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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1920
Page
7
Fragmentary OCR notes reference percentages and flight counts with unclear context. The legible parts indicate percentages like 28 and 25 and mentions of flights and pesos but no coherent event, dates, or names to form a complete news item.
WANTED MALE HELP YOUNG MEN for Railway Mail Clerks $140 month Experience unnecessary For free particulars examinations write R Terry former government examiner 233 Continental Bldg Washington DC 22-23 SEARN Actual Auto Repair Vulcanizing Los Angeles Y M C O A Auto School Dec Sun Web Fund For sale Good paying wholesale business in Denver rent reasonable will sell from inventory and party will stay until fully acquainted with business Alta Oil Company incorporated Cheyenne Wyoming January 46th 1920 capital $500000 directors named True Thompson Trumbull O Leary True principal office Cheyenne 300-304 Hynds Building agent in charge H A True Jr Jan 23-24-27
The Cheyenne Home Builders Association will receive bids up to 2 PM on Tuesday February 3 1920 for fifty bungalows and for plumbing furnaces electric wiring and fixtures. Plans available at the Secretary 522 Hynds Building Cheyenne.
United States of America seizes evaporated apples totaling 100 boxes in Cheyenne Baggs Dixon Douglas Tie Siding and Glenrock. Court in Cheyenne set for February 11 1920 at 10 am to hear claims and condemn or distribute proceeds. Dan iel F Hudson United States Marshal Wyoming District Date Jan 46 23 30.
The estate administrator requests information on the whereabouts of James R Carpenter, son of Mary £ White, aged about 48, listing Butler, Mr as contact. Any helpful lead toward his location is welcome.
Salt Lake City reports Ira R. Browning Utah state road engineer states about 50 million dollars will be spent in 1920 on intermountain road work across Idaho Montana Utah New Mexico Arizona Wyoming and Nevada. Idaho gets 47 million. Montana 5.5 on state roads and 4 on county highways. Utah 5. New Mexico 4. Arizona 4. Wyoming 3. Nevada 2. Most funds rely on federal aid. Canning and sugar beet industries expected to gain. Browning says Utah industry growth could double.
William A. Pinkerton, head of a detective agency in Los Angeles, argues that America has developed a new set of criminals in the last five years. This group is unknown to police by feature fingerprint or Bertillon record and makes investigations more challenging.
In Pasadena California on January 22 visitors to the city jail are often housed for nights. The jail provides lodgings for men with funds to pay, often for extended periods, when suitable accommodations are scarce.
Buffalo reports smugglers reviving old tricks and inventing new ones to move contraband whiskey from Canada into the United States. As Canadian law eases, Americans attempt cross-border liquor traffic, using spare tires and partitioned tanks as concealment. Buffalo inspectors along the Niagara frontier note increased enforcement and anticipate further tactic evolution.
Weather Bureau Office Cheyenne reports roads passable as of January 22. High ground in good condition. low areas and north slopes remain soft or rough, affecting travel in parts.
The Cheyenne Wyoming Weather Bureau report shows the 24 hours ending 6 p m January 22 with temperatures 42 at 6 a m, 25 at 6 p m, average 29 for the day, and a high of 40 at 2 40 a m and a low of 48 at 6 p m. Precipitation zero in the last 24 hours and 0.49 inch since January 1. The normal high and low are 25 and 0.22 inch total since year start. wind from the east at 12 mph peak.
George E. Abbott, president of the First National Bank of Cheyenne, was elected as a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, replacing J. C. McNish of Sidney Nebr who resigned. Word of the election was just received.
Huston Thompson of the FTC urged creation of an international trade commission at the Second Pan American Financial Conference in Washington. Complaints would go to national trade commissions and cases tried before a multinational panel. He argued for a universal standard of unfair trade practices and peer policing by national competitors. He also urged a national trade mark to boost pride and quality control in exports, with grade discrepancies justifying denial of trademark use.
Cheyenne youths led by Superintendent A S Jessica depart at noon to attend the Colorado Y M C A northern Colorado and southern Wyoming conference at Fort Collins. Delegates include Charles Warren Earl Marsh Robert Larson Ernest Fitzgerald and others. Sessions begin 7 30 tonight with 4 pm delegate registration and an program of addresses and discussions on service qualifications. The conference closes Sunday night.
Brigadier General B Z Steever U S A retired died in Washington D C last Tuesday of pneumonia at age 72 He originated the Steever system of military training for high school cadets and was known in Cheyenne for his Fort D A Russell service His last Cheyenne visit was about ten years ago.
Ligier's Beauty Parlors at 1816 Capitol Ave provides foot specialists manicuring hair dressing hair goods shampooing and hair dyeing along with bleaching toilet articles and manufacturing hair goods. Sulphur steam baths available by phone 817.
Lander’s L. B. Gaylord guests Albany as Glenrock’s Mr. and Mrs. Amon arrive. Casper’s R. A. Barr and J. T. Gratest visit Cheyenne. Lagrange’s Liehe and Mrs. Coad travel nearby. Local commerce notes include baby carriages at Hobbs Huckfeldt Finkbiner and Ford roadster bodies by Hank. Numerous residents are registered at Cheyenne and Plains hotels, with several from Lander, Glenrock, Worland, Pine Bluffs, Burns, Laramie, Indian Hill, and Diamond listed among visitors.
CG Williams and E Stafford were fined $20 each for fighting on the street near 542 West Sixteenth Street. Police Judge C A Swainson suspended the fines on condition they avoid further trouble. The pair shook hands when the case was dismissed.
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