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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1912
Page
5
A New York school classroom uses a holiday minstrel show as incentive for good behavior. Teachers stage a prior condition with promised parts and a final performance, leading to a successful and spirited holiday program.
An examination of New York prison records shows 264 inmates currently serving terms under illegal sentences. Some were first offenders appealing indeterminate terms. others face mid winter term ends. State law bars winter releases when work is scarce and cold increases crime incentives.
Excerpt from John Burroughs Holidays in Hawaii describes the bau-tres as a wild plant that strangulates, wriggles, and shifts between vine and tree. It forms a living roof over verandas creating shade and mysterious charm, illustrating nature’s ferocity in tropical landscapes.
A regional anecdote from North Carolina describes a commercial traveler offering two dollars to a native man to guide him to a drink. They travel through town and countryside seeking alcohol, with the man concluding that no drink is available in the dry state and suggesting a trip to Kentucky. The judge narrator frames it as a humorous anecdote about prohibition-era limits.
A Cleveland lawyer recalls a woman asking if divorce was possible because her husband did not believe in the Bible. The attorney notes that infidelity is cited as a ground for divorce, and the exchange highlights legal views on fault and religious belief in marital dissolution.
An advertisement touts Dr Caldwell Syrup Pepsin as an easy digestion remedy. It claims benefits for dyspepsia and related symptoms, notes safe tasting pills and promises guaranteed results. A free sample request is offered to readers by sending a postal to Dr W B Caldwell in Monticello Illinois.
The piece describes games for Christmas day including a popularity contest with secondhand gifts as the prize and a lighted Santa beard speed contest. It also notes a female speed round choosing gifts to keep swap or trash and awarding disparaging remarks as the prize.
In a debated essay the author contrasts the violent theft of a highway robber with modern market manipulation. It questions whether cornering essential food items by speculators harming many is a greater crime and argues for decisive legal action against such economic criminals.
The fragment cites John Relohman decrying theft of a producer's rightful earnings in an 19th century trade dispute, accusing another party of denying due value. The source highlights concern over fair pricing and supplier rights in commerce.
Andrew Carnegie provides 850000 dollars for a grand building in Washington to serve as the headquarters of the Federation of the Northeastern American Indians. This marks the fourth national capital building funded by his gifts, totaling over 2000000 dollars.
A terse note highlights the distinction between unlaundered funds and tainted money and notes many people ready to take either.
A nationalist producers' association urges clear public understanding of its aims to prevent trusts that keep retail food prices high. It calls for a system to sell and distribute farm products directly to consumers, bypassing middlemen and avoiding costly intermediaries.
A fragment discusses a thin new system of Hoodling fig products. confirms it will not interfere with the country’s legitimate commerce and may add to it. F. Youkurs.
A German proposes sending mines around the country to teach people how to make love, inviting supporters to stand for a missionary biting in love.
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