Opening of the Fair Keefe Hall Transformed Into a Bazaar
The Sisters fair at Keefe hall opened Tuesday night and runs to Thursday night. It features a lively mix of pretty girls, fancy articles, lemonade, music, and auction style drawings with a two bit admission. Proceeds fund various tables and a lottery style sale of items including a gold watch and other prizes. Local volunteers coordinate fancy work, flowers, candy, and refreshments as visitors navigate the hall and bid for coveted prizes.
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Keefe Hall
Miss Dwyer
John Martin
Nellie Burke
Belle Dwyer
Luke Murtin
H. P. Hynds
Ellis
Nita Mercer
Edwards
Donohue
Gertie Corey
Katie Ryder
Ralph Mercer
Asa Mercer
F.E. Warren
Mater Dolorosa
Arp & Hammond
Mamie McDeavitt
O'Brien
Hvnds
Weybrecht
Martin
Bishop Burke
Zehner, Buechner & Co
William Murray
Robinson
Father Nugent
Mary Nugent
Griffin
Dublois
William Myers
Rose Ball
New York
Lynch
George Masten
Elliott
Joseph M. Carey
Rhodes & Troxell
Cowhick
Jay Gould
Cheyenne
Anne
Nettie Ohenstein
Kate Nugent
Ella Fryer
Fair dancers aid convent fund with flowers and entertainment
Flower buttons cost fifteen cents each with ten cents change to the watcher. A gold watch will be worn by the watcher after the fair closes Thursday night. Flower girls are Millie Obestein May Buechner and Mollie Maloney. Dancing will be featured each night as attendees can dance to spend money for a worthy cause. The convent of the Sisters of the Holy Child will add architectural beauty and support for charitable work.
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Millie Obestein
May Buechner
Mollie Maloney
Sisters of the Holy Child
Wyoming Statehood Urges Broad Support from Evanston Citizens
A May 1889 survey in Evanston gathers many local views on Wyoming statehood. Most interviewees express support for immediate admission, while a few voice concerns about taxes delays and development. The piece notes near unanimity for early statehood and promises further readers’ views in the next issue.
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Evanston
Wyoming
Frank M. Foote
P O. D. Marx
William Lauder
Harrison
Jooe A. Beckwith
H. Parpe
Halleck
Thomas Blyth
Charles Stone
G. H. Peterson
Os. E. Cashin
A. D. Chamberlin
A.S. Hare
Geo. C. Reberg
James McKenzie
P. J. Downs
C. HL. Priest
Wolves Driven From Caves After Rancher Hunt
Mr. Thomas Rutledge reports a herd of large wolves terrorizing stock on Horse Creek. Three men including Rutledge and John Gordon blocked two wolf dens four miles south of Gordon’s ranch. A dozen wolves were killed with a smoking out method, about a dozen more captured, promising safer stock in the area.
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Thomas Rutledge
Horse Creek
George Hoyt
John Gordon
Rutledge
Gordon
William Lykins
Eross
Valuable Silver Claim Near Laramie Reported
Ed Bailey locates a silver claim twelve miles from Laramie in the Moumernsig report. The ore shows high grade with an assay by Burlingame Denver assayer at 1570.20 per ton. Bailey found about twenty five feet to gold bearing vein with strong walls. BW Towner and others extended the claim.
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Laramie
Bailey
Burlingame
Denver
Towner
Enthusiastic Johnson County Statehood Meeting in Buffalo
A large crowd at Buffalo City Hall heard Johnson county leaders back a statehood push for Wyoming. Speakers urged Governor Warren to order a general election of delegates to form a state constitution, with county commissioners adopting resolutions in line with Laramie and Uinta counties.
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The
Sun
Buffato
Territory
Wyoming
Johnson County
Laramie
Uinta
Warren
H. R. Mann
Dresser Brother-in-law Assaulted by Keenan at Rock Springs
The incident began when Keenan, intoxicated, entered the independent office and drew a revolver as Dresser attempted to flee with papers. Dresser pursued, fired a pistol shot at Keenan, and a scuffle erupted injuring Gibson before friends restrained them. Keenan reportedly regrets the act and promises not to repeat it.
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Dresser
Keenan
Rock Springs
Independent
Gibson
Tue Sus
Cheyenne Gossip Notes Statehood and Press Alumni
New York journalist correspondence from Cheyenne reports disappointment over Bill Nye’s canceled lecture. Sympathy for Nye’s ill family circulated while Charley Beck of Nellie Bly fame is noted as Chicago Times former Cheyenne Sun editor. E A Slack of The Sun sent letters from Converse County, witness at Douglas Sheffer murder trial. Territorial papers discuss statehood as Wyoming seeks prominence. Major Shannon contemplates returning to journalism in New York.
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New York
Bill Nye
Charley Beck
Nellie Bly
Cook County
Chicago Times
Cheyenne Sun
E. A. Slack
The
Sun
Converse County
Sheffer
Douglas
Wyoming
Major Shannon
Charleston
Gossiping Guards of Cheyenne Year Old and Debt Free
Gossip about the Guards of Company B in Cheyenne notes the unit's upcoming first anniversary, debt elimination, organized uniforms and equipment, and strong drill attendance. A dress drill and ball at the armory is planned with tickets sold by members. The piece mentions drill cadence, leadership, and local business ads for typewriters.
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Cheyenne Guards
Upton
G. Shapcott
Uncle Billy" Wilkes
Henderson
Stilver
Adams
Fire Tournament Set With $1075 in Prizes
The firemen's tournament committee met at the Pioneer's house to plan the July 9 and 10 event. Delegates from several departments arranged prize lists including gold, silver trumpets, and cash totaling 1075 dollars plus two trumpets worth 100 dollars.
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Firemen
Pioneer's House
Kuykendall
Boulder
C. H. Bond
Loveland
W.M. Boomer
Greeley
5. Bon, Jr
Cheyenne
L. G. Jenks
Machine shop progress and site incidents reported
Several more cars of material arrived yesterday. Contractor Sharp will be in the city tomorrow or Friday. Two sides of the brick wall on the new machine shop are well under way with over a dozen bricklayers at work. Foreman Pullman narrowly escaped being run over by a car of sand pushed along the track but escaped without a scratch.
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Sharp
Pullman
Whistle Row Sparks Board of Trade Split
In St Louis on May 21 a dozen junior board members were suspended for blowing toy whistles on the trading floor. The suspensions stood and supporters of the disciplined traders walked off the floor to a ground floor room where much option trading took place. Seceding members threaten to form a new exchange.
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St. Louis
Board of Trade
United States and Germany Lock Horns Over Samoa
Special AP correspondent reports a serious hitch in Samoa conference talks. The United States demands Malietoa be restored as king, while Germany hesitates, noting it has pardoned Malietoa and regards that as its best action for him.
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Bertin
Associated Press
United States
Malietoa
Germany
Westinghouse Edison suit over filament invention priority
The U S supreme court Justice Bradley hears Westinghouse Electric Light Company versus M C Keesport Edison Electric Light Company. The dispute centers on which inventor first claimed the filament compound Sawyer or Edison. Sawyer says he invented the filament years earlier but valued it after Edison filed. Edison denies.
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Pittspurg
Westinghouse Consolidated Electric Light Company
M.C. Keesport
Edison Electric Light Company
Justice Bradley
United States Sypreme Court
Sawyer
Edison
Kilrain to sail May 22 with Mitchell at secured farm
A cablegram from Jake Kilrain states he will sail on the Atlantic May 22. Charlie Mitchell accompanies him to supervise training. Excellent quarters are secured on the Frederick road near Baltimore, a healthy secluded farm surrounded by dense woods.
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Baltimore
Jake Kilrain
Adriatic
Charlie Mitchell
Frederick Road
Skeleton found in New Haven yard buried for years
John Collins unearthed a skeleton during excavation in western New Haven. The bones lay near an old well and appear to have been buried ten or twelve years ago in a cramped position, suggesting hasty burial. It is the second skeleton unearthed in the city this week.
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New Haven
John Collins
Presbyterians in Council Discuss Plan of Work and Home Missions
The Presbyterian general assembly in Council New York May 21 debated a proposed plan of work among free men. It then reviewed home missions with about nine hundred thousand dollars requested for the next year to support western growth.
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Presbyterians In Council
New York
Presbyterian General Assembly
Coal miners resume work after regional strike
From Benton and Lonpom dated May 21. Miners in the Dortmund Bochum and Eesen districts resume work as reports note the strike ending. Lord Salisbury spoke at the Primrose League gathering stating the alliance between Parnellites and Gladstoneians is slowly breaking.
Murder on Ruatan Island Family Brutally Slain in Sleep
Advices from Ruatan Island report Reverend Hobbs his wife and child slain with knives in their home as they slept. Robbery appears the motive. A Jamaican sailor named Burrell was arrested with some of the money on his person.
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New York
Ruatan Island
Honduras
Hobbs
Burrell
Strike of Berlin Masons Demands Nine Hour Day
Three thousand masons in Berlin strike for nine hours daily with meal allowances and a ten to sixty pfennig pay raise. They seek ten hour Saturday work limits and two weeks notice of discharge.
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Beatin
Mexican wasp Johnsons cure rheumatism tale ends
A New York railroad man recounts a Mexico trip tale praising a French doctor's bee sting rheumatism cure, but argues a single Mexican wasp would outdo conventional bees. He describes the wasp as two inches long with a non forfeit stinger and a painful three hour bite that leaves numbness and severe soreness.
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Mexico
New York Sun
How a Man Sewns on Buttons in Private
A humorous portrait of a man attempts to sew a button alone. He searches for a button, needle, and coarse thread, struggles to thread the needle, and endures misfires, finger pricks, and awkward contortions as he finally ties the thread and leaves a few inches dangling.
Button Sewn At Last Earns Proud Housekeeper Praise
A kitchen anecdote about a man struggling with a button and thread finally succeeding. The tale highlights the housekeeper’s wisdom and the satisfaction of completing a simple laundry task.
Incomes of Rulers Show Global Salary Disparities
The article lists annual salaries of world leaders, noting the US president's $50,000 salary and contrasting it with vast figures for monarchs and rulers such as the Shah of Persia at $30,000,000, Czar of Russia near $10,000,000, and other sovereigns across Europe and Asia, while Switzerland pays its president $3,000 a year.
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United States
Grant
Boston Globe
Persia
Czar
Russia
Ming
Siam
Spain
Maccaroni
Victoria
Morocco
Japan
Egypt
Hobhenzollerns
Zanzilar
Luxuruy
Massachusetts
Portugal
Sweden
Brazil
Republic of France
Litte Hayti
Switzerland
Earth
Optician Recommends Purchases Amid Blurred Vision
In a garbled exchange at Opticia's a customer complains of unclear sight with glasses while the optician suggests an absurd remedy. The dialogue appears to reference a peculiar instruction about a poodle and a mysterious book called The Rovwel Aculene in Lowdhootvs, with doors not opening on Sundays.
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Optician
Brythie
Deanne Lowser
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