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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1910
Page
7
Boston sent a fine group of women swimmers to New York as the Modern Mermaids. Annie Morecroft, fifteen, attempted a Battery to Sandy Hook crossing but due to heavy seas the voyage was canceled. She then swam upriver to Twenty third Street, reaching it in fifty six minutes in adverse conditions.
Walter Shiprean prominent Northumberland County attorney lies gravely ill in Sunbury hospital. He tells friends to notify his relatives and selects burial plot portions in the family graveyard. He visits the courthouse to say goodbye to Judge Anton and exits quietly after the final farewell to court officials.
A Boston report describes a physician of noted power in a self induced hypnotic state. Dr Wesley Hetchum presents at a meeting of the American Association of Clinical Research detailing the subject who speaks in plain terms while under autohypnosis, using medical phraseology with ease.
Announcement urges Democrats of Cheyenne to meet by ward to elect delegates for the City Democratic Convention at the Court House at 9 PM on Monday October 3 1910. Primary meetings precede at 8 PM on October 1910 with polls closing 8:30 PM. Committee chairman Wilfrid O Leary signs the notice.
The page lists classified ad rates for want ads and notices, including “one cent per word” pricing and free insertions for three ads. It also includes a veterinary anecdote about surgical anesthesia and a Census Bureau release with population figures for several cities, noting increases since 1900 for Maldon Quincy Waltham Richmond Springfield Joplin and Rome.
Classified notices include a young lady seeking a position as a pianist sight reader in an orchestra, two rental offers for furnished cottages, and numerous real estate and business ads. Listings show prices, locations, terms, and contact references such as M. S, R. MM, and J. D. Wright at 221 W. 17th St. Los Angeles.
A drunken mining party terrorized Monarch on September 29, wandering streets shooting, dynamiting an empty house and firing on a saloon. Sheriff Drewester and Salida marshal rushed to quell the disturbance. Samuel Jones was arrested. others fled.
Maximum temperature 75 degrees and minimum 44 degrees are listed with light precipitation noted as possible. The entry records a calm day with no significant weather events reported.
Sealed bids addressed to the city clerk Cheyenne Wyoming for fence material will be accepted until 6 PM on Tuesday Ortob ey tth 1910. Material includes about 6100 pounds of barbed wire and 800 cedar posts delivered to Crystal Lake Reservoir. Bids may cover wire, posts, or both and must include a $50 certified check and bond. The council will read bids publicly and award to the lowest responsible bidder with right to reject any bids.
The readable fragments indicate a Cheyenne context with references to turning work for men and boys, a distant location or lineage terms, and scattered phrases about germen road or THROAD. Specific names, dates, or clear events are not present in the legible portions.
Democratic leaders remain undecided as the convention nears. Edward M. Shepard appears to have strong backing, though supporters deny a published claim that Shepard endorsed the sugar rust deed.
The largest sanatorium in the central west treats non contagious diseases in two brick and stone buildings. The executive building receives non contagious non mental diseases and no others admitted. A separate rest cottage is dedicated to select mental cases under Dr Benjamin P alloy.
A Cheyenne business directory fragment lists Burke & Clark and several law offices with names and room numbers including John Charles Thompson Wilfred Cleary Charles I Rignon Blake Kennedy William Dubois and J W Lacey. It also notes real estate firms M. Bruce painting and an Metropolitan Hotel as well as railroad schedules for the Union Pacific and Denver Pacific lines serving Cheyenne.
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