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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1918
Page
14
Irish women mobilized for anti conscription activities in Ireland with the Women s Pledge pledging non cooperation in forcing military service. The signings occurred during St Columbite festival with floral displays processions and religious commemorations marking national history and resistance efforts.
London notes a shift in readers as wartime workers from munitions plants and government posts replace the traditional London book buyer. New patrons buy multiple novels weekly, paying five to six shillings for popular titles, while cheaper editions struggle to stay in stock.
Announcement states A K Jones of Cheyenne, Western Life Insurance agent, will marry Miss Julia Patterson of Springfield Mo. in Cheyenne this Sunday. Jones has built a large local insurance business and will later honeymoon by car through Wyoming before returning to 1823 Evans Street after August 1.
A fourteen ton whale found on Suffolk shore is being salvaged for wartime needs. The national salvage council will extract glycerine to propel 18 pound shells and use bonds to boost phosphatic materials for land use.
Rome reports suppression of personal newspaper columns in foreign editions to curb espionage. Trial of Cesare Sanoro reveals he hid information as live letter advertisements. Austrians fill blank ad space with injurious news and drop editions to reach Italian troops.
County Agent Reed leads a county wide effort with a national government agent to demonstrate a poison for ground squirrels. Two colored posters announce meetings in Hilldale July 15 Egbert July 16 Little Horse Creek July 17 Divide July 18 and Federal July 19 with sample packets offered to attendees.
Mrs Effie E Kieppe of Averill Minnesota reports prolonged rheumatism and kidney trouble with no relief from sanitarium treatment. After using Foley Kidney Pills she experienced immediate relief and nearly complete cure within a short course. The advertisement asserts the pills ease weak sore aching kidneys bladder back and joints.
City police court was crowded as Judge Swainson fined more than twenty offenders. After testimony from officers and witnesses, fines ranged from 6 to 25 dollars for drunkenness and related offenses. Two were convicted of disturbance, some faced concealed weapon charges, and two defendants were ordered to work on the streets today.
July 1 Venice bestows Gonfalonier of San Marco on American consul B Harvey Carroll Jr in a formal ceremony at the city council chamber. The honor, reflecting Italian respect for US efforts during the Piave trials, includes presentation of a silk standard bearing the lions of San Marco to Carroll at the American consulate. The event drew mayor, councilors, naval officers, and a city delegation.
Berlin discussions outline a partial retention of wartime economic controls under the new state organization. The plan centers on textiles groceries rubber fats oils hides and shipping with cooperative districts appointing delegates to Wirtschaftstellen. A funds pool will allocate money where needed and a state controlled purchasing agency will handle materials including cotton and coffee.
Paris July 6 The French food minister Horot proposes using condensed wine to save tonnage. A surplus of wine in Algeria cannot be shipped easily to France, but a method to turn wine into a honeylike substance that can be diluted back to wine is being tested. If practical, it could cut freight by four fifths versus barrel transport.
Amsterdam July 6 The plan to connect Europe with Asia by bridging the Bosporus has gained form per the Osmanieche Lloyd. The bridge will have separate tracks for railway tram and vehicular pedestrian traffic. It will span 2200 yards with a 140 foot rise to allow passage of large vessels.
Baron Tanetaro Megatg, once chief of the Japanese Mandal mission to the United States, was awarded the Welder of the Sacred Treasure for distinguished services.
London July 56 A submarine which destroyed the munition ship was itself wrecked by the explosion. The torpedoed ship sank after the submarine surfaced and opened fire as the blast demolished the steamer. A rescued crewman recalled being enveloped in black clouds and pulled aboard a lifeboat after ominous noises and a final rush of darkness.
A July meeting in Nagoya with 43 000 members from eleven provinces endorsed a franchise demand. Viscount Kato, ex-foreign minister, led the constitutional party as president. The manifesto urged reform in diplomacy with China, naval arms, finances, education, and price control, calling for a cabinet change to align with public opinion.
A young officer bathing in prohibited waters at East Kent was killed last week by gunfire from an airplane. An airman testified at the inquest that a tar get had been set for airplane practice and he mistook the officer’s head for a target while flying over the water.
An Italian professor visiting London with a university delegation said Italy, after millennia of cultivated soil, expects its greatest harvest of wheat ever this year. He believes 1918 will see Italy supporting in the matter of wheat production on a scale not seen before.
A wartime appeal stresses duty to buy bonds and contribute to the war effort. It urges all eligible men and supporters to do their part in money and labor, with a call for broader participation beyond the drafted and regular contributors.
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