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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1920
Page
21
City notes a warmer spell with temperatures near 50 degrees and busy grocery deliveries. Swan Land & Cattle reports 22 000 sheep lost in a blizzard. farmers discuss shifting to dairying and wage profits.
William H. Holbrook, a jeweler's clerk, was arrested by Sheriff J. J. Smalley and jailed on charges of stealing a $65 Bancard watch from Swisher Jewelry & Optical Co. and selling it to Carl Christensen in the Union Pacific office. Holbrook resigned, reportedly to leave town, after the sale. A warrant was issued for his arrest by Judge Ed wards.
Eleanor Leighton a former Cheyenne girl died in Denver on Tuesday after illness. She contracted influenza last year and again this year leading to pneumonia and quick decline. Buried Thursday in Cheyenne, she left a son and many friends in the city.
Chicago tenants stage a rent strike with hundreds refusing to vacate apartments amid high rents and housing shortages. Moving plans are postponed as landlords await tenants’ relocation, and a van company is fined for overcharging under city ordinance.
Randerson Cortez Island reports a discovery near Vancouver that tapping Douglas firs for turpentine could become a multi million dollar industry. Mature trees yield 48 gallons per sap tapping with two thirds of a gallon of turpentine per gallon of sap and a royalty of one dollar per barrel is planned for landowners.
The Cheyenne Teamsters union protests city council action to enact a daylight saving ordinance. The weather forecast calls for rain or snow and colder conditions Sunday with Monday turning fair and temperatures rising.
Mrs Leila Thompson wife of William Thompson of 210 West Eighteenth street died yesterday at a local hospital. She was formerly Miss Leila McNutt of this city. She had lived in Denver after her marriage.
The Nebraska College of Agriculture lists cleaning aids and their uses for home care. Items include soap types for woodwork and glass, scouring compounds for porcelain and windows, kerosene as disinfectant, ammonia for windows and linoleum, washing soda for drains, and rottenstone for brass and copper polishing, among others.
A fragmentary scorecard lists batteries for clubs including Philadelphia, Brooklyn, and St. Louis. Game conditions note a 26th inning end due to darkness with names Adams Meador Haffner Ruether Wingo Oeschger O'Neil Gowdy Gadore Krieger Elliott Carter Martin Bailey Killifer O'Farrell Jacobs Payne Dilhoefer among players.
A scan shows batting orders and battery pairings for New York Boston Philadelphia St Louis Chicago Detroit and Cleveland. It lists pitchers Shawkey Pennock Harper Fortune Walters Devine Zachary Charrity Kinney Perkins and others along with fielders across teams.
Funeral services for Earnest Drubbe were held yesterday afternoon from the Glyde Warly Bricker Brothers mortuary. Rev. Gf FP Wagner conducted the rites. Interment followed at Lakeview Cemetery.
Sinon Frank formerly of Pine Bluffs has leased the Becker hotel on West Fifteenth Street from Charles Becker and will take possession immediately. Smoker May 8 at Ft Russell.
Beginning May the Geyser Laundry office will close at 6 o'clock on Saturdays. This change affects weekend hours for customers and staff scheduling.
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