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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1913
Page
2
An advertisement purports Peruna as a universal cure for stomach catarrh and spring ailments. It features a claimant who reports full recovery and weight gain after using Peruna, urging readers to try one bottle or Peruna tablets for faster relief and personal testimonies as proof.
In Denver a setback hit Colorado's ocean highway claim as pathfinder A L Westgard from the National Highways Association broke an axle while climbing Tennessee Pass. A luncheon planned by the chamber of commerce was postponed and Westgard aimed to reach Denver by Monday.
Lee Moore, noted Wyoming Blackman, sold a shipment of cattle from Chugwater at Denver yards. The big end steers brought 7.25 while 14 head sold at 7.50. cows and helpers averaged around 5.75. Moore expressed satisfaction with the sale.
Asiatic cholera spreads as Russian governments of Yekaterinoslav, Taurida, Tchernigory, Kutar, Kuban and Batum territories and Sebastopol and Kerch prefectures are officially declared infected. The disease also affects Bulgaria and Roumania.
The American Radium company, formed to acquire Wester Vana properties, directs officers to negotiate radium bearing ore deposits in Utah Colorado and Wyoming. A plant will be erected in Ogden Utah to produce radio fertilizers and radium treatment devices. Officers elected include J. Roberts of Ogden president V. A. McCullock Ogden vice president and M. W. Sherwood Evanston secretary treasurer.
In Kenton near New Castle the railway station buildings were burned by a suffragette arson squad this morning. Placards accuse Premier Asquith of militancy and invite victims to seek damages.
Sam Roobideau of Philadelphia knocked out Jack Reid of Australia in the fifth round of a scheduled six round bout. The referee stopped the fight as Reid wilted to the canvas.
Advertisement extols Pape's Diapepsin as the quick safe cure for dyspepsia indigestion gas and sour stomach. It claims rapid relief within minutes and offers a fifty cent case with a money back guarantee, urging everyone to keep it at home for day or night stomach trouble.
Basin Wyoming September 18. Basin Woman's club members voted to work one day at Ritter Canning factory to aid the struggling plant. With 14 acres of tomatoes ripening and 40 000 cans awaiting processing the factory cannot hire enough help even at high wages. The club planned the day for Saturday to present funds from the event to the management.
Basin community members rally to support Mr. Ritter by pooling labor and funds for a new canning venture. Local women including Mrs. Donaldson and Mrs. Zein Murphy pledge help and donations while the Asia Progress association arranges transport from a nearby factory three miles away. Ritter touts 14 acres of tomatoes with four carloads contracted to wholesalers in Sheridan, though daily canning remains at 1,800 of a 6,000 capacity.
The Union Pacific faces high ice and corn demand, prompting large stockpiles in Laramie. The Burlington yard will gain an entrance from Sixteenth street as its baggage room is reworked. A new electric coaling station at the roundhouse replaces the old coal chute. Conductor J J Murphy travels to California for family reasons. A German disinfecting system promises sanitary passenger cars. Wichita and Denver Airicnn officials grant a 60 day option to Colorado Kansas and Oklahoma railroad to connect Wichita to Denver and extend toward New Orleans via Midland Valley and Union Pacific. Omaha Union station delays spark talk of a talking machine to manage departures.
Union Pacific staff members travel for Los Angeles and California trips with notes of ducks hunting trips in Speer. Reports mention Wm Jensen and Mrs Jensen, accountant Jack Hurri, stenographer Wille Braun, Hert Durnford, Clyde Winney, Cc Galbraith and Mrs Galbraith, B Bare. The piece ends with a quip about stupid people.
The record shows historical high 0 in 1895 and low 32 in 1902 on this date. Last year’s extreme reads a high of minus 60 and a low of minus 33. The notes reflect notable temperature swings across decades.
Forecast from Washington predicts fair conditions across Wyoming and the eastern area with showers in the western portion on Sunday. Monday looks fair for the southeast with showers and cooler air moving through the northern and western parts.
In Trenton on September 11 the article notes that the so called seven sisters are blamed for a sharp drop in corporate registrations in August, with the state collecting only 5700 dollars in fees from new corporations.
A terse, partial record notes corporate activity in August with scattered figures. Mentions 60, 105 corporations and a shift of incorporation from New Jersey to Delaware and Maine, though details are incomplete and unclear.
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