Wyoming Crop Report Highlights Rye Rise and Plowing Delays
A May Wyoming crop summary shows rye forecast at 189000 bushels, up from 156000 last year, with spring plowing lagging at 38 percent statewide. US figures include wheat, corn and hay prices and state and national conditions, while a Riverton incident notes Solomon D. Jones, 10, died by suicide after a domestic dispute.
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Union News Service
Cheyenne
Wyoming
United States
Bureau of Crop Estimates
Weather Bureau
United States Department of Sericulture
Rye
Coal Miners Get Raise in Wyoming District
About four thousand coal miners in the Wyoming district were granted a wage increase of seven to eight cents a ton on all coal mined under an agreement signed by representatives of the United Mine Workers of America and Southern Wyoming Coal Operators. Three Laramie boys left for Presidio to join the officers reserve corps.
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Reyenne
Wyoming District
Repre ‘Itatives
United Mine Workes of America
Wyo ‘Ng
Laramie
Presidio
Samuel A. Smoke
Fort
Union Pacific Plans Thirty Mile Extension on Medicine Bow Cutoff
The Union Pacific has not made an official announcement but work is underway to extend the Medicine Bow cut off by thirty miles. The project focus and exact routing remain under study as crews advance.
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U. P
Union Pacific
Medicine Bow
State Health Board appoints county health officials
Cheyenne Dr J H Conway named county physician by the State Board of Health. Pine Bluff is health officer for Laramie county. Other appointments include Dr Pitfer Wheatland and Dr A G Heard Sheridan elected president. Dr Beard Cheyenne reelected secretary. The other board member is Dr Harrie Bastа.
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State Health Board
Cheyenne
J. H. Conway
State Board of Health
Wyoming State News Highlights Sept 11 to 14
State fair set in Douglas. Recounts include Cheyennes oil exchange and a Casper rally. Cheyenne reports scarlet fever cases and a Purity Oil Company incorporation. Natrona County logs heavy logs from snow, and Budgets fund moves for Memorial day events. Wolf Creek etc.
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Union News Service
Douglas
Casper
Glenrock
Saratoga
Cheyenne
Rawling
Casper Baptists
Wyoming
Natrona County
Wyoming Medical Association
Archibald J. Caldwell
Alton
Pinedale
Wyoming National Guard
James Black
Big Piney
Laramie County
Purity Oil Company
State House
Burns
Fremont-Wyoming Oil Company
Lost Cabin
Charles B. Langdon
Miller Creek
Cheyenne High School
Cheyenne Lodge No
Company of
Elks
Ares
Ralph Yates
United States War Department
Aviation Corps
Pine Bluffs
Carpenter
Wyo
Grover
Colo
Pine
The Little Flags On Memorial Day
A poem recalling little flags along the summer road for Memorial Day. It honors those who marched away in response to country calls and urges the living to give their best today, not later, as the flag speaks.
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Mery Las Dalen
Little Soldier Kept Pony He Loved Through Civil War
A young drummer named Gig Van Zandt served in the Seventy-ninth Ohio from age ten to thirteen, carrying dispatches in Sherman’s march to the sea. He kept a pony captured at Milledgeville and, after muster out, appealed to President Johnson to keep his loyal mount, who granted the request.
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South
Little
Gig" van Zandt
Port William
Seventy-ninth
Ohio Regiment
Sherman
Milledgeville
Johnson
Gettysburg clash seen through Gregg’s last Union command
The article reflects on the Gettysburg battle and the death of General David M. Gregg, noting his 10 000 cavalry on the right flank and how General Stuart’s rear attack failed to disrupt the Union wagon train, with Pickett’s assault marking the Confederacy’s tide turning.
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Gettysburg
O. Henry
Longstreet
Pennsylvania
David M. Gregg
Little Round Top
Culp’s Hill
Gregg
Stuart
Lee
Pickett
General Gregg
Hymn at Bermuda Hundred Reflects Soldier’s Faith and Duty
A Civil War veterans banquet recounts Col. J. J. Phillips of the Ninth Virginia telling of a midnight assault when a hymn broke the stillness and altered the fire order. A Federal veteran recalls he was the singer, tying memory to the night’s exchange of courage and devotion.
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Board of Trade of New York
la Salle Corbell Pickett
Lippincott
J. J. Phillips
Ninth Virginia Regiment
Pickett
Earth
Phillips
Jesus
Ald
Allence
Bermuda Hundred
Reverend Twichell Survives After Wounding
The Rev. Joseph H. Twichell longtime pastor of the Ansy lum Mill Congregational church in Hartford Conn endured severe injury in a serious encounter. A chaplain opened a pocketbook and the wounded man pressed for a message to his family and a ten dollar bill. He bet he would not die and he did not.
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Joseph H. Twichell
Ansylum Mill Congregational Church
Hartford
Conn
Ideale Worth While Memorial Day Resolve
The passage urges renewal of devotion to daily duty and enduring ideals that keep a nation young and noble. It emphasizes America reborn not only by Civil War struggles but daily through purposes, visions, hopes, and enterprises guiding mankind. Memorial Day inspires renewed commitment to hope and achievement.
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America
Memory of Civil War Friendship on Memorial Day Reunion
A famed veteran recalls a moment of unlikely fellowship between a Union and Confederate soldier before a brutal bayonet fight. He remembers two men, sworn enemies in war, sharing tobacco and coffee as comrades in a tender hand to hand gesture.
The Dead and the Old Soldier’s Tribute
A poetic meditation on aging veterans paying tribute to fallen comrades and the contrast between youthful ardor and aged fealty to war. It questions reverence for war and honors the dead and the living rearguard with somber reflection.
Remembered Fine Old Tune at Camp Emery Reunion
Surviving Civil War musicians at Camp Emery gathered in their quarters and played the tunes that once spurred Union troops to victory. They kept their drums and fifes, some patched, as they welcomed a visitor who asked for Bluejay and the veterans obliged with spirited parade rhythms.
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Camp Emery
Fellows
Washington Star
Card game ends as depot torpedo sinks near water
Morris Schaff recounts a Confederate raid at City Point that sank an ordnance depot by a torpedo. Amid bursting shells and wreckage Captain Mason’s tent shook as a barge blew up nearby. Admiral Clitz reacted with a biblical line, then fled toward his war Weasel while Grant questioned Cue, and the game ended abruptly.
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Hudson
Admiral Clitz
Navy
City Point
Morris Schaff
Atlantic
Richmond
Mason
Grant
Carda
Clus
Saint John
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Makie
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Fred Schoettlin Ranch
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Wyoming State News
Governor Houx
Lion Mountain District
Pacific Mine
Mogollon
Mra. G. P. Johnston
Mra. Johnston
Frank L. Houx
Jim Baker
Frontier Park
Jack’ Cranford
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Terrara
Washington
Ordnance
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