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Newspaper
Encampment Record
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1916
Page
8
Classic advert claims rapid relief from indigestion and stomach distress with Pape's Diapepsin. It touts speed harmlessness and a handy home remedy, urging readers to keep a fifty cent case for family meals and quick relief at day or night. It also includes a humorous quip about a Pan American congress.
A promotional snippet claims meat eaters suffer sluggish kidneys and touts Jad Salts as a remedy to flush kidneys and purify blood. It links several ailments to kidney sluggishness and suggests daily use before breakfast. The piece ends with a brief note on Italy’s 1915 trade values.
A vintage promotion claims California Syrup of Figs safely cleanses children’s stomachs liver and bowels. It touts a 60 cent bottle with directions for babies children and adults and warns of feverish sick children who won t eat or sleep.
News from Wyoming covers the twelfth annual Wyoming Wool Growers Association convention at Casper, upcoming Masons and Knights of Pythias activities, new notaries, military orders, business incorporations, and local incidents. Notable items include a March 8-10 Casper Masons meeting, a Jireh bank opening in town, and a $50,000 hotel filed with the secretary of state. Also: a Japanese man found frozen to death near Laramie, a high school girls’ basketball win for Lander over Casper, and various state revenue and oil production figures for 1915.
An advertisement claims Danderine banishes dandruff and stopping hair loss within ten minutes of application. It promises new hair growth over a few weeks, with hair described as light, fluffy, and lustrous. Instruction to use a cloth to comb through hair and a 25 cent bottle offered for trial. Also includes a quip about fame and color choices.
Land office reports the Frannie unit in the Shoshone irrigation project will likely open in early spring. About fifty homesteads between Frannie and Lovell, Wyo., will be eagerly contested as ditches and laterals are ready. Last fall unit five sparked a rush with over 150 filings for fewer than 50 tracts under a government lottery for multiple entries.
Taste in reading shows Oliver moving from a five-cent hair raiser to dime novels. The exchange notes the shift as a one hundred percent improvement, reflecting a comic perspective on his reading habits.
State Examiner J. C. Newlin filed a report with Governor Kendrick detailing examinations of books in the offices of State Engineer James B. True and Secretary of State Frank L. Hour, plus insurance books of State Auditor Robert B. Forsyth. The 1915 insurance commission collected 45417.44, of which 35457.33 came from taxes and the rest from fees. Secretary of State receipts totaled 38875.12, with 21121.02 from auto licenses and 17752.10 from fees. Fees declined from the prior year as firm incorporations dropped, likely due to higher filing fees. The State Engineer’s office reported 4191.75 in fees and miscellaneous income.
More than 500 jobless women, over half with college training, secured employment in New York through the Intercollegiate Bureau of Occupations in the year ending April 30, 1915. They filled roles as secretaries, companions, suffrage workers, librarians, settlement workers, and nurses. Some found unusual posts including three as saleswomen and demonstrators for an auto company, two with a bond firm selling stocks to women, one as a rent collector, and four as police agents or detectives.
Wrong food and drink cause trouble, but changing diet aids illness. A woman improved after stopping coffee and using Postum and Grape-Nuts, gaining strength in four months. Her husband also slept better and cramps faded after avoiding coffee. Postum Co Battle Creek promotes Postum cereal and instant Postum as delicious, affordable beverages.
Mrs. J. H. Gunder found a sapphire valued gem in her yard. A Chicago jeweler offered $100 for the crystal after it cut glass, but she refused. The gem, weighing about one carat, is now set in a ring she wears, and several smaller sapphires have been found nearby.
Lincoln County assessable value increased by 138 849.68 during the 1915 16 fiscal year due to new development of idle lands. During the period 18 51 29 acres were proven up, each acre valued at seven dollars and fifty cents, boosting the county property valuation.
Marsha Gore a professional trapper is bound to the United States District Court at Cheyenne on a charge of sending obscene matter through the mails.
The third trial of R. D. Meldrum for the murder of Chick Bowen of Slater Cole at Baggs Wyoming will be called in the District Court here. The case has been delayed multiple times, with the jury to be convened for renewed proceedings in the near future.
Warden Alston of the Rawlins state penitentiary reports fifteen prisoners received and ten discharged during January, detailing inmate movements for the month.
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