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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1917
Page
4
The Cheyenne State Leader publishes monthly except Mondays. The Leader Publishing Company operates from 1813 Carey Ave Cheyenne with a Denver representative and Colorado Newspaper League affiliation. An editorial and business office shows a one year rate of $2.00 per issue.
A wartime era column critiques continuing public works and pork barrel spending, arguing nations and cities must scrimp while pursuing essential improvements. It warns against private profiteering and calls for fiscally prudent priorities amid national strain and shifting budgets.
The text rails against perceived wartime austerity and the misuses of government funds. It questions legitimate spending for public works and warns against fear driving policy, urging restraint and urging scrutiny of federal and local budgets.
An article reports two detachments of United States troops reaching a French port and beginning rapid training in advance of combat. It praises American soldiers for battlefield readiness, anticipates victory, and urges all Americans to support the effort behind the front lines.
Article describes officers training in trench digging and siege tactics for potential deployment to France. It emphasizes trench layout, individual responsibility, and the unit as a mobile force within the trench system.
Wartime article explains mailing letters to American Expeditionary Forces in Europe. It details return addresses, proper addressing, postage rates identical to domestic mail, and routing from New York Mailing Agency.
Casper approves a sewer project with the Security Assurance Company of Billings the lowest bidder at about 40 000. The plan covers 800 feet of sanitary sewer and 8500 feet of storm sewer with completion within the year. About 150 government workers will be brought in plus 200 workers locally to support the project.
The article recalls grandmothers' root and herb cures and notes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, created in Lynn, Massachusetts over forty years ago, as a widely used modern drug-store remedy bringing health to many American women.
Audiences enjoy the swift development of features and expressions as the artist portrays the faces of men the nation loves. The closing Chauteauqua program marks a fitting finale to the exhibit of sculptural work.
New York report on French language study among troops at Madison Barracks and other camps. Classes organized by the war work council of the YMCA with volunteers and university instructors. Texts prepared by University of Chicago Press and educators in New York. Parallel French and English New Testament editions to aid instruction.
The Associated Press reports in San Francisco on July 2 that German U boats heighten the strategic value of Pacific ports Tacoma Seattle Portland and San Francisco. A National Council of Defense note says the Pacific will likely absorb much trade diverted from New York, with expanded Russian and Far East shipments routed via the Pacific for ocean delivery.
SEOCURESLOTSSH Improvements are planned in GREEN RIVER with Harleoud Co exchanging lots for a Mason order property. A new recreation hall and an attractive club house are to rise near the old library site, plus an Elvie center building and other welfare projects for the town.
At Green River July 1 the Union Pacific pile driver under foreman I O Shrider drives 100 piles for a firm foundation. New one story quarters will house the chief dispatcher telegraph office Western Union and yard master's office. Train inspector’s office to move to Rawlins with a supervisor here. Twenty five houses under construction with more expected. HW Belisle presiding.
Special to The Leader from Green River reports President Wilson has appointed Jay Hawk Sheriff Arthur Dilson and County Clerk Stanley Pitchford as members of the local selective draft board for Sweetwater County.
Unicon Trust Co of Cheyenne Wyoming advices investors to buy first mortgage farm and ranch loans as the safest security in wartime. It offers $100,000 in securities from $500 to $25,000, maturing in three or five years, with principal and interest guaranteed and exempt from state county and city taxes. Officers named are Geo E Abbott J L Baird and C L Beatty.
Victor van der Linde, Goodrich representative, reports Russia will join the Allied effort strongly once workers resume production. He witnessed the czar abdication and the early Soviet upheaval in Moscow and Petrograd and notes tension between soldiers and workers over wages. He predicts strong US allied support and mutual resolve among England France and the United States.
A historical quote from Mr. van der Linde expresses strong faith in U S influence to aid the allies. He cautions that even with American help and a united Russia, victory could not come within two years. The remark reflects wartime pessimism about rapid end to conflict.
Carl Christensen of Cheyenne, Wyoming special agent, in Laramie seeking evidence against P. W. Cooley, a Denver shipped laborer who assaulted conductor Frank Tillman. Cooley, arrested at Granite Canon and returned to Cheyenne, denied surrendering his Denver pass claiming it had been taken up. Tillman suffered a painful wound over the eye.
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