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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1911
Page
12
A early 1911 Cheyenne Gazette item urges Wyoming to embrace initiative and referendum to curb machine politics. It argues for a state railway commission, recalls and recalls a direct primary, noting Oregon as a model and criticizing partisan control. It also riffs on figures like J Pierpont Morgan and discusses rail rate regulators and public notice of reforms.
Senate File No. 11 would create and empower a Wyoming railway commission to correct unjust tarifas and discrimination against Cheyenne shippers. A case shows brick rates from Denver to Laramie and Cheyenne to Laramie both at 12 cents per hundred pounds for 40 000 pound shipments, despite longer distance from Denver. The measure seeks state action to adjust rates within Wyoming and reduce reliance on federal authorities.
In a wartime tale a former enslaved family, Ephriam and Avot Jane, stay with their former mistress Mrs. Smith after the Civil War. Sickness leaves Aunt Jane to die quietly, and Ephriam reveals she died about midnight, noting no doctor was present.
Fragmentary text recalls a Pall Mall Gazette verse on the Blarney and romance alongside a Kentucky moonshine raid story. It mentions Jan 27 and residents from Richmond, Leslie and Perry counties, wrecked stills, a heavy topped pine tree, and a trial in a Sherman Co. courthouse context.
In Offleiad minutes the writer laments county division schemes led by Laramie and Pine Bluff. The piece questions tax burdens, county seat needs, and local governance while urging division to keep office jobs and avoid shrinking towns into mere districts.
Miss Vivien Gould and Lord Decies appeared with an attorney at New York City hall to obtain their marriage license. The 18 year old daughter of George Gould and Edith Kingdom Gould and her 44 year old groom, John de la Poer Beresford, Lord Decies, an army officer born in Ireland, completed formalities already arranged by a lawyer.
Two babies are praised for their beauty and charm as a narrator compares Mia and Mrs Winkler link and a family scene unfolds. Gracie laments a candy temptation and seeks guidance while a parent urges self control.
In a clipped exchange the dealer complains cinema gear is scarce and the other offers a fix to attract attention. The terse dialogue ends with a hurried exit, suggesting a failed attempt to obtain materials.
A humorous scene aboard a Cumberland Gap bus as rear doors slam the mare Spake reacts each time. The narrator notes the driver warns to keep quiet and the joke about horns on autos. The piece blends dialogue about travel, animals, and small-town banter.
A fragmentary dialogue implies two men discuss a large jewelry house and the plan to place an ad revealing the source of information. The overheard exchange points to a potential burglary target and mentions using the newspaper to publish the name or location.
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