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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1920
Page
12
A kitchen page offers meals for a day including stewed prunes, baked eggs with rice, and an oyster dinner. It lists several desserts and salads with gelatin and mousse style prep, plus a whimsical Mars balloon note and light quips on medical advice.
The piece contrasts how leaders from Washington to Wilson faced harsh attacks, labeling their motives and temperaments. It notes Lincoln Roosevelt Cleveland and others endured character onslaughts, while modern scrutiny, spurred by psychological labeling, is seen as intensified despite earlier eras. A Joliet parolee’s return to prison ends a three week escape.
Critics fault Attorney General Palmer for planning for May Day violence and failing to trigger attacks. The piece recalls his house being targeted less than a year ago and argues the Red menace is real. It cites an Syracuse, New York incident where a homeowner boasted of Liberty Bonds worth $1300 and later faced a second burglary.
In Brandford Pennsylvania the Carnegie library reports the theft of reference books with over 100 pages of liquor making recipes. The thief is described as a home brewer, though it is possible the act aimed to destroy such recipes broadly.
A Philadelphia burglar kept a warehouse stash of loot and a card index of 700 burglaries with detailed notes of planned operations. Police captured the suspect, linking the crime spree to the organized scheme.
James Larkin, a communist, argues that no man who works long and hard ever gains property. He contends that the correct method to obtain it is by force from those who have labored for it.
The Baldwin Works of Philadelphia reportedly rejected an order for 6000 locomotives from the Russian bolshevik government. Census figures show urban population growth driven by farm-to-city migration, while high costs of living affect even distant regions. In Central Africa prime wives fetch higher prices, and Paris fashion returns to Mercury motifs with winged shoes replacing hat adornments. A peach crop boom promises plenty, yet prices remain high amid ongoing scarcity. Hammond Louisiana Vindicator notes printing on wall paper, recalling Civil War blockades.
A fragment from Billy Whiskers describes Night the goat sneaking into a harem, startling a servant and Sultan, while Fatima and Day react to hair pulling. The scene blends comic misadventure with a swap from a couch to an amused court audience.
The Reverend Dr. Edmund M. Mills hints at revising church bans on amusements. He notes clergy and laypeople may adjust views on dancing theater games and circuses while advocating community dance halls theaters and open air entertainments as modern recreation.
The administration favors diplomatic posts filled from within the State Department and has named Joseph Clark Grew to be minister to Denmark, succeeding Norman Hapgood. Grew began in 1904 in Cairo and served in Mexico City Petrograd Berlin and Vienna before his Harvard 1902 graduation.
A collection of light items from the paper includes an Irish candidate misreading a voter’s stance, a Sherlock Holmes inspired reader seeking help, and a parade of fumbled puns. Anecdotes touch on thefts, schoolroom humor, and social mishaps with playful dialogue and minor mischief.
Local letter writers weigh groceries and meatless days with humor as Pennsylvania plans meatless weeks and critics joke about rationing. A jab at shortages surfaces as New Jersey and Rhode Island drift beyond limits. Meanwhile Dr. Frederick J. Millener, a scientist, waits for Mars signals from a lonely farmhouse near Amelia, hoping for a message.
The piece notes the 132nd anniversary of a Connecticut Puritan church discovery that hard cider held more than two percent punch. After two cider rounds, elders planned a new church and distributing $410 to village paupers. It also mentions Poughkeepsie aiming to end one-dollar haircuts with overalls. An art critic is described as having gone crazy after viewing a poor painting.
Dear Mrs Thompson offers advice on love age gaps and marriage timing. A young woman, 18, weighs two suitors while another asks to marry in about 2 1/2 years, with guidance about waiting and choosing for love.
The passage describes a plan where a professor, referred to as God, aims to reach Mars by ascending ten miles in a balloon to be nearer the subject. A friend will accompany him to simplify communication and observation during the ascent.
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