Cheyenne Leaders Rally for $100000 Memorial Hospital Drive
Fifteen Cheyenne leaders accepted campaign captain roles at a Plains hotel luncheon led by Campaign Chairman Win Mullen. An organized 150 member volunteers group and a 50 member Ladies Hospital Aid Society will canvass the city to ensure all citizens contribute toward the memorial hospital project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memorial Hospital
Cheyenne
Plains Hotel
Win
Mullen
Ladies’ S Hospital Aid Society
Bishop Thomas
Thomas
Judie Lacey
C. C. Dustin
Rotary
Rotarians
American Legion
Physicians
Chamber of Commerce
Masonic Tall
Dirigible Overhead Shows Contrast With Dewitt Clinton Train
A navy dirigible flies over New York City in a display contrasting modern transit with 1831 era rail service. The Dewitt Clinton locomotive, built at West Point foundry, ran Albany to Schenectady in 1 hour 45 minutes on its first trial, then 38 minutes on its second trial using wood as fuel. Luncheon days list campaign participants including Dr. Peter Appel and J. A. Reed among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewitt Clinton
New York City
New York Central Terminal
New York State
Weat Point
Albany
Schenectady
Cheyenne Prepares Air Mail Field With Large Temporary Hangars
Cheyenne moves to use city grading gear to ready a 1200 by 1000 yard landing field near Pioneer and Randall avenues. Canvas hangars will be erected until war department hangars arrive. Maps of the field were sent to Washington. plans include three planes and restricted access to the field for air mail operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mort Russell
War Department
Bigelow
Cheyenne
Omata
William G. Ilans
Washington
Gheyenne
Mr. Hans
Air
Chicago
Pioneer Avenue
Randall Avenue
Randall
Pioneer
Federal Street
Denver
Air Mall Service
Haas
Denver Post
Aly Mail
Oregon Counties Vote Tallies From Primary Returns
In Mul tonomah and Lynn Wasco counties results show Johnson and Wood leading with scattered precinct tallies. In New York news Miller of Parral mining is held as Villa guest awaiting tax and district arrangements. De la Huerta named provisional Mexican president per Nuevo Laredo commandant report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Ore
Multonomah
Johnson
Wood
Hoover
Lowden
Lynn County
Wasco County
New York
George Miller
Alvarado Mining & Milling Company
Parral
Chihuahua
Francisco Villa
Villa
United States
Carranza Deemed Out by Mexican Chief Justice
A Monterey dispatch reprinted in El Porvenir asserts Francisco Gonzalez chief justice of the Mexican supreme court declared Carranza no longer president on May 5 after disavowing the powers of the union and the republic's constitution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carranza
Laredo
Tex
el Porvenir
Monterey
Mexico City
Francisco Gonalez
Mexican Supreme Court
Mexico
Air mail service ready with field and hangars prepared
The speaker asserts the route is assured and stresses readiness for operation. A field and hangars must be prepared so air mail service can begin. The emphasis is on logistical groundwork to inaugurate the route.
Opium Den Raided by Cheyenne Police on Pioneer Ave
Night Sergeant Jack McFka of the Cheyenne police uncovers a Chinatown opium den on Pioneer avenue between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets. Police seize opium, weighing scales, pipes, cooking lamp, yen-shee can, yen-shee gow, and arrest five Chinese men named Jim Sing Yee Sam Dick Wah Leo Foy and Lou Sing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack McFka
Cheyenne
Chinatown
Pioneer Avenue
Fifteenth
Jim Sing
Yee
Sam
Dick .Wah
Leo Foy
Lou Sing
US Geologists Cite Undiscovered Diamond Mines In Nation
US Geological Survey geologists believe undiscovered diamond mines lie within the United States as global demand shifts from African sources. The piece lists past finds including a 28.4 carat stone in 1855 and multiple Indiana discoveries, noting discoveries across Arkansas North Carolina Wisconsin and Wisconsin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Geological Survey
United States
Arkansas
Indiana
North Carolina
Wisconsin
Aother
J. Pierpot Morgan
Walt
Diamonds in American Fields Spark Remark on Hidden Riches
A 1942 note describes diamonds found by a farmer’s plow across several states from Illinois to California. Geologists say these sporadic stones likely originate in Appalachian and Rocky Mountain matrix beds. The piece notes the vast mother lodes may remain hidden, with rare accidents revealing riches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Louisiana
Tennessee
Idaho
Texas
Montana
Arizona
California
Appalachian
Rocky Mountain
South Africa
One Pleads Guilty as Trials Set for May and June
Pritchett of Cody pleaded guilty before Judge Riner to manufacturing wine contrary to law and was fined 800 dollars. After his case, Daniel O Gonnell faces a May 28 jury trial for robbery of the American Express Company in this city. W B Ross to defend, Richard Nose to be tried June 2 for embezzlement of the United States mail at Rawlins, and Putman Warden Bennett to be tried June 4 for violation of the Harrison drug act in separate simultaneous proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quilty
S.ee
Pritchett
Cody
United States District Court
Riner
Daniel O'Gonnell
American Express Company
W. B. Ross
Richard Nose
United States Mail
Rawlins
Wyo
Putman
Warden
Bennett
Attack on Congestion at Gateways Opens Washington
Officials of the American Railway Association set up 30 gateway committees to dig cars from the congestion mass and ensure expeditious forwarding. The move supplements Interstate Commerce Commission orders for drastic rerouting and equipment pooling to resolve the national freight logjam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
American Railway Association
Interstate Commerce Commission
Threat Of Meat Cutloom: Illinois Packing Groups Cite Quota Cut
Chicago May 21. Immediate constriction of the nation meat supply threatens by reduced refrigerator car quotas set for packing companies by the Interstate Commerce Commission. Thomas E Wilson president of the Institute of American Meat Packers states this on behalf of American packing companies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Inter-State Commerce .Commission
Thomas E. Wilson
Institute of American Meat Packers
American Packing Companies
Wyoming Corriedales to be Transported to Japan
Wyoming Corriedale sheep from F. S. King's ranch will be shipped to Japan as government property to improve Nippon herds. Dr Issa Tanimura, Japan livestock commissioner, plans to use them as a nucleus at a model farm near Tokyo to breed superior sheep. He notes Japan has fewer than 5,000 sheep and aims to rapidly expand imports from America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyoming
F. S. King
Japan
Nippon
Issa Tanimura
King Ranch
Tokio
Tanimura
Thief Abandons Bicycle Stolen at Gentral School
A bicycle stolen from Shelby Thompson at Gentral school was recovered yesterday morning and returned to the owner. The thief abandoned the bike on Fifteenth Street near Pioneer Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gentral School
Shelby Thompson
Fifteenth Street
Pioneer Avenue
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Frances Pershing
Empire State
Peter Appel
Harry B. Henderson, Jr
A. D. Walton
J. H. Walton
M. A. Kline
Max W. Ball
A.D. Johnston
W. W. Dunn
Thomas Hunter
J. A. Reed
Edward Storey
Geo. IW. Gilland
G. L. Strader
W. &. Dinneen
Jacob P. Sherman
Warren Richardson
G. P. Johnston
Ees Bhay
Oregon
Damon
Yonur
Corriedales
Dildine Garage CO
New City and County Building
Marchick & Sons
Munson
Edmund
U.S
Ners Suis
Men
Es and
Val
Lisle
Berg’s
Italan Seblli
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