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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1917
Page
4
The article urges Congress to adopt Senator O Connor s memorial in support of the Phelan amendments protecting laborers and placer miners on government lands who have not yet discovered producing wells, arguing small claimants risk losing rights without timely action by Wyoming s legislature and Congress.
Critics claim the film Civilization justifies satire on civilization and questions national honor and war. The New Atlas presents the spectacle as a learning experience about pacifist hopes, Wilson's address, and the civilized world’s outlook, urging attendees to see the picture.
A World article questions if core democratic principles can inform international law and if the Monroe Doctrine can become a global policy. It asks whether the Declaration of Independence can be translated into international standards guiding nations.
The article weighs President Wilson’s call for a League of Nations as a durable peace framework. It contrasts it with isolationist ideas and the Monroe Doctrine, arguing the US must back a global order based on liberty, equality of nations, free seas, and limited armaments, with Americans mustering support at home. It cautions that public resolve shapes Europe’s reception and the world’s future.
Dr Alfred Meyer of New York warns the US faces a European invasion of disease not arms. He cites tuberculosis rising 100 to 200 percent in warring nations and thousands of soldiers dying at home after the conflict. He notes marked increases in Germany Belgium and France and reports tenfold immigrant TB cases in 1916 vs 1914.
Principal L I Parmelee of Central High and Captain McLean attended a Culver Military Academy conference in Indiana where the Wyoming plan for high school cadets was demonstrated and a permanent Midwest organization urged. Wall scaling contests impressed observers as teams from four strength classes competed with results of 7.2 seconds for Company D and eight seconds for Company B. A Chicago tournament next spring will showcase the plan nationwide with Flint cadets hoping to reach the finals.
The 1916 U S exports reached 5 431 000 000, up 1 926 000 000 from 1915 and 2 997 000 000 above 1913, with December totaling 521 000 000. Imports rose to 392 million, a record, while the yearly export balance stood at 3 089 million and net inward gold movement at 530 million, a new high.
After January first the Cheyenne Messenger service will keep six cents on each call in addition to the old rate.
Letters from Gertrude Hufsmith and others in Douglas Wye urge approval of the committee’s plan, endorsing a state board of education, higher certification standards, district supervision, and appointive offices to reduce politics. Support comes from educators in Sheridan Buffalo Lander and other Wyoming communities.
The speaker advocates removing the Superintendent of Public Instruction from politics by making the office appointive. They support a state board of education with adequate salaries and a county board of education for at least one year with a minimum yearly pay of 1800 dollars. They also favor abolishing the current third grade certificate.
A delegation of congressional union women led by Miss Maud Younger and others presented memorial resolutions to President Wilson for Mrs Inez Milhollages Bolse vain but received no response. They then picketed the White House gates on Pennsylvania Avenue with banners asking the president what he would do for woman suffrage. They anticipated arrest but faced no formal notice.
A letter to the editor argues for placing charitable and penal institutions under a nonpartisan, full‑time board of control. It notes annual costs exceed 400000 and a six hundred resident population will grow, urging professional management to prevent wasteful, outdated spending and ensure modern, efficient care.
A Chicago bartender served a party led by a well dressed patron who ran a bar bill of 65 dollars for himself and the crowd. When the party ended the patron had no money, and the group sent him to an asylum, though the bartender notes the error lay with the wrong man.
Clayton Negus, Superintendent of City School in Thomorpolis Wyoming, supports a law allowing city school boards to contract for more than one year with superintendents and principals. He also backs replacing annual county institutes with sectional state institutes.
A Duluth Herald clipping profiles a Indianapolis letter carrier who earned $1000 yearly, later $1200, and raised six children who all pursued solid careers. Three sons and a daughter earned college degrees. two sons built the Panama Canal and worked with U S agencies. The youngest son became a top salesman. the daughter became a physical education teacher. The piece lauds their modest home as foundational to the republic, all achieved on one dollar a year.
Kansas City Times reports Oklahoma lawmakers push a bill to ban smoking and cigarette sales. The measure, approved by the lower house, would criminalize smoking selling giving away or disposing of cigarettes and related papers, with advertising bans across the state.
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