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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1916
Page
4
The audience loved the cinema night featuring Mary Pickford in Cinderella Maude Adams in Peter Pan and Annie Russell as Puck with A Midsummer Night's Dream as the lovable segment. Adults and children alike shared in the charm of these fairy stories and dainty advews.
Washington report highlights progress among American Indians under Commissioner Cato Sells. From 1912 to 1916 more Indians adopted white attire, learned English, attended church, and returned to farming. Death rates dropped and tuberculosis deaths fell, while child deaths also declined in the 1914 1916 period.
King George decorates Captain Akbar, an Indian officer in the British army, for bravery in battle. The wounded officer, severely injured with one eye bandaged, leaves Buckingham Palace after receiving the honor and is later summoned from a London hospital. No favoritism in awards across allied forces is noted.
The local newspaper thanks the Tribune for loaning paper and using its press to print a Thursday edition after a delayed delivery left them with no stock. Readers are assured of appreciation for the friendly support and community cooperation.
An anecdote from The Country Gentleman recounts a school recitation by Theodore Roosevelt. He stumbles over a line about Greece, then repeats the phrase with a corrected pronunciation, prompting the professor to urge him to try again.
The Lyric theater presented Mary Pickford in Cinderella last night. The reviewer praises Pickford as a clever actress and describes her charming performance as the beloved fairy tale heroine.
The passage portrays Mr. Barrow as a cautious political critic who anticipates and twists facts to attack opponents. It claims Osborne represents the state more credibly after four years in Washington than Barrow’s boss has in twenty variable years.
The Denmark referendum backed by women voters approved selling the Danish West Indies to the United States by about two to one. The deal, ratified by the U S Senate last September, awaits US appropriation of 25 million dollars and formal transfer by Copenhagen. The transfer ends fifty years of negotiations built on prudence and economic reasoning with minimal Danish opposition aside from pride, and it promises a strategic harbor and calmer relations in a tense era.
A historical digest notes global shifts as Germans seek to recruit Lithuanians under Hindenburg while the era’s map reshapes with proposed kingdoms. It traces Lithuania’s medieval roots, land area, and key rulers like Gediminas, Vilnius, and Teutonic attacks amid wartime commentary.
A humorous clumsy rendition of The Night Before Christmas with misread words and altered lines. The narrator describes St Nick visiting the house and delivering toys while the household slumbers and then wishes readers a merry Christmas.
The Birmingham Age Herald notes Vice President Marshall quoted Shakespeare in a message to the president. The speaker sees this as fitting, describing Marshall as one of the officeholders with time for the classics and cultured leisure.
Amsterdam ironmongers in Holland continue to receive copper utensils exported from Germany. People in Holland are astonished by the large quantity of copper still leaving Germany.
An elderly man asks a young butterscotch distributor if he is a philanthropist. The youth replies, no he is a dentist, implying his charitable act is a business gesture rather than altruism. The exchange underlines humor about motives behind giving.
Aunt Mandy in the Paris Mercury reports Visgy's new poet Homer Canine remains anonymous while praising quatrains as promising. She quips about eggs and yesterday, while the Tarkio Avalanche notes sidewalk grating spitting, and Huntsville Herald sees a dime scramble continuing. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reprints J P Foraythe’s war end prediction.
The article notes astrological predictions about Europe ending on February 15, 1917 with a US not entering war and Paris secure. It then reflects on prison literature highlighting Socrates Galileo Luther Bunyan Raleigh and St. Paul writing or composing works while imprisoned, including the New Testament and Revelation.
Answers from London notes that bullets traveling at 2000 to 1000 feet per second outrun the rifle’s report, creating two sounds. A shooter hears the crash of the bullet passing before the rifle sound arrives, especially at longer ranges like 1000 yards where the gap can exceed a second. A rearward vacuum from the bullet creates the in-flight sound.
Descriptive fragment describes air flung from a projectile and water slamming the stern of a fast boat. It notes a crash or a whining snarl, claimed to be unlike any other sound on earth. The text presents vivid sensory detail without clear attribution.
Vassar students vote to petition faculty to accept Colgate's men versus women debate challenge. Colgate proposed the same subject as last year, but Vassar focuses on the annual triangular debate with Wellesley and Mount Holyoke. Miss McAfee asserts women can prove intellect equals men.
In Science Progress England an article questions sash windows for their irrational design. It notes their Dutch origin and late 17th century adoption in England. The piece argues French windows reduce draught and noise and singles out double glazing as common in northern Europe.
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