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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1920
Page
11
The readable lines mention a show with performers Porgy Melle Matt and others at a venue called Gudrun. References include various names and places, with unclear dates and numbers. The passage reads as a rough inventory of acts and attendees from an era’s performance listing.
Fragmented OCR text shows a Cheyenne state leader emeritus connected to Associated Press dispatches. It references republication and special department material, with unclear attribution and publication concerns.
The article discusses a global housing shortage driven by war losses and high construction costs. It cites the U.S. Housing Corporation estimate of 70,000 houses built last year, far short of demand, and notes contractor reluctance to fixed pricing due to expensive labor and materials. It calls for steady building, wholesale cost reductions, and community efforts to relieve the housing crisis.
The article argues Germany must pay thirty billion dollars in annual installments over five years, calling it a necessary consequence of war. It claims the sum, while huge, is manageable given wartime bond sales and insists the payments may spur German labor and savings while others avoid productivity.
Forty American ministers and nineteen European colleagues will visit nineteen countries this summer as representatives of a federal council of Christian churches. They aim to cultivate international friendship and promote League of Nations support, aligning with Red Cross and relief agencies to foster moral ties across nations.
The piece notes that New Yorks exclusive four hundred has vanished, replaced by a much larger social set of about thirty thousand. It cites the New York Times on numbers eroding cohesion and leadership, leaving no single unbroken New York society to anchor the scene.
Billy Jr. stays with firemen friends and helps pull a hook and ladder wagon but finds work unfun. He decides to run away seeking a new home, encounters Ned and a foxed alley, and a yellow dog named Stubby appears as the tale moves toward a cliffhanger ending.
Local snippets report W. W. Dunn seeking the republican coroner nomination visiting Pine Bluff for the campaign. Cheyenne and vicinity saw heavy rain undermining travel with fishing parties returning from Horse Creek. Lincoln Highway east of the Colorado & Southern crossing torn up. The Southern Wyoming Aircraft Co. airplane nears return after repairs. Bert Cole the Casper aviator left Cheyenne for Casper.
Dr B F Davis a state veterinarian returns from a business trip through northern and western parts of the state. Picnic parties gathered at Natural Fort 18 miles south of Cheyenne. Lincoln Highway grading between Cheyenne and the Colorado & Southern railroad subway completed. road is good. Frontier committee met to discuss plans for this year’s show. Fishing parties had good luck Sunday as fish were biting again. City engineer placed thousands of trout in city reservoirs yesterday. Case of C P Store against the director general of railroads dismissed on plaintiff’s motion. City commissioners set Thursday 10:30 am meeting to audit Dils against the city and arrange pay-day before July. U S district court was in session for routine business.
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