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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1916
Page
13
A collage of notices and short items from Cheyenne and surrounding areas. Mentions visitors and residents from Casper Thermopolia Chugwater Hillsdale Rawlings and Denver. Includes hospital operation for R V Wiley and a women’s lecture at A M E church. Restaurant sale updates and service ads pepper the page.
Citizens from Pine and nearby towns canvassed for guarantors to cover a deficit of 1425 for the upcoming Chu Tauqua. Forty two business leaders predicted new loans would be arranged if needed, with several more expected to sign next week. Local officials and attorneys from Lander and Laramie were seen in the city during the recent sessions. The Pythian Sisters plan an event for May 10 at K of P Hall inviting all Knights and families with 25 cent admission.
A vaudeville bill at Atlas theatre and the industrial club features Joe Sheftel’s "Eight Black Dots" delighting Republican convention delegates. Westerman and West demonstrate with the military water and pitchfork while F. W. Kline and J. Brockman add songs and exit march for a fetching program.
London May 8 William Marconi reports in a talk with a correspondent on a six week continental trip. He says Allies feel a gigantic war effort is imminent and that a summer strike is possible. He notes heavy Allied losses and the need for vast ammunition if the drive against Verdun fails.
An advertisement promotes wheat as a spring tonic from Nature, claiming it rebuilds wasted tissue and helps remove toxins from a winter diet. It recommends easy digestion, suggests serving with milk or fruit, and positions wheat as a simple natural food for breakfast lunch and dinner.
Three calls were logged at the police HQ from across Cheyenne reporting burglars attempting to break into homes. No incidents succeeded. Chief Embery ordered extra precautions with day officers on night shifts to boost protection citywide.
Tenry Lambie age 62 and Ralph Robertson died in a Kansas City auto wreck last Thursday. The overturned car skidded about forty feet after traveling roughly thirty miles an hour. A motorcycle rider found the wreck. no witnesses remained at the scene. Lambie leaves a widow and son George Lembke. Robertson is survived by his sister-in-law Mrs. Robertson who traveled to attend the funeral.
Pauline Cushing, believed from Poston, killed herself by leaping from a hospital’s third story after a ten minute struggle on a fire escape with a nurse. Cushing recently arrived from the northwest where little is known about her.
Travelers arriving in New York from Petrograd report Russian troops have landed in France after traveling from Persia. They said preparations were under way for months and large numbers of camels and auto trucks were assembled on Persian soil to move troops across 700 miles to the Persian gulf.
In Pueblo on May 1 Mrs. Sarah Pield, 77, died after her lamp ignited clothing and set her room ablaze. She, living alone, escaped to the back door but was overwhelmed by flames. firefighters found her body severely burned.
Judge C A McDonald dodged a thrown object when Saurel Riley an 18 year old condemned killer fought to escape after being sentenced for murder of John Mosler a saloon keeper. Bailiffs restrained him as crowd roared during the desperate struggle in criminal court.
President Wilson approved former New York Governor M H Glynn as keynote speaker and temporary chairman of the Democratic National Convention in St Louis. Speaker Champ Clark is expected to be asked to serve as permanent chairman.
At the Missouri Equal Suffrage association convention in Springfield on May 8, Nellie Burger of Clark disclosed temperance leaders abandoned plans to push prohibition at the November election. She said unity frayed within the temperance group as suffrage for women was judged more likely to prevail, and that national suffrage funds would not be provided this year.
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