Leasing Bill Up Soon Opens May 19
Extra session of Congress to begin May 19 plans to move a leasing bill once stalled by filibuster. Western lawmakers push for quick action on land reclamation for soldiers and a fifty fifty royalty split with states. Conservationists vow fight to block any leasing measure while debates over appropriation bills and League of Nations loom.
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League of Nations
Senate
Iane
House
James R. Mann
Japanese Industry Swells During World War I With Record Growth
The article notes Japan’s industrial and commercial expansion in 1918 reaching nine times wartime levels, with new and extended ventures surpassing 1 billion yen by 1918. It cites peak growth in 1917, a slowdown in 1918, and warns that 1919 will test whether a billion-dollar rise in new enterprise and 500 million in expansions can continue after the armistice.
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Japan
Locust or Cicada Mystery Resurfaces After 17 Year Pause
Readers explore the odd life cycle of a cicada described as a 17 year locust. The insect begins as an egg in a twig, then hides underground for years before emerging for a brief summer mating period with its Kin, while transforming from larvae to adults.
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Ito
The Cicada Life Span Compared to Worms
The speaker notes the seventeen year cicada spends most of its life underground and only a brief period above ground, contrasting this with the anglerworm whose life remains in darkness. The reflection highlights lifespan, environment, and a sense of irony in nature.
Trading with the Far East handbook aids exporters
The Irving National Bank publishes Trading with the Far East, a new handbook in its foreign trade series. It compiles a five foot shelf of facts on market making beyond the Pacific, covering invoices, credits, discounts, financing, and required documentation for shipments to the Orient.
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America
Far East
Indo-China
East Indies
Orient
Pacific
Marshalls
Conan Isy T
Biological Survey Cannot Supply Gopher Poison to Laramie County
A. T. Jackson of the Biological Survey states in a May 12, 1919 letter from Laramie that authorities cannot provide poisoned bait for gophers to farmers who missed the prior campaign. He cites governor vetoes of rodent-work funds and notes that supplies could have been sent earlier under Earl Reed, but are unavailable now.
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Laramie County
A. T. Jackson
Laramie
Hans
Pelson
Laramie Country
Earl
Reed
Unil
Evans
Wye
Rewd
T. Jackson
Rev Jofia Pearson Visits Regions of the Society
Rev Jofia Pearson superintendent of the Rocky division of the Society for the Priendlees returns to Ghoyenns from a brief trip through Idaho and Wyoming. He plans another trip to Salt Lake City and is arranging a visit by New James Parsons D D of Kansas City Missouri the general superintendent of the society. Parsons will spend a week in the Rocky division addressing local citizens.
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Jofia Pearson
Rocky
Society For the Priendlees
Ghoyenns
Idoke
Wyoming
Societ
Pearson
Salt Lake Gily
Nev
James Parsons
Kansas City
Paliona Pociety
der. Parsons
Ciklan Ok
Annual meeting notice for United States Petroleum Co
The annual meeting of the holders of United States Petroleum Co. will be held Tuesday May 2 1949 at 2:00 PM at Citizens National Bank Cheyenne Wyoming to elect directors for the coming year and transact other business. The transfer books close Saturday May 17 1919 at 12:00 PM. JPA Bailey secretary.
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United States Petrolem, Co
Citizens National Bank, Blag
Jpa Bailey
Staten Petroleuyn Co
Wyoming Indians to Have Real Old Fashioned Buffalo Hunt
A Haloo Dr. A. L. Gorey will accompany a band of Arapahors on the big buffalo hunt near the Ame region. The event marks a traditional Anslowin gathering with preparations at the Sah lag ry con ler area and the Tadling village.
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Wyoming
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Leader Publishing Company
Randolph Trigh
Albert Hearst
Cerrier
Careyee
Associated Press
Abstract OF
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Ingersoll
U. S
Departmen OF Labor
B. Wilson
Roger W. Babson
Information and Education Service
Farmer's Cannot
Redent
Alan
Boise
Nampa
Pocatello
Salt Laps City
Ogden
Rawls
Connelly & Tupper—Shoes
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