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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1920
Page
6
The piece urges lasting gifts from U S Government Savings Securities as ideal Christmas presents. It promotes Thrift Stamps, Savings, and Treasury Certificates as ways to ensure future happiness and financial independence for children and families, with sales continuing through 1921.
Colonel Jay L. Torrey famed as Wyoming organizer and commander of Torrey's Rough Riders died at his West Plains Missouri home at 6 p m Interment planned at Pittsfield Illinois He had married on a wedding trip and learned of his death on December 4 The Torrey unit served in the Spanish American War and later ran a cattle ranch near Thermopolis with other Kemmerer residents among its members
Casper Wyoming Chief of Police James E Lynch announced a new strategy to curb gambling. In venues where betting occurs authorities will arrest not only active gamblers and proprietors but everyone lounging in the room or hanging about for abetting the infraction.
Andre Tardieu lauds the American Red Cross for wartime aid to France. He notes 87,000,000 francs spent in 1918 and 171,000,000 in 1919 on charitable projects, plus large stockpiles turned over to French relief groups. He cites 15 million American youths in the Junior Red Cross, strengthening Franco American ties and mutual gratitude.
The American Red Cross has sent six million dollars in food clothing and medical supplies to Balkan states since aid began. Resources funded hospitals orphanages and mobile clinics and supplied farming implements while agencies plan withdrawal by year end as populations regain self sufficiency.
The text advises taking Chamberlain's Tablety after meals to induce eight gentle bowel movements by tomorrow morning. It claims improved digestion and effective relief, urging immediate use.
In Riverton Wyoming B V Dunkin elevator manager had his hand crushed in a feed mill for half an hour before physicians amputated at the wrist with a hammer and chisel. The team then removed more at the stump to aid healing as he guided responders. Dunkin had been trying to clear an obstruction at the feed mill entrance when his fingers were caught.
In 1920 the Rocky Mountain district report shows 247 national forest fires in Wyoming and South Dakota, with 496 acres burned and 747000 board feet destroyed. Forest officers extinguished 80 percent before burning more than a quarter acre. suppression costs were $4144 amid education efforts to reduce fires and boost public cooperation.
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