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A Look Back in Time: Dec. 14, 1919

F. S. Peabody, president of the Peabody Coal Company of Chicago, spent yesterday in Sheridan and left today to return home. The Misses Vera and Dora Kooi are informally entertaining guests for the weekend at their home. The guests arrived tonight and plan to return to their homes tomorrow night. Mrs. Alice Keenan entertained a …

December 16, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Dec. 13, 1919

Thirty-five miners at Kooi were arrested and are being held today on a charge of violating the proclamation of Governor Carey banning assemblages near any coal mine in Wyoming. Mayor Camplin has issued a proclamation declaring that the restrictions governing the use of light and fuel in Sheridan are at an end. The Rotary club …

December 16, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Dec. 12, 1919

Mayor Camplin late this afternoon announced an extension of the hours during which retail stores in Sheridan may remain open. Starting tomorrow, retail stores may open from 9 o’clock in the morning until 5 o’clock at night. The improvement of the coal situation in Sheridan has made it possible to reopen the library on a …

December 12, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Dec. 11, 1919

Heads of the local miners’ unions in the Sheridan field received official notice by telegraph today that the strike is at an end. The coal situation in Sheridan has materially improved during the last 24 hours, according to a statement from H. A. Loucks, fuel administrator. The country mines have largely increased their production, and …

December 11, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Dec. 10, 1919

Due to the coal shortage, Mayor Camplin has issued a proclamation to go into effect at 8 o’clock this morning that moving picture houses will be permitted to open at 8 o’clock at night and run until 10:30. The coal situation for Sheridan has changed little in the last 24 hours. Production in the Sheridan …

December 10, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Dec. 9, 1919

Now here’s Sheridan Media’s look back in time, to 100 years ago, as published in the Sheridan Enterprise newspaper on Dec. 9, 1919. All miners are striking at Dietz, Acme, Carneyville, Monarch, Model and Kooi. With last night being the coldest in 20 years, dozens of families in Sheridan were without coal. At noon today, …

December 9, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Dec. 8, 1919

Mr. and Mrs. William Diener will entertain members of the Catholic church tonight at their home on West Loucks street. A splendid musical program has been arranged, and cards will be played, but there will be no dancing. The seniors of the Sheridan high school entertained the juniors last night, the feature of the entertainment …

December 9, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Dec. 7, 1919

Sheridan faces an acute coal famine. Already there are 100 families here who have no coal, and should low temperatures continue to prevail, the situation will rapidly become desperate. County commissioners at a special meeting yesterday passed a resolution that the county will place and maintain the Dayton mountain road in a satisfactory condition to

December 9, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Dec. 5, 1919

Notwithstanding reports on the streets today that mines in the Sheridan field had shut down again, all were working except Carneyville, which had shut down for the funeral of a miner killed there by a fall of coal on Wednesday. Nobles and novices from all over the northern half of the state are in attendance …

December 5, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Dec. 4, 1919

A storm of protest has been aroused by the action of the county commissioners yesterday in appropriating $2,000 for the Dayton-Kane road. There is a general feeling that the commissioners have failed to recognize the importance of this road, and a movement to increase the appropriation. H. A. Loucks, city fuel administrator, has called for …

December 4, 2019

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