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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1918
Page
3
Mrs. L. R. Tyson, president of the Wyoming W C T U, returned Wednesday from the East where she attended the organization's Chicago convention. After adjournment she visited friends in Illinois and Nebraska before returning to Cheyenne.
Miss Margaret Burdick, once sixty days seriously ill in St. Luke's hospital Denver, is reported to be progressing favorably. Mr Burdick said by phone it will be at least four weeks before his daughter can visit the institution where she is a patient. Miss Ruth Nash is home for Christmas with her parents Mr and Mrs EM Nash and is a senior at the University of Wyoming.
Mrs. W A Wyman received the Red Cross emblem after completing the required sewing hours. The local chapter sent two large boxes of garments, including bedside bags made by Catholic convent students. General Dongelman’s motors have arrived and are installed at headquarters ready for resumed influenza relief work.
The Famous Players-Lasky corporation has bought the screen rights to Louisa M. Alcott’s Little Women from William A. Brady for release early next year. Meg Jo Beth and Amy are the book’s four central figures, long known as iconic characters in American literature.
Two year old Little Gertrude Clancy suffered a finger tip amputation in a meat grinder while her sister 10 and her mother watched. The injury occurred as the child ignored a warning and police officer Gus Clancy noted the bone remained unharmed.
Leon Bourgeois a veteran French statesman and radical leader is put forward as a probable representative in the peace conference. He has held multiple high offices including premier in 1896 and ministerial posts, headed French delegations to The Hague conferences in 1899 and 1907, and led efforts on education.
Defensive positions with deep wire entanglements and concrete machine gun emplacements line the Dutch frontier as observers describe Belgium to Holland border areas. The reporter notes disruptions to bridges, Dutch guard salutes, and a sister waiting reunion amid war's disruption.
Canadian manufacturers employ nearly 160 000 women and a petition seeks rights for women to vote in Ontario's provincial legislature. The Pacific coast features golf professional Mrs Gourley Dunn in Pasadena Webb arrives to oversee city links. The year 1919 marks the 400th anniversary of Cathar birth and Ina de Medici, Queen of France, is noted as mother of three.
Mrs T J Bucknell of Hardy Nebraska reports recovery from lumbago using Foley Kidney Pills. The ad urges readers to note kidney weakness signs such as fatigue dark circles and backache and promotes the pills as a remedy sold everywhere.
A critical column argues two linked movements threaten the country: economy and social reform. It warns that strict budget cuts risk eroding workers rights and welfare gains won in war, risking a drift toward Bolshevism as a byproduct of harsh retrenchment. It stresses fair wages and social improvements as stabilizing factors.
Starvation is causing deaths on the East Side as children faint in classes and parents cannot afford food and milk. The piece urges government backed industrial housing plans, noting wartime models and the need to house workers to prevent social unrest and support demobilized labor. It also cites a relief effort led by banker Joseph Markus and reports a local discharged soldier, William R. Lee, returning for Christmas.
Cheyenne police department warns against following fire units to scenes. Offenders face arrest under new policy prohibiting pursuit of emergency responses.
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