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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1916
Page
12
The piece laments fading American traditions as leaders like Weedrow Wilson appear at odds with longstanding civic values. It critiques shifts in government and public life, urging a return to core national ideals.
The article appeals to Cheyenne residents to buy Prentier Days tickets, warning that the celebration relies on local turnout and could fail without community support. It emphasizes public backing as essential for the event’s success and repeats the call to purchase tickets.
The article reports a sweeping British blacklist targeting firms with German capital and any American firms associating with them. It argues American vessels and trade with Great Britain and allies will be restricted, curbing U.S. commerce and provoking potential protests from Washington. It notes newspapers like the New York Times and World criticize the policy as economic warfare.
The writer discusses how a German case tests the principle of international law and warns that a distorted national policy could harm prosperity. It argues government needs broad commercial support and questions whether only a trade war between the West and the Entente can force action.
The New York World contrasts Wilson and Hughes, noting Wilson’s presidency since 1913 and Hughes’s governorship ending in 1910. It argues Hughes failed to control Republican forces and party leadership, while Wilson united his party and secured progressive legislation from a Democratic Congress.
Bridgehampton orders suppressing petty quarrels between Republicans and ex progressives. Hughes suggests progressives should judge and support the program, while noting New York’s budding progressive influence may matter beyond Perkins. The piece mocks opponents and urges fair prices and hospitality this week.
War geography bulletin by the National Geographic Society surveys the Straits of Otranto linking the Adriatic and Ionian seas. It recounts Otranto and Aviona Valona as ancient ports with historic ties to Rome, Byzantium, and the Turks, and notes Pyrrhus historic campaigns across the strait.
A clipped humorous aside mocks self help insists there is always room for further improvement. The speaker notes no one is perfect and some people are inherently mean, ending with a jab that some can always be meaner.
The House of Representatives passes Navy bill backed by Senate. four dreadnoughts and four battle cruisers planned next year, total 157 war vessels in three years. Proponents say it makes the United States second in naval power and is the era’s key national defense measure.
An excerpt discusses the words cipher and zero tracing to the Arabic sifr and Latin gephyrum from arithmetical texts. It explains medieval transformations through Latin French and English, noting that sifr ultimately became cipher, signifying the concept of nothing in modern usage.
The speaker likens labor to a school that forges energy, character, and wisdom through hard masters and physical suffering. He argues the material world teaches through beauty and discipline, and only patient effort can transform resistance into use. Difficulties shape the mind and moral fiber more than ease or aid.
Fragmented text discusses comparing wallets with John D Rockefeller and Dies, implying potential theft of bank notes. The passage mentions pocketbooks and old fashioned banknotes and questions wealth, but the context is incomplete and unclear.
The piece notes that real money varies by place and class, recounting a summer scene on the Massachusetts east coast where a rich visitor lacks cash. It contrasts a $7.19 pocketbook with a $6 plan and a tiny spare, while a painter discovers a roll of hundreds in a house as they discuss cash and credit.
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