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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1919
Page
16
The Cheyenne based Johnston Grocery Company notes improved service with a larger, skilled staff and enhanced delivery as war demands ease. With over thirty years in business, they pledge a mammoth stock, competitive prices, and sincere appreciation for patronage in 1919 and beyond.
Apples Big Y Winesaps 10¢ per lb box 3.75. Rome Beauties and White Winter Pears offered. Oranges Navela ripe and sweet. Bananas Fancy yellow. Pears winter varieties fine. Fruit healthful with Sunkist lemons and cranberries scarce quart 15¢. Prices reflect wholesale style supermarket ad copy.
A newspaper snippet lists celery, lettuce, tomatoes, radishes, cucumbers, Brussels sprouts, and trizhokes with low prices. It notes a market priced table syrup sale with various quart and half gallon sizes and rates, highlighting significant discounts.
One year ago today in war the British hospital ship Rewa was torpedoed in the English Channel with no casual ties reported. Earl Reading, lord chief justice of Rangland, was appointed high commissioner and ambassador to the United States.
The Reclamation Service considers using the Guernsey dam on the North Platte for power generation and irrigation. Director A P Davis explains in a letter to Senator Kendrick that Guernsey would save river water lost between Pathfinder and Guernsey, improve irrigation timing, and offer incidental benefits including potential electricity alongside flood control.
Prompt delivery and excellent service in any part of the city. Our store is as close as your phone.
A. P. Davies outlines work on the Guernsey reservoir including topographic survey, site studies, and borings. Preliminary designs favor a loose rock and earth dam to develop potential power for nearby mines, pending private rights and congressional appropriations for funding.
Rome January 3 The issue of coal and fuel supply looms large as Italy readies for postwar reconstruction. Signor De Vito, commissioner of combustibles, stresses coal allocations must rise to fuel new provinces Venetia and Friuli and an expanded railway network. He notes coordination with other departments is needed before pledging specifics.
An advertisement touts Olsen's as the place to trade with delivery, courteous clerks, and prompt service. It promises guaranteed best satisfaction and ownership of the store, noting Fresh Ranch Butter and strictly fresh Ranch Eggs at 65 cents, plus fresh vegetables and apples in season.
A Philadelphia conference report summarizes Friends of the American Indian goals and postwar shift to peacetime industry. It highlights adapting plants to national fuels, expanding lignite peat use, restoring Adriatic navigation, and replacing French coal with English, with focus on open Congress for new opportunities.
Today marks birthdays for Carter Glasa secretary of the treesuff of the United States born in Lynghlurg Virginia 61 years ago and Rt Rev Charles J OReilly Catholic bishop of Lincoln Nebraska born at St John ay B six years ago.
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