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A Look Back in Time: Nov. 27, 1919

Without a doubt, there were few homes in Sheridan today where the hospitality did not prevail. Some who entertained Thanksgiving guests were Mr. and Mrs. Dave Kahn, Mr. and Mrs. H. F. McNally, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Taffner and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Dorman. L. M. DeVine is in Sheridan from the PK …

November 27, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Nov. 26, 1919

Emphasizing his determination to enforce the provisions of a federal injunction prohibiting conspiracies to promote the coal strike, Major Warren Dean, military commander of Northern Wyoming, headed a military detachment into the coal fields of Sheridan County today. Fifty-two miners were taken into custody. The football game between Billings Poly and

November 26, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Nov. 24, 1919

The improvement of North Main street will begin at once, immediate action having been decided on at a meeting of the city council this morning. The action was taken because of the impassable condition of the road. Trucks and vehicles of all kinds have been mired, and the street car service interrupted. Charles Frank Francis …

November 25, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Nov. 23, 1919

Earl D. Hawkey and George Williams of Ucross came to Sheridan today to spend a day attending to business matters and visiting friends. They are guests at the Crescent hotel. W. W. Alderson returned tonight from shipping cattle to Kansas City. He returned by the way of Denver, where he visited Mrs. Alderson who is …

November 25, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Nov. 22, 1919

The J. W. Denio Milling Company filed a suit for $185,000 in district court in Sheridan today against Walker D. Hines, director general of the railroads. The plaintiff alleges damage to that extent by destruction of the milling property from fire on the night of July 1, allegedly caused by sparks from a passing locomotive. …

November 25, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Nov. 21, 1919

The good roads committee of the Sheridan Commercial Club met last night to consider plans for cooperating with the Forest Service in the matter of securing a road into the mountain, eventually to connect with a road on the other side. The project is to be known as the Dayton-Kane road. Make your reservations now …

November 21, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Nov. 20, 1919

T. H. Dudlow, Thomas H. Kelly, J. J. Dooley and R. G. Swain of Hall, Mont., arrived in Sheridan with a big shipment of cattle last night and stopped here to feed. Henry Walker, night chief of police, placed a speeder under arrest last night. The offender will appear for trial before Judge Byrd at …

November 20, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Nov. 19, 1919

Joseph W. Clouse, age 43, a miner at Dietz, died at the state hospital in Sheridan at 2 o’clock this morning as the result of injuries he received in the mine at Dietz yesterday afternoon. A man was fined $50 and costs in Judge Cusick’s court in Sheridan yesterday on a charge that, while riding …

November 19, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Nov. 18, 1919

Joe Clouse, a resident of Dietz, was probably fatally injured, and Ryan Bertrand, who lives in Sheridan, received serious injuries at about 1:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon as a result of a runaway car in Dietz No. 7 where the two men were employed as miners. The conditional price of coal in Sheridan is $7 per …

November 18, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Nov. 17, 1919

Miners in the Sheridan field returned to work this morning after a strike lasting 15 days, during which the only coal produced was that needed to keep the power plants at Acme and Carneyville in operation. The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Donald Garbutt Post will be held tomorrow night in Council Chamber of the …

November 18, 2019

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