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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1918
Page
2
The report describes a severe automobile crash near Powerte on a March afternoon. De Whitlock and KhKR Forbert sustained injuries and required stitches after the vehicle left the road and tumbled toward a sharp fore. Local authorities and doctors attended the scene.
A short note reports that pink flowers may change to blue when exposed to the mentioned taming solution for a few minutes, suggesting a simple color change technique.
A vintage advertisement touts Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a gentle laxative alternative to calomel. It claims the olive colored sugar coated tablets ease chronic constipation and torpid liver without forcing action, improving digestion and breath.
At a Burns Wyoming meeting of the Farm and Milling and Elevator Co. directors seven members authorized immediate construction of a new grain elevator. W. H L. Cramer will receive the contract and start work at nearly $2000 above the old $5950 structure. The plan includes a ten foot taller building with expanded ground area and machinery space for cleaning grain. A committee will seek to lengthen the Union Pacific siding, which currently holds three cars.
Port Cheyenne and vicinity reports snow likely with cold wave, north winds and colder temps. Mean temperature around the date is 20 degrees, high 69 and low 37, with 1.96 inches of total precipitation this year and none in the last 48 hours.
A 1917 examination by E T Hancock and N H Darton surveyed a 15 to 20 mile band west of the Chicago Burlington and Quincey line between Upton Wyoming and Ardmore South Dakota. It notes an elongated Black Hills uplift dome with dipping Paleozoic and Mesozoic beds, several anticlines including Old Woman creek and Ardmore, and limited oil prospects with small discoveries near Newcastle and at Ardmore.
Big Horn basin farmers complain of unsold potato and bean crops amid a national food shortage. A Basin Chamber of Commerce meeting hears Attorney Hartigan urge action to market surplus, noting 245 carloads purchased by the food administration for cantonments, while farmers fear losses and reduced planting next year.
At a regular monthly meeting of Stocky Mountain Lodge of Perfection held at the Masonic temple last evening, officers were installed for the ensuing year including Richard I. Repath as venerable master and John A. Kirkpatrick as senior warden. The next reunion of Wyoming Consistory is set for June 10 to 13, 1918.
E R Whitehurst of Norfolk Virginia reports relief from chronic back pain groin twinges and fatigue after using Foley Kidney Pills. He says he felt "almost a young man again" and credits the remedy for renewed energy and improved health.
Local youth Paul Peters has been promoted to first sergeant in the aviation corps. A Cheyenne High School senior in 1917, Peters joined the aviation service several months ago and earned a strong athletic reputation. He was active in the Mercury club, which has supplied about twelve men to the service.
Basin Wyoming March 4 Big Horn county's new courthouse is completed and ready for furnishings. Foreman G H Sturr will return home to Denver while Monarch Engineering will likely leave next week. Furnishings may take a month or six weeks to arrive and be installed before officials move in.
Two men 8. R. Johnson and Jack McGraw are alleged to have stolen 1500 in Douglas, with local police on the lookout for the suspects. No specifics were received by authorities here as of late last night.
An old ad copy promotes mustard plasters claiming pain relief without blistering. It describes a light oil blend designed to ease soreness and stiffness through a pure oil formula.
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