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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1882
Page
12
Weekly Louder The Crook Banquet held Friday evening in Omaha honored Gen. Crook with motto decorated hall tables and a shoulder strap floral design. Guests enjoyed speeches toasts and lively responses after refreshments.
The Laramie Bicycle Club organized with M. Barrow as president and W. O. Owen as captain. It lists seven active members, five honorary and one ñornery member, Bill Nye, who jokes about riders. The group aims to outpace the active squad with the honorary contingent.
The Wyoming Press Association plans a social gathering in Rawlins on Monday Sept 4. A complimentary ball will be given by the Rawlins cornet band and an excursion over Union Pacific lines to the Gunnison country will be offered to members and guests courtesy of General Passenger Agent Morse.
The School for Young Indians leader Miss Alice C Fletcher arrived in Carlisle on August 19 with thirty six Omaha children. Thirty one join Carlisle school and five Hamp ton Institute. She met Sitting Bull at Fort Randall and chose ten children. Captain R N Pratt will take ten from Fort Dakota and sixty more from Rosebud and Pine Ridge as his party heads to industrial schools, totaling about three hundred sixty pupils from twenty nine tribes.
A hawk attacked a flock at the foot of Eddy street but a single game rooster stood to defend the hens. The battle lasted long with the hawk weakening in the tenth round and escaping wounded. The rooster emerged in first class condition. The Denver press notes Wyoming’s strong exhibits and praise Governor Hoyt and colleagues for efforts boosting industrial displays.
Telegraphed sales from the Tinion Stock Yards list Wood for Emerson and Richman for Gilchrist selling 10 and 16 carloads of cattle with weights around 1055 to 1120 lbs at prices from 4.55 to 5.60 per 100 lbs. The Standard company mixed Texas cattle and Texas buyers dominate the market as shipments approach 50 cars. News covers market tone, forthcoming shipments, and regional stock conditions in Colorado and New Mexico, plus local incidents and town notes.
A Philadelphia editorial from Aug 18 1882 reviews What Woman Should Know. The writer critiques puffery and notes the book covers physical moral and social topics with bold handling by a wife and mother author. The piece praises the work’s trust in physical well being and doctor guidance for ailments beyond homemade remedies.
A brief verse note from the New York Commercial Advertiser portrays looting incidents described as stray loot taken and swiftly hidden away. The imagery places a thief moving through a thicket while riflemen watch nearby in tension.
A new view challenges the belief that consumption is incurable. Post mortem studies at Edinburgh show one third of older deaths reveal prior consumption that was later halted. Lungs show destroyed portions healed by contraction or fibrous tissue, suggesting many lived with the disease undetected.
A collage of aphorisms from Eliot Hugo Lavater Petit Senn and others exploring trust loneliness doubt and social hypocrisy. The excerpt threads through travel happiness religion and manners with reflections on human folly and virtue.
The Texas fever outbreak excites Central New York farmers while Pennsylvania and West Virginia also see spread. Cattle deaths reach 11 of 32 in the region amid scarce state cattle in Chicago markets due to corn shortages. Western cattle show strong demand as feed costs rise.
The piece observes shifting views of aging from teens to centenarians. It notes how a twenty five year old sees thirty five as old, how fifty still fights aging, and how sixty recalls great achievers to feel youthful. It argues life’s inner drive sustains youth longer than age.
A Harvard rt laboratory study shows that intense cold produced by solid carbonic acid robs magnetized steel bars of most magnetism. The finding implies temperature shifts may drive daily and yearly earth magnetism changes, affecting historical observations. In Southwestern Russia the sanfower plant is widely cultivated. seeds yield oil, residue feeds livestock, flowers attract bees, and seeds serve as poultry feed and flour, with blue coloring from alum-treated seeds.
A Scientific American note reports M Leven found coffee slows digestion and induces gastric anemia in dogs, while sugar aids digestion and can offset coffee’s adverse effects. Coffee excites nervous centers but delays gastric juice. sugar addition improves meat digestion and should counterbalance tannin effects. The article also notes the U S population center has shifted no straight line west of Baltimore since 1790.
An early theory traces meteorites to bodies moving around the sun that enter Earth’s atmosphere. Small comets dissipate as shooting stars, while larger pieces burn less intensely and reach the ground as aerolites. Ancient Greek thinkers like Plutarch and Diogenes of Apollonia are cited, with later modifications by Chladni and Sir H. Davy. Professor H. A. Newton of Yale College is named as a modern advocate.
In tropical regions bananas surpass meat and potatoes in nutrition and yield. Cultivated banana crops can produce food material far exceeding wheat or potatoes per acre. Varieties of plantain are described, including platino manzanito and platino grande, with uses and sizes noted.
Disjointed OCR shows scattered references to figures like ex Gov and Armstrong, with mentions of cities such as Chicago Dallas Philadelphia and London. The passage hints at events from strikes to pardons, theatre venues, and prison mentions, but lacks coherent narrative or clear dates.
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