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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1916
Page
13
Local brief notices list visitors to Cheyenne from Sheridan Burns Kemmerer Islay and Casper with engagements at the Metropolitan hotel and businesses. A motor party from Nebraska and South Dakota stops at the Ocean. Local services advertise cleaning varnishing sign painting and optical care.
Nore Creek arrivals include Mr and Mrs John Laycock visiting from Horse Creek and stopping at the Plaine. Worland correspondent C F Robertson and others arrived in Cheyenne from Worland and Laramie as locals noted Paper Hanging and Painting services by The Sherman Co. Marriage licenses issued by the county clerk include Elwood Reese Mreisch Jr and Ester Miller of Cheyenne and Will Lawley of Mine Colorado with Grace Laughlin of Fort Lupton and Glenn Priam of Arlington.
Quiet day at police headquarters with no arrests noted for Sunday. The report notes it was the calmest day in months.
The Gore line and family delayed from a Colorado motor trip while two Ford cars were reported stolen in Denver on Monday. Police were notified and the city prepares repairs at the U P Station including a new second floor records room and an indirect lighting system in the telegraphers' room. Stim S lona from Laramie was brought to St John’s Hospital for an operation.
Thermopolis post office was promoted to second class on July 1 after rapid growth. Postmaster Guy J. Gay reports a 100 percent three year rise in business, leading the Big Horn basin, with salaries increasing to 2000 for the postmaster and 1000 for the assistant. Departments plan larger quarters and a new building to relieve crowding.
The famed boxer Norman Selby known as Kid McCoy is shown as a private in Company K, 75th New York Regiment. The photo captures him amid admirers at a camp in McAllan, Texas with talk of his fighting prowess and corkscrew punch.
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