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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1920
Page
15
Classified ad highlights training in auto and tractor repair with master instructors. Promises large monthly earnings and extensive shop training at Rahe Auto and Tractor School Kansas City Missouri and other agencies. Includes schedules and contact hints for courses and collection services.
Classified offer recruiters advertise for salesmen to sell CORA JA Rubber Mfg products and auto inner tubes with territory and manager opportunities. Includes pay ranges, car preference, and scattered business opportunities in Dallas and Kansas City with oil stock tips and land ventures.
Multiple classified ads offer work and sales opportunities. Refurbish chandeliers brass beds and autos for $40 daily in Decatur Illinois. Trade and tailoring and broom sales jobs in Chicago Denver St Louis and Columbus with commissions and samples. Detective work from Danville Illinois. Personal ads for marriage and a maternity home in Kansas City Missouri.
A married man seeks ranch employment with two children and good references. Separately a land notice lists James H. Willadsen of Granite Canyon Wyoming filing for final three year proof on land tracts in Cheyenne area with witnesses Steven Willadsen Andreas Willadsen George Miller and Rudolph Gale named.
The Sheep and Cattle Men’s Supply Manufacturing Company will hold its annual stockholders meeting at the Plains hotel in Cheyenne Wyoming on Wednesday the 41th day of February 1920 at 10 a.m. The meeting will elect a Board of Directors discuss financing and address other business. J G Findlay president. Jan 30 Feb 10. City Treasurer notice: warrants issued August and September 1919 to be paid with interest by Feb 14 1920. J J Minerney Commissioner of Finance. 6-8-410.
El Paso experts note the Rio Grande is not a large river and discuss Elephant Butte Dam effects. They cite storage and irrigation use by the Reclamation Service, with flood depths and river width at El Paso given from January to December measurements in 1919.
The Rio Grande shows a six foot high water line inside standing houses six miles north of El Paso. In September 1919 floods the river reportedly reached 50 to 60 feet in narrow bed sections, implying major inundation.
In Trenton the New Jersey clash over state rights versus federal prohibition continues. Governor Edward S. Edwards and the attorney general discuss challenging the 18th Amendment in the Supreme Court while two bills seek to permit sale of beverages with 4 and 5 percent alcohol. Edwards ran on personal liberty and faces a Republican-led legislature as he pursues state sovereignty on liquor.
The piece notes a prominent American wife of an Italian nobleman visiting her homeland while discussing the federal prohibition amendmenties. Rhode Island and Connecticut backed the measure but the Rhode Island legislature rejected ratification. Governor Edwards urged restraint during the session. The governor reportedly has not consumed alcohol in over 30 years by medical advice. An aside promotes a sale ad in the State Leader. A dealer advertises a large stock of baby carriages and sulkies from Hobbs Huckfeldt & Finkbeiner.
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