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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1920
Page
5
A garbled OCR fragment mentions water, boys, and possible actions but contains no coherent event, names, dates, or places. The readable bits suggest a disjointed description around aquatic activity and a disorganized scene without identifiable subjects.
Photo shows Flensburg in Schleswig Holstein evacuated under armistice terms. Zones on map mark plebiscite areas for deciding allegiance to Germany or Denmark. Evacuation of second zone completed to let residents vote without German influence. evacuation also begins in Upper Silesia for plebiscite.
London reports plans for Marche du Monde a vast Paris market building nine times Trafalgar Square in size cost about 4 million pounds. It will house 5000 shops a luxury buyers club baths gymnasium restaurant roof garden and world’s largest banqueting hall serving as a global trading hub for manufacturers and producers while attracting a 30000 person floating workforce.
A new boundary fence completed at Calexico California spans 412 000 yards separating Calexico from Mexicali Mexico. The wooden posts with red paint and stout barbed wire is expected to ease workloads for immigration officers on both sides of the border.
The article envisions a historic home run onslaught by the Yankees with stars Babe Ruth Frank Baker Wullie Peck Roger Peckinpaugh and Ping Bodie. Ruth is hailed as the greatest home run hitter of all time while Bodie and Pipp each hit six or seven that season.
Oil from Mule Creek field is delivered to storage tanks of a refinery being erected at Osage. A three mile pipeline from the refinery into the field is complete and now supplies seven producing wells. Try a for sale ad in the want ad column of the State Leader.
The Congregationalists plan a world council in Boston in early July with hundreds of delegates from the United States Canada Great Britain Australasia South Africa and missions funds. The eight day gathering will cover theology polity education missions social order unity international relations and youth activities. July 4 will feature two mass meetings including a World War memorial service and patriotic program with speakers from the US Canada and England. destacados include Lloyd George Jane Addams and J Mary E Wolley among invited speakers. An exhibit on Congregational history and life will be showcased.
The exhibit gathers material from lands with Congregational footholds. It will show what the churches have done and are doing, illustrating changing forms and methods over three hundred years.
The Wyoming Pen monthly magazine has resumed publication after a paper shortage pause. Editor T De Lane leads a note that Wyoming houses 365 convicts with 318 in Rawlins, 22 on parole, and 25 out on honor, amid severe overcrowding beyond the designed capacity of 200.
The new clinic opened by the Wyoming Public Health Association at 4709 Thames Street aims to benefit the city. Miss Ella McKenzie, R.N., leads the staff with several doctors volunteering monthly. The center will examine and treat patients and educate mothers on infant care, home sickness care, cleanliness, and sanitation to improve city health.
The Plains Chamber of Commerce schedules its first annual dinner likely February 18 or 19 at the Masonic temple. The program will be announced later and will feature two out-of-town speakers and special music to create a lively banquet atmosphere.
Miss Annabelle Brower Blydenberg daughter of Judge Charles B Blydenberg of 145 East Highteenth street died of pneumonia following influenza in a local hospital. She was 24 and a Presbyterian. The remains are at Harry Bricker Brothers funeral parlor as arrangements are prepared.
The Idleman mansion at 2322 Carey avenue sold to United States District Attorney Charles I. Rigdon for 25000 dollars. Furniture included. Rigdon’s family is in California and possession is not anticipated before June. Sale conducted by the Nelson-Vetter Investment Company.
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