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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1912
Page
4
The article notes a bright business climate despite politics, with 1912 and 1913 prospects improving. It highlights booming building, farm gains, and Lovell's sugar beet success reaching a $100,000 harvest, plus widespread crops in Sheridan and Big Horn regions and new orchard planting across Northern Wyoming.
Northern Wyoming residents react to the temporary suspension of the Burlington cut off between Thermopolis and Powder River. Officials promise spring resumption and expansion to Orin Junction, after a dispute with Northwestern over concessions and a proposed lease of 175 miles of tracks. The split means Burlington must complete its Powder River to Orin line, creating two competing routes in the Inland Empire.
Worland scientist Prof. Puppum leads breeding work at Workedhetek producing drought tolerant winter grains. Buffum No. 17 winter wheat and improved winter emmer show promise for western farmers, offering higher yields and hardiness in arid conditions. Burbank notes a potential nationwide gain of over 15 million bushels per extra wheat kernel.
A vivid autumn scene along Minnehaha Park paths shows sunlight filtering through trees and leaves underfoot. The writer notes a squirrel stealing a nut, the lake’s rippling surface, and sparrows in the trees as eighteenth street is traversed, pondering poetical lines about melancholy days.
The Woman's National Democratic League forms with Mrs. John Sherman Crosby of New York as president and calls Wyoming women to organize a state club. The piece notes AFL endorsement of the Democratic Party and discusses local events in Cheyenne, Fort Russell payments, and a Dry Farm Association meeting in Jireh Converse County.
A farmer's wife outlines practical step saving measures from October Woman's Home Companion. She describes piping spring water to the kitchen, a waste drain system, a kitchen hopper, and a large perforated box for air circulation to cut hundreds of daily steps. Public notice ads follow.
In Woodstock Connecticut a mother partridge battles a hawk mid air above a golf course while banker J D Haskell of Wakefield Nebraska and Judge Eric Johnson of Putnam watch. The hawk targets a chick as the mother ferries her brood away, then the pair clash fifteen feet up and tumble to the ground. The partridge ends victoriously, the chick dropped during the skirmish.
Mrs Orville Rock of Paw Paw Michigan recounts a dislocation treated in Ann Arbor that led to four weeks in hospital and worse health, then recovery after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She urges others with female complaints to try it, noting thirty years as a standard remedy restoring many women's health.
A hawk attacked a partridge and her brood as Mr Haskell and Judge Johnson intervened with their golfing drivers. They forced the hawk away, allowing the partridge and three chicks to escape while one chick lay with a broken wing. The wounded bird vanished by morning.
Beauty culture parlor run by Clara A Ligler advertises hairdressing manicuring and hairwork at 411 West 19th Street with phone contact 817.
Sixteen people died and nearly a hundred were injured when the Chester to Liverpool express derailed near Liverpool on Tuesday. The engine jumped the rails and the nine cars crashed into a small station. a coach was burned with several passengers cremated. The accident occurred after crossing the Mersey on a bridge approach to the junction.
The Hon. A. Br. Nutting son of Bir J. G. Nutting of Dublin married Miss Edith Allen Brooks daughter of Walter Brooks of New York at St. George's Hanover Square in London. Judge Gary coming home in Paris today.
Gary and Mrs Gary arrived in Niagara Falls on September 13 to attend a three day convention of the International Claim Association an organization of insurance adjusters meeting at the International Hotel. The Sherman Co.
The ad claims TIZ cures tired swollen and sore feet and treats sweaty foul smelling feet corns callouses bunions and poisonous foot exudations. It promotes a free trial package from Walter Luther Dodge & Co. Chicago and sells for 25 cents a box at drug and general stores.
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