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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1908
Page
9
Vacation days end and children return to school. Blyth-Fargo-Hoskins Co urges dressing children well with new suits and pants for boys up to 13 years. School shoes and boy’s high cut shoes priced for purchase.
A rambling Western yarn follows a newcomer called a tenderfoot who earns cautious trust among cowboys. He endures rough talk and a challenge with rustlers near Wind River, proving honesty and earning a place at the Circle as legends recall a famed showdown.
The Kemmerer Minedale Stage Company has been carrying many passengers into the upper country lately, suggesting activity and interest rising there. Investors are seen as hopeful and settlers’ confidence remains strong. F Curtis, the jeweler, markets a bevy of jewelry items.
The Camera family visited the Fossil beds near Fonsi to inspect a camp where R. Lee Craig and Thomas Holland have collected rare fossils from rock layers. They described alligator gar and gar remains, shells, leaves, berries, and insects, with rocks showing closely fitted fossils and evidence suggesting ancient sea levels.
Little is known about the next move as miners debate wages ahead of the contract expires Sept 1. Quenly traveled to Butte for a miners conference while reports hint at possible work stoppages Tuesday if no wage agreement is reached. Officials including Quealy and Mart meet with operators to discuss a wage scale. Mes Quealy heads to Butte. Matt Willison journeys to the Trey country with wire for the Kemmerer Big Piney line to repair poles after a cyclone disrupted communication.
Local boxing fans anticipate a high profile middleweight clash between Kid Gregory the champion and undefeated Kid Gilsey of Coloriedo. The bout headlines a card at McDonalds on Bahor Day with training underway and strong public interest in the event.
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