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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1912
Page
13
A woman recounts her child’s severe head eczema and how Cuticura Remedies healed it. She credits Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent for clearing the scalp and restoring hair. She urges others to request free samples from Potter Drug & Chem. Corp.Dept.128 Boston.
Local notes list residents travelers and visitors in Cheyenne including Hiram Baker from Laramie Wau and A Wilkinson from Egbert, with several others from Casper, Fort Collins, Wheatland, Riverton, and Carpenter. Several plan trips to Denver Great Falls and Evanston while Miss Anna Keeley departs for Great Falls to join the telephone company. Chamberlains Liniment advertises treatment for sprained ankles.
Items include repairs and trades at 1709 Carey Ave and 408 Ward St Tol, land and homestead entries, an address by Governor Carey in Rock Springs, hospital updates on Bob Lafontaire and James Garrett, new fireman Harry Halverson, coiffure services by Mrs. Clara A. Ligler, visits by E. W. Bastian, church notices, Burns residents in Cheyenne, and officials returning from Laramie and Rock Springs.
John T. Biron of Cheyenne wed Deloing Douthit of Cushing Nebraska last Tuesday morning at the bride’s parents home. The bride is daughter of Mr. and Mrs A. B. Douthit of Cushing. He is a well regarded Cheyenne man of sterling character. For Eureka Vacuum Cleaning call 605. Steventon Electrical Co 1721 Carey Ave Eureka Vacuum Cleaning. The State Leader promotes the Want Ad medium of Wyoming.
Mary A Moore aged 82 died at her daughter M J Moore’s home 2722 Bend street after two years illness. She was widow of a veteran of the Mexican War and Black Hawk War born in Schuyler county April 4 1840s. Survived by fifteen children including Alice Van Cortwick Owen Moore Thomas Moore George Moore and M J Moore. Funeral services will be held at the siding Sunday afternoon.
Colorado & Southern company awarded a contract to Colorado Fuel & Iron for 18,000 tons of steel rails for thirty five miles between Hartville Junction and Orin Junction Wyo and fifteen miles of second track. Order valued around 200000 dollars with 30000 treated ties to follow. Cheyenne to Hartville Junction already has 85 pound rails and Cheyenne to Denver remains in good condition. A roundhouse will be built at Hartville Junction making it a division point.
After an illness of nearly two years Mrs Julia A Cole wife of W B Cole who lived in Cheyenne for about four years died in Spokane Washington April 18 She was born in Henderson county Illinois in 1849 and moved west in 1886 She is survived by a husband and four children.
A nervous man asks for help as the floorwalker offers mourning goods on the third floor. The scene references Kansas Cream Flour from a recently unloaded car and a local advertiser, Peabody & Nelson at 1017 Thames with a phone listing, and window glass from The Sherman Co.
London May 3 The attorney general Sir Rufus Leanes opened the wreck commission inquiry into the White Star liner Titanic noting it maintained twenty one knots after ice warnings. He detailed lifeboat capacity and watertight bulkheads and said the Caronia and the Baltic warned of icebergs before the collision.
A mix of advisory maxims and labor figures outlines child labor in New York 181,972 workers, with 69,620 boys and 65,352 girls. Oshkosh warns of a spring strike if millmen demands go unmet, affecting 5,000 workers. Hawaiin cane fields employ over 44,000 laborers, including 24,000 women and children, while English chain makers in Staffordshire and Worcestershire gain a 10 percent wage increase.
Snow accumulations along the Union Pacific disrupted service between Cheyenne and Ogden with trains delayed by hours. Train No. 4 arrived at 3 30 p m after heavy mountain travel. Officials underestimated the storm and only deploying plows after delays. Remodeling plans for the lunch room aim to quadruple capacity with a double horse shoe counter and new fixtures.
Following Western Pacific example the U P will include Pacific coast points in special homeseeker rates. Previously the limit ran to Utah New Mexico and Wyoming borders. the change aims to ease hardship and address eastern connections receiving most transportation profit.
Ernest Stenger general manager of St. Jon and Grand Island and formerly U P assistant superintendent in Cheyenne was in the city today. W F Burke Denver office passenger agent for Chicago Great Western was in Cheyenne yesterday on business. W S Burdick traveling massenger agent for A T B with Denver HQ was in Cheyenne yesterday on business. F S Rickard U P dining car auditor went west on No 4 yesterday. Mrs Glafeke and William Hinkle will depart Cheyenne Sunday for Morton over the U P. Cook was a U P passenger for Los Angeles yesterday. Joseph Wilde of West Laramie left Cheyenne yesterday for Henderson Mina.
New York report says Mrs Mary Marchesi, wife of painter Theodore Marchesi, was shot twice in the heart in her Upper East Side home by her brother-in-law Joseph Marchesi who then wounded himself and was hospitalized in a dying condition. The article notes her Italian noble lineage and the couple’s marriage alliances, with tensions preceding the tragedy.
A detailed wartime style railroad timetable lists Westbound and Eastbound trains with arrival and departure times for routes including Omate Portland, Overland Limited, Atlantic Express, Oregon Express, Eastern Express, and Denver Pacific. It also notes Colorado and Southern, Denver Way Freight, and a price claim about New York shirtmakers seeking a 10 percent wage increase.
Joseph Song, convicted of killing William Lloyd in Evanston, is scheduled for execution at the Rawlins state penitentiary on May 24. The Supreme Court set the date a month earlier, with a 30 day window for a rehearing petition none filed. The case went through Uinta County district court, trial, and a stayed execution before the Supreme Court affirming the lower court.
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