Wyoming Oil Boom Rivaling Pennsylvania Growth
Wyoming eyes rapid oil expansion with 1918 output target of 15 million barrels. major companies including Ohio Oil, Midwest Refining, Union Oil, Carter Oil, and Prairie Oil & Gas drive new fields like Big Muddy Pilot Butte and Lost Soldier. Wind River refinery test underway near Lander with initial 500 barrel unit. Wind River Petroleum pushes 60 day construction record and employs nearly seventy workers.
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Wyoming
Ohio Oil Company
Midwest Refining Company
Midwest Oil Company
Ucuion Oil Company
Carter Oil Company
Prairie Oil & Gas Company
Standard
Pennsylvania
Bie Hollow
Salt Creek
Grass Creek
Elk Basin
Wind River
Lander
A. A. Magnan
Wind River Petroleum
Wind River Refining Companies
Denver
Wind River Company
Wind River Petroleum Company
Glass of Hot Water Before Breakfast A Splendid Habit
An old paragraph extols drinking a glass of hot water with limestone phosphate on an empty stomach each morning. It claims to wash poisons from the body, purify the alimentary tract, improve digestion, reduce sour fermentation, and boost appetite, suggesting it helps headaches, constipation, rheumatism, and general sluggishness. The cost is stated as a small price for the benefit.
Marathon Pool Hall Rally Aids Red Cross Drive
Cheyenne pool hall managers launch a Red Cross fundraiser by listing patrons on a wall board. Each name with a red star marks a donor, and explanatory notes urge ten cent contributions. On opening day the drive netted $5 with more to come on February 5.
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United States
Red Cross
Marathon
Cheyenne
Charles Wright
Charles Smith found guilty of murder in Nebraska trial
In Omaha on January 26, Charles Smith alias McCloud, a Negro, was found guilty on his second trial of killing Mrs. C. L. Nethaway near her Florence area home. The jury urged imprisonment as punishment after a prior first trial ended in a hung jury.
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Omaha
Neh
Charles Smith
McCloud
LHS
C. L. Nethaway
Florence
Foley's Honey and Tar Aids Child With Croup
In Bearaville West Virginia C C Craven reports a small child taken with croup around midnight. The family visited M T Davis's store and purchased Foley's Honey and Tar. By morning the child was completely recovered.
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Croup
M. T. Davis
Bearaville
W. Va
C. C. Craven
Yankee Sailors Fire on U-Boat Till They Sink
The American steamer Owasco sank after a midnight battle with a German submarine near December 10. crew saved despite crewmen being blown into the air by explosions as gun crews fired at unseen targets in the darkness.
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Washington
Tta
Navy Department
Stockgrowers Meet to Discuss Routine Wyoming Issues
The Wyoming Stockgrowers' association executive committee met yesterday to transact regular business. Presiding was Robert Carey of Careyhurst. Inspectors Frank Brainard of Chicago C L Talbot and John Robb of Omaha attended to discuss problems with the committee. James T. Craig of South Dakota Stockgrowers' association was a visitor. Wyoming members included J. C. Shaw Orin T. A. Shaw Wheatland E. M. Yates Ava B F P Yoder Torrington J Underwood Underwood J M Carey Cheyenne and Oscar Beck Big Piney.
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Wyoming Stockgrowers’ Association
Robert Carey
Careyhurst
Frank Brainard
Chicago
C. L. Talbot
John Robb
Omaha
James T. Craig
South Dakota Stockgrowers' Association
Wyoming Stockmen
J. C. Shaw
Orin
T. A. Shaw
Wheatland
E. M. Yates
Ava
B. FP. Yoder
Torrington
J. ©. Underwood
Underwood
J. M. Carey
Cheyenne
Oscar Beck
Big Piney
Bowling Tourney Opens at Fort Russell
Fort Russell hosts a 16 day bowling tournament as teams from each battery begin play. Last night scores show A Battery 720 and 719, B Battery 692 and 682, and others including C Battery 758 and 662, BE Battery 627 and 611.
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Fort Russell
Fort
Funeral for Joseph Sladek in Leavenworth
Funeral services for Joseph Sladek, who died in Leavenworth Kansas, will be held at St Marys Cathedral Monday morning at oclock. The body was brought to Cheyenne yesterday by a daughter, Mrs Jack Walsh.
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Joseph Sladek
Leavenworth, Kans
St. Mary's Cathedral
Aheyenne
Jack Walsh
Girl Team Returns From Laramie Victory
Cheyenne High school girls basketball team returned from a victorious tour to Laramie. Local notes report various Cheyenne visitors including Ed McCarty in town for taxis and touring cars. Other items mention Thomas Carroll, James Shaw, Oscar Beck and Emil Christensen in Cheyenne on business or duty with local services and officials.
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Cheyenne High School
Laramie
Trains on Time and Notable Hospital Update
Harry Ruff visits Mrs. Kopp while Patrick Seals remains in St. John’s hospital in critical condition with pneumonia. Union Pacific trains ran on time yesterday despite cold weather.
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Hal Prewmonia
Patrick Seals
St. John’s Hospital
Uoion Pacific
Weather Report for Cheyenne and Vicinity Sunday Outlook
Cheyenne and Vicinity forecast for Sunday shows fair skies and continued cold. Wyombig expected similar conditions with largely clear skies and persistent cold. Shippers forecast notes a 46 hour shipment with temperatures 10 to 15 degrees below zero to the north and east and 5 to WW degrees below to the south and west. Actual mean temperature today 20 degrees, high 8, low 1. Snowfall and precipitation figures are provided with 0.02 inches since January 1 and 0.25 inches normal. Wind from north at up to 12 mph.
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Nener
Porkless Saturday Seen More Broadly in Cheyenne
Porkless Saturday was observed more generally in Cheyenne yesterday than a week earlier. Ample time was given for the various reasons and routines surrounding the measure.
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Cheyenne
Porkless day urges Cheyenne eateries to cut ham
Cheyenne restaurants adopted a porkless day with menus carrying the caption Porkless Day. No ham or bacon sandwiches were available, as chefs stand behind food administration measures amid the Big Muddy oil field's new fertility, producing 5000 barrels daily and rising monthly.
Drops of Magic Lift Out Corns
A Cincinnati man announces Freezone, a drug freezone, offering a small bottle for a few cents. Apply two drops to a corn or callus and soreness vanishes. the corn shrivels and can be wiped away with the finger. The product claims no pain and no irritation to surrounding skin.
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Cork
Ail
West
Virginia City
Nev
Cripple Creek
Goldfield
Wyoming Oil
Big Muddy
Pilot Butte
Hudson Field
Lost Soldier Field
Optometrist
Nebraska
Lems
Lowa
Dex Moines
Niveth-Roberts Jewelry CO
Capitol Ave
Seventeenth Bt
Shgko
Stockmen
Ft. Russell
Cahill & Holliday
Geert Coal Company
146Th St
Ed McCarty
Kidl McCarty
Goldsmith
Tom Carroll
Thomas J. Carroll
aNessenger
State Board of Livestock Commissioners
Christensen
Fmil Christensen
Hobbs & Huckfelt
Plains Hotel
Cheyenne Industrial Club
Frontier Committee
Yoder
B. F. Yoder
Highleyman West
J. W. Highleyman
Union Pacific
Bright Bros
Ft. Collins
Colo
J O'Clock
P. M
I. Wh. Justice
Galesburg
Ulinots
Harry Ruff
Fecla
Mrs. Kopp
Weather Report
Vicinity
Rem
Cincinnati
Overland & Willys-Knight
Silent Knight
America
Brewster
New York
Willys
Overland-Cheyenne Sales Co
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