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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1911
Page
13
The State Leader advertises office contact details and advertising rates. It lists establishment date, editors and society telephone numbers, and business office hours. Multiple addresses appear including New York and Chicago references with rate information for ads exceeding 200 inches.
The column notes young Cheyenne residents celebrating birthdays tomorrow. Joseph Michael Walsh born March 25, 1904. William Johnston born March 25, 1901. Iva Beatrice Jordan born March 25, 1900. Ralph Barnum born March 26, 1998.
A stream of short notices lists residents visiting or traveling. Mrs T A Kent visits in Cheyenne while Anderson travels to Tip to Denver. Z J Gatchell from Newcastle on business. Attorney Thomas Hunter to Denver. Wm Ball of Wheatland in Cheyenne briefly. Tim Williams ill with grippe. J P Webster of Chugwater at Becker hotel. Fred Williams of Carpenter on business. Mrs J A Stoyer of Carpenter visiting friends. Chrng Johnson to Beatrice Neb for a visit. O Cooper and wife of Chicago visiting Cheyenne. O J Lamm to California for summer. Mrs W McDonald of Tron Mountain shopping. George Carrmandy visiting relatives in the east. L White recovering from grippe. Ed Jacobson of Carpenter mentioned.
A stream of out of town guests and locals moved through Cheyenne as business and health trips concluded. J P Webster of Rawlins left for Nebraska, and Wm Black of Rawlins was among guests at the Albany hotel. Others included Mrs Cora Martin, Guston the employment agent, and Miss Rose Bird with family relocating to 2611 Warren Avenue.
Notice is given of a teachers certificates examination in Cheyenne Wheatland Torrington and at high school buildings starting 8 30 a m on March 31 1911 and April 1 1911 The program lists sessions across Friday and Saturday with subjects including penmanship arithmetic grammar geography pedagogy physics biology civics and more Dated March 4 1911 signed Mamie E Hefferon County Superintendent of Schools.
Keeley roams with a six shooter demanding cigarettes from targets he suspects are smokers of makins. He apologizes when refused and moves to another, but Patrolman Downey intervenes, locking him in the city jail. A rival who sought prison also had makins.
Lewia Thorpe secretary of Charles M Schwab Bethlehem River Company band played Tagtime and classical pieces for 30 hours and 15 minutes at the Washington Republican club house. The feat shatters prior long distance piano records, surpassing Waterbury who lasted 28 hours and 19 minutes.
Chicago March 24 The awakening of interest in irrigation and western development is shown by an interview with Judge Charles F Fishback irrigation authority and chairman of the Chicago board of the Ninth National Irrigation Congress He notes improved bond markets and growth in arid land programs with Taft expected to address the congress and Chicago backing westward and Orient expansion. The piece lists officials and travels connected with the irrigation drive and cites substantial government spending on irrigation projects.
Adjutant General M C Burkwell received a War Department request to name sixteen Wyoming National Guard officers to join U S troops maneuvering along the Mexican border for field experience with regulars. Names forwarded include Major O K Nickerson of Lander and others, awaiting further orders.
The California court of appeals sustained Postal Telegraph and Cable Company’s right to condemn a right of way on the Southern Pacific railroad and denied Western Union Telegraph Company’s writ of prohibition. The ruling, a significant precedent, is likely to end the lengthy litigation and affect similar condemnations nationwide.
Washington reports influx of inquiries on how the reciprocity agreement affects dairy products. The accord makes dairy products free on both sides to curb market manipulation during shortages abroad. Canadian Parliament criticized the pact for favoring American producers, while Payne Aldrich duties lowered cream tariffs and spurred 1919 US imports to about 1.5 million dollars, with no evident harm to domestic dairy prices.
Seventeen native policemen, members of the force accompanying a party, died in the Mer River disaster near Melbourne. The tragedy claimed multiple lives among the Melbourne police contingent.
British administrator Staniforth Smith on an inland Papua expedition drowned from rafts in the Strickland River. The party endured 800 miles of jungle, five days without food or fire, subsisting on sage roots after their near loss. Smith recovered from the privations. discoveries are considered valuable.
Henry Vignaud, age eighty one, after forty years of work, presents a new life of Christopher Columbus. The work, split into two large volumes, argues Columbus never intended to reach Asia by a western route and only claimed that aim after discovering the Western Hemisphere.
Washington reports the government has reached a high water mark in internal revenue receipts. For the first eight months of the fiscal year $199,837,080 was collected, up more than $22,000,000 from the same period last year, with February receipts $1,692,000 higher than February 1910 due to higher tobacco taxes.
Steamships offer New York to Londonderry Glasgow Naples and major continental points with single or round trip tickets. Booking information and reservations through local agents or Henderson Bros, Chicago, with emphasis on superior accommodation and cuisine.
A historical note reports tariff changes boosting receipts by about 800000 monthly while beer consumption grows enough to lift February revenue by roughly 366000. Oleomargarine taxes decline, and whisky and other spirits taxes are listed at 0.00 in the record. The state letter want ads are suggested for results.
Modern hair dressing trends spark demand for sage remedies as druggists report rising sales of cage tea and related preparations for hair growth color restoration. A. H. Reoedel offers direct sale from 74 Garthatt Street New York, promising remedies upon payment.
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