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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1919
Page
5
City residents and visitors listed with brief notes on daily business in Cheyenne. Names include Sergei of Laramie, A Vielfer, John Petton of Douglas, P. Jr. Jacobs, A. D. Tinssell, Charles Walls of Mussel Shell, Merl Me, and more. Ads note auto services, hotels, barber shop, and a piano teacher offering lessons.
The record lists multiple NL games with teams like New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia and Brooklyn. Key players include Hatteries Causey Metarty Douglas Hendrix Carter Kiliifer O Farrell Williams Kerr Shellenback Schalk Ruth Schang and others. Thirteen innings feature Boston and Chicago in a tense battle, while other matchups end in various scores and lineups through the day.
A mixed list shows Chie C. Peston of LaGrange and Cle Smithhurele visiting Cheyenne, with Grover residents Maxon and Fil Morton heading home or onward. Emerson stays for the weekend at Normamite while others prepare travel toward Pine Bluffs and Portland.
Eleven men arrested in a Wednesday gambling raid on a pool room appeared in police court. Seven pleaded guilty. three pleaded not guilty and were discharged. Proprietor Sick Vallos faced a 50 fine. All paid and were released.
New York doctor Connor describes tobacco risks and early signs of damage. He urges readers to quit, offers Nicotol tablets as a remedy, and cites a money-back guarantee from druggists including Rocdell Drug Co.
A stream of visitors stops in Cheyenne yesterday and today. J Merrell Stith arrives from Memphis on business, J W Bissell comes from Lincoln for a brief layover, A Woe from New York visits, and Joseph W H Draper arrives from Gallio. Other guests include Hugh Vass of Laramie and Ballinger of Meyl, with several residents of Pine Bluffs, Mead, Wheatland, Sla ter, and Laramie stopping in or passing through.
Western Superintendent A. W. McDuffy of the Green River division arrived by private car and spent several hours in Cheyenne before departing on Number 3 toward Green River on a business trip.
An advertisement touts a constitutional treatment for catarrh and deafness. It warns against sprays and sprays and nose douches and recommends Parmint double strength mixed with hot water and sugar, taken as a tablespoon four times daily to ease head noises and improve hearing.
A county clerk issued a marriage license yesterday to Samuel I. McGoull and Mrs. Laula Hilton of Denver. Albert Reynolds of Burns and Mrs. Katherine B. Bloom of Tribune, Gowley county Kansas, were also issued licenses yesterday.
Advertised remedy Othine double strength promises to remove freckles and even out skin tone. A small amount applied twice daily is claimed to clear the complexion, with most users needing no more than an ounce for complete results.
A total of twelve defendants appeared in police court yesterday largely on vagrancy or drunkenness charges. Most entered guilty pleas and were fined by the judge, with fines ranging across the period.
Firefighters answered two noon alarms amid small blazes. Spontaneous combustion sparked a shoe trimming pile under the Electric Shop on Carey Avenue, while logs burned under PL J Black's lumber yard. Both fires caused little damage as apparatus arrived quickly.
A report from Flint Michigan confirms Fire Chief Bates mother was killed by an unknown act. Bates left immediately upon receiving a telegram announcing her death yesterday.
The proposed I. W. W. gathering for Saturday night in Milwaukee is not to be permitted after word from Governor Philip. An accompanying note mentions a memorial to women and a Civil War era monument planned in Washington.
A bas relief scene portrays several nun figures in marble, representing many different orders of sisterhood. The artwork emphasizes unity among distinct religious communities through carved medallions and serene poses.
Dr George C G Rafter learned yesterday from Springfield Missouri that his eldest brother John Rafter aged 02 has died after a sudden illness. The remains will be carried by the Rafter family to New Glasgow Glasgow near Monte for burial in the family burying ground as requested by the deceased who wished Dr Rafter to conduct the funeral services.
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