Auto goes over embankment near Glenrock death curve
Fred Nicholas, Midwest commissary employee, returns from a joy ride with three young women when the car fails to negotiate a dangerous stretch a mile west of Glenrock Wyoming. The vehicle plunges 20 feet, all four occupants injured. Nicholas suffers fractures and internal injuries, others three rib breaks and arm and leg injuries. They were stranded about two hours before rescue. Authorities have long warned of the curve and taken no action.
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Glenrock
Wyo
Fred Nicholas
Midwest Commissary
Parkerton
High Bank
Stuart Anderson
Nicholas
Henrock
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A brief ad notes a taxi service offering courteous drivers and a memorable phone number One One One for calls. It emphasizes reliable transportation and prompts potential riders to remember the contact.
18 Below Zero Reported in Glenrock Wyoming
Glenrock Wyoming records 18 degrees below zero as a cold wave grips the area. Old man Winter lingers with frost and snow, a storm system spreading through western states. Weather remains severe with subzero readings and several inches of snowfall.
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Glenrock
Wyo
Winter
Impostor Admits He Is a Fraud
C W Ellis, arrested at Rock Springs and wanted in Laramie for obtaining money by false representations, was brought back to Laramie by Sheriff Jackson and jailed. He had claimed to be at the front and to have received theater receipts, but now says he never served and used fiction to collect funds.
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Laramie
Wryo
C. W. Ellis
Rock Springs
Jackson
Ellis
Mrs Barratt Injured After Chair Fall at Home
Mrs. T. C. Barratt wife of the county assessor in Laramie Wyoming fell from a chair at her home a night or two ago and sustained back injuries. She was confined to her room for a day or two but today her condition had improved.
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Laramie, Wyo
T. C. Barratt
Railroad Head Warned Over I W W Poison Plots
President W. Green of the Colorado Wyoming and Eastern and other railroad leaders received a letter from Fairfax Harrison of the National Railway Association citing a Food Administration telegram alleging I W W plots to poison stock yards and feeds. The telegram claims acid and poison lye mixtures could cause mouth ulcers and hog deaths, resembling hog cholera, provoking a harsh call for immediate guilty verdicts if proven.
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Laramie
Wyo
W. ©. Green
Colorados
Wyoming
Fairfax Harrison
Washington
National Railway Association
Food Administration
Candy Kid Fueled by Cuban Sugar Profit Grievances
New York December dispatch portrays Claus Spreckels, head of Federal Sugar Refining, as the candy kid of the sugar world critical of Hoover’s sugar price policy. It alleges he and J H Post and W H Childs planned profit from Cuban raw sugar, thwarted by Hoover fixing six forty per hundred on imports.
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D Dispatch
New York
Claus A. Spreckels
Federal Sugar Refining Co
Hoover Food Administration
Washington
Coffee Exchange
Cuba
Sprecklvsa
J. H. Post
W. H. Childs
Uba
Hoover
Spreckels
Post
New Nigwero
Guantanamo
Fijardo
Cuban American
Central Aguirre
Cuba Cane Corporation
Manati Sugar Co
United States
American Sugar Refining Co
Federal
Municipal Christmas Tree Planned by Lander Mayor
Lander will erect a municipal Christmas tree near the federal building. Mayor Ilardin convened a citizen meeting and a public school led musical program will accompany church activities. On December 24 the community gathers to sing and raise funds for distressed Armentats.
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Churchill School
Parent-Teacher Association
J.D. Clark
Lander
Wye
Ilardin
Federal Building
L. A. Collom
Fund For
Armentats
American bullets breach German breastplates in France
The German armor shown to the American Army in France failed to stop bullets. A heavy breast plate taken from a German prisoner was shredded by machine gun fire after a rifle round torn a hole about the size of a silver dollar. Auto pistol rounds also proved effective against the armor.
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France
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