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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1910
Page
6
Rye New York October 17 The village president Sol M Treland asks readers to name the cost of a woman's hat in a quirky local riddle. The undertaker and morgue owner hopes to settle a bet with Senator J Mayhew Wainwright about a renomination.
The Pennsylvania railroad terminal in New York, the largest in the world, opens formally on November 27. About 1,450 trains daily will bring and move roughly 200,000 people into and out of Manhattan, with space designed to prevent crowding.
Mrs. A. W. Seaman of Brooklyn describes a 2 900 mile motoring camping journey seeking shelter beside the car and sleeping under the summer sky to enjoy the outdoors. She recently returned from the excursion.
Mrs Seaman, her husband and Miss Cosgrove traveling in a Franklin four cylinder car report a camp setup and a haul of supplies from their vehicle. They described unstrapping a tool box, a tent, sleeping gear, stove and provisions, then cooking on the roadside as dawn approached.
A sale notice states a modern gas register is for sale. The fragment mentions city, Tuesday night, and a contact P.O. Box 674-20. No clear seller or full details provided.
Washington Oct. 17 In a fire trespass suit the United States won damages against the Missouri River and Northwestern railways for loss of merchantable timber and destruction of young forest growth on the Black Hills National Forest. The jury established the first known precedent for the expected value of young growth as a basis for damages, with total awards around 3 728.86 dollars and 2 634.45 dollars for destroyed timber.
Washington date Oct 17. Indian bureau issues regulations for sale of surplus Indian lands totaling several million acres. Major change allows deferred payment with only 10 percent due at purchase and five years to complete the transaction while interest accrues on notes, aiming to attract white settlers and curb speculative advantages.
F B Pillesbury returns from Patten Maine with a 150 pound doe shot through the heart in a camp claim that he could kill a deer with a bow. He says a New York club bet backed the feat and that he selected a runway and fired from under fifty varIe yards. He hopes to take a buck before returning home but says moose or bear are unlikely targets.
A two and a half year old girl in Brooklyn leaped from a fifth story window and landed on her head on a concrete walk. She bounced across four clotheslines in the yard before reaching the ground, escaping serious injury. Doctors diagnosed concussion and delayed shock, but no fractures were found.
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