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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1918
Page
11
Ad seeks a book keeper fluent in state work with any experience welcome. Applicants should state their salary expectation and provide a handwritten application. Address M. B. P O Box 279 Cheyenne.
Paris reports the suggestion of Cardinal Mercier joining the peace conference. Belgian delegates have been announced with Baron van den Hubel chosen as the clerical member of the Belgian delegation.
The surgeon general’s daily report shows no single cause in the large camps for the week ending December 23. Secretary Baker says all war material captured by the United States will be brought home for disposal as directed by Congress.
The executive council of the A F of L rejected forming a national labor party but voted to send delegates to the labor council at Versailles next month. Lyman W. Dotty, Private in the air service, was seriously injured after engine trouble forced a landing at Belmont Park during a flight to the capital. Dotty is a former army aviator now in the postal service.
Washington dispatch reports Herbert Hoover praising American response for relief in Belgium and northern France. He notes 2,000,000 Belgian children benefited from supplementary meals and institutions funded by world charity, with continued need for food and clothing aid to stave off famine and maintain health ahead of next harvest.
Washington reports a steady stream of overseas troops and camp personnel moving homeward. General March states efforts focus on demobilization and reintegration into work. Fourteen battleships and ten cruisers are aiding the movement, with transports Matsonia and Northern Pacific carrying thousands of troops and wounded toward New York.
The British government said 30 000 to 40 000 American troops could be transported to the United States in ships under the British flag. Director General T Ashley Parks announced that in addition to the Mauretania's return voyage with 14 000 Americans, 14 vessels with a capacity of 32 000 men are offered and ready to depart from a British port of Brest between now and January 16.
Washington dispatch reports that the first contingent of Russian prisoners reaching Omsk from Germany and Austria are in pitiable condition due to hunger and cold. More than 40,000 trying to reach Siberia. many lack food and clothing and face perilous travel.
Checks totaling over 5 million dollars were mailed to sugar beet growers by six companies with 23 factories in Utah Idaho and Washington. Farmers received about 10 dollars per ton for beets this season after early November payments of more than 7.09 million. The 1.2 million ton crop yielded a satisfactory season with plants operating 90 to 120 days and an estimated output around 3 million sacks worth about 20 million.
Salt Lake City Utah December 28 hog production in Utah has increased 40 to 50 percent in 42 months, driven by the federal food administration. J H Manderfield Salt Lake union stockyards manager says sections far from rail lines now market many carloads. Hogs come from Utah farms now, with 60 to 100 mile shipments hauled to railheads. Open market duration is about a year and a half, with fat hogs finding a ready market and growing demand.
Notice states EB Boss Bar Superior Association allows barber shops to eat children's hair starting Monday EB.
City notices promote auto tire vulcanizing and repair, battery service, messenger calls, and farm land listings by Nelson-Yeyer Investment Co. at 1616 Central Ave. Plains Hotel hosts several travelers and Cheyenne visitors from Wyoming and Colorado. News item notes excitement over moving picture houses opening in Cheyenne.
Sheridan December 28. Andy Goram a dry farmer on Coutant Creek is jailed on a burglary charge. County Attorney Graverson says Goram entered the home of M. Richards on Lower Pra Dog Road and stole goods valued at 25. The burglary allegedly occurred December 17 and Goram was brought to Sheridan by Sheriff Moseberg after a Christmas Eve arrest on his Coutant Creek farm.
The Bartolomeo Colleoni statue, famed as the world’s finest bronze equestrian piece, was moved from Venice’s St. Mark square to the Palazzo Venaria court in Rome. Andrea Verrocchio modeled the statue, finished by the Venetian bronze foundry, and its massive weight required special machinery for transport.
London dispatch reports Premier Lloyd George telling American reporters that recent conferences with President Wilson yielded general principles likely to influence the forthcoming peace congress. Wilson, in a Mansion House speech, spoke of shared suffering and renewed hope, while a private tea for Mrs. Wilson hosted by Mrs. Lloyd George drew the principals together.
According to the Berlin Zeitung, the Ebeat cabinet has fallen as a new cabinet headed by Liebknecht Ledebour and Lehmera takes its place in Berlin.
An advertisement promotes LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE tablets promising to cure a cold in one day. It claims to stop cough and headache and to relieve the cold with E. W. Grove’s signature appearing on each box.
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