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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1911
Page
4
A string of social and political stings touches Abe Foeffs bars Ballinger and Pinchot, Lorimer Illinois politics and Archibalds. It notes Oyster Bay gossip, Dairymen League rows, and Canadian Laurier pronouncements while mocking editors economists and aviation hype with witty bitter asides.
The White House defends the move as practice but the public suspects a broader aim. Citizens see armies and fleets heading toward Mexico as part of a possible annexation or destiny for the neighboring republic. Debate blends doubt with anticipation of events along the border.
Washington correspondent cites Willia J. Abbot noting Republican leaders prefer Denver as the 1912 national convention site. They argue Colorado Wyoming Nebraska Montana Idaho form a Republican-leaning base and that moving to Denver could win back wavering states and prevent losses along the Mississippi region.
The Springfield Republican argues western states west of the Mississippi should be saved and Denver’s convention hall, noted for its acoustics, could serve as a superior rallying base over St. Louis or Kansas City. It contends Missouri won’t go Republican in 1912 and names Kansas, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, and Colorado as hopefuls, with Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan deemed too far gone for the ticket.
Poem expressing devotion to those who love and know the speaker and the divine, and a commitment to truth, justice, and progress. It honors bards patriots martyrs and sages whose deeds shape history and inspire unity, wisdom, and service.
Judge Charley H Carey praised American intellect at a Portland banquet per the New York Sun. A humorous exchange recounts Lawyer Simcox of Granville noting a colleague calling him merely a lawyer, sparking a quip about damages.
Reports say lobster supplies are thin this year causing widespread concern in East New York. The public reacts to anticipated higher prices and potential scarcity as markets warn that the familiar crustacean may be hard to obtain.
In a Berlin speech Chancellor Von Hethmann Holweg urged caution over papal decrees issued without German consultation. He cited the Borromeo encyclical as an attack on the German Reformation, warned anti modernism oath teachers would be barred from history and German classes, and threatened possible abolition of the Prussian legation at the Vatican. In a separate case Justice Bischoff instructed a jury to find for Mr. Parker in the main suit with Mrs Edith Moses Ellis in the counter suit ruled not proven.
John Floyd Parker aged 12 testified in the New York supreme court against his mother Meadane Hanses Parker in an absolute divorce action filed by John Alley Parker banker. The boy said he saw his mother with another man in Europe and referenced a musician from Vienna.
A coroner's jury in Rockridge county rules that a negro burglar died from fright after a homeowner fired at an attempted break in. The burglar was found dead in the yard the next morning. no wound was located on the body.
New York City reports a drop of 2 000 juvenile delinquents in the past year from 11 494 to 9 491 in the annual children's court tally. Only 2 percent of offenders were girls, with American-born boys most troublesome. Italians 654 and Russians 647 follow in arrests.
The treasury tentatively abandons planned issue of $1 greenbacks. Conversion of large denomination silver certificates into one-dollar notes will meet demand for now, with about 35 million certificates retired and replaced. No one-dollar greenbacks since 1885.
Twenty four conductors brakemen and pattern employed by the Missouri Pacific railroad have been convicted in federal court in Kansas City Missouri on charges of violating the Interstate Commerce Act. The case involved alleged unlawful acts by train crews and related personnel.
A Mexican insurgent unit sets up an improvised barber shop during a pause in fighting with federal troops. The image shows troops receiving grooming as an informal comfort of home after a brief engagement.
Railroad workers on the Holsington Kas to Kansas City line allegedly accepted cash fares of 2 dollars instead of the published 6 dollar 30 cent ticket price. The offenses were mainly on the branch line, with officers charging widespread practice.
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