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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1912
Page
16
Multiple chapters including Alpha, Mount Melick, Mu Beta, Omega Card Club, and G H Club schedule meetings with members at varied addresses such as Mrs W C Mentzer on Thirty-third Street and the Carnegie Library. Activities include sewing, business sessions, and preparations for the State Federation in Cheyenne in October.
The note from Platea Pennsylvania describes relief from nervousness crying spells and backache after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. A Dakota report from Walcott credits the product with curing persistent pain blue mood and sadness and restoring well being. Both letters invite readers to write for special medical advice.
In church circles the Presbyterian Missionary Society will meet this afternoon at Mrs. L A Ballinger's home 515 West Twenty fifth street a large attendance is urged. The South Cheyenne W C T U will hold a bake sale next Saturday at Chenenstein's grocery store. The Westminster Guild will reconvene after summer vacation Tuesday evening at Mrs Mille's home 320 West Twenty eight street. Misses Mary Brown and Eurive Anderson will be the hosts
The Guild of St. Marks plans a bake sale and tea Saturday afternoon at the Pariah Powe noting hosts James Fradiey and Fortier. Meeting details follow with church events and an upcoming anniversary celebration for the Cheyenne Baptist church. The Q A group meets this afternoon at Miss Marjorie Whipple's home at 4 o'clock.
On the site a confrontation arose as Joseph Romano, a striker, taunted Morrello and struck him in the face after being told to stop. Morrello wrestled with Romano for the gun, which was discharged twice during the struggle without harm.
The piece accuses Warren of public plunder and corporate greed during his tenure in Cheyenne, citing a failed lighting plant, a 25 year franchise, and a windfall profit from a city deal. It argues this harmed Wyoming while Warren enriched himself and shaped state affairs.
A young woman Lydia Berger is found hacked to death in her second floor room. Diamonds ring and other jewelry missing while purses remain. Two unknown men, one tall blond and one older with a black mustache, entered around 9:30 pm overpowered her, and left about 10:30 pm. Police suspect robbery and a Jack the Ripper style killer though no weapon is found. A note on tariffs and Woodrow Wilson follows the crime in the same piece.
In a defended exchange, Mr. Bryan argues the protective tariff lets manufacturers pay higher wages but does not compel them. he contends free labor market trade combined with tariffs fosters trusts and corporate greed, prioritizing dollars over workers and merchants amid claims of high efficiency.
A department of commerce and labor bulletin shows food costs rose about 40 percent from 1890 to 1912 with meats up about 65 percent and potatoes about 44 percent. Other items include eggs 49.8 percent, sugar 8 percent, milk 32.2 percent, and bacon the lone decline in the last year.
In Amarillo Texas on September 23 John Beal Sneed faced a habeas corpus hearing for the murder of A G Boyce Jr. Judge J M Browning presided as Sheriff Burwell and twenty deputies searched for weapons before admitting attendees. Relatives and Boyce family members attended in large numbers.
Edward P. Costigan progressive candidate for Colorado governor will address the Progres sives at the Capitol Avenue theater Friday Sept 27. Governor Joseph M. Carey and B Winters will also speak. Local Progressives show strong enthusiasm for the event with many statewide candidates and party leaders in attendance.
Governor Wilson read alone in his study when three men in a car tried to steal the big state flag from a seventy five foot pole in front of the house. Tindley Malone of New York, staying at the home, cried out from his window as the thieves began to operate and they fled.
Minneapolis clinched its third straight American Association pennant as the season closed. The club finished 106 wins and 60 losses with a .636 percentage, remaining securely atop the standings from early in the stretch.
Washington Sept. 23. It was practically decided that President Taft would issue an executive order placing fourth class postmasters in the classified service. The order will relieve 36,038 postmasters from the uncertainty of political appointment.
In Los Angeles on September 23 William Jennings Bryan gave twelve addresses though only four were scheduled. He spoke to women Democrats at a breakfast, at hotel lobbies, and to an immense throng in the Auditorium at noon. Police faced crowd control challenges at the park and during mobile speeches between venues.
Boston dispatch reports Chester Jordan was executed in the Charlestown state prison electric chair for murdering his wife four years earlier. He dismembered the body and packed it in a trunk. The sentence was carried out early this morning after lengthy legal proceedings.
In New Brighton New York a pet English bulldog went mad and mauled three women names Miss Tillie Hostetter 85 Miss Mary Creeman 30 and Margaret Creeman 32 on Creeman lawn. The dog was shot and killed by Officer Shotwell after turning on him. The incident raises the week’s Staten Island dog bite total to two dozen.
Eddie McGoorty stops Jack Harrison in the first round at Madison Square Garden. Mike Gibbons outpoints Tommy Maloney over ten rounds as the show advances in New York boxing card.
Governor Wilson rode through rain in Pennsylvania addressing thousands at stations and arriving in Scranton for an umbrella parade to the armory where a large mass meeting was held.
George Crall, a cowboy, drowned when his horse pinned him in Bar ranch reservoir at Gillette Wyoming on September 23 observed by two other cowboys who could not save him. The report notes a blustery political atmosphere accompanying the incident. Tivoli Rathskeller advertises Genuine Mexican Chili and Dutch lunches at 10 St. and Carey Ave.
The weather summary notes rain or a new system affecting Wyoming with clearing by Tuesday and Wednesday, followed by a fair spell. The bulletin is brief and mentions general conditions rather than specific locations beyond Wyoming and the capital.
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