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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1912
Page
4
A Thursday night Scottish celebration at the Industrial club in Cheyenne drew more than a hundred Scots and families. The program honored Robert Burns and old Scotia with songs, bagpipe music, sword dances, horn pipes, Highland fling and reels. Attendees lingered after the event singing Auld Lang Syne and pledging continued gatherings.
The Louisville Evening Post portrays Woodrow Wilson as an uncompromising truth teller self reliant and candid. It highlights his independence from party leaders and assigns him as a potential Democratic leader figure while discrediting Waterson and Harvey from a confidential conference account.
Munsey Magazine accuses International Asbestos Mills and affiliates of fraud in stock sales. It alleges fake dividends, large agent commissions, and inflated promotions by officers including W A Fisher and A E Minium. Postoffice inspectors have sent material to Washington for federal action in Denver.
Colliers discusses how editors back political favors with public works funding. It cites Stephen Sparkman and Ranedell, noting lobby gains via federal appropriations in Wyoming and the lower Mississippi deepening, and warns that voters trade favors for higher tariffs.
In a speech to the Indiana Editorial convention, Senator Norris Brown of Nebraska claimed the U S press would lack Democratic votes in the electoral college if it told the full truth about President Taft. He credited Republican leadership for Taft's administration and criticized Norma Brown for posing as a Progressive Republican, suggesting Wyoming's machine recruit him to counter a possible progressive bolt.
Government experiment at Arlington Virginia explores using static electricity to boost winter wheat growth. Dr Lyman J Briggs leads scientists who propose atmospheric electricity aids plant growth and could be amplified to supplement limited sunlight in winter months.
A new streetcar news vending device eliminates news agents, storing multiple papers in a metal container with coin slots from one to five cents, rejecting light coins. In Wyoming, a Progressive Republican bolt triggers a Taft vs Teddy fight, while national remarks critique mail costs and political maneuvering by Morgan and Wilson.
A collection of humorous quips and observations on marriage work ethic politics and society. It riffs on idle youth fate failed careers staged life and a joke about Mars canals and a Texas banker and rancher shooting each other. The tone mimics a light newspaper column with brief witticisms and verse fragments.
In Goose Neck Hollow Hank Hankins fails to win a prize in the Tribune political questions contest. Neighbors discuss the outcome cautiously while Hank claims the Warren and Mondell delegation promised him a post or land if he cooperated. He jokes about the state affairs and jokes about his aging hair as Mrs. Hawkins comments.
Ballad recounts a traveler who, cold and homeless in January, is invited by a charming lawyer to a chamber. The lawyer briefly aids him but later fears the host will be harmed by past helping. Years later the speaker thanks the lawyer, who laments ruin while the narrator vows lifelong care.
Indianapolis January 25. The United Mine Workers of America executive board will investigate alleged fraud in the election of national officers. A resolution directs inquiry with aim to uncover the thief in the Illinois incident of 1919.
Lawson Levitt of Denver, a convicted counterfeiter, was paroled today at Leavenworth Kansas. He is said to be the only Federal prisoner to ever break his parole, which he did in March 1911.
Honolulu reports Rear Admiral Sutherland stating the armoured cruiser Colorado suffered only a slight propeller vent during a collision with the liner Cleveland on Wednesday. The injury is deemed trivial and the Colorado remains seaworthy.
The two masted schooner Alien, Captain Barrette, with a six man crew, is believed to have foundered between Ensenada and Santo Domingo. Wreckage resembling timbers from the missing ship was found today along the coast near Quentia.
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