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Newspaper
Encampment Record
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1917
Page
9
City Property Encampment Wyoming promotes cash sale bargains on available plots and structures. Local real estate agents highlight affordable lots, homes, and investment options with limited-time terms and clear ownership transfers.
A census bureau survey shows that states covering about a third of the population had 78 percent more births than deaths in 1915. The study notes higher birth rates among foreign-born parents and a lower death rate among Negroes, with New England, New York and Pennsylvania included in the area studied.
The report notes the first federal birth statistics across states including Michigan Minnesota and the District of Columbia. Birth rate 24.9 per thousand and death rate 14 per thousand in the state. Foreign tables show wartime U S birth rate higher than England France Belgium Sweden and Switzerland. higher elsewhere Germany Austria Russia Italy Spain Denmark Holland Japan Australia.
Washington reports a chip maker has perfected a shorthand method for Chinese and opened schools in China. The system claims 1400 words per minute but faces challenges from the language, as characters lack explicit vowels and consonants and a syllable may have multiple meanings.
Secretary of Agriculture Houston announces allocations totaling one million dollars for road and trail construction in national forest areas. Wyoming receives 40000, New Mexico 42000, Arizona 58000, Colorado 62000, and Montana 70000.
A tale contrasts price haggling at Altman's department store with a publisher's space rate in a nearby town. Lambs fetch a record price of 9.25 per hundred, with a 1.00 deposit and 6 percent in advance, as protests grow over moving Jim Baker cabin to Cheyenne.
Police and military authorities under the defense remifect conducted simultaneous raids on S P U printing plant and headquarters across London and on the home of Mrs Parkhurst. The suffragette publication Britannia and two taxicabs loaded with documents were confiscated.
Harry True Jr of Cheyenne has moved to oil fields north of Rawlins to set up development work which will start in spring after weather improves. Supplies arrive as winter halts operations. several firms plan spring restart and anticipate testing Lost Soldier and Mahesey Dome fields to confirm value.
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