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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1918
Page
6
Special correspondent notes that moving a U S Army division to France involves more than combat units. Each division carries a full office staff and equipment to run operations on a large scale, including auto officers, clerks, typewriters, mimeographs, and current warfare publications.
A newspaper notice touts a free trial of the Gauss self home treatment for catarrh. It claims the remedy cures facial distortion, improves complexion, and relieves symptoms from breath odor to bodily eruptions, inviting readers to mail for a no cost trial.
The Cheyenne State Leader urges unmarried readers with under $1000 and married or family earners under $2000 to file by March 1 to avoid a minimum $20 penalty plus 50 percent of tax due. It stresses revenue checks, dragnet investigations, and government help to file using Form 1040A.
The document outlines equipment aboard ships, transport divisions in France, and the advance party ready to billet troops. It highlights leaflets on life in Villota, respect for property, and avoiding price gouging, plus training camps on farmland with French officers assisting.
A group of seven Queens residents urged removal of Democrat Lucas Eugene Decker from the New York Assembly over alleged draft dodging. Decker, once in the Seventh Regiment National Guard, claimed exemption after marriage and noted he served in the guards’ reserves during June 1917. He explained that a draft board inquiry led to his union with his spouse. A separate item mentions Greek restaurateur Chris Rowmeliote defending patriotic displays in Sioux City amid questions about a Balkan war veteran’s window scene.
Federal agents tighten oversight of New York police under wartime controls built by Arthur Woods as politicians fear police laxity and suffrage gains reshape state power. Teachers mobilize to aid war families while theater workers face coal and wage pressures. War weddings surge with 10,000 licenses. separations rise amid wartime separations.
W J Bingham a Chicago historian and Montana newspaper man is expected to die within a week from poison taken yesterday afternoon in Missoula He said help him cross the great divide and came to get material for a state history He worked in Montana in the 1890s The note ends with unrelated domestic garden anecdote and an advertising clipping about Foley products.
Major Frederick Palmer urged rapid ship transport for U S forces, noting the army can handle 1 000 000 men now and 2 000 000 later. He contrasted Pershing's optimism with Washington lobby gloom and pressed expansion plans through June. Samuel Gompers warned Germany’s victory threatens American safety and peace.
United States deputy marshals rounded up several young men opposing the draft after a Steamboat Springs resident shouted he would not register. In the barber shop melee he was battered and questioned why he did not enter the draft, while nearby buyers paid high prices for Swiss oxen and cows at a recent sale.
H Donzelmann and Arthur Piggott announce a partnership for general legal practice under the name Donzelmann and Piggott with offices at the Carey block corner 17th and Carey avenues Cheyenne Wyoming February 6 1918.
Washington February 6 The two nations reach full cooperation in the effective distribution of labor for war purposes. The Labor Department says Canada will not import American labor without U S consent and American employers approval, and the United States will not import Canadian labor without Canada's consent.
The Burlington railroad converted Ford automobiles into motor trucks for division superintendents. Standard wheels were replaced with pressed steel wheels on a rigid axle to operate on rails.
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