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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1916
Page
5
Brief notices report the Cheyenne city clerk's office will switch to 8 AM to 4 PM hours starting May 16 for the summer. Also included are short items on real estate transfers, a hospital update on a patient in critical condition improving, and various local business and travel notes.
A Cheyenne social listing notes the Nayal Neighbors will host a gathering in the A U W hall Monday evening May 14 with admission 25 cents. Other brief notes include marriage license issued to Joseph F Hishion and Theresa Marion Boronda of Wenner and various visitors in Cheyenne from Casper Thermopolis Sheridan Rawlins and Diamondville.
Premier Asquith arrived in Ireland to defuse tensions and suspended further court martials. He met Gen. Maxwell and later planned talks with Dublin authorities. He urged a swift inquiry into the shooting of Editor Skeffington of the Irish Citizen, whose death sparked nationwide protests. Thousands of protest messages reached the prime minister.
Birmingham report says William Bankhead, son of Senator Bankhead, claimed defeat of Richmond in the Tenth Alabama district by 17 percent votes for the congressional nomination. Bankhead advocates prohibition.
Joseph Phelan Cuddy promoted an advertising booklet for the Industrial Club in Cheyenne and two other campaigns. One aims at a mall order folder bearing the title Like Kelly Nid and the other a luxury book cover for Liberty Televisw in Cheyenne that summer. The cover, printed on heavy purple paper with gold lettering, targets public school children and others seeking something unique and unusual.
Tom Smith of Wellington Colorado, accused of carrying concealed weapons after displaying a revolver at the Grand on Sixteenth Street, was taken in tow by Officers Clancy and Nodin. His gun was seized and he was released on a 15 bond to appear in police court tomorrow.
Kansas through its state board of educational administration moves to unite universities nationwide to press the federal government for a health experiment station linked with medical schools. President Hackney urges creation as a cooperative agency of the U S public health service to combat preventable diseases and save lives valued at 1700 million dollars annually.
A Saloniki dispatch from Constantinople says a grand council met at Dolmabahce Palace to discuss terms of peace. Preachers in major mosques urge people to prepare for liberation as a secret committee forms and grave events are anticipated.
Readable note extols a ready cooked whole wheat product made at Niagara Falls New York. It claims high nutrition, low cost, and quick preparation by steam shredding and baking. Advertises as ideal Summer food and versatile for breakfast or with milk, cream, or fruit.
The Mexican forces have been strengthened while the U S expedition faces a tense standoff. Washington reverts to diplomacy after failed negotiations between War Minister Obregon and General Scott. Carranza refuses any withdrawal date and Obregon admits error, leaving no agreeable plan.
Denver May 12. City commissioners and Speer representatives agree to move inauguration to Wednesday. Greenlee, ex-officio clerk, says no delay in switching from commission to mayor form after election returns certified. Speer to certify charter amendment and state secretary to formalize. Sharpley will turn over office. Speer to name his cabinet for immediate city control.
Five workers at a Laurel cotton mill struck for fresh air as dust was kept out by closed windows. After repeated demands for improved air with no wage or hour changes, the strike was called by union leaders.
G C Griffith once a Boston lawyer and Harvard graduate dedicates himself to hog breeding at Peabody farm. He names a blue red white and blue hog Sapphire and aims to produce a patriotic piebald pork mainstay. He already owns about 1000 hogs of varied colors.
A resolution expressing horror at revolutionary executions was introduced today by the Preventative Dyer of Mie wourk. The measure was referred to a committee and did not reach debate on the day in Warlington.
Winston G. Cherehill was convicted Thursday in federal court on impersonating a federal officer. He received a $100 fine after a motion for mercy was overruled. J. M. Waener pleaded guilty to white slavery and was sentenced to Port Leavenworth federal penitentiary for one year and one day. The docket shows much remains to be completed and a civil case will not proceed until Monday.
In Hawarden Iowa on May 12 twenty five high school girls picnicking by the Big Sioux watched five classmates and a teacher capsize after going over the dam. Three girls drowned while the teacher and one girl clung to the dam and were saved. Names of the rescued and deceased included Edna Borman Neva Johnson and Marjorie Fairbrother.
New York May 1. Hullett Cowden, a Harvard graduate from New York City, has just received the military medal and has been cited for the second time in army orders for his brilliant exploits as a member of the Franco American flying corps.
Thomas A. Edison, Inventor and naval consulting board chairman, is slated to march at the head of about twenty engineers from the board in the large preparedness parade in New York. Nearly 145000 persons are expected to participate tomorrow.
The notice lists Frontier Days events in Cheyenna with dates July 26 27 28 and 26. The item presents the festival timeline and urges residents to mark the days.
A masked pupil set a fire at Collins Institute a Chickasaw Indian school for boys near Stonewall Oklahoma late yesterday. The auditorium dormitory and teachers quarters were burned but no injuries were reported as the government school sustained partial destruction.
A coroner's jury in Kankakee Illinois ruled that Joseph Vanalette died after choking on a patent cough remedy. The death occurred last night and the inquest confirmed the medical cause.
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