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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1920
Page
10
Fragmentary passage notes a moose in a half of a double residence with the Coolidges occupying the other half. The text hints at a high rent issue and a student named John studying on front steps. The garbled OCR suggests a local dwelling dispute or odd scene.
The page lists civic updates including gutter work near the W. G. A. building and J. M. Garey office, sewer progress behind the Hynda building, and road paving plans. It notes taxi and express services, auto insurance, real estate sales, and local businesses promoting supplies and services.
In Cheyenne and Wheatland items, notices show wedding preparations and licenses. Names such as Clealle Van Crouler Margaret Mitchell Great and Myrlé May Wal are mentioned alongside license issuance to Wil McGord. The fragmentary text lists brides month themes and ad hoc lines from the page.
A menu outline lists breakfast items such as grapefruit soft boiled eggs toast and coffee luncheon includes fried tomatoes cream gravy and toast dinner features Great Tomato Soup baked ham casserole new potatoes string beans lettuce and berries. A recipe note provides flour baking powder soda and hot water with flavoring and optional mats and raising for cookies.
A collection of vintage bake recipes including Sour Milk Cake One Egg Cake Dolly Rolls and Cram Cookits with steps. Ingredients list lard butter sugar honey sour milk flour soda cinnamon cloves nutmeg salt eggs milk and flavorings. Instructions cover creaming, mixing, and baking in moderate ovens.
A compact grocery wisdom items list notes salt can ease bee stings and help with stains and odors. It also suggests salt in water preserves cut flowers, in whitewash helps paint adhere, and in a pan protects baked goods from scorching.
Surveying parties move north through Cheyenne for railroad work. Pine Bluffs aircraft not seen returning as expected. Oak Leaf Chapter Eastern Star held special initiation at Masonic Temple. Lawns sprinking business resumes after brief lull. City commission toured Round Top reservoir. North side offices filled with smoke from bonfire in ash pit. Chain gang boosted by officers adding vagrants. Patrolman Cox purse recovered. thief had $4.40. Fishing good. deer flies troublesome. New tennis court planned at Twenty first and House. Burlington house on Twentieth and House heading east. Auto dealers foresee gasoline at 36 cents soon. Rhubarb wine made in Cheyenne. rhubarb market active. Picture hats return as fashion. maidens avoid freckles. Tourist travel heavy. Pacific earthquakes redirected some to Yellowstone. Local oil men warn Pacific fault could affect LA production. Well supplies tight. casing delays of thirty six cars reported.
The city failed to keep a park plan allowing a plot to be used as a lawn. A filling station offer was rejected in favor of the Liona club proposal to seed and plant lawn, with labor supplied by the group. The city will clear and shape the area and maintain it after planting. Work starts immediately with a small park expected by summer.
The Lions Club begins immediate beautification of Gilchrist Park a small triangular plot at the intersection of Plonver Avenue Randall Boulevard and Twenty-sixth Street. Mrs Gilchrist donated the land with intent it become a city park. The city accepted the land about two years ago after the fire department once planted potatoes there.
A note on adding nuts and currants to the centers of apples before baking, producing a richer filling and a wood smoke aroma from the heated fruit. The technique suggests a contrast to plain baked apples.
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