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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1912
Page
5
A Utah mother recounts her child’s severe head eczema and how Cuticura resolved it using Remedy, Soap, Ointment, and Resolvent. She credits rapid skin improvement and hair growth, urging readers to try free samples of Cuticura products offered by Potter Drug.
A roundup of residents and visitors in Cheyenne and Laramie including Hiram Baker, Mrs. Thomas Scott, A Wilkinson, B Bent, Mrs. Anna Witte, G C Mille, A L Lockridge, Willam Henderson, Ned Hodgkins, Miss A Atkins, William Spence, Mr. George Joffee and son Victor, Miss Anna Keeley, hr. A Ferguson, A M Akin, C F Hoel, Rev F L Moore, Miss Stanley, Miss Lillian Titus, and Florence Nottage. Mentions business visits, relocations, travel to Denver and Great Falls, a nursing update, and a health tip for sprained ankles with Chamberlain's Liniment. Public notices and local ads for Plains Building jewelers and Edholm & Akin appear.
Community items include repairs and services at Little Leaders and American Electric Shoe Shop, land and homestead activity by Kitty Gregory, Governor Carey’s Rock Springs address, and hospital updates for Bob Lafontaire and James Garrett. Local appointments, clergy notes, Burns visitors, and Cheyenne business trips are also listed with funeral, legal, and civic notices.
John T. Biron of Cheyenne wed Deloing Douthit of Cushing Nebraska last Tuesday morning at the bride’s parents home. The bride is the daughter of Mr and Mrs A B Douthit of Cushing Neb. The groom is a Cheyenne young man of sterling character. Eureka Vacuum Cleaning is advertised with contact details.
Mary A Moore aged 82 dies at daughter Mrs M J Moore 2722 Bend St after two years of illness. Widow of a veteran of Mexican and Black Hawk wars born Schuyler County April 4 1840s. Mother of fifteen with six living. survivors include Alice Vancortwick Owen Moore Thomas Moore M C Pitemforris George Moore and Mrs M J Moore. Funeral Sunday afternoon at the Siding.
Denver May 3. Colorado & Southern Co contracts with Colorado Fuel & Iron for thirty five miles of 85 pound steel rails and fifteen miles of second track. Order covers about 10 000 tons at $200 000 with 30 000 treated ties to follow. Cheyenne to Hartville Junction rails 85 pound already laid. Hartville Junction to Sunrise link to be connected with Colorado & Wyoming line. A roundhouse will be built at Hartville Junction and made a division point.
Mrs. Julia A. Cole wife of W B Cole died in Spokane Washington April 18 after nearly two years illness. Born 1849 in Henderson county Illinois she moved west in 1886. Survived by husband W B Cole and four children.
A nervous man tells a floorwalker he has lost his wife as a clerk offers mourning goods on the third floor. The ad from Peabody & Nelson at 1017 Thames promotes Kansas Cream Flour from a just unloaded car, phone 652-W, with window glass supplied by The Sherman Co.
The attorney general told the wreck commission that the Titanic maintained twenty one knots after ice warnings were received. He examined lifeboat numbers and watertight compartments, noting excess first class losses and calling for inquiry into rescue disproportions and construction details.
The article notes vast child labor figures in New York City with 181 972 children aged 14 to 15 is 65 352 girls and 69 620 boys at work. It warns of a potential Oshkosh Wisconsin mill strike affecting 5000 workers. It cites 44000 Hawaiin laborers in cane fields 24000 women and children and reports a 10 percent wage advance for South Staffordshire and North Worcestershire chain makers.
Snow blankets Ranting and Laramie with foot to eight inches delaying UP traffic between Cheyenne and Ogden. Train No 4 double headed reached at 3 30 p m. Officials were unprepared as plows failed to clear lines in time. Restoration began after crews dispatched from Rawlins and Laramie. In Omaha UP plans remodels to the local lunch room to quadruple capacity with a double horse shoe counter fifty stools four new tables coffee urns a new milk and water cooler and upgraded pantry kitchen and office fixtures.
Following Western Pacific lead the Union Pacific will include Pacific coast points in special homeseeker rates. Previously the limit matched Utah New Mexico and Wyoming. officials say the change eases hardship and balances eastern connections profits.
Ernest Stenger general manager of St Jon and Grand Island and former U P assistant superintendent in Cheyenne was in the city today. W F Burke Denver office Chicago Great Western passenger agent was in Cheyenne yesterday on business. W S Burdick A T & B traveling passenger agent Denver 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 depart Cheyenne Sunday for Barton on 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 story reports Mrs Mary Mareheal wife of Theodore Marchesi shot twice in heart at Upper East Side home by her brother-in-law Joseph Marchesi before he killed himself. She had feared for years and was separated from husband who had brought his brother to America.
A detailed railroad timetable lists westbound and eastbound trains with arrival and departure times for the Omate-Portland Flyer the Overland and Atlantic Express along with Colorado and Southern and Denver Pacific lines. It notes freight moves and a note that New York shirtmakers demand a 10 percent wage increase.
Joseph Song, condemned for the William Lloyd killing in Evanston, is scheduled for execution on May 24 at the Rawlins state penitentiary. The Supreme Court set the date a month ago, with no rehearing petition filed. trials and stays followed since 1910 and 1911. This marks Wyoming’s first official housing execution inside a prison.
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