Enlistment week services praised at Baptist church
Rev Bruce Jackson reports successful enlistment week services at the Baptist church with strong attendance and many enlisting for Christian work. Also notes upcoming events including a Queen Esthier Circle dance, a Whittier club meeting, and Dean Worcester's lecture on Applied Psychology.
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Bruce Jackson
The
Baptist Church
Whittier Club
W. C. Hoskins
Evans Street
Dean Worcester
American Legion Drives Cheyenne Expansion Drive Seeks Ex Service Members
D B Miller leads a Cheyenne recruitment push to enroll ex servicemen in the American Legion at War Camp Club rooms. The effort includes theater talks, leg ally backed application drives by city women, American Legion night at Princess Theater with proceeds to a relief fund, and a mass meeting with General Pershing attendance invited for veterans groups.
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American Legion
Cheyenne
Elks Home
Pershing
Legion
Surpines
War Camp Community Service Club
Seventeenth Street
Central Avenue
The
Princess Theater
Grand Army of the Republic
Elks’ Hall
Funeral for Mrs. Sarah Lawson Held This Afternoon
The funeral for Mrs. Sarah G. Lawson wife of Robert Lawson will be at 3:00 PM at the Hobbs Huckfeldt Finkbiner chapel. The Eastern Star past matron will conduct the service and Rev J S Stubblefield will preach. The body arrived in Cheyenne yesterday.
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Sarah G. Langson
Robert Lawson
St. Luke's Hospital
San Francisco
Hobbs, Huckfeldt & Finkbiner
Eastern Star
Cheyenne
J. S. Stubblefield
Delays in ratification blamed for Near East suffering
Major General Mesrop Asgapetian says American ratification delays keep Turks from allowing Armenians to return to farms and rebuild. He urges reliance on American capital teachers and engineers rather than soldiers to help Armenia establish its government.
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Near East
Mesrop Asgapetian
Persia
America
Asgapetian
Armenia
Wool Growers Convention Plans Cheyenne Entertainment
Arrangements are under way for the Wyoming Wool Growers sixteenth annual convention in Cheyenne on January 15. Denver Kiltys band will provide music for events on the 45th and 46th with boxing bouts at the post riding hall open to the public. A banquet at the Masonic temple is set for January 46 for wool growers, followed by a public dance. The finance committee seeks about $2,000 from business leaders. donations may be left at banks or with C B Irwin.
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Wyoming
Cheyenne
Denver Kiltys Band of
Denver
Post Riding Hall
Masonic Temple
Irwin
Brannigan Confident in Fort Russell Bout with Fontana
Patsy Brannigan arrives at Fort D. A. Russell with manager Jim Tolch and trains hard for the ten round bout at the riding hall at 8 15 p.m. Thursday. Fontana backers are equally confident that the Soldier will win as crowds of Fort Russell fight fans anticipate the visit of the popular fighter Fontana.
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Patsy Brannigan
Denver
Ross
Lusk
Fort D. A. Russell
Jimmy Tolch
Brannigan
Fort Russell
Fontana
Pershing
Boxing and wrestling notes from the era show bouts and stars
Reports indicate efforts to extend boxing from eight to twelve rounds in New Jersey. Tom Jones may back Fred Fulton as promoter for Tom O Rourke, while Frank Moran reacts to Hod Miller’s retirement. Boxing rises in colleges as Penn awards varsity letters to boxers, and Benny Leonard targets Dundee in January. Clyde Milan and Jack Britton seek more matches as Frankie Mason meets Jimmy Wilde. Jol e Ray from Illinois A C.
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Athletics
Hod Mller
Manager Moran
Reds
University of Pennsylvania
George Vernot
Montreal
Canada
Antwerp
Dempsey- Willard
Toledo
Benny Leonard
Johnny Dundee
New Haven
Clyde Milan
Washington
Mineral Wells
Tex
Jack Britton
Benny
Kale
Jack
Frankie Mason
Wayne
Jimmy Wilde
Milwaukee
Jole Ray
Illnois A. C
Battler claims nutty plan to grab heavyweight crown
Battler Nelson alleges Grant Johnson was urged to defeat Jeffries and Dempsey to win the heavyweight title, joking that the plan proves he is nuts. Yankees outlay leads baseball spending with Ruth at 100000 and Mays Baker Magee Maisel among big signings. Philadelphia eyeing U S National Lawn Tennis title event next month after Forest Hills runs.
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Boston
Battling Nelson
Johnson
Jeffries
Willard
Dempsey
New York Yankees
Yanks
Babe"' Ruth
Carl Mays
Frank Baker
Lee Magee
Fritz Maisel
Philadelphia
United States
New Oil Companies Formed in Wyoming in 1919
In 1919 Wyoming saw 195 new oil companies organized with total capitalization of 209,362,000. Domestic firms numbered 151 with 4123,830,000 capital and foreign 44 with 85,532,000. May produced 25 new companies and fees to the state totaled 938,062, up from 49,762 in 1918.
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Wyoming
Savings Start With One Dollar
A brief note urges readers that opening a savings account with one dollar is enough to begin saving. Regular deposits encouraged to watch the balance grow over time.
Oil Litigation Heads to State Supreme Court in Wyoming
In Newcastle Wyoming the state supreme court will review the contest over the southeast quarter of section 6 46 63 Osage oil field between original locators J D Mount and J T McKenna and rival claimant G F Sparks Sparks appeals a district court injunction and occupancy order after Judge BE G Raymond found Mount and McKenna entitled to the land A 160 acre tract highly valued for petroleum with Mount recently bringing in a well and Sparks near a producing sand on the same tract
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Newcastle
Wyo
State Supreme Court
J. D. Mount
J. T. McKenna
G. F. Sparks
Osage
Sparks
Supreme Court
BE. G. Raymond
District Court
Mount
McKenna
Newcastle Teachers May Resign Over Pay Increase
Newcastle Wyoming. Jan. 412. Newcastle may close its public schools as teachers refuse salaries of about 900 dollars for grade teachers and 1400 dollars for high school staff. The teachers have not threatened to strike but will resign if pay is not increased promptly.
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Newcastle
Wyo
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Miss Kleinke
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Herbert N. Boyd
Carrie Frank
Presbyterian Church
Mrs. Boyd
California
G. W. Starling
East Twentieth Street
W. L. McCormick
Union Pacific
Fred L. LaPash
T. J. Henneberry
Fred Hirsig
W. S. Carpenter
Charles Hirsig
John Gans
Albert Jensen
O. CG. Martin
Mabel Knight
15Th Cavalry
Feagles
Rocky Mountain
R. R. Robertson
Chicago
R. V. Hinkel
Eaton, Colo
GC. F. Fisher
Congregational Parsonage
Tavd
Baptist Brotherhood
Cord Manning
O'Neil Street
Fisher
Margaret Doane
Adelaide Poore
Byron Jones
Dane
Cheyenne Post
D. B. Miller
State Highway Department
Sarah Lawson
U. S. Senate
Brannigan Certain
Tang K. 0
Soldier Fighter
Russsell
Mike O'Dowd
Viexs Varorans
Yyour
Spaulding
Eagles’ Hall
15Th U. S. Cavalry
Rocky Mountain Jazz
the Shock Growers National Bank
Cheyenne, Wyo
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Capitol Ave
Concord
West
Nat'! Bank
Midwest Harness CO
N. 16Th
Omaha
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16Th
Webster
the Jenkins Shoe Company
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