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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1920
Page
6
An essay by Frank Comerford argues unrest stems from chronic poverty and low wages endured by European workers. He profiles coal miners, mill workers, and families, noting education, libraries, and printing advances sparked awareness and uplift, while fear of poverty drives collective action against harsh conditions.
In Berlin and other cities, essential goods like clothes and milk are scarce and expensive for the poor, while shop windows display beauty. Housing worsens as populations grow before the war, and stores remain busy all day. Adults and children crowd theaters and the opera as new homes rise and the public mood remains tense.
Many longtime veterans who marched to the Rhine in 1918 and later discharged and re enlisted form the Fifth and Sixth country region to supervise a plebiscite near Coblenz. They previously served ten to twelve months in France and Belgium before the available.
A Polish professor A A Onnen doffsky, head of the Intelligence department of the alldrussian govern west, estimates total world war bolaherian civil war starvation and disease cost Hussie 26 million lives. Professor Ossondofteky cites formerly growing Wussino population now declining at twelve to thirties per minute.
The Children's Bureau in Washington reports 1918 1919 as Children’s Year. States funded physical and moral welfare through 137 new nurses from ten states and 184 children health centers in fifteen states. Playgrounds opened in sixteen states and schooling campaigns reached forty five states plus New York City DC and Hawaii with scholarships visiting teachers and vocational guidance programs.
At a recent board meeting in Laramie the State University decided to sell 1000 acres of the university land near Torrenton. Eight hundred acres are irrigable and the property is expected to fetch at least $100,000. Trustee C. S. Beach of Frontier attended.
The committee led by Dr. B. F. Davis fixed July 27, 28, 29 and 30 for this year’s Frontier celebration at Cheyenne. They aim to make the 1920 event the largest in the institution’s history.
Seventeen hundred dollars in fines were collected at the district court in Green River during the latest term. Most receipts came from liquor cases with a 200 minimum fine. Six murder cases were on the docket. four convictions reported. John E B Williams was acquitted in the Clarence Lacey case while Wm Lamb’s case and civil matters were continued. Frank James received the county's first death penalty for first degree murder.
The Lincoln Highway Forum notes the highest road marker on the transcontinental route sits 25 miles west of Cheyenne atop Sherman Hill at 18,000 feet altitude. The piece accompanies a photo of the Lincoln tenil marker and highlights its elevation.
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