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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1917
Page
13
The Railway Age Gazette urges a slow, cautious approach to hiring women across railroads. It warns that general employment for women is a fad, costly and uneven in fit, with shop work and male-dominated roles requiring special facilities and supervision.
A dispatch from Geneva reports Austrian empress has written a lengthy memorandum to the German emperor about the coming fourth winter of the campaign. The document reportedly exposes many facts Vienna officials had kept hidden and is described as striking.
Crowds gathered along Avenidas Mayo and Florida to demand breaking ties with Germany. Police mounted on orders of President Irigoyen charged the mob with sabers, injuring citizens and some officers. Berlin says Argentine naval attache Celery recalled, linked to the Swedish affair.
Washington Sept 12 The administration soldiers and sailors insurance bill passed the house tonight with a unanimous vote of 19 to 0. Rep Platt of New York and Rep Hersey of Maine changed their votes to aye amid thunderous applause.
Forecasts from the department of agriculture project 19 696 000 bushels of beans across Michigan California New York Colorado and New Mexico, up from last year and 1915 totals. Michigan leads with 7 23 million bushels, California 6 299 million, New York 2 899 million, Colorado 2 228 thousand, and New Mexico 964 thousand. Meanwhile the Great Lakes wool convention proposes three states offer three million acres of grass land in upper Minnesota Wisconsin and Michigan to sheep graziers free of charge except for taxes at closing session, aiming to boost wool production by shifting flocks to the Midwest due to western ranges shrinking under new homestead limits.
The War Department released the names of base hospital No. 5 personnel wounded in the German air raid on September 4. Lt. William T. Fitzsimmons and two privates were killed. Nurse Eva Parmalee was among the wounded. D. W. Gill moved his office to 1624 Capitol Avenue.
Kepler to hospital after kidney issues. he is baggage master at Union Pacific depot. Lowell Yeager to Columbia University in New York for third year. Hobbs Buckfeldt Furniture ad across Plains hotel. Chief of Police Bergman attends state fair in Douglas. Walton in Douglas for state fair. W R Aryan from Chicago visits Cheyenne. Otto Henke of Sibylle Wyoming visiting Cheyenne. The Sherman Co. advertises taxi and varnishing services with One-One phone numbers and 7 passenger touring cars.
Gen Cipriano Castro former president of Venezuela arrived in New York from Mexico and was admitted after a brief detention at Ellis Island, following two prior visits to the United States.
David Heaton of Denver, president of the Heaton Oil and Refining Company, visited the city to discuss the newly organized firm’s operations. The company owns over 5000 acres across producing fields and undeveloped districts, with holdings in Big Muddy, Salt Creek, Bonanza, Wind River, Toltec, and a producing area in Oklahoma. Development will start once financing is secured.
The Emergency Fleet Corporation let contracts to the American International Corporation for building government shipyards at Hog Island Pennsylvania and for fifty fabricated steel merchant vessels. The first ship is to be completed in ten or eleven months.
Kansas City Sept 13 The general strike of packing house workers ends after they accept Patrick C Gill mediated proposals. Workers return to duty tomorrow and gain union recognition a wage increase of two and a half cents an hour reinstatement of strikers central employment bureau for hiring and the right to appeal to the superintendent and grievance committees.
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