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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1920
Page
18
Centered at the Post Office in Cheyenne the second class matter format lists editorial and business offices. The item notes telephones and the Associated Press rights and republication terms. It indicates subscription rates for monthly and yearly periods.
Citizens in New Jersey enroll for training in industrial pursuits to guard vital services during strikes. Men learn trolley and railway work while women train as telephone operators to keep public utilities operating. The program likens to the Plattsburg volunteer approach and urges arbitration as the fair path to resolve labor conflicts.
Rev Ellis M Slipperly has quit his posts at three Peekskill area churches to work as a pearl cutter in a jewelry shop. Earning $880 yearly as a pastor, he aims to mend his fortune through honest toil and perhaps buy his wife a string of pearls someday.
The article notes a thaw between Italy and Austria after the war, citing Renner’s Rome visit and mutual assurances of a bright future. It covers postwar politics, Wood’s recall, American domestic issues, Penrose speculation, Paderewski’s Diet seat, Wilson remarks, New York elevator fears, cotton prices, Hoke Smith’s presidential bid, and global labor strife.
A set of reader questions ranges from a teenage engagement to blues, a teen girl wondering why boys lose interest, and a fourteen year old weighing high school versus business college. Mrs Thompson offers cautious guidance on young marriage, homesickness, and the value of continued schooling.
A home cook’s list features breakfast items such as Florida oranges hominy grits top milk griddle cakes and banana cherry dessert. Sausage time offers casserole variations using canned hominy vegetables pimento hash American chop suey and a soft molasses cake with simple baking steps.
A brief recipe note describes combining hot strained tomatoes with cheese in a rarebit style mix. The fragment mentions one cup of tomato and provides an outline for a simple savory preparation.
A column fronting assorted clippings recounts a hungry tramp asking an old lady for aid, then being offered a broom to “clean a place to die on.” It shifts to a humorous piece about authors and social habits, then to a Columbus Dispatch cartoon cadence and a plea by the Colonial Dames for old fashioned courtesy toward women.
A collage of clipped notes and quips on manners and social behavior. The piece cites a magazine article titled Why Men Hate Their Wives by an unmarried woman and notes on courtesy amid everyday annoyances. It includes a Red Deer Advance snippet about enforcing a village chicken and bicycles ordinance and a Chicago policewoman comment on dress standards for officers.
A collection of fragmented items notes various people and events from 1919 era society. It mentions window washers strike at 160 a week, J Frothingham Butts questioned at Sixth National Bank, a sugar shortage report by a 1919 committee, George M. Cohan stage success, shifting fashion, Lenine and Trotzky in Petrograd, New York saloon closure, League of Nations covenant debate, Flying Squadron profiteer alert, silk shirts and onions price signals, a New Orleans near beer champion, Rube Goldberg quip, corn market probe, and prohibition impact on the corn market.
A humorous slice shows a trombone player’s blast causing a conductor to scold him as a fly on the music. A girl mocks church singing while a teacher links memory tricks to dates like Columbus in 1492. A classroom joke riffs on war, economics, and Washington landlords.
The narrative recalls Washakie leading a 41,800-strong Shoshone caravan from Wind River Agency in October 1874 to the Big Horn Basin for a fall buffalo hunt. Amid fierce snows and hostile threats the party pressed toward Gooseberry Creek, where a massive buffalo chase ended with heavy losses. The expedition ends with illness, medicine man cures, and a return to the agency, noting the dwindling buffalo herds and shift to agriculture.
Nine men from nine university departments sit on an island in an advertisement claiming they could start a modern civilization. The playful claim highlights cross-disciplinary insight across sciences and humanities.
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