State Leader ISLS Carey Ave Cheyenne
The State Leader published from Carey Avenue in Cheyenne Wyoming, with an establishment date of September 19, 1887.
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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1911
Page
5
The State Leader published from Carey Avenue in Cheyenne Wyoming, with an establishment date of September 19, 1887.
A Cheyenne junior birthday column lists children born on March 18 in various schools. Anna Iva Jessen from Johnson, Frances Maude Oursrud from Corlett, and Dorothy Foster from Converse are noted with birth years 1900 and 1897 respectively.
Personal mentions note Mugh McMahon and Mrs M Kennels visiting Cheyenne for the weekend. Craft Gravatt among Pine Bluffs visitors. Otto Braunschweig buys round trip Bremen ticket and sails late April. Wilfrid OLeary confined at home. William Dinneen returns from Denver automobile show. Buick salesman Hagerman drives to Denver. Robert Fitton to return to Cheyenne from Laramie on business. Captain Charles Fauvel of London arrives in Cheyenne en route elsewhere.
An advertisement promotes The Cook's Book edited by Janet McKenzie Hill of the Boston Cooking School Magazine. The book, costing thousands to prepare, promises over 90 tested recipes to reduce living costs and lighten household burdens. Readers are urged to obtain a free copy through a certificate packed in EC Baking Powder cans and sent to Agua Mru Co in Chicago.
Casper officials arrive, and city guests mingle as brakemen resign for Colorado work. John Dooling of Shoshon and Edward Vance of Greeley visit Cheyenne, while hotel keepers, telegraph editors, and hotel staff move among local spots.
Max Meyers, the last avenue clothier, features a eight pound Wyoming speckled trout mounted on white poplar in his store. Local taxidermist John Adams crafted the mount. The fish, caught in Tongue River Canon, Sheridan County, was said to be perfect by viewers.
Foday recounts a biblical invasion led by King Benhadad of Syria with thirty two allied kings. The passage notes ancient warfare differed from modern methods, citing fewer combatants and simpler weapons, and mentions motives such as freeing people from bad government or exposing lands to civilization.
A biblical interpretation describes King Ahab's response to Benhadad's demands and the ensuing Israelite victory. It frames the battle as divinely guided with 232 princes and 7,000 militiamen, and compares foreign tyranny to Satanic forces. The piece urges righteous resistance against trusts and vices that threaten public welfare.
Chicago reports an Hereford Texas farmer J P Clement used tin cans in a ditch with a hose to water sweet potatoes. The method yielded two rows of potatoes from one line of plants as roots sought moisture. The tale includes unrelated notes on fashion and corsets from Mme G C Fey and Fanny Reiss about skirts and corsetry.
Mme. Ripley president of the Chicago Dressmakers' club predicts harem skirts will be worn by every woman of fashion within a year. The Palmer House gathering heard the convention discuss latest gowns from Paris and America.
Yonkers New York March 17 lines Fletcher a wealthy owner of Yonkers Electric Plating and Westchester Electric Equipment marries 19 year old Miss Margaret Vanderbush his housemaid and niece’s matron of honor Mrs Margaret Tyrrell is the only attendant Fletcher 58 years old widower with a daughter Mrs William M Barlow Fletcher plans a honeymoon next month
The Chicago Board of Trade notes farmers hold only 23 percent of their ten year average wheat supply. On March 17 the government estimate shows 179,690,000 bushels of wheat on farms, marked by a tighter supply complicating the Canadian reciprocity bill debates.
The report states 25.8 percent of last year’s crop and good Canadian prospects with bumper yields in western provinces. It notes a quarter million acres of safe winter wheat in moist soil after a rest year, no thaw, and four to six inches of snowfall in Alberta’s irrigation block. The corn bin remains ample and of good quality, at 84.4 percent merchentably versus the ten year average of 83.6 percent.
The Insurance Commissioner of Wyoming certifies that Germania Life Insurance Company of New York has complied with state laws and is authorized to transact life insurance in Wyoming for the current year. Witness the official seal and signature of R. B. Forsyth, Auditor and Ex-Officio Insurance Commissioner, by John Schuneman, Deputy.
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