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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1918
Page
14
The list includes Octavia Muehlhausen J M Carey Mrs J M Carey Chas W Hirsig and John L Manewal as the honor roll recipients for the $1000 W.S.S. Cab program.
A group of Russian road experts, led by State Highway Engineer Z E Levison, toured Wyoming this week visiting Laramie and the western region by automobile. The party included E B Zack A Bereskoff J Zuhko and H Graphnski. They have traveled across the United States observing road conditions and construction to adapt plans back home.
Private Harold Hamel of the 66th Regiment at Ft Adams writes that after three months of a troublesome cough a sample of Foley's Honey and Tar brought relief. He notes using two 50 cent bottles since and recommends it for inflamed irritated surfaces and to soothe coughs colds croup and bronchial ailments.
Local health and beauty parlor offerings list services including chiropody work and sulphur vapor baths at 1815 Capitol Ave with phone 17.
Miss Geraldine M. DeCourcy of Mississippi employed in the U S legation in Berne and at the Berlin embassy earned a silver service cup from the British government for aiding British prisoners in Ruhleben. She was the only woman allowed to visit the camp and assist prisoners during 18 months of tireless work.
Dublin July 12. Lord Decies the Irish press censor is unusually popular across factions including Sinn Fein and Orangemen. His office on Grafton Street is known for informal access and ready discussion of sport and horses. He earns trust by impartiality, and even jokes about him appear in newspapers. Lady Decies is Vivian Gould of New York.
A Detroit Texas justice of the peace credits Foley Kidney Pills with curing kidney and bladder weakness and relieving rheumatic pains from impurities in the blood. He swears they outperform all others he tried.
The legislature killed a proposal to bar non English speakers from mining quarrying and railroad work. The piece argues loyalty would rise if workers spoke English but notes some American miners support the IWW or sympathize with that group.
The document argues against employing foreigners by demanding American workers and miners prove superior ability. It describes a proposed law that would exclude Mexican, other ethnic workers, and immigrants from mines, railroads, smelters, highways, and reservoirs, predicting a potential 50 percent drop in copper production.
War Pape edits the Palestine News issue with chess problems and puzzles on part of one page and theatrical and sporting notes on the rest. It includes church service announcements for St George Jerusalem Hoyprice Mount of Olives and the Convent of Marie Reparatrice. Advertisers offer odd items such as crocodiles for sale and hotels urge guests to bring rations with rooms advertised as clean beds.
The American University Union in London has started weekend excursions for college men in war work. The two day trips visit Oxford and Stratford on Avon. Participants include American army navy aviation Red Cross and YMCA personnel. At Oxford Magdalen College the group was greeted by President Sir Herbert Warren. The Stratford tour was led by famed Shakespeare scholar Sir Sydney Lee.
Cheyenne reports that miners at the Coalmont mines of Northern Colorado Coal may face a shutdown. A long burning fire has plagued a mined room for years and a second fire started weeks ago, leading to fears of permanent closure until a new shaft can be sunk.
Vera Hloux daughter of Gov Houx with two Cody girls Irene and Jene Wilson were stranded during floods while camping near Yellow stone Park. The trio faced isolation for two to three days as bridge washouts blocked contact. Mrs Wilson reported the danger and undertook a difficult journey to seek safety for the group.
The Vienna Arbeiter Zeitung denounces Prussian reliance on force as a vain superstition. It says the junker class and German magnates have bred a defensive faith in violence, while noting England’s shift as Western negotiations loom after eastern victories.
Italian art admirers in the United States learn that Ticiano relics once stored in the Pieve di Cadore museum, within Austrian-occupied territory last October, have been removed to safety prior to the Hua arrival.
Amusements for the day previewing Princess The Blindness of Divorce William Fox feature. Atlas new Pantages Vaudeville bill. Lyric George Walsh in The Kid Is Clever. Amage Charley Chaplin in Who Got Stung. Circus Grounds two big performances by Sells Floto at 2 15 PM and 2 15 PM with doors open an hour earlier. Big parade at 10 30. Fagles Hall social dance.
A pilot mourns a fallen friend as news arrives that the comrade landed safely within allied lines. The pilot, though mortally wounded, straightened himself near the ground and maneuvered just over treetops to reach French lines before his plane was fatally shelled by German fire.
F L West of Leipsig Sask discusses record crops in 1912 1915 and drought year 1914 while warning it is premature to forecast totals. Returned soldiers free indoor labor for outdoor work as government plans extraordinary measures. A briquetting plant in southern Saskatchewan funded by Dominion and provincial governments would cost about 400000 with seven dollars per ton production costs, excluding by products.
A Saskatchewan farmer's wife received a one month jail term for discarding about one hundred pounds of flour, marking Saskatchewan's first punishment for food wastage. The report mentions concurrent agricultural growth efforts in Alberta and Edmonton and a new fish canning plant with 600 cases daily output.
Paris reports the story of a captain observer and his protector pilot who dodged death after a sudden enemy assault. The pilot sacrificed his Spad to shield the captain, drawing fire and taking fatal damage while the observer escaped toward the French lines in a slower craft. The attack failed to halt the observer.
A new pig iron plant at Port Moody British Columbia has already signed contracts totaling 3000 tons, with part of the output destined for Japan.
The State Council of Defense proposes an ordinance forcing men aged eighteen to sixty to work at least thirty hours weekly. It stresses all who bought bonds or contributed to war funds are not exempt, and calls for enforcement to accelerate democracy in the war effort. The measure targets men twenty one to thirty nine, urging all idle or unengaged individuals to join productive labor.
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