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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1909
Page
2
New York residents assemble to decide if keeping the seventh day as a day of rest or accepting a secular leisure pattern will shape the city’s Sunday rhythm. The debate centers on religious observance versus public convenience.
In New York City the looming religious dispute over Sunday opening tests the four million residents. The article notes tensions on the West Side amid bakery strikes driving kosher bread shortages and clashes with Jewish leaders. Belmont Park racing continues amidst optimism for betting.
Oklahoma City reports five dead and many injured as unprecedented rains flood northern and eastern regions. Thousands of acres of crops inundated and streams burst their banks. railroad tracks washed out and river bridges damaged across the Arkansas Cimarron and Canadian rivers. A small tornado hit Moors. a 16000 barrel tank was struck and destroyed. lightning struck a schoolhouse service injuring attendees.
Special Agent Julien L. Brode reports that cottonseed oil is sold as pure olive oil from France in Marpellies France. He notes 45 mills crush about 460000 tons yearly and cites French pure food laws and olive crop scarcity as factors raising American consumer prices.
May 25 in Prensom Richard Donegan, under death sentence, is paralyzed and will be carried to the death chair during the week of July 6. He killed Joseph Summerfield in Cumberland County and was pursued after trying to escape barefoot. His feet were badly cut, and blood poisoning followed, leading to paralysis.
An 1890s advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for an incurable catarrh case cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Endorsements from Wolding Kinnan Marvin Wholesale Druggists in Toledo claim Fr. J Cheney is trustworthy. The cure is taken internally, priced at 76 cents per bottle, with Hall's Family Pills also promoted for constipation.
London May 24 Reginald McKenna first lord of the admiralty spoke on naval policy claiming new ships under this year's program will be at least 30 percent superior to predecessors. Innovations include 12 inch guns with greater muzzle energy and the possibility of guns firing from either side, plus central barbette layouts and high elevation forward guns. Speed set at 21 knots with turrets aboard.
One gallon B. and C. Cresol dip and 141 gallons of water. Result the dipping reduced. 100 percent B. Cresol dip positively cures seab, ticks, lee, and inflammation. Sherman Company, Cheyenne, distributors.
May 25. Martin Skinney and colleagues faced testimony in a strike settlement case against the Joseph Kiniva company. Madden denied George Andres’s claim that he received a thousand dollars from Andres in a private room, insisting Andres gave no money at all.
John F. Hammond president of the League of Republican clubs visited the White House to say he would decline the Cuba ministership Taft offered. He valued the honor and interest in China but wished to spend the next years at home. He is described as a top mining expert under a lucrative contract with the Guggenheim firm.
A Melville Uryant drift cask No. 26 from 1908 was recovered aboard Cosmopolitan en route from Christiana to Philadelphia. It was one of fifty casks released ten years earlier by the Geographical Society to study Arctic drift, a theory now linked to Amundsen's planned polar voyage.
A cardboard sign reading Bathing Suite Greatly Reduced Prices and Good Fishing Here Not was planted on a pole in a waterfront area. The tongue in cheek message teased the city’s street condition while attracting spectators and laughter. Meyer Frank is suspected.
The article argues that Robert Fulton, celebrated for the steamship era, may have inherited credit from John Fitch. It cites public records and family histories to claim Fitch built and operated early steam navigation between Philadelphia and the Delaware River in 1788. Witnesses and documents are presented to support Fitch as the true inventor against Fulton’s prominence.
Notice for bids for construction of the Hartville Wyoming water system bids will be received until May 26 1908. Work includes trench digging water pipes laying and building a reservoir and foundation for a water tank with trenches 812 feet deep and 707 feet long reservoir 16x feet and 8 feet deep foundation 16x 18 feet and 128 feet cement work.
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