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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1920
Page
4
A jumble of household tips, menus, and recipes appears including breakfast ideas with stewed prunes and cereal, a luncheon with cold shad, and desserts like Colonial Cream and Princess Pudding. The text also drifts into stray notes about a Martian balloon scenario and aphorisms, reflecting a mixed page of domestic guidance and light miscellany.
The article recalls how Washington treated treaty disputes with the Cherokee and his harsh dismissals of political opponents. Lincoln Roosevelt Cleveland Wilson are invoked as victims of hostile framing, with notes on era journalism, neurology jokes, and public denigration. A Joliet parolee case closes the piece.
Critics fault Attorney General Palmer for preparing for Red violence on May Day when nothing happened. He learned a lesson after his own house was targeted in the past. The Red menace is cited as real with a Syracuse burglary showing bold boasting and a later robbery of Liberty Bonds worth 1300 dollars.
In the Carnegie library at Brandford Pennsylvania a thief robbed reference books of more than 100 pages of liquor making recipes. The culprit described as a home brewer may have been aiming to destroy such recipies generally.
A recently caught burglar in Philadelphia ran a warehouse of plunder a card index of his 700 burglaries and copious notes on contemplated operations indicating a highly organized crime effort by the criminal.
James Larkin argues that no man who works long and hard ever gains property and claims the right path to obtain it is by force from those who deserve it. He frames wealth as acquired through coercion rather than merit.
The article notes a reported Bolshenik government demand for 6000 locomotives being rejected by Baldwin Works Philadelphia. It also touches on population shifts, cost of living, African prices, Paris fashion, a bumper peach crop, and a wall paper printing of the Hammond Vindicator recalling Civil War era blockades.
A fragment from Billy Whiskers shows Night the cat exploring a Sultan’s harem passage. Night ventures into a dim room, mistakes the Sultan for a couch, and startles the court. The scene blends mischief with comic peril amid harem intrigue and wandering antics.
Rev Dr Edmund Mills signals possible revision of blue laws in the Methodist Episcopal church loosening bans on amusements. He argues dancing theaters and fairs may benefit communities and help reform recreation under church guidance amid changing social norms.
The administration favors filling diplomatic vacancies from inside the State Department. Joseph Clark Grew is named to succeed Norman Hapgood as minister to Denmark. Grew began in 1904 in the consular service and later served in Cairo Mexico City Petrograd Berlin and Vienna. Born in Boston in 1880 he graduated Harvard in 1902 and wrote Sport and Travel in the Far East.
A jumble of humorous vignettes and captions features an Irish candidate misread by an elector who reverses stance after a lengthy chat by a pigsty. Other bits include a Sherlock Holmes prompt for help, theft oddities, a goat kept culprit, a student’s misdefined term, a slippery floor quip, and a whistle stop of affectionate farewells amid crowds.
A reader suggests cellar mushrooms while Pennsylvania residents discuss meatless days. The note implies widespread price hikes and shortages driven by profiteers. A lonely farm calls Dr. Frederick J. Millener, awaiting signals from Mars, amid wartime era wit.
The column marks the 132nd anniversary of a Puritan church board discovering hard cider holds more than two percent punch. After two ciders they planned a new church and $410 for village paupers. Poughkeepsie residents push against one dollar haircuts with overalls as a prank. An art critic went crazy on a poor picture, suggesting long periods of instability.
A reader seeks guidance on marrying age difference and love versus practicality. The columnist cautions against rushing into marriage for security and urges weighing love, timing, and personal readiness amid family pressures.
A fragment from a story shows a professor planning to ascend ten miles in a balloon to reach Mars and simplify communication, with a friend assisting. The dialogue hints at themes of ambition and novel methods to contact distant subjects.
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