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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1921
Page
3
Fragmentary text notes a 1921 dance and music gathering with references to individuals such as Mrs and Miss, a city, and incomplete descriptions of performances. The readable parts suggest a social event with poems or songs and possibly a theater or musical program.
Sixteen ladies enjoyed a Thursday luncheon at Mrs C F Hoel’s Nettford apartment. Pink and white decor framed a bridge afternoon with high scores awarded to Mrs Joseph Wasserman and Mrs William DuBois. Guests included Eyre Powell who headed to Salt Lake City.
Charles Marshall tenor rises to stardom with Chicago Grand Opera Co in Othello his first appearance draws strong acclaim. The article compares his reception to the rapid fame of Galli-Curci noting a warm national welcome for a new singer.
The South Side Athletic club plans a smoker Friday evening with guests of honor who helped fund the gym. Boxing and wrestling bouts will unfold among boxers Young Brown 115 pounds Richard Chick 145 Jack Asher 136 and Eddy Parry 126, who are entered in an amateur ring tournament in Denver soon.
The South Cheyenne Improvement Association will receive an American flag tonight at its community house. The event features speeches music and other entertainments and the public is invited to attend.
Thomas I. White, longtime member of Wyoming’s lower houses from Thayne in Lincoln County, was in the city yesterday. Caproni, the Italian aviation pioneer, unveiled plans for a giant airplane to carry 3800 passengers.
The report notes provisions for dining and sleeping accommodations during an Atlantic crossing scheduled over thirty six hours, detailing onboard arrangements for passengers.
Officials in Omaha report the death of Frank Bishop Southard at age likely tied to pneumonia. He served as auditor of passenger accounts for Union Pacific for 80 years and died Wednesday morning. his wife and grown son survive.
United States register Will Reid returned to Cheyenne from a business trip to Laramie. He met Charles J Lane Union Pacific general freight agent who invited him to ride in Lane's private car and they dined enroute to Laramie.
Counterfeiters in the Orient are forging fifty dollar bills by altering two dollar Federal Reserve notes. Original numbers are obliterated and replaced with large numerals drawn in by a pen and ink artist.
The Hustons settled in Cheyenne before moving to Baltimore two years ago. Final returns show tourist travel to national parks and monuments topped one million for 1920. U S mineral oils exports reached over 2.7 billion gallons in 1918.
Cecil Hart of Monte Bello California a naturalist explains to children that many snakes though feared are harmless and helpful to farmers by controlling gophers mice and ground hogs. his daughter Hart plays with them to show safe interaction.
New York reports Harriet Chambers Adams named first American woman Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and famed traveler. She logged 40000 miles in three years through Pan Ama and South America, visited trenches on the Somme, slept at 15000 feet, and drove camels in Mongolia.
An unidentified young woman, Betty Walker of Washington D C, appears in a published photo. The blurb notes she has not defeated anybody in chess and is not married or divorced, with little other information available.
A speaker argues that women can travel as boldly as men and pursue exploration. She says passion and curiosity overcome gender barriers and envisions travel becoming a rare yet thrilling womanly activity despite current popular limits.
A Mexican man arrested for beating his way onto a Union Pacific train avoided buying a ticket and had $109.07 on him when searched. He was fined $25 and sentenced to 30 days in jail on a vagrancy charge. The item notes thrift can backfire. It also mentions the United States Army as the smallest among the great powers.
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