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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1917
Page
8
A dense ledger of diverse grocery items with prices and brands, listing nuts such as Brazil, California walnuts, pecans, almonds, hickory, black walnuts, Jordan almonds, and pecans. also fruits including Christmas oranges, cider, mince meat, plum pudding, candied fruits, raisins, and pineapple. Several items show bulk measures like pounds and bushels with price points. brands include Richelieu and others.
A readout of assorted vegetables with prices including cauliflower, artichokes, sprouts, cucumbers, spinach, greens, tomatoes, carrots, beets, sweet potatoes, onions, and parsnips. Items appear with approximate weights and per unit or per pound pricing, typical of a local market ad.
A customer requests an advance order for non perishables and oysters and fresh vegetables for Monday delivery. The note thanks the recipient and emphasizes prompt ordering to ensure stock.
Cheyenne residents raise funds for the Christmas dinner for the poor with almost $1000 collected in two days. R B Davidson donates a quarter of elk from his market display. Despite competing drives, kettles on the corners draw steady support amid public concern over real need.
Winter begins as days start lengthening after the winter solstice, with Cheyenne set for three months of cold and rising costs. The almanac marks December 21 as the start of winter and notes autumn has ended.
Officials have not yet been informed whether employes of the university will receive bonus checks this year. The incomplete notice provides no details on eligibility or timing.
Isaac Hudson Sapp, 60, died after years of cancer at Cheyenne residence. He had been bedbound two weeks. Survived by brothers Hiram Sapp of Cheyenne and Charles H Sapp of Ravina Ohio and sister Anna M Rawlings of Ravina. Funeral plans pending.
Opera star Alice Nielsen wed New York physician Dr. Leroy R. Stoddard in the First Presbyterian church Greenwich Connecticut. Only three people attended the ceremony. Stoddard is the son of the late S R Stoddard noted author artist and publisher.
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