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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1920
Page
11
The Cheyenne State Leader established 1867 announces publication details and office locations. Includes editor and manager Randolph Leigh and notes Associated Press membership and republication rights for dispatches.
Chief Justice White clears Rhode Island suit to test constitutional validity of the eighteenth amendment and federal powers versus states police powers. The case may settle wet and dry conflicts, while William H. Anderson of the Anti Saloon League signals a nation wide campaign against anti prohibitionists and a political fight over Sen James W Wadsworth.
The text frames the Anti Saloon League as pressuring Congress to enforce prohibition, risking a dissenting congressman's voice. It contrasts this with citizens who prefer government and the supreme court to command on the issue, expecting a supreme court decision to carry authoritative weight.
Allied powers press Holland to deliver William of Hohenzollern to face trial under Versailles for crimes against morality and treaties. They cite Belgium Luxembourg atrocities and the submarine war, arguing the Kaiser bears supreme responsibility and should be warned for future rulers. Royalty fears tempering their loyalty in the dock.
Billy slips from Nanny and the boys, hides in a ravine, and contemplates his next move. He plans to return for Nanny at night, then spots a city view from a hill and heads toward the town, eager for a first city visit in the next story.
J Leslie Shelden was fined 25 dollars and sentenced to 30 days in jail after a police court appearance for attempting a confidence game by posing as mute to solicit funds for a mute school. Sterling Ross, his companion, was discharged amid lack of evidence.
Brigadier General Benjamin A. Poore commander at Fort D. A. Russell leaves tonight for Camp Lewis with his family to follow this week. In Poore’s absence Colonel G. A. Hodekin of the Fifteenth Cavalry will command Fort Russell. The post is a brigadier general’s command, so a replacement brigadier is expected to be detailed soon.
Seventy one cases of influenza of varying severity were reported at Fort D. A. Russell last week with several cases of pneumonia and one death. Most illnesses were milder than last year and the cases declined toward week’s end. Colonel M O Bigelow contracted the disease and Cheyenne reported sickness as a mild grippe. W H Edwards noted many women sought short term help for families with multiple ill members.
Archer Carter died at his home on Snyder Street at age 88. He is survived by his son George Carter of Snyder Street. Funeral arrangements are being made at Clyde-Early Bricker Brothers funeral parlor.
Classified brief announces a sale item in the state daily want ads. Listing notes item type, price, contact method, and deadline for offers or pickup. Plain wording mirrors period newspaper style with emphasis on item, price, and how to reach the seller.
American women and many Red Cross workers are to be evacuated from Siberia on the first available transport. Trains bringing Red Cross workers from outlying points are arriving. 800 aboard with 100 women. Volunteers among male Red Cross personnel will stay at Vladivostok to supervise distribution of about 3,000,000 dollars in supplies to refugees and care for 3,000 Petrograd children sent here due to famine.
Kingston, Oklahoma physician Dr. W. H. Ford is affirmed as the Red Cross member captured by Bolsheviks in Russia. Dr. Claude Thompson of the Oklahoma State Medical Society said Ford, a Kingston native, is part of a Red Cross expedition reported from Vladivostok as Dr. W. H. Kireston.
Sergeant Carl Roberts of Louisville Tennessee and Private John Montgomery of Newry Penn were the two American soldiers killed in the January 14 skirmish near Verkhneudinsk Trans Baikal.
On January 40th thirty eight American members of the railway guard detachment at Tosolsia near Berhyne Udinsk captured one of General Semenoff’s armored trains. The general commanding it was thought killed and all officers captured after the train attacked the sleeping Americans in box cars.
Secretary Frank J. Wiffler announced that after legal steps finalize the name change the Cheyenne Industrial Club will become the Chamber of Commerce and its building will be known as the Chamber of Commerce building.
Mrs. George Gurtz and her infant daughter, the thirteenth child, were discharged from St. John’s hospital Sunday. The baby, born Friday January 28 on the Colorado & Southern train between Diamond and Chugwater, remains with relatives at a private home in Cheyenne area.
The government argues for damages at present value of lands based on a Ninth Circuit rule and plans a May district court hearing to cancel patent to about the same land, with LaBonte Live Stock and Saul brothers facing the action as none of the land has been sold.
No. 2 for telegraphic appeals would begin from those points. Good roads boosters from Lusk Lowell Basin Gody Thermopolis Buffalo Newcastle illette Ranchester and Parkman reported over telephone to Secretary Fisher that they were opening fire on their delegations in the legislature.
The plan outlines a citizen army with guards and a reserve, limited to war declarations, and annual reductions of five percent in regular enlisted strength and two percent in enlisted officers for five years. After five years, 70,000 soldiers and 1,800 officers may be cut, lowering military expenses by about half. A under secretary of war would oversee procurement and industrial problems. Treasury estimates for the war department total 1.1 billion dollars this year, with a senate report expected soon.
The article details a Wyoming special session with bills on irrigation and appropriation sent to the committee of the whole, a suffrage resolution advancing, and clerical organization under Speaker Eugene Sullivan and President William W. Daley. Senators Green Edmonds Shinzy and reps Ball Bunten Gantz Johnson Hall Harris Hunter Steele among those absent. Grace Raymond Hebard honored. public mood lean toward suffrage.
The Wyoming Senate, after committee review and slight amendments, reported the irrigation bill with a do pass recommendation. It moved through second and third readings under suspensions, as the chamber filled with applause for the measure’s final passage.
Yesterday in legislative session Madame Gaeron drew attention with her interest in the safrage resolution and action. Also present were veteran G. O. P. war horse Patrick Sullivan from Caspar who spoke on the floor in a Sullivanesque mix of wisdom and humor alongside Natrona’s Pat O Connor and Uinta’s Charles A Myers.
John Wognue of Elberton Georgia writes he suffered a severe cold last fall while battling influenza like symptoms. He took eight doses of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound in two hours and soon recovered fully praising it as the best cough medicine sold everywhere.
A stage actress credits Marmola Prescription Tablets with shedding two to four pounds weekly. The ad claims taking Marmola Tablets several times yearly keeps weight steady. Available at druggists for $1 per large case or direct from Marmola Co. Detroit Michigan.
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