Cheyenne Motor Club seeks half day for Oldfield speed event
The Cheyenne Motor Club asks city officials and local merchants to grant a half day on Wednesday May 11 to let teachers and students view Barney Oldfield’s waterdrome stunts at Frontier Park. The plan includes closing stores at noon to allow clerks and the public to attend the 2:20 p.m. event, aiming to boost Cheyenne’s reputation and future speed trials.
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Cheyenne Schoola
Barney Oldfield
Cheyenne Motor Club
George S. Walker
Walker
Corymen’s
Chevenine
Frontier Park
Oldfield
O Oldfield
Daytona Beach
Frontier ‘Park
Abeada
Cloise
Cleventie Motor Club
Elks Attend Funeral of George F P Quigbey
Cheyenne lodge 660 Elks plan a 2 pm funeral service for brother George F P Quigbey at the Elks Home. B R Sage and Secretary Blake Kennedy issue the notice calling members to attend. Sporting Goods ad notes James Bros brand and Kansas City origin.
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Elks
BLP. G. R
George FP. Quigbey
County considers $150000 bonds for new court house and jail
Laramie county commissioners decide to submit to voters next fall a bond issue of 150000 to fund a new county building. Proceeds would also cover a bridge at the North Platte river near New Wyncote and move the Torrington bridge. Site likely on Capitol avenue with future road surveys from Egbert to Cheyenne.
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Laramie
Board of County Comminsioners
North Platte
New Wyncote
Torrington
Alte
William Storey
Capitol Avenue
Lo’ Re
Egbert
Cheyenne
Mounted Men Search for Missing Jowan
Sheriff Hughes leads a force of horsemen scouring east of the city and along the Union Pacific in a bid to locate Samuel Monson the Jowan who vanished Wednesday evening at Durham. Opinions vary on causes with some attributing altitude effects to the disappearance.
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Hughes
Union Pacific Railroad
Samuel Monson
Jowan
Durham
Union Pacific
Mertal
Americans Demanded as Germans in Court Battle
In New York a custody dispute over Converse Morrill and George Morrill hinges on whether they belong with their American father or their German mother the baroness von Romberg. Evidence includes photographs from Berlin showing the boys with their mother and their adopted father to prove their happiness and rooted in the United States.
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New York
America
Germany
Converse Mowill
George Peabody
Morrill
Walter C. Morrill
Haroness von Tomberg
Wiesbaden
Connecticut
Supreme’ Court of
Breth
Fife
United States
Baroness von Romberg
Ald
Supreme Court
von Remberg
J. B. Brewer
Berlin
von Renmbergs
Missing man search widens as sheriff keeps horse patrols
Disparate theories swirl over Manson's fate after he vanished on a train. Sheriff Highes refuses to declare him lost, yet maintains a horse patrol to scour the prairie until a location is found or clear signs point homeward. A telegram to Monson's hometown yielded no reply by nightfall. Special machine items and ham and bacon advertise at the Central Market.
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Manson
Iowa
Sheriff Highes
Diiner
Monson
America welcomes Prince amid tensions with Britain
Pekin dispatch notes cordial American reception of the visiting prince, praising the warm welcome as China seeks to balance relations with the United States. The report highlights improved goodwill despite ongoing friction with Great Britain.
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America
Prince
China
Pekin
Chinthe & Verumentia
Warning against counterfeit Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey sales
A public notice denounces unscrupulous sellers offering cheap imitations of Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey claiming equality to the original. It stresses the product is a genuine distillation of malt, sold only in sealed bottles, with specific labeling and an engraved seal. It urges buyers to verify packaging and contact The Duffy Malt Whiskey Co. for guidance and a medical booklet.
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Duffy
Ania
Rochester
City briefs highlight arrests licenses and obituaries
Cheyenne items report Allen Glafcke Florist ad with phone and address En Route to Asylum two insane prisoners arriving from Lander jailed until Evanston today Suspects Ray McDonald and Robert E Lee arrested on burglary charges McDonald found a ring from the robbery Pair accused after disturbance at Bon Ton restaurant released Refined: One marriage license issued William DimmittHamburgh Iowa and Eva Day Council Bluffs Iowa Quigley divorce granted Desertion cited Funeral services for George P Quigley 3 pm St Marys Cathedral Henry Porter Cheyenne native died in California Former resident built one of Cheyenne's first homes Vehicle trade: Alderman Gates sold his H P Maxwell touring car and bought George Strawman Columbia 45 Torpedo roadster
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McDonald
Alore
Fennell
Bon Ton
West Sixteenth Street
William Dimmitt
Hamburgh
Flows
Eva Day
Council Bluffs
Iowa
West
St. Mary's Cathedral
Father Duffy
of Elks
Order of
Cheyenne
California
Henry Porter
W. H. Reid
Deceasett
Cheyenen
Sells New Homes and Plans More Cottages in Cherenne
City councilman Harry B. Gates and builder sold a new S-room cottage at 809 West Twenty-fifth Street to C B Clements for 2850. This is one of six homes in the block, with three more cottages to begin at Twenty-sixth and House streets on June 1, featuring plans said to differ from prior Cherenne homes.
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Harry BE. Gates
CB. Clements
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Mr. Sloan
Cheyenne Speedway
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Fyvercmere
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Saloton
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