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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1878
Page
7
A miscellany of witty observations and humorous notes from newspapers mentions horses, pigeons, liberty, dresses, and a parade of odd facts. It cites jokes about sailors, weddings, gambling, and regional peculiarities, ending with a quirky baseball match between Guelph and Hamilton locals.
The text blends light domestic banter with grim international notes. It notes a Paris Exposition committee of twelve judging mustards by tear production and gives a grim report of a 13 year old girl found hanged in Koleff allegedly killed by monks to cover a deputy’s wrongdoing, per investigators.
The readable text lists partial agency and location fragments including WAIN D. KR and WYOMEN with scattered terms like MIRSCVIN and SP sits, but no coherent event or context emerges from the garbled OCR.
The two horse covered spring wagons depart Rock Creek every Monday as a new travel service begins operation.
An advertisement touts a full line of metallic burial caskets wood coffins robes and related funeral goods for sale by a local supplier.
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