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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1918
Page
3
State experience if any and salary expected. Apply in your own handwriting to M. B. at P O Box 279 Cheyenne. Include address and contact details for consideration.
Paris reports that Cardinal Mercier may be invited to attend the peace conference. Belgian delegates have been announced and Baron van den Hubel was chosen as the clerical member of the Belgian delegation to the Vatican.
The Associated Press reports influenza is clearly easing in army camps with the surgeon general's weekly tally showing no single cause in the major camps for the week ending December 23. Secretary Baker states all captured war material will be returned home for disposal as directed by Congress.
New York reports 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. Also note Lyman W. Dotty, private in the air service, seriously injured when engine trouble forced a landing at Belmont Park during a flight to the capital.
Hoover reports Belgium and northern France endured four years of occupation with minimal starvation due to relief work. He notes 2,000,000 Belgian children benefited from supplementary meals and world charity, while US clothing support rises as textile plants remain destroyed. He warns of looming European hunger without continued relief.
Washington reports a steady stream of troops returning from overseas. General March says most designated personnel have been mustered out and more transport ships are slated for homeward movement. Transports Matsonia and Northern Pacific carried thousands of troops and wounded from France, expected in New York in January.
The British government announces that 30 000 to 40 000 American troops can be transported to the United States in vessels under the English flag. The Mauretania arrives tomorrow with 14 000 Americans, and 14 ships with capacity for 32 000 men are offered to depart from 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 lack of food and clothing. Over 40,000 are trying to reach Siberia, with thousands more unable to begin the trip.
Checks totaling over 5,000,000 were mailed to sugar beet growers in Utah Idaho and Washington by six sugar companies operating 23 factories. Farmers received about 10 dollars per ton for this season's beet crop, with total production exceeding 1.2 million tons and an estimated output near 3,000,000 sacks valued around 20 million dollars.
Salt Lake City Utah December 28 hog output in Utah has risen 40 to 50 percent over 42 months under the federal food administration. J H Manderfield Salt Lake union stockyards manager says sections far from rail lines now market carloads. The Salt Lake market draws hogs mainly from Utah farms as Idaho previously provided most stock. Open market here is about a year and a half old with education key. fat hogs find a ready market and demand is expected to continue.
Local notice from EB Boss Parr Association states a barber shop will be permitted to eat children's hair starting Monday EB. The unusual directive outlines new store practice under association approval.
City briefs list auto repair tire services and a farm land firm. Numerous visitors from Wyoming and Colorado stay at the Plains Hotel while Cheyenne hosts business: Sisson, Miss Page, Macfarlanes, Stahe, McCarty, DeBruyn, Colburn, Richie, Raynor, Hawley, Magill, Kinbansen, Brown, Shillar, Gates, Welty, Hawkins, and the Nelson Vetter Investment Company promote roles and lodging.
Sheridan December 28 Andy Goram a dry farmer Irving on Coutant creek is under arrest in county jail on a burglary charge. A complaint by County Attorney Graverson alleges he entered the home of M Richards on Lower Pra Dog road and carried away goods valued at 25. The burglary is said to have occurred December 17 and Goram was brought to Sheridan by Sheriff Moseberg after a Christmas visit on his Coutant creek farm.
The famed Bartolomeo Colleoni bronze horse statue, admired as a premier equestrian work, was removed from St. Mark’s Square during heightened war threats. Crafted by Andrea Verrocchio and cast by the Venetians, the statue weighs about forty tons and now rests in the Palazzo Venezia courtyard in Rome.
Premier Lloyd George told American newspaper men that wartime conferences with President Wilson have produced general principles likely to bear fruit at the peace meeting. Wilson spoke of gratitude for the welcome and a hopeful, joyous outlook after shared suffering in France and Belgium.
Amsterdam dispatch reports the Ebeat government toppled by a cabinet of Liebknecht Ledebour and Lehmera, according to the Berlin Zeitung. The Wbert cabinet, now ousted, is replaced in a pivot by a Verknecht-linked group.
Advertising copy selling a cold remedy named Laxative Brom Quin with claims to stop cough and headache in one day. The box bears E W Grove signature. product marketed as tablets.
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