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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1910
Page
3
A scrambled column from the Cheyenne State Leader surveys humorous miscues and local oddities, noting flirtations with drama and politics. It treats police, football, marriage, and theft stories with a satirical, light tone, highlighting quirky headlines and social foibles from the era.
Volunteers in Cheyenne increase Santa Clauses and gifts for needy children. The State Leader coordinates widely to visit every youngster, with plans to extend outreach if needed and ensure no child is overlooked tonight.
A large excerpt reviews Lomax compilation Cowboy Song and its value preserving early western verse. The preface notes Theodore Roosevelt’s Cheyenne date line and praises the collection for saving forgotten rider sagas, airs, and frontier atmosphere from fading memory.
The annual report of the Post Office Department cites 27 postal clerks killed, nine seriously injured, and 617 lightly hurt in 446 railroad accidents while on duty. It notes the department’s delayed compensation and delayed recognition for on duty losses, stressing railway mail service as a major federal concern alongside tariffs, and calls for better protection of workers in a pivotal federal service.
A verse by James Barton Adama imagines Old Santa giving gifts to a child on Christmas night. The wee girl questions Santa’s reality, noting her father’s voice and a wedding ring on his finger, while she concedes he is a fine Santa.
Senator Batley recalls the old question of whether Lord Tincon authored Shakespeare works. Joe Blackburn and Dik Wietersouth host Ignatius Donnelly and argue that Bacon produced the plays. Donnelly notes the era, Blackburn replies that time explains it, and Wintersmith chips in with a rueful remark about time.
Denman Thompson stars in The Old Homestead a rustic mile play praised for homely sentiment and broad audience appeal. The evening performance is scheduled for Monday December 26 at the Capitol Avenue theatre.
In a preview of the upcoming contest, Cohn Ot Wit and Leveavie toast a fresh roster with Alinephere amid glare and inset. The pageant highlights promising embellishments in the engagement, including a double quartet and Grace choren, said to outshine prior years under Tempoon’s guidance.
De Wor Hopper, famed American comedian, appears tonight at Capitol Avenue theatre in A Matinee Idol a musical farce described as gong comedy with a bevy of girls. The piece recently ran four months in New York. Director V Arthur brings the original New York company and chorus to town.
The passage lists diverse inventions from a mouthpiece device and potato eye removal tool to a simple household thawing method and a new electrical appliance. It notes a Scotch locomotive delivering a thousand horsepower, ants making bricks in Central America, London's reinforced post office lasting 1900 years, and radium mining in Australia for public access.
A short exchanges between a poet and a punster about posthumous fame and financing. The punster jokes he is helping the poet starve to speed appreciation after death. The dialogue captures a wry, humorous critique of literary legacy.
At a luncheon by the International Dry Farming congress executive committee in Colorado Springs on December 14, J M Cottrell agricultural commissioner of the Pook Sand railway and G W Martin of the company at Denver urged that Secretary Burns of the congress take steps to advance dry farming efforts.
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