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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1917
Page
8
Thousands of pounds of pure mixed candy available for Christmas trade at Woodward's Fine Candy with packages priced. Eggs are strictly fresh and sold per dozen at sixty cents while supply lasts. order early for holiday stock.
A retail list of groceries and dried fruits with prices including Fancy Seeded Raisins 20 cents per pound, Seedless Raisins 20 cents, Bleached Seedless 20 cents, Pure Sweet Cherries, molasses, Lemon and Orange Peel, Dromedary Dates, Colif Figs, Mince Meat by Heinz and bulk options, Emperor and Malaga Grapes, Grape Fruit pieces, Fancy Winter Pears 10 cents, and more bulk items priced per pound or per jar as shown. It reads like a grocery catalog fragment from a period newspaper.
Public notice urges young women with education to enroll in three year nursing training for service in war zones. It highlights Red Cross needs, credit for prior study, state licensing, and requests contact for information from Teachers College Columbia University and state nurse examiner boards.
City ordinance punishes leaving snow on unpaid sidewalks more than twelve hours after the storm ends. Despite many blocks cleared, several walks remain untouched since the Sunday night blizzard. As melt reveals ice at night, unshoveled paths pose danger to pedestrians.
A fragment notes cures for colds in Australia and references a laxative bromquinine product with box branding and a signature seen on packaging. No clear event or names provided.
Record enlistment surge in Cheyenne as many men volunteer for Army service rather than risk being drafted. The list names 30 plus new enlistees from Wyoming and surrounding states including Jenac U. Neff Berthoud Ralph R. Moyer Walter G. Delong John V. Walker and many others across Cheyenne Glenrock and Lincoln regions. A Navy enlistment followed with a separate roster of volunteers from southern Wyoming and nearby states.
A Douglas gathering plans to entertain the State Woolgrowers convention to meet on the 8th 9th and 10th next month. Committees will run the program and welcome delegates with about five hundred expected. Mrs W H Mausch leads the information bureau and asks room providers to notify her.
The conductor Morris of the Union Pacific found a dead man on the right of way just west of Medicine Bow yesterday. The coroner at Medicine Bow has been notified and an inquest will be held to determine the identity of the deceased if possible.
The first six percent of the draft questionnaire will be mailed today as preparations at the county clerk’s office are completed. Twenty days for mailing at five percent per day. late numbers wait longer. Deserters face penalties, including possible death in wartime, under the draft law.
A vintage advertisement promotes a bromine quinine laxative claimed to cure colds with a Grove’s signature on the box. It markets relief through a labeled tablet and price point indicated as 50 cents.
FE Casper, driller for Tulsa and Sunset oil companies, secured two rig builders to Wheatland. Tools shipped, outside work to begin as weather allows. Companies plan active exploration and development until the Wheatland field is thoroughly proven, with more news expected.
The World Famous Laxative Bromo Quinine now 30 cents per box due to higher costs of six active ingredients. The product, popular for a quarter century, is used worldwide and distributed through druggists.
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