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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1920
Page
14
Mrs P S Cook’s Hast Twenty-first Street home hosted the Eastern Star Past Matrons Club with members and guests enjoying needlework and a 6 o’clock tea. A. A. Underwood sent peonies and marguerites to brighten the parlor.
An 18 months old child, Ida Ward, daughter of J. H. Ward, died after swallowing a firecracker in Denver. The incident is reported as a fatal accident with no further details provided.
Cheyenne investors receive a quarterly dividend of 2.5 percent from Consolidated Royalty, a Wyoming company led by Gov B B Brooks. The semi annual report shows royalties up 119 percent to $390,336.67, with $169,208.84 in dividends paid and $69,000 spent on new properties in Oklahoma, Montana, Colorado and Wyoming.
A group of British engineers says electric power can be produced by harnessing tides in two Scottish rivers at about two thirds the cost of steam generated electricity.
Six good office desks including three flat tops two rollers and one type writer desk four office tables twelve chairs three Underwood and one Remington typewriters model 8 linotype linotype magazines linotype and stereotyping metal wrapping paper cash register Burroughs adding machine composing stones stereotyping equipment electric starting system for large motor composing room turtles handsomest quarter oak office set in town selling them fast come early
Archie Hale from Colorado Springs visits the city while Mrs. Myrtle Dougherty of Fashion tours Denver. Teachers certificates exams are set at the county office today. Frontier Days opens in five days with street decorations and busy planners. Jaywalking and traffic issues persist as crowds gather for the event.
A collage of local ads covers real estate and insurance on Carey Avenue, taxi services and trips, baby carriages, a coroner candidacy by W. W. Dumm on the Republican ticket for August 17 1920, plus a health note urging Foley’s Honey and Tar for coughs colds hay fever and asthma amid seasonal illness.
The Merritt company halts efforts to sink to the second Wall creek and its well No 50 in section 9 and has fallen 1 000 feet on the newer well started in section 8. The new well with twenty inch pipe shows rapid progress and may catch up with the original soon. Oil from the first hole yields about 100 barrels daily and the deeper hole at 38 200 feet may be abandoned if the second prospect succeeds.
Fremont Lewis testified that his wife Frances left after two weeks of marriage. He told the judge the union lacked interest and requested a divorce, which was granted.
Ten thousand people, many women, pegged claims on opening day at Taungi Bechuanaland where 100 miles north of Kimberley a waterless desert sparked a stampede. A gunfire began the mad scramble as competitors hired sprinters and at least one man died impaled on an iron spike. Digging began but early results were not reported.
Dr. Serge Voronoff announced he could transplant a human interstitial gland from a youth who died by accident or electrocution to another man, aiming to reproduce the rejuvenation results of his monkey and goat gland grafts. He arrived from Paris and spoke in New York about the potential procedure.
The article notes that a long history of human gland transplants exists but highlights the French government’s prohibition on mutilating the dead. It discusses ethical limits and evolving medical practices in a historical context.
Health claim about Foley's Kidney Pills aiding weak kidneys. Includes testimonial from James Carmen of Mayfield Kentucky praising the product. Mentions champions Jeffries Corbett Ritchie Leonard as examples of winners who "answer the description of to have and to hold."
Former Denver judge Rice presided as arresting officers mocked a marriage ruling. The court questioned the defendant about marriage and bootlegging, with Anna Koch promising to wed the next day. The judge ordered either marriage or jail.
The Turkish government announced today it will sign a peace treaty. Turkish war offices reported that the Greek army advance reached Adrianople with a vanguard entering the city.
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