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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1882
Page
4
A collage of jokes, anecdotal items, and short notices from various papers. It includes marriage notes from Maple Park and loose commentary on editors, independence, and public events. Mentions of Guiteau, Luther, and notable quotes punctuate lighter items and marketish tips.
William J. Coughlin of Somerville Massachusetts recounts falling ill in 1876 with violent lung bleeding and a severe cough. He credits Dr William Hall s Balsam for the Lungs with his recovery after hospital treatment and failed prior medicines. He claims two bottles cured his consumption and says he hopes others will try the remedy. Sold by druggists. june25dead&wly
A misleading advertisement promises a free recipe to cure nervous weakness, decay, and loss of manhood. It credits a South American missionary and urges readers to send a self addressed envelope to Rev Joseph T. Juman in New York City.
An advertisement promises a $500 reward for cures of liver complaints and indigestion using West's Vegetable Liver Pills. It claims the pills are vegetable and effective when directions are followed, priced 25 cents per box of 30 pills, with counterfeit warnings and a Chicago manufacturer address. Free trial packages mailed for 8-cent postage.
A description of attar rose extraction in Turkey shows workers harvest roses, boil them to produce rose water, and refine a yellowish oily scum called the latter of roses. It notes about 4,000 pounds of roses needed per pound of attar and cites a merchant displaying $60,000 worth in thirty bottles.
A Henderson man sent his ten year old daughter to fetch his gun to shoot rice birds. The child was attacked by a bull on the return trip but stood her ground and fired both barrels into its face. The bull pursued her before she escaped over a fence. The father and two men later drove the bull home and found its two eyes destroyed.
A dramatic scene unfolds as a Mormon suitor visits the widow Gloverson and declares he already has twenty five wives. He urges the match with a romantic, if sensational, pledge to unite with twenty one souls in a single thought. The piece ends noting the Commonwealth Distribution Co drawing in Louisville on April 29 with tickets selling in advance.
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