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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1913
Page
4
A governor proclaims May 11 as Mothers Day urging all to honor their mothers. The piece recalls maternal warmth shaping life from infancy and counsels visiting worship and wearing a white carnation to pay respects whether mother is living or memory.
The Leader urged Cheyenne residents to improve the town ahead of Arbor Day with general cleaning. Despite some progress many yards and vacant lots remain strewn with cans scrap iron and trash. A rotten walkway and a dilapidated tower overlook a valuable corner near the post office while a pile of junk worsens the block. The writer faults owners and tenants alike and calls for publicity to prompt cleanup.
A Natrona County Tribune critique attacks a Casper forecast of doom from Industrial Workers of the World. The piece flags alleged Wobblies influence across U S periods, rails at Republican trust mills and tariff protection, and accuses the editor of misrepresentation and ignorance.
The proposed law, after conference with the secretary of state, strengthens California's stance by restricting land ownership by Japanese interests. It aims to prevent acquisition of agricultural lands and preclude federal or Japanese challenges as contraventions of the law, with foreign ownership limited to eligible cases under state provisions.
The text references federal supremacy of treaties and California limits on derogation, with mentions of President and Secretary of State figures. It hints at a measure challenged as potentially unconstitutional, reflecting debate over treaties and enforcement. The passage remains incomplete and obscured by OCR errors.
A letter in mock German dialect laments political troubles in California during a transition, blaming Mexican and Chamorro influences while praising President Wilson. The missive imagines legislative friction, land laws, and public reaction as the new administration takes charge.
The Salt Lake Herald-Republicans argues that President Wilson seeks a test before the U S Supreme Court to limit treaty rights for ineligible aliens, praising a California favored compromise and noting uncertainty about Japan's reaction. The piece critiques Governor Johnson and predicts Bryan's influence in shaping policy.
Sir Arthur Nicolson who has been permanent under secretary since 1870 nears his 73rd year of life and may retire. He has guided foreign relations through posts in Berlin Peking Constantinople Athens Tehran Budapest Bulgaria and Morocco and later Madrid and St Petersburg. His influence helped shape policy during tense Anglo Russian and French alignments.
The column notes anti-Russian sentiment and speculation on Sir Arthur’s successor, mentions Sir Eyre Crowe and painter John Sargent on Henry James portrait, and describes Irish barley farming gains, a Danish peace palace gift, and Dutch porcelain artistry in a fragmented 1907-era review.
Limited number of Pana mai Pacific exposition souvenir plates will be sold to benefit the Denmark building planned by the Daniel Americans in San Francisco for 1915. Designs by leading Danish artists feature fine landscapes. the porcelain work Denmark is known for will be exhibited in San Francisco.
Graduates of Harvard University from across the United States travel to St. Louis May 22 for the seventeenth annual meeting of the Associated Harvard clubs. The event includes a banquet at Hotel Jefferson with speakers President Lowell Maj Gen Leonard Wood Dean Briggs and Percy Haughton.
Oakland, May 4. While testing a hydro airplane off Adeline Street foot, Hermann J. Jannsen of Los Angeles lost balance and fell into the whirling propeller. He was killed instantly as his head was severed by the blades.
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