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A Look Back in Time: Dec. 29, 1918

A crowd of several hundred greeted a special Burlington train of 418 troops en route from Vancouver barracks to Ohio. The train pulled into Sheridan about 9:30 a.m. today in a driving snow. The coyote hunt was abandoned for the second time today. Weather conditions were again the reason. Eddie Polo, Hercules of the film …

January 2, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Dec. 28, 1918

The Sheridan Commercial club will meet Monday night to confer regarding what legislation may be necessary to permit Wyoming’s most effective participation in the big road-building program that the government is to institute as an after-war economic movement. Brakeman Harry A. Floyd of the Burlington railroad was killed under a train at Alger in an

December 28, 2018

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A Look Back in Time: Dec. 27, 1918

Before opening its chamber of horrors for the induction into the mysteries of the Mystic Shrine this afternoon, Kalif Temple pulled off its screaming pageant featuring 24 pilgrims panting for the knowledge of the occult mysticism of the desert. Buffalo sent up a bunch of Shriners by early morning automobile. The big coyote hunt will …

December 27, 2018

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A Look Back in Time: Dec. 26, 1918

W.D. Fisher, secretary of the Community club at Alliance, Neb., is to succeed Tilden Morris as secretary of the Sheridan Commercial club. He will start on March 10. Tiverton Tynan, who has been attached to the local selective service board as military aid and clerk, left today for Fort Logan, Colo., to be mustered out …

December 26, 2018

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A Look Back in Time: Dec. 25, 1918

Sheriff Mossberg has arranged to serve chicken dinner today for the inmates of the county jail. Seven prisoners are confined there. The Burlington Cafe is serving a special turkey and goose Christmas dinner from 11:30 till 7 today. Boy Scouts and their friends were given an unusual treat tonight when Scoutmaster Champion operated the stereopticon …

December 26, 2018

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A Look Back in Time: Dec. 24, 1918

Miss Princess Butler, driver of the stage between Passaic and Sayle, Mont., succeeded in checking the horses and preventing a serious runaway after the horses became frightened and bolted, but she broke her wrist in the struggle. Between 450 and 475 people in Dayton are arranging to take dollar memberships in the Red Cross, but …

December 24, 2018

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A Look Back in Time: Dec. 23, 1918

Although delayed by the influenza epidemic, “The Ocksheperida,” the official newspaper of Sheridan high school, has resumed publication, and the first edition of the present school year appeared from press today. Sheridan high school pupils have purchased more than $671 in thrift stamps in seven weeks. Martin Mock and daughter are in Sheridan

December 24, 2018

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A Look Back in Time: Dec. 22, 1918

A request presented to the city council this morning, asking transfer of the old Gas company’s franchise to the new company now in command of that utility, has been postponed until next week. The formal transfer bore the signature of A.C. Foster of Denver, and city authorities could find nothing in the records showing that …

December 24, 2018

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A Look Back in Time: Dec. 21, 1918

Despite a change for the worse in weather, upwards of 50 men and women attended the meeting in Sheridan this morning called for the organization of the much discussed farm bureau. The coyote hunt planned to take place tomorrow has been postponed for one week due to the snow storm. Thirty-seven fatherless children in France …

December 21, 2018

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A Look Back in Time: Dec. 20, 1918

An agreement has been reached between the miners in the Sheridan district and the mine operators regarding who will place powder in the mines. The miners insisted they should not be required to carry the powder into the mines, and the companies have agreed to place the powder in the mines themselves. Two men pleaded …

December 20, 2018

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