Wyoming Rural Teachers See Laramie County Gap in Pay
A state chart shows wealth and rural teacher salaries by county. Laramie County ranks high in wealth but lower in rural teacher pay, while Washakie County pays comparatively more. May elections may raise levies above 3.5 mills to fund raises. many teachers face months below full year pay, with averages around 684.91 dollars and some as low as 300-400 dollars annually.
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Laramie County
Washakie County
Laramie
Anna M. Dobbin
County Association of School Board
Natrona
Sweetwater
Sheridan
Lincoln
Carbon
Mbany
Fremont
Converse
Plato
Big Horn
Goshen
Park
Niobrara
Hot Springs
Johnson
Uinta
Campbell
Grook
Weston
Washakie
Platte
Ag Johnson
Iinncan AM
Crook
Albany
Miss Dobbin
State Department of Education
Converse County
Dog Team Makes Re markable Journey
Leonard Seppalla and his dog team, famed for winning Nome races, set a new 800 mile Nome to Fairbanks speed record in fourteen days. The team averaged 57 miles daily and once reached 75 miles in a day while en route with Thorulf Lehmann of the Nome Chamber of Commerce joining the trip.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Leonard Seppalla
Nome
Northland
Seppalla
Thorulf Lehmann
Nome Chamber of Commerce
Widening Cheyenne Greeley Highway Plan
A state highway department official opened investigations into the Cheyenne Greeley road as the contract bid date nears. An eighty foot rightofway is required, prompting new agreements with property owners along the route. The changes affect the city segment from the viaduct to Tenth Street and along Crow Creek before rejoining the present road.
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State Highway Department
Cheyenne-Greeley Road
Highway Commission
Tenth Street
Crow Creek
Home Garden Agent Visits in Wyoming
A. L. Mathews of the University of Utah, supervising three states, visited Cheyenne as he traveled to Casper. He praised Cheyenne's home school garden work as well organized and noted the pupils’ summer garden displays were highly creditable. He said the program aims to vitalize education and foster independent thinking among youth.
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A. L. Mathews
University of Utah
Wyoming
Cheyenne
Casper
Mathews
Electrification of Railroads Would Save Vast Coal Use
A. H. Armstrong of General Electric argues nationwide railway electrification could have saved about 122.5 million tons of coal in 1918 and would cut energy waste. He cites reduced fuel needs, large potential capacity, and cost advantages over steam, with examples from Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line conversions.
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New York
United States
A. H. Armstrong
General Electric Company
England
France
Armstrong
Chicago
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Mexican on Trial For Life March 22
LARAMIE Wyoming March 17 The trial of Joseph Benjamin Tara for the murder of Ruby Burch during a Rock River hold up has been set for March 22. Burch, a confessed confederate in the robbery, was struck by a bullet Tara allegedly aimed at one of the robbers. Tara is said to have served two terms at Buena Vista Colorado.
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Laramie
Wyo
Joseph Benjamin Tara
Ruby Burch
Rock River
Lara
Colorado Industrial Institute
Buena Vista
Mount Holyoke study Warns of Birth Rate Decline Among Native Americans
A Mount Holyoke College study led by Dr. Amy Hewes finds Native American stock families at present have slightly more than three children per generation, with declines traced from grandmothers' 5.09 to mothers' 3.45, predicting less than one child per family two generations ahead unless economic pressures and late marriages are eased by wives work after marriage.
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Mount Holyoke College
Amy Hewes
Mount Holyoke
Professor Hewes
Hewes
Boy recalls dog friend Jim in hotel lobby encounter
A Cheyenne boy in Denver recognized A D Ward from Chappell Nebraska when Ward asked if he remembered Jim the dog. The boy recalled the dog owner and identified Arthur Graham’s father Henry Graham, a deaf mute, now at the Winds Building Shoe Hospital on Capitol Avenue.
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Cheyenne
A. D. Ward
Chappell
Nebr
Normandie Hotel
Arthur Graham
Ward
Jim
Arthur
Felel
Henry Graham
Shoe
Capitol Avenue
Iwynds
Mr. Graham
Go to Chicago to Consult Specialists
Dr. A. W. French and his youngest son Lawrence left for Chicago yesterday to seek specialist treatment for the youth in delicate health. The note also mentions New York City averages more rain than London by about one and a half times.
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A. W. French
Lawrence
Chicago
New York City
London
Farmers Set No Traps by Questioning
Barrett of the national board of farm organizations said the questionnaire for presidential aspirants will be completed tomorrow. He dismissed traps as unnecessary and stressed a conservative program and moral candidates who will endorse their views.
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Washington
Barrett
National Board of Farm Organizations
Marshal's Luxurious War Train For Sale
LONDON March 17 Harl Haig's train used by him as commander of the British armies in France is for sale. Consisting of eleven corridor coaches it contains bedrooms dressing rooms sitting rooms an officers mess and a kitchen. The furnishings include Wilton carpets and rugs and movable easy chairs.
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London
Harl Haig
France
Mexico Resents Assertive Americans Across Borders
The Excelsior reports orders to Mexican consuls to refuse visa for all Americans linked to the Association for the Protection of American Rights in Mexico. Albany has taken over Providence’s Eastern League franchise as a new deal in minor league baseball.
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the Excelsior
Mexico City
United States
Association For the Protection of American Rights
Mexico
Albany
Providence
Colby to Appear Before Senate on Confirmation
Brainbridge Colby, nominated by President Wilson to head the State Department, accepted an invitation to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday regarding questions delaying his confirmation. The committee action was by common consent after secret hearings. the information remains undisclosed.
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Washington
Mar
Brainbridge Colby
Wilson
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Colby
State Department
Union Pacific Men Discuss Safety at Meeting
The safety meeting of the Union Pacific continued yesterday with General Superintendent A. W. Woodruff addressing the attendees. The session was held in the office of Division Superintendent A. W. McDuffie and followed a Tuesday start.
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Union Pacific
A. W. Woodruff
A. W. McDuffie
Sheridan shimmiers fined five dollars under anti shimmy rule
Sheridan Wyoming on March 417 the first violators of the anti shimmying ordinance Miss Frieda Michaels Ethel Demmon and J EB and L E B Carroll were fined five dollars and warned not to do it again.
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Sheridan, Wyo
Sheridan
Frieda Michaels
Ethel Demmon
J. EB
L. E B. Carroll
Palm sugar jaggery gathered from wounded palm trees
In India jaggery or palm sugar is produced from sap drawn from the top shoot of specific palm trees after wounding the tree. The sweet juice flows from the cut, enabling collection for processing.
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India
Peru Na Remed y Praised By South Carolina Reader
A Dillon South Carolina reader and mother of two shares a glowing testimonial for PE RU NA highlighting recovery from catarrh stomach and bowel woes after two years of illness. The letter credits quick relief and weight gain from 100 to 150 pounds and endorses PE RU NA for coughs colds constipation rheumatism and flu prevention with tablets or liquid form widely available.
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Charlie Taylor
Dillon
S. C
Peru-Na
Sharkey to Fight Puryear in Baltimore Friday Night
Jack Sharkey, in good form, meets Earl Puryear of St Paul in a twelve round bout in Baltimore tomorrow. Both are crowd favorites and a large audience is expected.
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Baltimore
Jack Sharkey
Earl Puryear
St. Paul
Prince of Wales cameo at London cinema mystery
In a West End theatre a man with two officers present caused a stir when a lady near the door received his autograph book. He wrote the name J. J. Smith and bowed, then left. the event was described as not the Prince.
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London
Prince of Wales
England
J. J. Smith
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Cheyenne-Greeley
America
South Hadley
Mass
Cuticura Laboratories
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Malden
Cuticura
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Ilesfock Growers “National
Bank Eyenne
Sharkey and
Puryear
Ob Gr
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East 17Th Street
East 16Th Street
Iévans
22Nd Street
A. D. Kelley Realty CO
THE
Cheyenne Music CO
West 17Th Street
Cheyenne Music Company
R. N. Grace
Grace
Denver
Chas. E. Wells Music Company
Mississippi River
Pacific Coast
the Cheyenne Music Co
R.N. Grace
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