp.
Reports from Juneau indicate wolves are abundant across the Yukon valley where caribou roam. One trader described spotting a pack of about 200 wolves in the area.
Birthday greetings mark Tiinois’ centennial as Portland hosts the Pacific Logging congress for a three day session. Missouri poultry show opens in St Joseph while Northwestern Woodwood Lumbermen meet in Minneapolis to discuss postwar issues. Congress plans for the 1920 election surface at St Paul as farmers national meeting opens in Jacksonville Fla. Senate inquiry into brewers and German propaganda resumes in Washington. James W Gerard to speak at Raleigh peace conference with New England Methodists meeting in Boston on reconstruction. Saskatchewan legislature begins sessions on land, labor, school laws and finance. New York youths aged 16 to 18 summoned for mili tary training by Gov Whitman.
Wanted information on relatives of the late Wm Pate a member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen employed by Burlington Railroad in Lincoln Nebraska Also details note actress J D Andrews in Lincoln and a New Orleans park item. Cuba American rocking club winter meeting at Havana cycling second day of international six day race in New York City and a Johnny Dundee vs Joe Welling boxing match slated for Boston 12 rounds
New ton D. Baker, secretary of war in the Wilson cabinet, marks his 47th birthday while likely wielding major control of the executive branch during the president’s absence abroad. A Democrat from Ohio, Baker has led the war portfolio since 1918 after early public safety service and two Cleveland mayoral terms. Born in Martinsburg West Virginia, he studied at Johns Hopkins and George Washington University and inspected fronts in World War I.
A compact commemorative roll recalls Henry A Wise birth and death, John Brown fate, France Britain naval surrender in 1810, Napoleon portrait ban in 1814, Michigan’s path to statehood, German crown offer to Prussia, Belgian military exemption for Americans, and the Bucharest hour start in 1916. The items mix biographical, political, and military milestones from 1810 to 1916.
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