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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1920
Page
4
The county faces a health crisis as overcrowded and undersupplied Cheyenne hospitals threaten Laramie County welfare. Advocates push for Frances Warren Pershing Memorial Hospital to protect industry, prevent epidemics, and stabilize the community finances.
The Chicago case outlines Marshall Field's estate of over a hundred million with staged payouts to his heir from ages 30 to 50. The plan aimed to curb luxury by forcing career effort, though critics doubt its effectiveness and suggest diverting funds to public benefactions to preserve independence and initiative.
An expanded Bergdoll related scandal involves alleged army complicity and corruption as draft dodger Charles Bergdoll gained prison absence to recover buried treasure. Secretary Baker orders investigation and possible suspensions of implicated officers, highlighting risks to military discipline from wealth influence.
A young woman, told she could work on Broadway cabaret, stole a sable coat valued at 2000, a pearl necklace worth 3000, an emerald piece valued at 5000 and a bracelet of 1500 to prepare for her screen career. Her imagination overreached the reality of her fame potential.
An editorial notes a push to extend women's skirts and coats under the guise of modesty, but the aim is to compel purchases by fashion followers to counter women’s thrift and curb price profiteers.
The piece argues worsening private railroad management could spur public recall of McAdoo's five year government control stance and questions his certainty. It hints at miscalculations and party overconfidence, and notes a New York editor buying a $450,000 house in cash as a contemporaneous detail. The essay foreshadows a Prosperity convention the Democrats will host in San Francisco next month.
Billy Jr and Star race to catch a backout train to the west with comic mischief in this tale set between Chicago and Kansas City. The pair comment on Chinamen, dugouts, and a wary map as Billy reflects on fate and walking west.
A reader asks about courtship etiquette lonely in youth and proper introductions. Elizabeth Thompson guides on who should speak first, leaving a crowd, and seating exits. Advice covers making friends, improving magnetism, and dancing with strangers at a small town dance.
Mrs Jenkins reads in the daily paper about a ship launch where the Duchess of Hampshire struck her nose with a bottle of champagne. The pair discuss the spectacle and wonder at the event and its apparent cruelty to the Duchess.
A 1920 reflection uses Ellis Island as backdrop to warn against chasing fashionable quick fixes. It contrasts a immigrant woman’s ill fitting pumps with broad sensible shoes and argues that people repeatedly discard sensible ideals for unstable trends before regaining balance and returning to practicality.
Edith Moriarty joins Pittsburg Woman's Press Club as a notable member along with Lillian Russell. Baptist women in the South report $24,884,000 raised and 3,200 new organizations during the mission drive. College women show strong Hoover support with straw polls across 74 colleges and 13 universities in 23 states.
A collection of home kitchen tips including bread breakfast ideas and orange halves, plus instructions for onion loaf, Mexican jelly salad, stuffed prunes, a tomato carrot sauce, and a chicken Cuban style dish with rice and brown gravy.
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