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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1918
Page
15
Fragmentary OCR lists oil firms and Western US locations such as Midwest Oil, Northweat Oil, United Pet, Wind River Ref, and towns like Glenrock, Hecla, and Blackfoot. Numerical gibberish follows, resembling prices or percentages, lacking coherent narrative or events.
On July 6 in Denver cattle trading was muted with very few cattle offered and overall activity light. Prices held broadly steady for top grades, while medium and plain cattle slipped slightly. grass cattle showed strength with record highs for a massive 1,800 pound steer and strong prices for cows and calves. Across Chicago and Omaha, receipts and prices varied, with hogs higher, cattle steady, and sheep mixed as markets closed the week.
The market remains steady with cattle and calves trading firm. Prices listed include steer and heifer ranges from 7.00 to 14.71, yearlings at 11.75 to 18.50, ewes at 10.00 to 12.00, and lambs at 14.50 to 18.50. Sheep receipts noted at 100.
Cheyenne items report legal notices and civic updates including marriages licenses issued for Albert Kern Jones and Julia May Patterson and Marie Gordon with Elanore Ratchford, Red Cross service appointment for Cortell in France, and local road and service news. Also notes two marriage licenses and a federal post for Hopka enlisting, plus road conditions and a fire alarm test.
This brief notes veterans of old Indian wars and their widows may qualify for new pensions under a pending act. It lists figures such as Write Jems I and Parker along with Southern Bridge and Washington as points of reference in the proposal.
Police watch for two runaway youths named Tom Rhodes and Claude Carl, both 16, who reportedly disappeared from Fort Collins with parents. Other items report boy thefts, a gas leak killing park saplings, a dozen police court fines for drunks, popular dances, oil lease talks, and a Chautauqua opening address in Douglas. A birth is announced for George Palmer Johnston Jr. and a W A T C manager was ordered not to strike.
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