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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1913
Page
3
Instructions describe preparing peas including breaking pods washing, boiling 20 minutes, and making pea water with butter and salt. Recipes include Scalloped Pea and Cheese Leite and Potatoes and Salmon and Green Peas with white sauce and cracker crumb topping.
An old Cheyenne social page notes Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bristol hosting Prof. and Mrs. Stark at a family dinner in Fort Morgan Colorado. The event featured pink lace, pink and white flowers, and refined menu as relatives shared memories and progress discussions. Also mentioned are Miss Gilland to host honey dinner, Amanda’s departure from Cheyenne, and several ladies traveling to Douglas for the State Federation of Women’s Clubs convention.
The Stark and Bristol families from Ft. Morgan Colorado visit relatives in the area. Several others including Dr. Hanson and Miss Mariel Branson travel from Des Moines and Las Lunas to meet kin. Additional guests from York and Jolo plan visits as hosting arrangements and travel plans unfold around town.
The article notes the State Federation of Women's Clubs opening a four day session in Douglas with speakers Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker and Dr. C. A. Duniway, plus local Cheyenne attendance. Mystic Maze Club shifts meeting to Friday with Mrs Haneworth hosting. Sunshine Society hosts a cheerful sewing gathering at Mrs. J. Ross Carpenter's home, aiding two Allie Jewell-found orphans and sewing wardrobes for them with a tea afterward.
The text presents a mangled meditation on charity and virtue, contrasting deeds like helping the poor and smoothing the road with exhortations to virtue. It questions what wealth remains after death and hints at the evaluation of a person’s good deeds in life.
A cryptic OCR fragment mentions Limwoln and a holdup in Gee ee county with references to visitors and local activity.
The article notes fashion recognizing the first national bank and describes a new silver filigree purse worn garter fashion at the knee. It explains evening tipping culture amid gowns without pockets and how ten cent pieces are carried to pay servers, ushers, cloakroom attendants, and others.
A visitor asks Bobby if he expects to step into his father’s shoes. Bobby grimly replies that everything else his father wore has worn out due to his mother cutting them down, as noted in Herper's Weekly.
Over 80 percent of Prussians earn under 750 dollars annually. A German projectile for balloon attack ignites its gun with an electric spark on impact. Germany adopts wireless controlled time to regulate clocks across cities from a central clock system.
A minister recalls a Saturday night encounter with a visibly intoxicated man muttering to himself about drink and home, repeating a restless defense while claiming danger if dinner is delayed.
Rev W M Nelson conducts the ring ceremony uniting Frank W. Paul of Douglas Wyoming and Vernena Larr of Cheyenne. The couple is supported by the brides parents D W Larr and W H Anthers and the event marks their new life together in Douglas.
The patient asks to become heavier and stronger. The doctor notes the physique is slight and proposes a long course of treatment. The patient insists on a starting amount and the doctor suggests beginning with $200.
A multimillionaire laments the futile yearn to give wealth away as wealth continually returns. He notes checks written and bonds disposed yet others provide more riches in his extensive toil. The speaker insists he still strives to donate despite the ongoing influx of funds.
Charles Studebaker of Washington Pennsylvania begins a 4000 mile hike pushing a cart loaded with 806 pounds of luggage. He travels via the national turnpike to Cumberland Maryland then to Philadelphia and New York before heading to Buffalo and around the Great Lakes toward Booths Bend Indiana and Chicago. He aims to return by November 1 assisted by an intelligent fox terrier.
London Spectator notes a sensational 1881 witchcraft trial of the Fletchers famed clairvoyants who induced Mrs Hart Davis to surrender £10,000 in jewelry. They fled to America. Mrs Fletcher was returned to England and sentenced to twelve months hard labor under old witchcraft laws.
The Gazetteer of the Surface Waters of California notes repeated names among streams and lakes, listing Deadman, Dry, Humbug, Lion, Lost, Mad, Bear, Grizzly, Coyote, Wildcat, Cat, Gatos, Skunk, Deer, Rabbit, Quail, Dog, Scorpion, Devil, Diablo creeks, and many saints named San and Santa. Also mentions Poison and Snake creeks and rivers of fish names like Kel and Sardioe.
Mrs Cooke complains the cake has too few nuts after hiring a new servant Delia. Delia explains she could not crack more nuts because her jaw hurt from cracking yesterday, a humorous exchange from Lijplacott's.
A garbled verse recounts a solitary wagon journey with surreal images, mentioning no clear event, date, or identifiable individuals, leaving the sense of a dreamlike or experimental travel piece.
The record notes claims of 4,000,000 Germans in Prussia and reports a successful knee joint graft in Prussia. It says literacy advances among an army and the use of moving picture cameras by meat inspectors in Berlin to study meat with enlarged photographs of organs.
In a fragmented scene at the sanitarium an attendant classifies patients by occupations a director questions a man about his trade and assigns tasks a seamstress is sent to the needle while a couple discuss cigars and a boy named Tommy.
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