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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1913
Page
7
An advertisement promotes postal classes at Annex Bk R.4 with a 274 phone. It promises instruction from pattern making to finishing garments and invites enrollment for a structured dressmaking program. Also includes an unrelated glass silvering course claim by H. S. Keltel in Oakland California with mail order payment.
The Boothbay Harbor government hatchery in Maine expects about 500 million lobsters hatched this year. Current stock stands at 123,529 seed lobsters, with two thirds more to be added as seed collection continues into spring. Each lobster yields about 20,000 eyes, and near all seeders are anticipated to hatch, totaling roughly 270 million lobsters from the current stock.
A blunt proposal from some New York barbers calls for raising the ordinary haircut price to 15 cents. They attribute the move to declining patronage as safety razors reduce demand while the full head remains in demand. The piece suggests scales and exemptions for sparse hair and warns against a slide back to primitive grooming traditions.
Market notes from Denver dated January 24 show bid prices for choice winter wheat at 60 pounds per bushel and choice spring wheat at 60 pounds per bushel. Oats in Colorado and Nebraska are listed with various cents per bushel, along with per ton hay quotations for South Park Colorado upland prairie timothy alfalfa and straw.
Denver stockyards report light cattle receipts and quiet trading. Good steers bring 6.00 to 8.00, cows 5.10 to 6.25, calves 7.50 to 10.00. Feeders active as buyers focus on steers in yards. Hogs small supply with several lots at 7.50 and 7.25, bids softening from Eastern declines. Sheep demand good with ewes around 4.40 and calls at 2.40. prices resemble Kasiera markets.
Cattle receipts 1,006. market slow to lower. Native steers 6.40 to 8.40. cows and heifers 3.76 to 7.00. Western steers 5.50 to 5.00. Texas cattle 4.75 to 6.50. cows 3.50 to 6.50. calves 6.00 to 9.00. Hog receipts 12,000. market steady to slightly lower. Heavy 7.25 to 7.85. light 7.10 to 7.20. pigs 6.00 to 7.00. bulk 7.15 to 7.30. Sheep receipts 1,000. yearlings 7.20 to 8.10. wethers 5.00 to 6.30.
A brief quotation reflects on the value of children and the aged, noting their consolation to humanity. The speaker, Colurlidge, mulls a melancholy world without children and an inhuman one without the elderly.
A man described as spending much of his life chasing quick schemes and tightlipped about his motives takes a circuitous route toward wealth. Local observers note his persistence despite repeated missteps and rising skepticism from peers.
A garbled excerpt recalls the world as a stage and contrasts actors with ordinary people. The text alludes to watching moving pictures and the idea of performance, but the words are fragmented and unclear.
Kansas City reports mixed livestock receipts across categories. Native steers bring $5.25 to $5.50, southern cows and heifers $3.75 to $6.25, calves $6.50 to $10.25, western steers $6.00 to $8.00, and western cows $3.75 to $6.50. Hogs steady with good bulk sales around $7.25, while sheep and lambs show activity from $4.25 to $8.75 forColorado lambs and $5.00 to $7.0 for range wethers and yearlings.
Oilbert W. Pukbelaer of Salem, a farmer who lost both arms, still manages to shave, bow, write, and catch or throw a ball with his hands, aided by medical treatment and metal bands.
Denver January 24. Colorado women skirt the eight hour work limit by purchasing stock in the companies that hire them. The tactic allows longer hours while avoiding direct labor restrictions.
Two clubs in New York aim to lower reading expenses. One group of women pays 26 cents monthly for access to top magazines sent to a hospital. The second club buys new books for 26 cents per member and resells them by lottery, ensuring each member receives a book. The note adds there are hundreds of ways to save money.
In a night episode described as naturally frightened, decayed and fungold wood sparked fox fire used around a camp. Fragments scattered over the ground where sleeping men rested. The fire died and a wakeful man alarmed the group, who feared they lay among ice coals.
A conceited visitor boasts that half the world does not know how the other half lives. Janie asks why he does not teach them, provoking blushes and muffled laughter from his flatterers as the moment exposes his claim.
How to prevent tinware from rusting by rubbing with fresh lard and heating in an oven. Borax boosts the effect for a stronger seal. Discolored tea pots or coffee pots can regain brightness by soaking briefly in a strong borax solution.
A fragment from Ruskin evokes urban beauty as a guiding ideal for city design, urging crystallized form, limited size, and aesthetic restraint in planning debates.
A poetic fragment describes a ceremonial procession with authoritative guards and wreaths, likening garments to a ritual pomperium and surrounding the participants with gardens, blossoming trees, and gently guided streams.
A comic quip from a nurse to little Frank describes his mischief and her rebuke during a bath. He asks about copper cents and soap in his eyes, prompting the humorous exchange.
A California man has composed a harmless formula claimed to prevent roost era crowing in the morning. Skeptics question effectiveness and potential side effects, but the inventor touts its safety and promise for quiet mornings.
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