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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1918
Page
11
Mrs. L R Tyson president of the Wyoming Woman's Christian Temperance Union returned home Wednesday after attending the national convention in Chicago. She visited friends in Illinois and Nebraska before resuming duties in Cheyenne.
Miss Margaret Burdick, sick for months at St Luke's hospital in Denver, is reported to be progressing as favorably as could be expected. Mr Burdick says it will be at least four weeks before his daughter can visit the institution where she remains a patient. Miss Ruth Nash returns home for Christmas holidays as guest of her parents, a University of Wyoming senior.
Mrs W A Wyman earned the Red Cross service emblem after completing sewing department hours. The local chapter shipped two large boxes of garments, including bedside bags made by Catholic convent students. General Dongelman supplied motors for Cheyenne Red Cross, now installed at headquarters ready for resumed influenza relief work.
The Famous Players Lasky corporation has bought the screen rights to Little Women by Louisa May Alcott from producer William A Brady. The four sisters Meg Jo Beth and Amy will headline the adaptation set for release early next year.
Little Gertrude Clancy, two, injured when she inserted her index finger into a meat grinder while her sister Francie prepared ingredients for a Christmas fruit cake. The end of the finger was severed below the nail but the doctor said the bone was not damaged and recovery is expected.
Leon Bourgeois a veteran French statesman born in 1851 and a radical party figure. He has held the premiership and multiple ministerial posts including interior, justice, public instruction, and foreign affairs. He led France’s delegations to The Hague peace conferences in 1899 and 1907.
Defensive positions extend along the Dutch frontier with deep wire entanglements and concrete machine gun boxes. The author describes travel from Knoleke Belgium to the border, Belgian guard fences, Dutch sentries, and a scene of families and soldiers amid disrupted bridges and supply transport.
Canadian manufacturers employ nearly 160000 women and a petition asks Ontario to allow women to vote in the provincial legislature. The Pacific coast features golf pro Mrs Gourley Dunn in Pasadena Webb arrives to run links. The year 1919 marks Cathar birth’s 400th anniversary and Ina de Medici is noted as wife of the king of France and mother of three.
An advertisement urges needy women to try Foley Kidney Pills for tiredness backache and rheumatic pain. Mrs T J Bucknell of Hardy Nebraska reports recovery from lumbago with the pills and says they helped. Sold everywhere.
A critical piece arguing two linked movements threaten the nation: economy and social reform. The author warns that stringent retrenchment may erode welfare gains won in bloodshed, potentially fueling Bolshevism by reducing worker rights and living standards.
The piece links starvation on the East Side to child deaths and decries high food costs. It urges immediate government backed housing and peace time development to provide decent homes and steady employment, noting over 150 undernourished infants and disability from malnutrition. William R. Lee to return home for Christmas from Fort Benjamin Harrison.
The Cheyenne police department warns that no one may imitate the fire department by racing to fires. Anyone attempting the imitation in the future will be subject to arrest.
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