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Cheyenne State Leader

Location

Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America

Date

Oct 16, 1917

Page

13

Wyoming Sealed Proposals for County and State Bridge Work

Sealed proposals will be received by the State Highway Commission of Wyoming in Cheyenne for construction of two bridges on the Casper Salt Creek road in Natrona County, two bridges on the US Road in Niobrara County, and three miles of Lincoln Cheyenne. Bids require a 5 percent certified check, and the Commission may reject any or all bids. Signed E. Sevigon, Secretary and State Highway Engineer.

State Highway Commission of Wyoming Cheyenne Wyoming Casper Salt Creek Natrona County Niobrara County Lincoln Cheyenne Commission E. Sevigon Enginneer

Display Prize of $10,000 Set for Ladies Topsery Today

A prize of ten thousand dollars is offered for display at the Ladies Topsery event today only. The announcement emphasizes a limited one day opportunity for participants to present their topiary works.

Public sale announced for L. M. Trent ranch livestock and land

A public sale is set for October 19 at the L. M. Trent ranch four and a half miles south of Campstool. The sale lists 28 head of horses 7 per head for cattle and one half section of land. Free lunch at 11 30.

L. M. Trent Campstool

Federal state plan to supply harvest labor in Wyoming

Labor commissioner Koward P. Taylor and federal labor official J. 3. Schofield announce an agreement with the United States government to send two Washington field men to Wyoming. A field man from the labor department and a farm specialist from agriculture will operate under the state labor commissioner's supervision to boost field presence and crop labor.

Koward P. Taylor J. 3. Schofield Federal Department of Labor United States Wyoming Washington Hour Yeetemlay Federal Bureau of Labor Labor Department Department of Agriculture Kansas Missouri State Labor Commissioner Schofield Tayler

Film Fire at Amuse Theater Closes Reel

A film burned in the Amuse theater’s projector shortly after three. Smoke filled the venue but nobody was injured. The blaze was confined to one reel, with both projectors undamaged. the show to resume today.

Amuse Gerhart Omer

Three Generations of Women Endorse Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound

The young women, their mothers, and grandmothers report relief from female ills using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad claims no habit forming drugs and emphasizes roots and herbs as nature’s remedy for disease.

Lydia E. Pinkham

Wyoming Prairie Oil and Gas Changes Stock and Sells Shares

Stockholders meet at 1617 Capitol. Capital stock increased from 16,000 shares at 12 dollars par to 1,900,000 shares at 1 dollar par. Plans to issue 250,000 shares at 25 cents to raise funds for sinking a well in the Big Muddy field. Company holds assets in the Big Muddy field.

Wyoming Prarie Oil & Gas Company Capitol Hes Geen Wyoming Prairie Oil & Gas Company Big Muddy

Junior Red Cross Makes Comfort Kit for Draft Recruits

ROCK SPRINGS WY Oct 15 The Junior Red Cross composed of seventh graders and high schoolers has prepared comfort kits for soldiers heading to American Lake this week. The kits carry homey remembrances for comfort and show the students’ swift, commendable effort. More work is anticipated by the group.

Junior Red Cross Rock Springs Wyo American Lake

Teels Ship Tools for Casper-Embar Drilling Venture

Casper-Embar Petroleum starts shipping a noted drilling rig and tools to its Big Muddy field operations under President Samuel Newhouse and consulting engineer Sid Keoughan. The drill, famed for speed in the field, is expected to be erected and running within two weeks.

Standard Oil Wyoming

Norbeck Nicholsen flags 500-barrel well near Lusk

Cheyenne investors report the Norbeck Nicholsen company has drilled a 500-barrel well in the Old Woman Creek field about thirty miles north of Lusk, section 16 36 62. The Lusk Petroleum company with Cheyenne stockholders plans further expansion on adjoining and nearby holdings while a standard rig works in the Big Muddy field. Lusk company officers include Robert A. Hopkins president and J. J. Shingle director, all based in Cheyenne, with George D. Cureton as general manager in Lusk.

Chyenne Norbeck- Nicholsen Company Lusk Old Woman Creek Lusk Petroleum Company Lask Laisk Company Lusk Concern Lusk Company Cheyenne Robert A. Hopkins Cheyene Marion A. Kline Charles L. Beatty George P. Johnston Charles A. Sem- Tad Clyde Early J. J. Shingle George D. Cureton

Sage and Sulphur Compound Restores Dark Hair Color

An old time recipe using Sage Tea and Sulphur improves hair color and gloss. Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound, a 50 cent bottle, darkens hair naturally when applied with a sponge or brush. It is advertised as a cosmetic, not a disease treatment.

Wyeth

Bean Crop Near Wheatland Worth Large Sum

Bean threshing near Ava, north and east of Wheatland, Wyoming, shows yields from 340 to 675 pounds per acre on sod land. Buyers pay ten cents a bushel, promising cash returns of 34 to 67.50 dollars per acre with low seed costs around three dollars per acre.

Wheatland Wyo Ava

Douglas Fairbanks Stops in Cheyenne for Breakfast

Film star Douglas Fairbanks spent about thirty minutes in Cheyenne yesterday morning between trains. He breakfasted at the Plains hotel and praised the Wyoming Cowboys whose work he says adds authentic western spirit to a film shot near Laramie.

Douglas Fairbanks Cheyenne Plains Hotel Galt Lake City New York Laramie

Casing Arrives for Douglas-Wyoming Oil Well

The closing for the Douglas-Wyoming Oil Co has arrived and well No 1 in the Brewning basin twelve miles west of Sheridan will be sent to the Wall Creek sands as soon as possible.

Sheridan Wyo Douglas-Wyoming Oil Company

Fragmented OCR Totals and Nonsense Numbers

A jumble of digits and stray letters forms no coherent report. The readable fragments present scattered figures like 4 790 and 14 908 and isolated terms such as Statead Klee and Mints without context. No clear event or entities emerge.

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