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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1918
Page
7
The market showed strong demand across cattle hogs and sheep with beef stock cattle and feeders rising. Priced beef steers sold up to 12.25 with top cows around 9.50, hogs ranged 16.25 to 16.85, lambs moved near 15 to 16 and ewes traded 11 to 11.75 as buyers stayed active through a 4,200 hogs on sale.
Trading in Nashville and Kansas City reports active demand for live cattle hogs and sheep with receipts around 60 000 for hogs 15 000 for native steers and 16 000 for sheep buyers showing moderate to strong support and prices generally firm across classes amid abundant supply and market activity.
Toronto reports ongoing calls for divorce reform across Canada with western complaints of unequal access and costs for senate hearings. Infidelity remains the main legal ground, while some provinces already operate courts with higher reported divorce counts than federal proceedings. One case before the senate involves Jean Donaldson Sifton and Capt. Winfield Burrows Sifton, whose marriage sparked social notice after elopement and wartime service.
An elderly woman named Mrs Hicks Bishop traveled from Sand Point Idaho to La Crosse Wisconsin seeking her husband. She carried a bank roll sewn in her skirt but forgot about it, exhausting funds and leading to charity at the county poor farm. She later reunited with her husband at the farm and survived the experience.
In New York the Hoover food drive begins to curb pantry waste in wealthy mansions. Agents aim to reach chefs, maids, butlers and footmen to cut lavish kitchen consumption and aid poorer neighbors during wartime shortages.
Laura Cook of Terre Haute Indiana says she is the youngest grandmother in the state after giving birth to a grandchild at age 24. Her son Owen is 18 and his wife is not yet 18, with the father working for Coal Valley.
President Wilson favors easing war news restrictions and Secretary Baker approves. The policy would allow newspaper stories from training camps and France with edits for enemy risk. War department will mirror navy openness though reporters must heed secrecy rules to avoid losing privileges. Coordinated by George Creel, the plan aims for clearer public information.
William R K Meyers of Bartlesville Oklahoma claims to be the champion knitter in the United States at age about 11 but appears older. He finished a sixty four inch scarf and donated it to the local Red Cross chapter. Meyers a pioneer oil well shooter once quit after a dream of nitro glycerine explosions in Bartlesville. He toured Europe and Egypt demonstrating nitro glycerine methods and boxed four rounds with John L Sullivan in training for a later fight.
Classified blurbs list second hand baby buggy in good condition at 01 Carey Avenue or phone 200. Household furniture, coal, and a party leaving town offer discounts. Also dairy farm for sale near Cheyenne with 20 acres, terms, address Box 268 Cheyenne. Indian motorbikes 1916 1917 models and sidecars with prices, shop at 6510 W. 17th Cheyenne Wyoming.
J T Rehan of Boulder Co. is found dead by starvation seven miles from Marietta Hot Springs after arriving from Los Angeles on January 20. Investigators report forged certified checks for 2000 and 1000 dollars drawn on Walker Brothers Bank Salt Lake City found with the victim, linking to broader bank fraud involving Los Angeles banks. Private detectives probe Behan’s departure and the timing of cashing forged checks totaling 4400 dollars.
The Wyoming General Hospital Rock Springs invites young women aged 20 to 30 to apply for its training school. Entrance requirements include good health and moral character with two years of high school. For more information contact Chief Nurse at the Wyoming General Hospital.
In Washington February 21 the navy department announced that one man was fatally injured two seriously and five slightly hurt from a cartridge case explosion aboard the armored cruiser Montana last Monday. Harmed include Wat Hanley of Caledonia who died while being felled to a tom pltad.
A young cavalry officer observes a recruit struggling to make a horse jump a fence. The officer deadpans that the horse will go only on the side with one spur, while the other side must follow. London Answers.
Disjointed OCR fragment discusses a Sunday school scene with a teacher and youth, noting attempts to make someone happy. The text includes stray phrases about devotion and social interaction, without coherent narrative or clear event.
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