Wyoming State News Highlights Early 20th Century Events
A catalog of Wyoming items reports July events at Sheridan and Casper, fairs in Laramie County, Park County, and Douglas, plus Cody and Basin activity. It notes oil strikes near Lander and Riverton, gas drilling near Cody, a Rawlins penitentiary death, crop progress in Cheyenne, and a Dumm family university captaincy.
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Sheridan
Casper Rod and Gun Club
Casper
Laramie County
Urng
Park County
Ody
Douglas
Cody
Basin
Laramie
State Dental Society
Hall Oil Company
Smith Ranch
Pilot
Big Horn Basin
Willard Flanders
State Penitentiary
Rawlins
James Pappas
Kemmerer
Ritzville
Wash
Cheyenne
Mexico
Wyoming
Lander
Wyoming Petroleum Company
W. F. Cody
North Adams
Mass
August Lemburg
Evanston
Standard Timber Company
Black's Fork
W. D. Clemens
Pearson Brox’ Ranch
Roy Hawley
Garden Creek Falls
Pine Bluffs
Laramie Oil Development Company
Lyman
Red Lands
Oklahoma
Valentine Interesta
Canyon Creek
Moneta
Homer T. Lamb
Lamb Drilling Company
Lamb Gan Dome
Basin and Greybull
Old Glory towel and Captain Driver’s flag tale
A vintage linen towel, possibly from the late 18th or early 19th century, bears the inscription independence July 4 1776 Washington elected President and Pluribus Unum. Capt Stephen Driver christened it Old Glory, later raising it atop the Capitol as Union troops reclaimed Nashville in 1862. The relic was long kept in family memory before entering a Pittsburgh collection.
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Triotic Societies
Pittsburgh
Cecelia C. Jones Murdoch
Schenley
The
United States
George Washington
American Wilds
United States of America
Washington
Federal Union
Stephen Driver
Salem
Mass
Charles Doggett
Nashville
Capitol Building
Fort Donelson
Sixth Ohio
Bluecoats
Capitol
Driver
Thatcher
Declaration of Independence summary in brief
The excerpt proclaims that the United colonies are free and independent states, absolved from allegiance to the British crown and dissolved from political ties to Great Britain. It frames the Fourth of July as a national celebration, seen variously as sane or unsafely conducted depending on the year.
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United States
Arredondo
Mexico
Carrizal
Great Britain
Perfect and Glorious Expression of the Revolution
Critics may come and go but no one can improve on the Declaration of Independence described as the absolutely perfect and glorious expression of the Revolution according to the Exchange.
Congress Decrees 14 Stripes in May and 13 Stars on Flag
On June 14, 1777 Congress decreed that the May should display 14 red and white stripes and 13 stars on a blue field. This act established the basic pattern for the flag as a symbol of the new nation.
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Congress
Sure to Be Eaten Tak Collector Say Doctor
A dialogue fragment shows a character asking a doctor if the debt can be settled. The doctor suggests calling around about the sixth or seventh of July, noting an expectation of being flush by then.
TENTH TROOPERS HEROES AT CARRIGAL CHARGE
Detailed field dispatches recount Captain Charles T. Boyd leading the Tenth Cavalry at Carrigal on the 1st. Despite bullet injuries, he directed troops to seize a concealed Mexican machine gun trench before being mortally wounded. Of eighty four men, twenty one unaccounted, thirteen killed, seventeen captured, thirty three returned to camp.
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Carrigal
Columbus
N. M
Tenth Cavalry
Charles T. Boyd
Gen. Pershing
Corp. Green
Boyd
Woman avoids operation after using Pinkham's remedy
Astoria New York woman credits two years of illness and planned surgery with relief after taking Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports improvement from the first bottle and the ability to eat breakfast with her husband within two weeks, avoiding the operation. Many letters to the Pinkham Laboratory describe similar outcomes guiding against surgery.
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Astoria
N. Y
Lydia E. Pinkham
Joan A. Koenig
Flushing Avenue
Pinkham Laboratory
Peeterraed
Lydia E.pinkham
United States Leads in Electric Steel Furnaces Growth
The Electrical World notes American electric steel refining progressed from European roots via Niagara Falls power, with the U S furnace count rising 78 percent last year. On January 1, 1916 the U S had 78 furnaces, Germany 53, England 46, marking U S superiority in operation and construction.
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United States
Niagara Falls
Europe
Germany
England
Bluff on the Bluffman Exchange in Loston
A terse phantom dialogue from a Loston Evening Transcript page shows a bluffing note over change for a fifty with a ten dollar debt. Banks questions the certainty of payment as the Human character delays until next week, reflecting a witty street exchange.
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Loston Evening Transcript
Subalyat Reading Sparks World Prison Theme
A brief, enigmatic note contrasts reading Subalyat with a view of the world as a prison. The exchange hints at danger and decay, mentioning pure water corroding ghiss and the idea of escape alive.
In This Matter of Health One Side Revealed
A terse editorial contrasts the winners and losers in health policy, arguing moral duty divides opinion while urging action. The piece emphasizes accountability and selects a stance on public health outcomes.
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Wyoming State News
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Massachusetts
Tennessee
Wilson
Gen. Carranza
Union News Service
James Linn Rodgers
Mexico City
Bays
Mexican War Department
Jacinto B. Trevino
Per
Chihuahua
Fort Huachuca
Tombstone
Ariz
E. L. Grisell
United Stat
America
Tenth Troopers
Mar
Ghiss
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