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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1914
Page
4
Mrs Ver Beck discovers a telegram about her husband’s planned tryst. She shadows him from restaurant to theater, ending at a performance of The Merry Widow where she confronts the ruse with a cautious, staged reveal. The husband pretends to be fooled as the plot unfolds.
Governor Craig and Judge J C Pritchard, trustees for the state university, rejected a 50 000 Rockefeller Foundation offer to fund the Young Men's Christian Association at the university. At Raleigh trustees’ meeting, they insisted the institution being state owned should not seek outside aid, despite calls noting other colleges receiving Rockefeller money and a prior alumni pledge. The move sparked state official disagreements but the Rockefeller gift was defeated.
Endive serves as a top salad green though underused. Recipes include Endive Salad with French dressing, Endive and Tomato Salad, Endive and Potato Salad with oil and vinegar flavors, Grapefruit and Endive, and a German Endive Salad with bacon and onion.
Famous White Sox pitcher Ed Walsh arrives in Chicago from Meriden Connecticut and will stay a day or two before joining the White Sox training camp at Paso Robles California to regain his form.
Havana Chile February 6 General Freyre Andrade announces a decree permitting free betting on baseball games. Public wagers had been banned since American occupation, marking a change in local gambling policy.
Miss Myra Benson of Tacoma asked her Tacoma parents by wireless on the trip from Tacoma to Manila for permission to wed Leroy N. Knettle a Pomeroy banker met on the Shriners excursion to the Orient aboard the Minnesota. Her father replied Use your own discretion and the next message said she was married and happy. She is a former Smith College girl.
New York Feb 6 All social clubs that are incorporated fall under the income tax law says Commissioner W. H. Osborne of internal revenue It is believed Congress did not intend to tax such clubs but an oversight brought them within the law making them taxable
Robert Knight of Longmont Weld county died in Indianapolis from pneumonia while attending the miners convention as a Weld county miners union delegate. His widow and parents, Mr and Mrs Thomas Knight, left Longmont to take charge of the body.
In Harrisburg on February 6 Clif ford Pinchot former U S forester was formally invited to be the Progressive candidate for the U S Senate seat from Pennsylvania to succeed Bolson Penrose The invitation came in a resolution adopted unanimously at a conference of Washington party leaders and officials.
Chicago Feb 6 Stockmen and stock shippers in the middle west won a major victory as the Interstate Commerce Commission prepared to take up the issue of railroad liability for stock shipments. The dispute centers on a $50 per head liability and extra 25 percent freight increases tied to insurance. Shippers contend the rates are too high and seek a lasting federal resolution. The ICC is expected to settle the question for all time.
A war era dispatch notes U S authorities deny a proposed sale of discarded rifles to rebels. In Tampico a consul reports rebels plan an immediate attack and await reinforcements due February 8. Rebels also destroyed a river water tank 15 miles from Tampico reducing city water to three days.
In Washington on February 6 the House seated Rep. J. M. C. Smith Republican of Michigan over challenger Claude Carney amid allegations of fraudulent ballots counted in the contest.
Walter H Page the American ambassador spoke in Newcastle on the Monroe doctrine and the Mexican situation stating the United States seeks no new territory or European rule in America and that force could only create a protectorate not self government. A separate brief notes two horses fought a deadly barn duel with both broken legs leading to their euthanization.
Two standardbred horses of J K Kimsinger attacked each other with sharp shoes and teeth in Evans on February 6. The incident ended fatally for one animal and left the other injured, drawing attention to roadster horse handling and the dangers of harness racing.
The Packey McFarland versus Mike Gibbons boxing match now set for March 9 in New York after a postponement from February 12. Billy Gibson, Garden Athletic Club manager, delayed the bout and plans to move to Chicago to coordinate with Eddie Reddy and Mike Gibbons.
Federal Judge Dooling ruled that oil lands with government title disputes may be operated to prevent injury from non production. The wells may run and receipts cover production costs, with funds impounded until the title issue is finally resolved.
New York February 6 a supreme court jury ruled a sandwich in a Barnes law bite is meat under law and warrants a Sunday liquor drink. Justice Philbin reversed the decision and set aside the verdict.
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