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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1903
Page
12
Advertisement text for a printing house outlines legal notice rates per line and discount policy. It notes second class matter and per line charges, with pricing to be applied to line items in legal advertisements. It also mentions commissions and that estimates are available for all classes of job printing on request.
Wyoming lawmakers in Laramie county push a tonnage tax on other counties coal output. The editorial warns such production taxes threaten the mining industry, raise broader costs, and echo Cuba era trade disputes as harmful to Wyoming’s future.
A telegram from John D. Rockefeller to a Washington senator urging opposition to the anti trust bill shocks the nation. The report claims Rockefeller ordered a party line, while Standard Oil plans a New York bank with 815,000,000 in deposits from the U S treasurer. The piece says the loan to the National City Bank nets large yearly returns and accuses Rockefeller of coercive funding of the party.
EB Ki Slosson, state chemist, warns of adulterated foods. Jellies are glue and starch paste with fruit dye and salicylic aid. Ground spices use coconut shell flour. Whiskey risks wood alcohol. Oyster and sausage components deemed unsafe. Slosson cites complex compositions beyond analysis.
A Wyoming writer urges stricter state and federal controls on harmful goods and counterfeit products citing London prosecutions and the need to protect public health. The piece critiques constitutional rigidity, mentions capital punishment politics around Tom Horn, and notes a St Louis fair exhibit plan and a prohibition on stage exposure for Tim Cole Younger. It ends with a Washington's birthday dance at Smith's Opera House on Feb 23 to benefit the Kemmerer orchestra.
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