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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1920
Page
12
Cheyenne newspaper notes the need for one million new homes in the United States and urges faster construction despite wage and material cost pressures. It argues homes are a wealth-generating asset, boost property values, and make owners better workers.
Billy slips through town from the circus on tiptoe and
SUPPRESSION of immodest dress and dance is gaining traction in Montana cities. Bozeman debates an ordinance to bar the shimmy, Great Falls sees a similar move, and Helena Woman’s Club would ban such exhibitions and hire a chaperon for public dances. Bishop J P Carroll organizes the League of Catholic Women with 600 members in Helena. he expects every diocese city to follow.
Burglars entered Basket Grocery Store No. 2 on Crook and Fifth Street in Sheridan, Wyoming, and stole $129 from a bag of the day’s receipts hidden under platform scales. The bag totaled $193.50 but a $58.96 check and a $5 bill were left behind. front door locked with Yale lock, back door unlocked, no burglar safe, money hidden in varying places each day.
In SCGOW Idaho on March 5, 45 young women study automobile technique under J. C. G. Wooley, University of Idaho professor of agricultural engineering. Demonstrators learn car adjustment, repair methods, and engine and chassis lab work using a popular car.
Missoula Montana March 5 One of the Northwest’s largest game fish hatcheries nears completion on the late Marcus Daly estate in the Billeroot valley south of Missoula. When finished it will produce ten to twelve million fry annually for distribution to major western Montana fishing streams under N W Kiefer of Butte in charge.
Today marks the centenary of Union General Hora G Wright who saved Washington in the Civil War. It also notes Missouri’s Enabling Act passage a century ago, the Manufacturers' Aircraft Association exhibition in New York, the Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show opening in Fort Worth, and a joint coal operators and United Mine Workers meeting in New York to discuss a new wage scale effective in April.
The sports roundup lists racing and track events including the Cuba American Jockey Club in Havana, the Business Men's Racing Association in New Orleans, the University of Illinois relay carnival, the Kansas City A C indoor meet, the national 50 yard championship in Philadelphia, a six day bicycle race at Madison Square Garden, Eastern Canada skiing championships, and the National AAU junior handball championships in Detroit. The items span boxing out to winter athletic competitions across several cities and disciplines.
George W. P. Hunt, Missouri native and Arizona pioneer, has been nominated as United States minister to Siam. His career spans merchant, ranchman, mine owner and capitalist roles, with political influence from the territorial legislature to governing under the new state constitution. He opposed capital punishment and led the Anti Capital Punishment Association.
A collage of milestones lists births deaths and events from 1806 to 1919 including Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1806 and 1864 death, 1836 Alamo massacre, Cave Johnson as Postmaster General, Dred Scott decision 1857, Louisa May Alcott death 1888, Bible Society centenary 1904, NYSE seat sale 1919.
The column lists anniversaries for Edward De Valera elections and various figures born on this date. It notes the Duchess of Marlborough elected to London County Council, plus births of Charles Pergler Homer L Ferguson King W Lardner and Frederick C Wicks with ages given. The item reads like a birthday roundup of public figures with places of birth.
Burglars entered Pioneer Mercantile in Upton Wyoming stealing lingerie silks shoes boots silk shirts and neckties totaling 500 in value. Reward of 100 offered for arrest. loot believed to have fled on a freight train.
Washington dispatch describes Jidda as Eve's burial site and Mecca 45 miles away, noting Lord Allenby to meet the King of Hedjaz there. Frederick Simpich reports on the Red Sea port, cholera risk, Bedouin trade, Mecca’s tourism, and the shifting position of Christians toward pilgrimage sites in a rising Arab nation.
Blaine county plans a new honor system for tax returns to cut field work by 20 to 30 deputies. Taxpayers will receive forms from County Assessor Christensen and must still file returns on all property with penalties for failure. The trial, approved by county commissioners, aims to save about 3500 dollars annually.
An oil driller awoke to flames surrounding him in the ranch home of George P. Schneider seven miles east of Upton Wyoming and leaped from a second story window to save himself. The fire, likely from a kitchen range, destroyed the house and its contents.
A letter to Goodyear from F H Daniels of Mena Arkansas claims a 20 pound stone shows diamond tread marks from ancient rubber tires. He cites four million year old stone formation, while experts doubt the claim but photographic proof is presented. The piece playfully imagines Paleolithic industry and ancient wheeled travel.
An English farmer let 11 sacks of wheat go to waste. He was brought into court and ordered to pay a fine of 25 dollars and 50 dollars in court costs.
In Horse Creek the home demonstration program drew interest as Edith Fowler the home demonstration agent. joined by county nurse Miss Avery and state nurse supervisor Miss Cogan they led a session on in bed bathing bed changing without moving the patient and basic bandaging. The meeting marked the first for local women and enthusiasm ran high.
Miss Cogan recently arrived in the state described her work and urged securing cooperation among nurses in the various Wyoming sections to support planned demonstrations along the Yarrowis lines for the remainder of the year.
Auditors testify that J P Morgan and company received over 18 million dollars in fees from bankers for standby loans that were never drawn. The New York traction inquiry reveals substantial payments tied to street car finances and market dealings.
The notice describes a 24 year old man about 6 feet tall with black curly hair and a medium dark complexion. He has large blue eyes, heavy black eyebrows and even teeth. He wears a dark brown striped suit and a soft blue-black felt hat. Relatives will pay. Notify Police Dept., Denver, Colorado.
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