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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1918
Page
6
Irish women united in the anti conscription campaign signing the Women’s Pledge at St Columba festival observances. The pledge rejects enforcing conscription and vows resistance, with floral displays and processions to revered sites and local memorials marking the event.
London merchants report a change in readers as munition workers and government employees replace the traditional book buyer. Women in government service now purchase novels weekly, while cheaper editions struggle to stay in stock as demand rises for five or six shilling volumes.
Announcement of the marriage in Cheyenne of A. K. Jones, a leading Western Life Insurance agent, to Miss Julia Patterson of Springfield Mo. The ceremony will be Sunday, July, after which the couple will travel for a Wyoming wedding trip and return to 1823 Evans Street after August 1.
A fourteen ton whale that stranded on the Suffolk coast is being salvaged for war use by the national salvage council. Glycerine derived from the whale will fuel propellant for eighteen pound shells and the bonds will fund phosphatic materials for military use.
Rome reports suppression of personal newspaper columns in foreign editions to block spy communications. Trial of Cesare Sansoro revealed he inserted information as live letter advertisements. Austrians fill blank spaces with injurious news and scatter editions to reach Italian troops.
County Agent Reed, with a federal agriculture representative, begins a two color poster campaign and series of demonstrations to show a government perfected poison to control ground squirrels. Meetings start July 15 at Hilldale and continue through July 19 at Federal with sample poison offered to attendees.
Mrs Effie E Kieppe of Averill Minn recounts two hospital stays for rheumatism and kidney trouble with no relief. After returning home she used Foley Kidney Pills and felt immediate relief, finishing a half bottle and claiming a cure. The ad extols these pills as best for weak, sore kidneys and related pains.
Cheyenne city police court filled Friday as Judge Swainson fined more than twenty offenders. Evidence from officers and witnesses led to penalties from six to twenty five dollars for drunkenness, with two convicted of disturbance and some cited for carrying concealed weapons. Two intoxicated defendants will be assigned street work today.
July 1 report from Venice notes B Harvey Carroll Jr receives the Gonfalonier of San Marco title at a ceremony in the city council chamber. The honor, reflecting Italian appreciation for his wartime service, includes the standard bearing silk gonfalon and gilded staff with the lions of San Marco.
Washington reports detail Germany’s proposed postwar economic demobilization. Plans retain several wartime controls, especially in textiles groceries rubber fats oils hides and shipping with new Wirtschaftstellen bodies guiding district industries. Agencies would manage money distribution material allocation and foreign trade while ensuring state oversight and preventing foreign competition.
Paris reports food minister Horot plans to cut tonnage by converting Algeria wine into a honey-like concentrate. The method reduces freight by about four fifths and can be diluted back to wine. The process, still lab tested, aims to move wine from Algeria to France despite transport obstacles.
Amsterdam reports a concrete plan to connect Europe and Asia by a Bosporus bridge. The Osmanieche Lloyd states the structure will include separate tracks for railway tram and vehicular pedestrian traffic. It will span 2 200 yards with a 140 foot elevation to permit the passage of large vessels.
Baron Tanetaro Megatg, head of the Japanese Mandal mission to the United States, was awarded the welder of the sacred treasure saluting his distinguished services.
London July 56 A submarine which had destroyed a munition ship was itself wrecked by the explosion and sunk after firing on survivors. A rescued crew member described the blast, enveloping smoke, darkness, and a scramble to reach a lifeboat.
In Nagoya on July 5 a large gathering of 43,000 activists from eleven provinces approved a manifesto demanding the extension of suffrage to a larger male population. The group also urged diplomatic reforms, naval rearmament, strengthened finance and education, price controls, and a cabinet change to align state policy with public opinion. Viscount Kato, ex foreign minister, chaired the meeting as party president.
In East Kent last week a young officer was shot by an airplane while bathing in prohibited waters. An inquest heard the airman mistook the officer's head for a target during aviation practice over the water.
An Italian professor visiting London as a guest of the Information Ministry stated that Italy’s soil cultivated for millennia may yield the greatest wheat harvest ever. He affirmed belief that Italy would for the first time support in the matter which...
Wartime appeal urges every man to contribute to the bonds fund and labor effort. It notes that soldiers and draftees alike have supported war bonds and Red Cross aid, stressing exemptions should not apply to eligible men and calling for continued public sacrifice.
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