27 Feb 1877
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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1877
Page
1
The Daily Leader announces subscription and advertising rates with a claim that The Leader has the largest circulation in Wyoming. It lists prices for display, local notices, and weekly ads and notes January 1 as date and Cheyenne as location.
Instructions require each publication to include the writer name or initials. Communications without proper byline on either side may be discarded by editors.
A rapid penman writes thirty words a minute requiring hundreds of pen strokes per second and miles of writing daily. The account notes total yearly strokes and argues for phonographic writing where lines and dots represent sounds, enabling up to two hundred words a minute.
The text argues you should stay occupied to ease sorrow. Regular work or productive chores keep misery away, and reading fills idle time. It praises lifelong learning, notes old men as the keenest students, and urges using free libraries to gain useful information daily.
The passage catalogues scattered remarks about politics and culture from the Boston Post and other sources. It notes Hayes with cabinet officers, Jim Bennett in Paris, and jokes about names and pronunciations, plus an 1876 investment gone sour and rail fare threats to Columbus, Ohio.
The article details Black Hills gold prospects with 1876 gains around 1.5 million dollars and rich placer and quartz finds near Deadwood and Whitewood creeks. It outlines Cheyenne as a key outfitting hub, stage routes to Custer and Deadwood, and a Cheyenne to Deadwood travel distance of about 230 miles. It lists necessary supplies for a four-man prospecting party and prices for wagons and teams along the Cheyenne route.
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