Local notes from Saratoga and surrounding towns
Ray Riggs from Saratoga. Mrs R H Platt suffers pneumonia. Ed Smiter buys Slater place. Charles Hayden en route to Rawlins. T Fait arrives from Loveland. Al Schultz Ferris Magearty mine watchman. Jim Anderson and family visit. Andersons in Denver two months. Ed Smiter in town on business. plant spuds this year for good crop. Mrs L C Stavings and daughter from Rawlins. blockade delay due to illness. G C Nichols from Sidney Australia arrives with father M Nichols. Wm Parr injured near freezing. two fingers removed. Parr thankful for recovery. notice urges land proof preparation and timely filings.
Help Find Them Work Cheyenne 1917 Patriotic Employment Appeal
An Adjutant General office backed employment agency in Cheyenne Wyoming solicits businesses and newspapers to help Wyoming National Guard members secure jobs on discharge from federal service. Posters distributed statewide urge employers to hire guardsmen, noting their varied occupations and offering inquiries to the Adjutant General. The piece urges public cooperation and mentions local papers donating wartime columns for this cause.
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Wyoming National Guard
Federal Service
Adjutant General’s
Cheyenne
My Country
National Guard
Adjutant General's Office
Sheridan Poll Could Turn Back to Aldermanic Govt
Sheridan Wyoming awaits a special election on returning from the commission form to aldermanic government. Debate centers on structure, services, and voter will. Local leaders urge clarity as civic reform drives the decision.
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Sheridan
Wyo
Riverside Notes Highlight Local Movements and School Event
Riverside notes list residents visiting from Utah and ranch in areas, including Mr Alliston Mr Karnal s garage man and Will Garoutte along with Dick Martin Louis Cunningham and Dick Martino. A charming program at the Riverside school house honored Longfellow s birthday and the national week of song with Miss Dee Hilliard and pupils entertaining a sizable audience from Encampment and nearby river town.
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Dee Hilliard
Riverside
Longfellow
Beaver Creek Town News Gathers Local Notices
Will Hayden visited town last Thursday. John Peryam stayed Friday night at the W R Hunt ranch. Albert Clawson works for W N Toothaker. High Line Ditch company met at Ralph Platt home last Sunday. Nels Anderson ships freight from Walcott to Encamp. Mr and Mrs Rolima tend lambs in cold weather. Frank Mansheim visited his erand mother Mrs Nose and uncle Bert Rose. Charles Haydon suffered a car gathering and went to Saratoga to see Dr Price. Mrs Raph Platt recovering from pleurisy after ten days illness. Serwin Hayden started Monday to haul freight for Mrs Hayden. W N Toothaker arrived Monday from Rawins joining a jury. He suffers neuralgia. Church services held at Beaver Creek schoolhouse last Sunday. Mr Clough will be out again in two weeks if nothing prevents.
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High Line Ditch Company
Ralph Platt
Nels Anderson
Walcott
Beaver Creek
Clough
Brush Creek News Note Says Residents Relocate
Brush Creek residents report several relocations including Miss Shera Larson boarding at Filton's since Walker moved to Saratoga and A B Walker family moving to Swrmaga for the winter. Snow chaos continues with two and a half feet in a single night and twenty one below zero. Shubert the Brush Creek mail carrier faced impassable roads on the Sanger to Saratoga leg, and a farmer nearby yielded potatoes valued at 95 000 dollars from thirty acres at Gowando near Wild Cat Colorado with prices around three and a half cents per pound.
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Shera Larson
Filton’s
Walker
Saratoga
Brush Creek
Joe Shubert
Sanger
The Booster Ethic For Towns And Truthful Pride
The piece argues boosters vary in motive. True boosters promote communal welfare without lies or envy. It praises showing towns in a fair light, aiding neighbors, and avoiding black eyes, while noting no place is perfect.
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United States
Record Delivery Request by Reader
A reader asks if residents back home receive the Record and requests it be sent if not. The note seeks confirmation of subscription fulfillment and logistics for mailing copies to interested parties.
Astonishing Buckthorn Remedy Promises Quick Relief
The Lordier Drug Co. advertises a remedy named Ad ler-i ka containing buckthorn bark and glycerine claimed to prevent appendicitis. One spoonful allegedly relieves sour stomach gas and constipation immediately, marketed to Encampment residents with dramatic claims.
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Lordier Drug Co. 1
German Press Reexamination on Mexico Intrigue
Copenhagen dispatch notes National Tidende calling Germany’s Mexico intrigues a political bomb. It cites shifting German press tone from hostility to Japan after Kiao Chou and speculates on a possible Japan attack on the United States if war looms, reflecting era tensions.
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Copenhagen
London
Germany
Mexico
National Tidende
Japan
Kiau Cnau
United States
America
Submarine Detection by Surface Waves Recalled
A U S Navy officer explains how water sound and surface breaks indicate a submarine nearby. The officer notes subs surface periodically to recharge batteries and that waves heard at a distance help detect them.
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U. S
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Stock Growers State Bank
Wyoming
Platte Valley
C. A. Cook
Fred B. Durrie
Tilton & Son
LO. Wolfard
Nels Erickson
Ray Riggs
R. H. Platt
Mr. Sehafe
Ed. Smiter
Charles Hayden
Rawlins
Chas, T. Fait
Loveland
Colorado
al Schultz
Ferris-Magearty Mine
Jim Anderson
Mrs Anderson
Denver
Ed, Smiter
Slater
Australia
G. C. Nichols
Sidney
Antiphlogestine Company
M. Nichols
Wm. Parr
Reco
Goster Herewito
Arthur Parker
Adjutant General
Tempt
Commission
An At
Riverside Notes
Mr. Alliston
Will Garoutte
Dick Martin
Louis Cunningham
Dick Martino
Henry Pantle
Beaver Creek News
Will Hayden
John Peryam
W. R. Hunt
Albert Clawson
W.N. Toothaker
Mrs. Rolima
Frank Mansheim
Mrs. Nose
Bert Rose
Charles Haydon
Dr. Price
Serwin Hayden
W. N. Tootiaker
Rawins
Bir Creel
John Vyoakum
Lanis
Jess Barkhurst
Ocar Prique
Family
A. B. Walker
Swrmaga
Brideves
Tenmile
Wild Cat Country
Gowando
Air-O Lite
Englehart
Guernsey Gazette
Genbate
E. G. Peterson
Osborne
Leslie C. Stallings
U. S. Commissioner Record Office
Sordier Drug CO
Pioneer Druggists
Encasipment
Plummer
Geo, Plummer
Jolly Limits
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