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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1878
Page
5
The Weekly Leader advertises Commercial Job Printing offering cards of all shapes and sizes, bill heads, letter and note headings, blanks, posters, and more on short notice. It touts a new stock of type and presses enabling handsome prints at low prices.
Reports from Washington cover McGarrahan business activity and a renewed Senate discussion of the Pacific railroad funding bill. Other items include a Wilmington wife murder suicide, church and political appointments, labor strikes in New York, ship exhibits for Paris, fires in Dudley and Galveston, a jail escape attempt, and bankruptcy filings connected to John McCool.
An 19th century advertisement promotes Swayne's Ointment as a safe cure for itching piles and related skin ailments. It claims effectiveness for tetter barber's itch scald head ring worm and other eruptions. The price is 50 cents a box or three for 1 25 and lists Dr Swayne & Son Philadelphia and Addams & Glover Cheyenne Wyoming as sellers.
The transit of Mercury May 5-6 gains support from the Western Union Telegraph company providing hourly time signals across the nation for synchronized observations. An French Astronomical Commission will set its Utah Territory headquarters, with the Naval Academy’s great refractor aiding in tracing Mercury’s path.
The notice catalogs cattle and horses with brands and marks across the North Platte region between Fort Fetterman and Fort Laramie, Cheyenne and Camp Chirk. Brands include wuove on left, GO mitt, GOAD, and other marks with wattle traits noted on left hind quarter and left thigh.
An old physician, after testing a vegetable formula from an East Indian missionary, claims a speedy and permanent cure for consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma and lung ailments along with debility and nervous complaints. The recipe is offered free with full directions by Dr. M. B. Bell, Baltimore.
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