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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1910
Page
6
A sale notice for Electropodes touts a cure for rheumatism and nervous complaints caused by excess uric acid. It cites a Albuquerque journalist praising its efficacy, offers mail order and a trial price of 1.00, and requests buyer gender. Address provided in St Louis and Los Angeles.
Palace Pharmacy advertises Byrap of White Pine With Tar as a cough and cold remedy. The note highlights its use for coughs and cokis and promotes the product as a fortifying choice.
New York reports detail the final passenger pigeon, a female of 18, whose mate died at 24, marking the near extinction of a species once numbering in the billions. Audubon groups warn of further losses if protection efforts falter, as Nesting sites and markets historically fueled slaughter nationwide.
Poughkeepsie New York November 24 Miss Elizabeth Kelley settled a breach of promise suit for 25000 with architect Leicester M Pond of Spokane and then married Arthur Downing who had introduced Kelley to Pond. Pond claimed repeated travel for ceremonies and expenses, while Kelley said most costs were borne by her mother and Pond was a guest in their home.
Members of the Nas thonal Association of Audubon ties appeal to the public to fund emergency measures to preserve the Upland Plover Cabot's Torn and the Least Torn. They call for restoring the Wood Duck and other game birds threatened with extinction following the Passenger Pigeon.
Michael Boland a 60 year old laborer fell from the third story of the Boston post office striking James B. Edrington on a wet window ledge. Boland died or will likely die from injuries while Edrington, knocked unconscious, is expected to recover.
Mrs H H Paine of Ladyemith Whs reports a buck loitering near the barnyard before breakfast. She fired from the back door, the deer fell, and she continued with morning chores as her husband brought in the winter provender.
In San Francisco on November 29, Anna Krochen Meyer seeks divorce from Gun. tay Julius Meyer who posed as a cousin of the German Emperor and as commander of the Kaiser’s Royal Guards. She alleges he swindled money, borrowed from friends, then deserted her after their brief marriage.
An extraordinary banquet aboard the Olga in the Houston Ship Channel celebrated Captain Cot Plummer mounting the largest openmouth whale. The leviathan was captured near Sabine Pass on March 8 and towed by tugs to shallow water before its death.
The 78 foot monster was preserved after embalm ing fluid failed to preserve it. The whale’s skeleton, including 100 barrels of sperm oil from the brain tumor tank, was mounted for display. The jaw spans 17 feet 6 inches and a 50 person interior is reached through its mouth. Captain Plummer cannot explain how the bull wandered into Houston waters.
New Orleans reports a final Times Democrat estimate of 11,445,000 bales for the 1910 crop based on correspondents across the cotton belt the figure excludes linters and repacks by state Oklahoma 900000 Texas 3200000 and others noting farmers have sold freely but are likely to hold remaining cottonists
Awakened by a burly burglar in her home Mrs Archibald Fuller did not faint. She leaped from bed and tried to grab him as he fled through a window taking part of the sash.
Police traced a burglar who escaped through a window after stealing from Mrs Fuller. A search found the thief had opened a drawer and taken jewelry worth 700, but the box left in the yard contained Mrs Fuller’s jewels intact. He dropped them while fleeing, and no trace of the thief was found.
In Salem jail two Ruselan bandits, Andrel Ipset and Wasalli Ivankowek, sentenced to die in the electric chair the week of March 5 for fatally shooting Thomas Landregan and James H. Carroll, began a hunger strike. They say it is easier to die by starvation than by chair and one prisoner resisted religious aid from a priest while insisting they will not eat.
Samuel Sanders, who four days earlier predicted his death, died at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. Doctors attributed the death to his firm belief that he would die, as his heart reportedly stopped when he anticipated his end. He exclaimed at noon that he had eaten his last meal and would be a dead man.
In Winsted Connecticut on November 2 a New York New Haven and Hartford freight train struck two loaded cars and forced them into the Naugatuck division freight station, wrecking the office. Seven men escaped serious injury though desks and a heavy safe were thrown about. one worker, Charles H. Hendersing, was hurt. W. C. Perry, the local agent, was among those present.
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