Wyoming Territory receives funding for post offices and roads
The Senate and House conferees agreed on a civil appropriations bill for Wyoming listing post office and road projects. Highlights include Buffalo and Cody post offices, Basins of Yellowstone Road maintenance, Fort Laramie and Shoshone Irrigation funding, and a state fish hatchery grant. Only a fraction of the total appropriation remains for twenty projects, with about 1.9 million allocated to two major items.
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Wyoming
Senate
Buffalo
Cody
Yellowstons Park
Fort
Lara
Fragmentary War Dispatch Describes Gas Attack and Prisoner Capture
Readable passages recount British front conditions with gas, explosions, and two villages under attack. References to masks, grenades, rifles, and a secretive report hint at casualty events and prisoner movements amid ferocious fighting on both sides.
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Tieton
Ini Singhvdul
Willing to Be Good Comedian Recalls Stage Admission
Albert Fhevallen relays a night when a comedian reports a four piece orchestra on stage the manager apologizes for a missing popular singer and promises a later appearance to calm the crowd a gallery voice pleads for the band not to play and the audience agrees to stay quiet.
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Albert Fhevallen
Fifteen Wyoming Counties Report Registration Totals
Fifteen counties in Wyoming have not yet filed official registrations while Campbell Crook Fremont Laramie Sweetzer Natrona and others are included in the 16 846 county total. The statewide registration stands at 20 280 with a shortfall typical of mining counties. Flooding menaces towns as the Platte River rises and blocks rail traffic along the Chicago Burlington and Quincy line.
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Cheyenne
Wyomitk
Pegpie
Chicago
Bibliowop
Quincy
Rails Road
Education Survey Planned in Cheyenne for Vocational Education
State Board of Education moves to study a Wyoming vocational education plan under the Smith Hughes federal act. The bill, passed last winter, provides a cooperative program between the national and state governments to promote vocational training.
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Cheyenne
State Board of Education
Wyoming
Smith-Hughes
Freeman Arrested For Failing To Register Under Conscription
Casper-Arthur Freeman, an employee at the Casper Wyoming State Hospital, was arrested here for failing to register under the conscription law. He claims he is 20, but hospital records list him as 23.
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Casper
Arthur Freeman
Wyoming State Hospital
Freeman
Girl Dies After Fire at Foster Mother's Ranch Home
In Laramie a 17 year old girl Irene Harland died after accidentally starting a fire at her foster mother's ranch house 12 miles southwest of town. The incident left the area in mourning as authorities investigated the tragic blaze. Meanwhile the Boy Scouts of Laramie planted an acre and a half in potatoes to raise funds for the Children's Home.
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Jired
Here
Mise Irene Harland
Boy Scouts
Laramie
Boy Scouts of
Petty
Robberies and bonds tied to district court actions
Rawlins Brotherhoods buy bonds and a local citizen group funds Liberty bonds. Rawlings men face district court with bonds set under 1 000 dollars. Substantial road work and university diploma ceremonies noted in Pinedale and University of Wyoming events. Diplomas awarded across arts, agriculture, engineering, music, education, and normal school.
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Rawlins
Laravile
University of Wyoming
United States Army
Melanchthon F. Libby
University of Colorado
College of Fiberg Arts
Agriculture
Normal School
Wyoming State News Highlights 1916
Wyoming notices report draft registrations 2,221 men ages 21 to 30 in Laramie County and 109 200 acres more homestead land available from Washington. Drowning death of Davis Phelps in Rose Creek. Cheyenne and Casper updates include Red Cross funds, Frontier Days plans, and local political changes.
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Blufta
Clearagaie
Burtt Wer
Douglass
Casper
Fein Tholtkaen
Liberty Ames Einadtnane
Owt
beesEisncipihs
Wyoming
Condi
Qheyenne
Army
C. A. Fund
Liberty Loan
Sheridan
Bunker
Banville
Cheyenne
Marie
Washakie
I Standiné
Mondell
Converse County
Davis
Eugene Phelps
Rose Creek
Phelps
Washington
Houx
Red Cross Fund
Jay Evans
Hastings
Neb
la Barge
Laramie County
G. U. Shoemaker
Laramie
A. N. Husenkamp
A. E B. Holliday
Shoemaker
Theo, Bentley
Tubby” Jones
Unclear Military Drill Sparks Pettiness and Protest
Fragmentary dialogue shows a trainee at a military center complaining about a Swedish drill and war context. A drill sergeant contemplates another drill period as the trainees voice fatigue and mock solemnity during a tense moment.
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Kes
Ian Cobérast
Cuticura Heals Sore Hands Quickly in Tests
Advertisement touts Cuticura products as fast acting for sore hands. It urges soaking in Cuticura Soap, drying, and applying Cuticura Ointment, then removing surplus with tissue. Free samples offered by mail via Cuticura Dept L Boston.
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Dept. L
Boston
They Understood Colonel Ward and His Bayonet Lesson
Ward, a popular hero and former sergeant, trained raw recruits of his navvies battalion with simple direct methods. He demonstrated muskets and bayonets saying this is the bayonet boss and this is the bayonet bar, teaching where you earn and spend money. The piece notes how people are eager to believe scandal.
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Ward
M. P
Manager offers dance to all at park pavilion
Three socially prominent women in a Kansas City park pavilion declined a dancing master's invitation as he urged them to dance. The incident, noted for tact, was praised in the Kansas City Star.
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Kansas City
Senor
Tie
Kanaae City Star
Tricky Reply From Proprietor Quips About Jam Offer
Journalists recall Traymood Minthwatt and a famed proprietor who refused a request for an interview. The reply used a school treat analogy saying he works where strawberry jam is made, implying no access to the piece.
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Traymood Minthwatt
Lord Northelif
Proof of Lydia E. Pinkham remedy’s claims cited
Ridgway Pennsylvania woman reports seven months of backache and side pain improved by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, enabling full housework. Tennille Georgia resident credits eight years of ill health resolved by the remedy, now keeps house and gardens. Both letters urge others to seek advice from Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. and note confidential response from female staff in Lynn, Massachusetts.
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Ridgway
Penn
Lydia E. Pinkham
W. E. Lurvier
R. R
Tennille
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
Unclear Exchange In Court Transcript Fragments
The fragment shows a courtroom exchange where a question asks if the prisoner struck the witness in anger and the response mentions a strike between the eyes. No further context or names are provided.
Corn Freezone Claim From Cincinnati Authority
A Cincinnati authority touts Freezone as safe to lift and remove corns and calluses with a few drops. A small bottle can be bought at drug stores for minimal cost and dries on contact without irritating surrounding skin. The notice promises to assist readers in obtaining a bottle from a wholesale drug house.
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Clocinnath
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Big Muddy
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Fort D A. Russell
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Willian High
John Uh
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William Sulth
Sam Palmer
John Martines
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