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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1912
Page
15
Classified note advertises concrete work and construction services including sidewalks curbing retaining walls foundations and iron fences. Mentions W B Thomas at 316 KE 26th St with phone 356 Y and promotes the State Leader as the leading want ad medium of Wyoming. Nonessential quotations about wealth and wolves appear as brief, unrelated filler.
Notice to bid on School District Number Eleven Crook County Wyoming for twenty five thousand dollars in 500 dollar bonds. Bonds due in 25 years with 6 percent interest redeemable after ten years. Bids opened May 1 1912 at 8 40 pm at district clerk office Gillette Wyoming. District may reject any bids.
New York stocks and bonds show Amalgamated Copper at 98% and U S Steel at 70% with various railroad issues trading around 107 to 1724. Omaha and Chicago cattle hog and sheep receipts detail steady to softer markets. Boston and St Louis wool prices list steady Quotations for Texas fine and California staples among others.
May 1 trading shows wheat dipping to the upper 4s and recovering to 4H 1/2 as weather and shipping cables affect prices. Corn moves higher with wet weather. pork and lard futures fall on liquidation. Wording is terse and market quotes are mixed amid ongoing volatility in Chicago grain futures.
The Eden Irrigation and Land Company schedules its annual meeting for May 1, 1912 in Cheyenne Wyoming. Secretary and Treasurer H B Parrot signs the notice.
An advertising note describes Want Ads served through a middleman handling both ends of the process for a three-line format at five cents per line, totaling 25 cents.
The text lists signal cards numbers and flag colors indicating fair weather rain or snow and local conditions. It notes combinations where No 1 No 4 or No 2 No 4 imply warmer or colder weather and local precipitation. The passages describe pennant colors White Blue White Blue Black and weather indicators for distant or local rain or snow with varying temperatures.
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