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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1913
Page
11
Lieutenant Clarence Riner and Miss Florence Riner hosted a ballroom evening at the Parish House with 60 couples in attendance. The event featured flags and palms, a lavish refreshment table, and music by Mrs. Cahill and Miss Buchanan, reflecting a festive postwar social season in Cheyenne.
General Edwards marked his birthday with a grand New Year’s reception at his home and a Giner party in the evening. Guests from the young set praised his companionship, with a merry dinner and a birthday cake with candles. Edwards left Thursday night for Washington, away about three weeks. Riding class attendees resumed daily exercises at the post riding hall after vacation.
Vera Kimball returns to Cushing Nebraska after holiday visits with Birog Roede sisters and others. Alumni and students plan college departures this weekend with trips to Ann Arbor Colorado Springs and Lincoln. Various church and women’s groups hold meetings at libraries and homes with programs and musical services announced.
President Taft announced the appointment of W. Hall as register of the land office in Washington on January 8. The move names a longtime official to oversee the land register duties and related appointments in the administration.
A dog named Prince alerted residents in a rooming house at 1964 Broadway as a grease fire in the ground floor restaurant spread smoke through the brick building. Landlord J L Darby carried Mrs Elizabeth Miller and her baby Edward downstairs, while Mrs Minnie Sullivan and family escaped with minor injuries. damages estimated at $1,000.
Hot Springs reporters seek Charley Starr the first baseball bird returnee, noting he reported here last winter and missed caravans. Starr bailed out in late fall and played a season in Mobile without a dose of caramel as rumors swirl. Subscribe for The Leader.
Senator Atlee Pomerene of Ohio asks for help locating an employe who left a package of scrambled eggs on his desk. The eggs, sent by parcel post from Mansfield Ohio, arrived in a disheveled state after transit with eight eggs oozing from the package.
For the first time in the nation a coffin weighing 14 pounds was mailed from Zanesville to an undertaker in Dexter City Ohio. The coffin was mailed as a separate package so the body would fit in the 11 pound limit and the total postage came to 68 cents.
Guthrie Oklahoma January 3. John Anderson filed a complaint against Luther Arnold a rural mail carrier for Guthrie who refused to accept a live hen tied to a mailbox with the address card tied to its leg. Anderson believed live poultry was mail able.
New York reports the first violation of the parcel port law as a package addressed to Philadelphia, containing a live lobster and live shrimp, was opened and held. The General Post Office processed over 1,600 packages that day with thousands more at branches. Grand Central station counts 8,000 bundles in the morning from suburban towns, including 40 cartons of exces.
Freak packages used to test parcel post clogged the Chicago mail system. A big jack rabbit, a broken shovel, and wholesale trials by booln houses crowded downtown. More than a thousand pairs of shops mailed, with the first carrier carrying two salts of clothing and a package of five.
In a chaotic day the mall order houses dispatched hundreds of packages after a large butter shipment. Officials say the delay stemmed from a routine supply disruption and routine sorting efforts continued throughout the afternoon.
San Francisco post offices are overwhelmed as 600 parcels crowd street mail boxes. Californians send oranges, fruits, and stray wildlife like geese ducks and beef to friends. Despite warnings to stop, downtown stores rely on parcel post deliveries, with many items destined for the dead letter office.
In Boise Idaho on January 31 a drive seeks pennies from one million people to cover $600 fines imposed yesterday on R. S. Sheridan and C. O. Hroxon publishers of the Capital News who also serve ten day jail terms. The effort led by Rep Don Dunning of Owyhee County aims to support freedom. Sheridan, Bronson and A. R. Cruton were punished for contempt for criticizing Colonel Roosevelt over the court ruling blocking progressive electors from the ballot.
Paul Davis becomes manager of the Newport News team in the Virginia league after a deal with Jack Grim, the former manager and part owner. Grim handed over the players contract and Davis begins assembling a new squad, already signing several players including fast New England semi pro prospects.
Manager Jack Zeller assembles a Pittsfield team with players including Obat from St. Louis recommended by Umpire Red Held Curtis from Toronto as catcher Johnson and Wolfe from Atlanta Williams from Buffalo and Luhrson from Mobile.
A month after Milwaukee, the Southern League blocked Northwestern’s push for class A status under the population clause. President Kavanaugh argued Northwestern had no rights under that clause, and his position carried the day against Northwestern ambitions.
A brief notice notes a Candy Special today at The Robinson venue. The remark about judging women by appearance appears as a social aside within the item.
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