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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1911
Page
16
In Omaha Jan 30 discussing the looming world title scene with Hackenschmidt Mahmout Zbysco and others as possible challengers. The piece notes Hackenschmidt may avoid Mahmout over risk and money and mentions exhibitions and arrests tied to promoter plans across the country.
Champion Jack Johnson and his wife Jack Monahan with Barney Furey and a chauffeur depart Chicago for Indianapolis for a week of theater. The party will travel to the Pacific coast with several towns en route. Johnson says he may fight abroad if promoters meet his terms and an American referee is chosen, otherwise he may return in a month or less.
Cincinnati manager Clark Griffith speculates on the National League standings. He projects Chicago and Cincinnati fighting for first place, with New York finishing third and Pittsburgh fourth.
Mexico City reports Jim Jef ferries and Barney Old arriving Feb 8 amid mixed reception as local crowds react to the baseball figure. Details on tour plans remain unclear.
The Yale News reports about 942 college men with thirty percent in law, sixteen percent in education, fourteen in finance, and about nine percent in medicine, manufacturing, and commerce. Over half prefer professional careers to business, while football crew baseball and track men show little interest in law or finance.
Frank J. Marshall, United States champion, widened his lead in the national masters tournament by defeating R T Back of Brooklyn in the eight round yesterday. Chicago pawn-chess rival W G Morris drew with last-place opponent, keeping Marshall in second.
In a New York scene a dramatic Pike's Peak wig rises from the head in a lean tower of puffed hair. A fourteen inch high mass, spiked bandeau, and feathered bow create a striking look as Sherman & Co window displays hint at the trend.
Dr. William J. Thompson of Kansas City sues Missouri Kansas Texas railway and Pullman company seeking 100000 damages after being ejected from a Pullman car at Vinita Oklahoma. He rented a ticket to South McAlester and was arrested for riding in the car, fined 15 dollars, and removed.
Helen Gates twenty two of Nyack was arraigned in Brooklyn Court of Special Sessions on a bogus twenty two dollar check to hotel keeper Abraham Blake. She was found guilty and sentenced to Bedford Reformatory for an indeterminate term from four months to four years. The article notes a prior term in Bedford for a similar offense.
The Mad er Dr Aaron Aaronsohn declares a wheat patriarch exists in Palestine's Upper Galilee. The hardy plant grows on Mount Hermon and near the Dead Sea, with aim to transplant to extreme northern Canada and desert lands in Algiers Tunisia and Egypt. Spring arrival of new Galatibor cloth advertised by WM Myers.
Mira Lillian Elizabeth Peck daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Peck and Earl Taylor Smith formerly of Quincy Street and Nostrand Avenue were wed in Yuma Arizona. The romance began five years ago when Peck was a student at Girl’s High School Brooklyn and Smith attended Cornell University. Peck traveled to Yuma alone last week and married amid cowboys then they left for Somerton to begin their life together.
Governor Dix ordered cheaper materials for the new state prison to replace Sing Sing and projections show a potential saving of 800000. He met with the prison commission and department heads to identify further big savings across state projects.
Albany January report shows the senate finance committee supports Senator Emerson's bill for 1,200,000 for a highway linking New York City to Rouse's Point. The route runs through Albany Saratoga Glens Falls Lake George Warrensburg Chestertown Schroon Lake Elizabethtown Ausable Forks Keeseville Plattsburg and meets the Canadian road at Rouses Point for a Montreal link.
In Tangier New Jersey two men, Bain Mason and Freeman Beaver, have been found by the tracks of a dog on the ice at Tangier Lake. The brothers-in-law disappeared a week ago after a fruitless hunt. The dog’s circling tracks cleared the suspense around the missing pair.
Searchers found faint paw prints circling a spot on the ice where a hole opened and the lake bottom showed, revealing two bodies. The dog kept circling the site, distressed, until hunger forced it to abandon the effort.
Mrs William Hodges Mann declared at a Women's Temperance League event that no intoxicants will be served in the Virginia executive mansion during her husband’s tenure. She asserted entertainments will be enjoyed without wine, contrasting with prior regimes. The note appears amid other ad copy and merchandise listings.
In Wooster on January 30 the State Agricultural Station faculty reported that feeding hogs with specific foods that enhance brain development may lift pigs from their habitual wallowing and garbage eating. The experiment centers on "brainfed" hogs and the theory that bigger brains translate to better behavior.
Forty chosen hogs were housed in clean sanitary pens and fed a special diet of leced grains. They were cared for gently and prepared to be highly tasteful, with experts declaring their meat the best ever tasted. Gun proof paint noted at Sherman Ca.
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