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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1917
Page
13
An advertisement touts Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a safe mild laxative for children and family use. It emphasizes pleasant taste, no griping, and lack of opiates, noting 50 cent bottles and a free trial by writing to Dr W B Caldwell in Monticello Illinois.
Wy bar association opens in Cheyenne with Judge Arnold, Judge Tidball, Judge Metz, and Judge Raymond among attendees. Notaries appointed include Spaulding, Anderson, Clementa, and Higgins. Visitors arrive from Lander, Riverton, Denver, and other locales.
In Manville 12-year-old Francia Vin entered a Muskrat mines site to help with coffee when a bucket heater exploded. A clogged steam vent caused the bucket to rupture and spray scalding liquid across the boy’s face. He is/O. L. Vin int, father, reported the injury occurred Wednesday.
John Wayne a Hungarian pled guilty to burglary at Donnelly's and Roedel hardware. He broke in by window shifts on December 23–24, stole a Salvation Army mite box containing 3.75 and $1 from the hardware store. He, a day laborer, faced a rawlins penitentiary sentence of 18 months to 3 years.
The funeral for Edward Switzer aged 9 who died of pneumonia will be held this afternoon at 2:30 from his parents home 810 Thirty-third Street. Rev George Van Winkle of the Baptist church will conduct the service.
A memorable production stars a veteran actress in her finest career moment. The play centers on unseen yet ever present figures, notably crooks, with authors dedicating years to research of the classes depicted. The result shows meticulous character detail and sharp social observation.
The Madness of Helen at the Lyric features two celebrated stars delivering a record setting performance and is hailed as a masterwork likely to boost their fame. A secondary message urges young people to take initiative and pursue education at Cheyenne Business College offering shorthand stenography typing and accounting with both day and night classes.
A Poplar Bluff Missouri letter extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for restoring health and fertility in women. The note claims the remedy helped the author become healthy, enabling her to bear children, and invites others to write for confidential advice from the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co.
State Bank Examiner C. Newlin reports Wyoming has eighty state and private banks with total resources of 15.22 million dollars as of September 12 1916 up 4.47 million since 1914. Loans rose to 10.41 million and deposits reached 12.09 million, while capital and surplus stood at 2.44 million. There were no bank failures in thirteen years. reforms urged include banking fee schedules and higher minimum director holdings.
Wyoming voters face a 1918 ballot on a proposed constitutional amendment banning the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquor after January 1, 1920. The measure allows limited medicinal and industrial uses under state regulation and requires swift legislative action to implement penalties and rules.
Two girls stepped in front of a car near Seventeenth and Carey Avenue after crossing behind a trolley, were knocked down, and one suffered a scratched elbow. Mrs Justice stopped the car and helped them to a nearby drug store before they went home. Passengers included Kent Patlock Marie Pager and E T Baldridge.
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