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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1920
Page
6
An editor claims exclusive publication of provocative details about a white slave story. The paper notes its rival ran a bridge reconstruction story a week earlier, accusing the Republican publication of borrowing prior coverage from the Camera.
Kemmerer cheers the arrival of spring as the most beautiful season. The piece contrasts seasons, praising spring for renewal and health while noting winter and autumn’s harsher moods and hardships in other regions. It emphasizes spring as a harbinger of beauty, vitality, and optimism for both adults and children.
Emerson urges individuals to insist on themselves and avoid imitation. He argues great talent is unique, not learned by others, citing Shakespeare Franklin Washington Newton and Bacon as unteachable by masters. Do your assigned task, obey your heart, and you will recreate the foreworld.
New York City based Central Federated Union instructs its members to avoid joining the American Legion after Legion members supported public opposition to “outlaw” strikers. The piece suggests the AEF’s France mission aimed to defend right to strike and American interests. The column comments on a Kentucky publisher retiring with 50000 amid tales of an uncle’s 49999.60 inheritance and questions the extra 50 cents.
Governor Robert D. Carey proclaims May 28 to 29 as Forest Protection Week in Wyoming. He urges citizens churches schools and organizations to prevent fires and spread information through talks and addresses during the designated week. The proclamation is dated April 28 1920 and signed by Secretary of State Allent W EB Chaplin and Deputy H M Symons.
Herbert Hoover and Senator Hiram Johnson lead the field in Wyoming according to the May 8 Literary Digest poll of eleven million voters. Johnson shows strong local support with 240 votes to Hoover 220, Lowden 196 and Wood 190. McAdoo leads labor support with 112. Digest delegates place Wood 90, Lowden 75, Johnson 10, Harding 42, Poindexter 14. Nationally Johnson tops among instructed delegates with 118,016. Wood 196,182. Hoover 114,995. Hughes 27,919. Lowden 3,362.
Washington D C May 12 The discharge certificates of nineteen Wyoming soldiers and one travel pay back issued by the War Department have been returned unclaimed by the post office department. Senator Kendrick reports the War Department efforts to locate these veterans proved unavailing and seeks current addresses for listed men including Adams Shannon J and Williams Eugene J among others with Edward N Johnson noted for travel pay.
A notice notes a monetary indebtedness totaling twenty five thousand dollars and references the county treasurer and the date the matter was recorded. The fragmented text mentions Sortificata and No 1 percent and appears to be an official financial notice from Pannell County.
The National Sheep and Wool Bureau reports over 1.265 billion pounds of virgin wool in world storehouses since WWI, with America alone holding about 700 million pounds as of last September. They urge passage of the Truth in Fabric bill to reveal fiber content and curb shoddy goods, urging voters to press Congress and party platforms. The article also lists a real estate sale description and court clerk notices dated May 8, 1920.
Sheriff D. C. Oakley traveled to Cheyenne to testify before a federal grand jury regarding the confiscation by county authorities of a complete moonshine operation at Frontier last February. The raid revealed a thriving white mule business run by the Borsienare at the mine, a case that drew wide interest across Lincoln County.
In Wyoming county probate court notice is given that J T Van Kinks as administrator filed a return of sale of real estate of James W Fleming deceased No 454 The hearing on the return is set for a Saturday morning in Evans ton county and state
Balwebbed and sworn to before jesuth of May, 1980, J A Christmas, Notary Public.
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