New Dam Powers Sheridan Mill On Big Goose River
Sheridan Manufacturing Company completes a concrete dam on Big Goose River near Mio Park enabling most of the year power for the Dow Street mill. Flash boards regulate flow during high water, with electric power backup when water is scarce.
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Sheridan
Fement
Mioneer Park
Sheridan Manufacturing Company
Big Goose
Dow Street
Etveeml Works
Drowth
Eati
Wyoming Fifth in Low Cost Education
A pamphlet from the Ry foundation reports a comparative study of public schools in the 48 states. Wyoming ranks fifth in low cost education with significant detail on enrollment and related metrics.
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Valen Athoo
Childrencot School
Ame Galie
Whates Frank
Wyoming
Ry Foundation
Rawlins Firemen Break Up New Year Ball Blaze
Rawlins fire department workers fled a New Year’s Eve ball at Dutelon’s restaurant on Front Street when a vigorous fire alarm rang out. They arrived to find the restaurant’s interior burned out and the roof and fixtures of the neighboring saloon ruined by the blaze.
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Rawlins
Jan
Rawline Fire Department
Dutelon
Front Street
Prisoner Charles K. Jordan Dies By Strangulation
In Rawlins Wyoming on New Year’s Day Charles K. Jordan, recently sentenced in Lander for horse stealing to five years in the penitentiary, strangled to death after illness. He had reported a sore throat the evening before and was taken to a hospital.
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Rawlins
Charles K. Jordan
Lander
Jordan
Wyoming Legislature Set for Sensational 1919 Session
The Wyoming Legislature opens January 14 1919 with narrow party majorities in both houses. A daily Capitol desk reporter will cover proceedings honestly, offering readers a candid view. A limited ten day bargain period invites subscribers to enroll in The Daily Leader at reduced rates for full legislative coverage.
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Wyoming
Capitol
Leader Mail
Daily Leader
Sheridan Miner Heads UP Safety Bureau
Thomas Gideon resigns after six years as president of IMistrict 22 UMWA to join Union Pacific Coal as safety expert. He will oversee 14 mines from Cheyenne to Kemmerer and inspect mines to improve safety and working conditions. He will head the bureau from Rock Springs while residing in Sheridan, his home for four years.
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Gibson
Safety Department
Union Pacific
Coal Company
Safety Bureau
Rock Springs
Sheridan
Wyoming
Livingston
Mont
Montana
Washington
United Mine Workers of America
Western Federation of Minera
Irrigation Report Shows 158774 Farms Affected In U S
Census Bureau reports 158,713 farms irrigated wholly or partly and 14,708.48 thousand acres irrigated, about 7.9 percent of improved farm area in states with irrigation excluding rice. California leads in irrigated farms, Colorado second, then Texas. San Diego Exposition irrigation exhibit promises a significant demonstration of irrigation utility.
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Census Bureau
United States
California
Colorado
Col
Collier
New Mexico
Arizona
Mexico
America
San Diego
Palm Demonstration at San Diego Exposition 1915
Meade Farms and Orchards will be prominent exhibitors at the San Diego exposition opening in 1915. The event will showcase irrigation drying farming and agricultural department features. A ten acre bearing citrus grove will highlight Southern California.
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San Offa
San Diego
Val
Department of Agriculture
California
Forgotten Love Song Brings Lone Rancher to City
On his birthday Dick recalls a failed romance with Eloise and longs for her. A singed memory awakens when a phonograph record reveals Eloise Remey, now a famous soprano. He travels to San Francisco to see her perform, where they acknowledge their long vanished love and reunite.
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Miotee
Cat
Mile
Eloine Remey
America
San Francisco
Cloise
Phonograph Company
Milkweed as a new garden staple and food source
The article praises waste material utilization and weeds as food, highlighting common milkweed. It notes milkweed grows in pastures and fields with thick leaves and seed pods, whose milky juice is nutritious. It states milkweed is being cultivated as a valuable food, tasting like spinach and similar to epinach, rich in natural salts and easy to grow.
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Mra
M. P. Tteskell
Seven US Brigadier Generals Set to Retire in 1914
New York dispatch reports seven general officers of the United States Army will retire by age limit in 1914. Brigadier General James Allen, chief of the signal corps, turns 64 February 13. Wilson will name successors for six others including Walter Schuyler, Frederick Smith, Edgar Steever, Ralph Hoyt, William Russell, and William Bixby.
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New York
United States Army
Woodrow Wilson
Provident
Iet
James Allen
Signal Corps
Taft
Allen
Army
Wilson
Walter S. Schuyler
Department of California
Frederick A. Smith
Department of the Missouri
Edgar Z. Steever
Department of Texas
Ralph W. Hoyt
Department of the Lakes
William T. Russell
Corps of Engineers
William H
San Antonio
General Allen
War Department
George P. Scriven
William A. Glassford
Samuel Raber
Scriven
Reber
Nelson A. Miles
Roosevelt Urges Preparedness and Arbitration Balance
Theodora Roosevelt, speaking at a Military History meeting in Massachusetts, sharply criticizes Spanish war era officials and war departments while defending arbitration in principle. He warns that overemphasis on arbitration dulls war readiness, yet favors keeping treaties when reached and calls for strong U S military preparation to deter conflicts including the Panama toll dispute with Britain.
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Theodora Roosevelt
Massachusetts
War Department
Army
Navy
Roosevelt
United States
Great Britain
Panama Canal
Opponents push amendment to detach service clause
In New York Jan 2 opponents of the army appropriation clause to detach officers seek an amendment to exempt battalion and regimental staff officers. The move would affect about two thirds of the 600 recently relieved officers and could revive favoritism. Readhere warns the change would demoralize the army and endanger mileage and general staff openings.
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New York
Congress
Agricultural Labor Shifts Amid Industrial Rise
The Secretary of Agriculture reports farm labor is shrinking as industry grows. Census data show 83.1 percent in 1820 worked in agriculture, dropping to 36.3 percent by 1900. Meanwhile actual agricultural workers rise from 2,068 to 1,249,654.
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Secretary of Agriculture
WAGNER RESIGNS OVER PARDON CASE IMPASSE
United States Attorney E. E. Wagner of Mitchell South Dakota filed his resignation with Attorney General Wickersham today. The move follows an application to President Taft for a pardon for Charles I Hyde of Pierre convicted of mail fraud in a town lots case. Wagner was ordered to Washington but declined to obey.
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Washington
United States
E. E., Wagner
Mitchell
Wickershas
Taft
Charles I
Hyde
Pierre
Wagner
State Leader Wants Readers to Subscribe in Wyoming
The State Leader promotes subscriptions for its Wyoming readers, urging local residents to try the Want Ad medium and support the paper.
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Wyoming
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Daily State
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Niveth Jewelry and Optical Company
Cor. Capitol and
17Th St
Irrigation Report
Henderson Welsh
Eloles
Eloise
Sbe
Flosse
Bon
Brandegee, Kincaid & Co
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