Cold Wyoming oil work halted by severe winter
Wyoming oil fields pause as intense cold and heavy snows curb exploration. By January, temps reached 24 degrees below zero in Sheridan region, delaying new field development. Some winter work continues but off fields suffer, with 1916 promising Wyoming as a growing producer amid a chill season.
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Wyoming
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States Circuit Court of Appeals
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Cheyenne
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Louisiana
Q Ban Hair Color Restorer Promoted by Drug Stores
An advertisement urges using Q Ban Hair Color Restorer to restore natural hair color gradually and permanently. It claims no instant dye effect, notes possible hair growth benefits, and offers a money back guarantee through Roedel's drug store and Heasig Ellis Drug Co. Memphis.
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Heasig-Ellis Drug Co
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Tenn
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Thirty-Eight Inches Snow At Tensloep Ranger Station
Sheridan January 3 report from the ranger at Tensloep station records thirty eight inches of snow at 10300 feet. December added twenty inches and was eight inches more than December last year. At Clear Creek station five inches fell while higher areas saw deeper snow. other station readings pending.
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Tensloep
Cat Place
Clear Creek
Sugar Factory Near Powell Promised by Great Western
Powell January 2. Messrs. Henston Nelson Marks Kittle Lutensky Hoff man and Magruder traveled to Lowell after an invitation from Great Western Sugar representatives. A beet growers association secretary notes no firm commitment yet, but Great Western is impressed with the territory and may build a sugar factory on the Shoshone project soon. Further talks in Denver in January could yield developments.
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Great Western Sugar Company
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Denver
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Buffalo Mail Service Paralyzed Five Days by Snow
Buffalo reports five days without mail as heavy snows block routes. Workers shoveled railroad to reopen the line to Clearmont after a week of blank deliveries.
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Buffalo
Clearmont
Municipal rink proves popular in Sheridan
Sheridan January 2 The municipal skating rink formed by Mooding the tennis courts in Pioneer Park draws large crowds of boys and girls and adults. A stove in a small city owned house provides heat close to the rink.
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Sheridan
Pioneer Park
New York Interests Take Over Elk Basin Oil Assets
New York investors organize Pik Basin Petroleum to acquire Elk Basin Oil Company assets in Wyoming. Carl H. Pforzheimer leads with $7.50 per share subscriptions for 100 000 shares par $5. Drilling planned to push 1500 barrels daily with 26 percent net earnings projected after winter.
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Midwest Refining Company
Greybull Company
Elk Basin Petroleum Company
Berne Li
Mr. Pforzheimer
New York
K. ¢. Schuyler
A. D. Hopkins
Russell Faneatt
Colorado Springs
Popular Torrington Couple Weds in Quiet Ceremony
Miss Bessie Coy daughter of Mrs. Joseph Emery wed Floyd Coy son of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Coy at the home of the bride's parents in Torrington. Rev. Coats officiated and the couple left for Corrandh on Hat Creek in Niobrara county. Both families and many friends wish them happiness.
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Joseph Emery
Floyd Coy
W. B. Coy
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Methodist Church
Hat Creek
Niobrara
Journal
Sheridan School Gets Motion Picture Machine
Sheridan Jan. 2 The John 8 Taylor school with help from the Parent Teachers association has bought an electric projecting machine. It can project slides and pictures from peat cards or other opaque objects. The portable device moves easily between rooms and is simple to operate.
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Sheridan
John 8. Taylor School
Parent-Teachers' Association
Mechanic injured by frozen hose blast at Torrington garage
Kern Smith, a mechanic at the Corner garage, was seriously burned when a makeshift stationary engine connected to a water barrel froze during Christmas cold. The water turned to steam and blew the hose coupling, injuring his face and body as the engine started. Damaged hose failed to contain the steam and water.
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Kern Smith
Plans to制造 gasoline and carbon black plant
Plans for a $500000 plant at Cowley Wyoming to manufacture gasoline and carbon black from gas from Utah Wyoming Consolidated Oil wells at Byron Big Horn Basin. President Fred J Pack says stockholders ratified. plant expected to operate by next summer. The process uses an absorbent to remove moisture, then distills to yield richer gas for gasoline and carbon black.
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Utah
Utah Wyoming Consolidated Oil Company
Byron
Big Horn Basin
Wyoming
Fred J. Pack
Cowley
Wyo
Burlington
Colorado Assembly Opens After Party Talks
Colorado's twenty first general assembly members arrive for the opening session amid cross party talks. A proposed program framework emerges from conferences held by leaders of both parties ahead of the session.
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Legislators Map Plans for 21st General Assembly
The twenty first general assembly will have 100 members with 35 senators and 65 representatives. Seats will include 18 Democrats and 17 Republicans in the Senate and 39 Democrats and 26 Republicans in the House. Proposals include state wide prohibition, recodification of criminal and school laws, highway construction, and expansion of educational institutions. Also an exhibit at the Macabee Neseeanmeric Coliseum with admission 10 cents, children free with parents, January 7 to 6. Monument inquiries to R McCafferty phone 5133.
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