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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1911
Page
8
Omaha dispatch reports a tangled stage of the heavyweight scene with Hackenschmidt Mahmout and Zbyco as leading contenders. Talks note Hackenschmidt seeks favorable terms while Mahmout faces accusations of unfair play. References to staged exhibitions and arrests in Spain surface as promoters push exhibitions nationwide.
Chicago reports champion Jack Johnson and his show depart for Indianapolis for a week of theater. The troupe plans a Pacific coast route with more towns en route. Johnson says he may fight abroad only if foreign promoters meet his terms and an American referee is chosen.
Cincinnati manager Clark Griffith speculates on the National League standings for the approaching season. He foresees Chicago and Cincinnati contending for first place, with New York third and Pittsburgh fourth.
Jim Jeffersons faces a chilly reception in Mexico City as he prepares to arrive February 8 accompanied by Barney Oldfield. The visit is tied to racing events and publicity plans in the Mexican capital.
The Yale News reports on 942 college men with 30 percent entering law and 16 percent education. Fourteen percent chose finance, about 8 percent each in medicine manufacturing and commerce. Over half prefer a profession to business, while football crew baseball and track students show little interest in law or finance.
Frank J. Marshall, United States champion, increased his lead in the national chess masters tournament by defeating R T Back of Brooklyn yesterday. The eighth round was contested yesterday with Chases of Chicago drawing with W G Morris, who remains in last place but retains second position.
The Pike's Peak Uwlet makes a dramatic entrance on Broadway as a towering coiffure. The man’s hair rises fourteen inches with a bandeau girding it and feathers at the back, creating a bold geome chick look amid theater chatter. Window ebades at sherman Co.
Dr. William J. Thompson of Kansas City sues the Missouri Kansas Texas railway and Pullman company in federal court to test Oklahoma's Jim Crow law. He seeks 100000 damages for being ejected from a Pullman car at Vinita and fined after refusing to leave his berth.
Helen Gates, 22, of Nyack, arraigned in Brooklyn Court of Special Sessions on a $22 bogus check against Abraham Blake, hotel keeper. She found guilty and sentenced to Bedford Reformatory for an indeterminate term from four months to four years. Previous term at Bedford three years ago for similar offense.
The world’s wheat patriarch, Dr. Aaron Aaronsohn, proclaims a hardy Palestinian strain from Upper Galilee as the origin of wheat. It grows on Mount Hermon and near the Dead Sea, tolerates arid soils, and may be transplanted to Canada’s north and desert lands in Algiers Tunis Egypt. An assortment of new Galabibor cloth arrives.
Mira Lillian Elizabeth Peck daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Peck and Earl Taylor Smith once lived on Quincy Street and Nostrand Avenue. They married in Yuma Arizona after a five year romance begun when she was a Girl's High School student in Brooklyn. The couple now reside in Somerton.
Governor Dix pressed the state commission to replace Sing Sing with a cheaper prison build using lower cost materials. He projected savings of about 800000 and ordered scrutiny of other major projects and department budgets to curb waste. He met with department heads to identify savings opportunities across large and small expenditures.
Albany report from January 30 notes a Senate finance committee favorable to Senator Emersons 1 2 million appropriation for a stone highway linking New York City to Rouses Point. The route runs through Albany Saratoga Glens Falls Lake George Warrensburg Chestertown Schroon Lake Village Elizabethtown Ausable Forks Keeseville Plattsburg to its northern terminus. The Canadian government plans a first close highway to Montreal meeting the American road at Rouses Point about thirty miles away.
In Tangier Ohio, a dog kept vigil on the ice at Tangier Lake revealing tracks that help solve the week old disappearance of Bain Mason and Freeman Beaver, brothers in law. A fruitless hunt followed by the men who vanished near the lake.
Searchers traced faint paw prints in a circle on the lake ice. No break appeared but a bottom was dragged, exposing two bodies after a hole formed and refroze. It is believed the men fell through while hunting for game and a dog circled the spot until hunger forced it to abandon the scene.
Mrs William Hodges Mann declared at the Women's Temperance League of America that there shall be no intoxicants in the Virginia governor’s home while she resides in the executive mansion. She affirmed entertainments will be as pleasant without wine as under prior administrations. A promotional line for Anderson gingham fabric followed, noting 86 inch width and pricing.
Wooster Ohio January 30. State Agricultural Station faculty supports feeding hogs food to develop brains after experiments with brainfed hogs. The theory says bigger brains will lift hogs above their current wallowing and garbage eating.
Forty selected hogs were placed in sanitary pens and raised on leced grains. They were kept clean and led gently toward civilian use. Experts pronounced their meat the best ever tasted at Sherman Ca.
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