Former boxing champion Tommy Darna eyes oil fields in Wyoming
The Dillings Gazette reports former world heavyweight champion Tommy Darna, now a Calgary businessman, traveling with contractor Cooklan and Dr. A Cowln to inspect northern Wyoming oil prospects. He plans to invest, drill, and pivot from the ring to oil ventures, having turned his Calgary store over to his brother.
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Dillings Gasette
Tommy Darna
Billings
Tare Cooklan
Calgary
A. Cowln
Orent Northen
Wyoming
Neltle
Aiiew
Prise Ring
Farmers Ready for Institute at Fobert
Farmers institute outlined for next Wednesday in Fobert Wic. The program lists morning talks on dairying records food values and school consolidation. Speakers include Burton Knight Peckenpaugh Fuller and Horton with demonstrations on home creamery manure care and sheep feeding.
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Fobert
Wic
Farmers’ Institute
Samuel Puller
F. Burton
Henry G. Koleht
J. BE. Peckenpaugh
Samuel Fuller
F. F. Horton
Coyote Chases Trapper Home
A boy in Sula last week trapped a coyote that escaped and attacked him tearing its leg and chased him to his home. Locals debate whether the animal is savage and wonder if it will be hunted after the incident.
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Cwutgwater
Wye
B. McDonald
TV Sula
Lex
Woman Nearly Drowns After Car Goes Off Chugwater Deck
In CHUGWATER the driver and his wife fell into the water after a mischance on a deck. W. N. Bainwood nearly drowned as rescuers worked for hours to revive the unconscious woman. The vehicle and harness suffered heavy damage in the crash.
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Mee
W. N. Bainweed
Kainwood
Micup
BiinWood
Lets Kids Jump On One Dead As Wagon Passes
Sheridan Wyoming December 7 Leslie Andrews six year old son of Mr and Mrs T A Andrews of 1623 North Main street was fatally injured when he attempted to climb onto a coal laden wagon near his home. The wagon driver fled and efforts to locate him continue as coroner Dr K R H W Smith calls a jury to probe the death. Two neighbor girls Ruth Swinger and Ruby Swinyver witnessed the accident and aided the boy before his mother arrived. An autopsy will determine the exact cause of death while authorities pursue the driver.
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Ruby Swinyver
Andrews
Brewery
KR. HW. Smith
Drake
Boys butchered steers for fun heard in district court
Judern drove from Cheyenne to hear pleadings of Ma Richerdson Albert Schreck and Albert Krolmeyer in Lakeview county court on a charge of eating beer and butchered beef for fun. The three youths, described as plain Germans, admitted the act while another involved party refused to join. Father and friend arrived from Deshler to present credentials. Sentences deferred to February term.
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Judern. c. Monteer
Cheyenne
District Court
Ma Richerdson
Albert Schreck
Albert Krolmeyer
Squire Wm
Nelson’s Court
Lakeview
Deshler
Neb
Sheridan Beet Growers Activate in Sheridan Wyoming
Town meeting at City hall on Tuesday evening will elect seven of ten nominees to form the Sheridan Beet Growers association board. A nominating committee from the Commercial club prepared the candidate list and ballots for the incorporation and organization of the new concern. The ten nominees include Kk. B. Allan J. J. Dentley B. C. Bowman David Cool Alfred Die fonderfer W. H. Edelman Deyo Han brouck H. Wal lace and D. C. Wenzell.
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Sheridan
Wyo
City Hall
Sheridan Beet Growere’ Association
Commercial Club
Kk. B. Allan
J. J. Dentley
B.C. Bowman
David Cool
Alfred Diefonderfer
W. H. Edelman
Deyo Hanbrouck
BH. Ho
H. Wallace
D. C. Wenzell
Morningstar Quits League After Row Over Dates
Ora Morningstar, leader in the Billard Players league, canceled his games in Cleveland after a dispute over dates. He left New York for Arizona following his wife’s influence, with Magnus Cotton set to take over remaining schedule for the season.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Ora
Billard Players’ League
Achél
Yodi Yamada
Tueeday
New York
Arizona
Herd
Magnus Cotton
Petrograd and Calais in a World War Era Primer
The piece contrasts Petrograd as Russia’s political and military hub with Moscow’s cultural heft, and Calais as a lace producing port seen by travelers en route from London to Paris. It notes Petrograd's administrative role, frontier reach, and industrial surrounding. Calais as a lace town with a vast female workforce, low wages, and a busy export trade.
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Petrograd
Europe
Neva
Adustry
Ita
Ie Finland Station
Neveky Prospect Ia
Russia
Calais
London
Paris
Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Hair Darkening Tonic
An advertisement promotes Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound as a ready tonic to darken faded hair, stop scalp itching and hair loss, and make gray strands disappear after a few applications. The remedy is sold at drug stores for about sixty cents a bottle and claimed to give dark glossy hair naturally and evenly.
Calais Leads in Machine Woven Lace Making Explains
Cala in shares with Nottingham the honors for the manufacture of machine woven laces. The article notes Calais smuggled its industry from England and now adds to English methods to claim a unique perfection of its own as a world center for lace production imitating all famed hand made lace genres on machines.
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England
Ince
Calais
Fichen
Cala'i
Nottingham
Local Lunch Spots Advertise Tea Cakes and Eggs
Readable ad snippets promote Chenatein's Lunch Room offering tea and cakes for 10 cents and Manewal's breakfast featuring fresh ranch eggs every morning.
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Chenatein's
Manewal's
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Coyote
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The
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Sheridan Beet Growers Activ
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Hart Schaffner & Marx
Micheals Stern & Co
Shepherd & Klett
West 17Th Street
Wasitington
Dec. T
Washington
Calata
France
Nathonial Geographic Society
Peter
Rrussia
Tnnd
Gulf of Finland
Black Sea
Pacle
Petrogriad
Eglish Thames
Landa
Moscow
Monsow
Vila
Petro
Ublic
Pringe
Albert
P. A
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco CO
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