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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1919
Page
4
International prohibition advocates gather for the world's temperance congress tied to the Anti-Saloon League of America's nineteenth annual convention. Delegates from major nations will discuss a worldwide campaign against liquor and methods to enforce nationwide prohibition as war-time controls near full enforcement.
During the second year of the war Britain enlisted hundreds of thousands of cats to detect poison gas. The felines were shipped to the front where they served as gas detectors and helped clear trenches and dugouts of rats and vermin.
The text argues that organized labor resists I WW ism and red radicalism, citing Seattle as evidence. It questions the fate of collective bargaining if the wage system is abolished and questions capital’s role if all capital is eliminated, asserting the American Federation of Labor balks at revolutions and rejects affiliations with unionism and red radicalism.
A fragment notes a class division where savers who own homes or land are branded as bourgeois by Reds and face calls for extermination. The passage frames accumulation of private wealth as dangerous to socialist purity.
At a House of Lords coal commission hearing Bob Smillie challenged Sydney Webb on whether landlords own underground coal to the earth’s center. Webb acknowledged theoretical limits to property rights, noting lawyers would accept constraints. The discussion touched on air rights and the paradox of property expanding above as one’s descent widens.
The author posits a theory where owning a 50-foot lot in Hades 5,000 miles below yields about one spark of property value, while ownership in heaven at higher altitudes could encompass several choice solar systems. The claim compares downwards scarcity with upward abundance across imagined realms.
In Newcastle Wyoming on June 3 Mrs D B Keef describes a brutal attack by her husband, homesteader Keef, who disabled her with a shirt sleeve gag, beat her, attempted to kill her, fed rat poison, then shot himself after she escaped. Keef died two hours later. The widow, 9 children.
Deputy State Veterinarian W. L. Hammond will apply the tuberculin test to about 425 head of dairy cattle near Powell in Park County after departing Monday.
Columbus June 3 W Lee of Cleveland was reelected president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen at its triennial convention in Columbus. He faced no opposition. Other officers were also reelected.
The B F Goodrich Rubber Company launches an educational campaign on prolonging inner tube life. It warns against hurried replacements and pinching, stresses even tube seating, proper valve alignment, and slow application to avoid leaks and buckling.
Instructions describe aligning the stem side inside the casing, ensuring the tale is evenly distributed around the tire, and preinflating slightly before applying the last bead. Mentions window shades Sherman Co. tf.
GAREDO Tex Jones Cancito Aguilar Mexican minister arrives here tonight and is rumored to be en route to Washington for a special mission to the Carranza government. Local Mexican consulate officers say details are sketchy as the party plans a northern departure.
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