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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1921
Page
9
Fragmentary OCR text references a 1921 dance or music event with names like Miss and Mrs. Yost, and mentions city setting and various people. Details are unclear due to garbled transcription, but implies a social gathering or performance with several individuals involved.
Sixteen ladies enjoyed a Thursday afternoon luncheon at Mrs C F Hoels apartment in the Nettford. Pink and white decor with pink roses framed the small tables. Mrs A D Johnston and Mrs John L Jordan assisted. Bridge followed, with Mrs Joseph Wasserman and Mrs William DuBois winning high scores and prizes.
Charles Marshall, tenor, rose to stardom with the Chicago Grand Opera Co in Othello his debut hailed as a triumph. The reception echoed the early fame of Galli Curci, marking a bright new voice in American opera.
The South Side Athletic club hosts a smoker Friday evening with guests of honor who funded the gym. Boxing and wrestling bouts are planned among participants including Young Brown 115 pounds Richard Chick 145 Jack Asher 136 and Eddy Parry 126, entered in an upcoming Denver amateur boxing tournament.
The South Cheyenne Improvement Association will receive an American flag tonight at its community house, former fire station, in a ceremony by the Women's Relief Corps. Speeches, music, and other entertainments are planned, with public invited.
Thomas I. White, longtime member of Wyoming’s lower house, came to the city yesterday from Thayne in Lincoln County. Caproni, the Italian aircraft inventor, unveiled a plan to build a giant plane capable of carrying 3800 passengers.
The notice outlines arrangements for meals and overnight rest on the Atlantic crossing, detailing provisions for dining and sleeping accommodations during the voyage.
Officials confirm the death of Frank Bishop Southard at Omaha Wednesday morning after a pneumonia illness. He served 80 years in Union Pacific auditing, notably as passenger accounts auditor. survived by his wife and adult son.
United States register Will Reid returned to Cheyenne from a business trip to Laramie. He met Charles J Lane general freight agent for the Union Pacific on the outbound trip and was invited to ride in Lane's private car. They dined enroute to Laramie.
Counterfeiters in the Orient are making fifty dollar bills and two dollar Federal Reserve notes. Original numbers are obliterated and large numerals are drawn in their place by a pen and ink artist.
Final returns show Cheyenne residents the Hustons left for Baltimore two years ago. The text notes that tourist travel to national parks and monuments exceeded one million for 1920. It also states that the United States exported more than 2,700,000,000 gallons of mineral oils in 1918.
Cecil Hart of Monte Bello California advocates snake education for children. He notes many snakes cause no harm and help farmers by controlling gophers mice and groundhogs, countering common deadly fear.
New York January 6 Harriet Chambers Adams named first American woman Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and honorary Society of Arts member. The Californian traveler has logged 40000 miles in three years across Panama South America and the Caribbean and even visited Somme trenches. She has slept at 15000 feet and seen the headwaters of the Amazon, studied living in Spain and Mongolia, and collected specimens for the Bronx Zoo.
This young lady Miss Betty Walker of Washington D C has not defeated anyone at chess nor is she married or divorced about her. She is described as extraordinarily charming and deserving of a newspaper photo placement.
The speaker argues that women have equal right to travel and seek the mysterious and lost. She asserts travel passion drives exploration, dismissing fears about women on journeys and predicting exploration could become a rare yet thrilling activity for women despite current limits.
A Mexican man who beat his way onto a Union Pacific train without a ticket was found to be carrying $109. Odd cents when searched. He was fined $25 and sentenced to 30 days in jail on a vagrancy charge. The piece ends noting the US Army is the smallest among great powers.
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