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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1912
Page
26
A damaged OCR snippet lists former prices for Ladies' Outfitters items and special sale prices on house dresses robes and kimonos. Prices shown include 16.50 to 66.00 with specials, and robes, kimonos, and silk brooch items at reduced amounts.
Visiting list notes social roundups in Cheyenne with Mr John Wilcox to marry Ming Arlen in Sheridan. A double wedding, charity events, and holiday visits by Horace Plunkett, Miss Gilland, Mr Barrett, and many others populate the city scene as residents travel, study, and celebrate Christmas season.
Mine Edith Judy fiancee of Mr. H A Patten arrives tonight and will stay at the Patten residence until after New Years. Christmas morning breakfast follows a tree lighting in her honor. The event will host members of the Darning club and several young gentlemen with further compliments planned.
Christmas festivities brighten Fort Russell with dinners dances and parties across the holiday season. Invitations go out from Mr and Mrs Julian Leiblinger of the Hospital Corps for a Wednesday party as officers return from instruction and families reunite. The Tompkinses grieve as their young son battles scarlet fever while Miss Margaret Tompkins remains seriously ill. Captain Crallese from Fort St and Captain Frizzelle from Fort Leavenworth have joined the Infantry at Fort Russell.
A note highlights vacation periods for womens clubs within the clinic context with few clubs remaining active. The report notes that several groups pause activities while others continue functions at reduced pace.
The group plans to meet during Chleiman week with all members in favor of ad journment after the holidays.
The Mission Circle of the Baptist church held a Friday afternoon meeting with a large turnout and devotional leadership by Miss Morgan and Mrs Mudge. Various women led readings, piano selections, and refreshments were served by hostesses and others.
The National Conservatory of Music of America invites applicants for free training and new scholarships after September entrance exams. Semi annual exams on Saturday January 4 1913 from 10 to 12 and 2 to 4 pm will award Scholarships in Voice Piano and Violin. A Vancouver club recruit Rudy Kallio, a Russian, is noted as a standout pitcher who played for Astoria Oregon last summer.
Mrs Clara Baldwin Stocker heiress to Lucky Baldwin’s estate arrives in Arcadia from Chicago in a $40,000 private car with a haul valued at about $1,006,000. Purchases include a $209,000 yacht, $250,000 in diamonds, $100,000 wardrobe, $60,100 Arcadia residence, $90,000 Venice oceanfront estate, and other art objects. Stocker has already received around $1.5 million from her father’s estate and will soon inherit half of the remaining $24.6 million.
Cardinal Gibbon voices support for 1912 prosperity and peace while commenting on New York stage reform efforts. He cautions gradual change, notes reform attempts provoke reaction, and stresses moral progress will come with time. A cartoon and Saunders poem excerpt illustrate Christmas themes and social concern.
T A Cosgriff and G KE Abbott of Cheyenne lease the north front of the Iria theatre in Casper to open Cosgriff and Abbott private bank within two weeks. Wyland, current cashier of Glenrock State Bank, will be cashier of the Casper institution and supervise fixtures.
A quotation extols travel as a means to learn distance and illusion while praising local land and universal life. It urges journeys to understand truth without translation and suggests genuine benefit in exploration.
A cryptic fragment hints at a saying about breeding and likeness, suggesting an old proverb tone. The text appears as a partial quotation with awkward phrasing and no clear event or named figures.
A New York Evening Post correspondent recalls that W. Gilbert disliked Jane Austen, noting a parallel with Mark Twain who reportedly quipped that a library without Austen is still a good library even if it has no other book.
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