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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1878
Page
5
The Weekly Leader advertises Thursday issues and low price commercial printing. It promises neat execution of cards, bill heads, letter headings, blanks, posters and more with new jet presses for affordable rates.
Emily Fulton a famed beauty at a Lexington Avenue party falls for Senor Rojas a Venezuelan. He deserts her for wealth then returns. A forged marriage vow revealed leads to murder suicide as Emily kills Rojas and herself. Harry Martin is avenged.
A discussion of employed women who become breadwinners and heads of households, noting independence and strain on marriage prospects. It argues marriage would erode earnings power, leading to fading youth and unrealized dreams, with the claim that such cases outnumber men avoiding matrimony three to one.
The Huntsville Advocate recounts a tale of a 21-foot giant seen near July Mountain in Jackson County Alabama. Residents gathered to corner him in a ravine before he broke chains and crossed the river toward South Mountain. The story is apocryphal but linked to early Tennessee lore.
Interior Department census figures indicate an increase in Indian population despite fears of extinction. A paper presented to the American Missionary Association argues that while wars and disease reduced numbers, total losses were overstated and remaining tribes have grown. An English visitor also notes Creeks Cherokees Chickasaws and Choctaws with rising populations and progress in agriculture wealth education and religion.
A Wilson North Carolina resident touts London Oak Color Restorer claiming a ten to twelve year scalp condition with dandruff and grey hair reversed. He says his wife’s hair stopped thinning and grew, leading to multiple orders and a $8 payment by post office order. Sold widely by druggists at 75 cents a bottle with Dr Swayne Son as principals and agents in several cities.
The Laramie County Stock Association offers a reward of 8200 for the arrest and conviction of any party detected in stealing or killing stores belonging to any member of the Association. Swan Brothers. P. O. Cheyenne Wyoming Range Cheyenne. Cattle branded on left hip and right hip ear marks crop and split in right.
An old advertisement promotes Brown's Liver Pills for headaches and liver issues, Brown's Blackberry and Ginger for diarrhea, Arnica products for sprains, Cough Balsam and Tar Troches for coughs, SARSAPARILLA and IODIDE of POTASSIUM for blood and liver, a blood purifier remedy for chronic rheumatism, with sales through Hurlbut Brothers Addams & Glover and Geo. W. Hoyt.
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