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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1883
Page
20
A damaged OCR text references a contract, managers, and supervision at a works site. It mentions 30 ton equipment, copper, iron, and furnace elements. The fragmentary lines imply a company notice about credit, advice, and an upcoming conference or meeting.
The piece surveys global tobacco customs from the Boers in South Africa to Chinese and Indian practices, contrasting harsh, green tobacco with fragrant red Indian varieties. It notes native ad hoc blends with willow bark and sumach, and praises the red Indian leaf for lighter aroma, while describing exotic preparations in Seychelles among emancipated Africans and Mohammedan luxuries.
A Cincinnati Enquirer column contrasts pampered dogs and starving children, arguing religion favors pets over people. It condemns “pickups” who profit by dog theft and mocks societies that prioritize dogs despite child poverty. The piece ends claiming a real black and tan beats heaven in value.
A column recalls various incidents involving famous fortunes and their vehicles. It lists William H. Vanderbilt, Robert Bonner, Jay Gould, Uncle Rufus Hatch, Gen. Grant, Andy Hickenlooper, Cyrus Field, Ex Postmaster James, and Mr. Tilden in road accidents or near-misses, framing them as a caution about rail and road travel. The piece also notes Billy McGlory’s menacing comment after Vanderbilt’s injury and his prior threat against Vanderbilt and Bonne.
A St Louis source recounts Joseph Pulitzer as a teen immigrant who rose from muleteer and waiter to lawyer draftsman and reporter. He edited The Wrestlische Post, faced disqualification, backed the Liberal party, bought Evening Dispatch for $2,500, merged it with The Post, built The Post Dispatch to 27 000 subscribers and $120 000 yearly income, and now leads The World as venturesome owner seeking stable footing.
A verse exploring the concept of a roaming devil being banished by modern faith yet questioning who sustains evil acts in society. The speaker challenges readers to name the unseen force behind fraud and crime and to identify who carries the devil’s work in church, home, and state.
George W. Clarke writes about New York from a window, marveling at its endless roofs and the skyline. He describes the uproar of streetcars hoofbeats trains and the city’s electric vitality, praising its majesty and enterprise before closing with a quip about brevity and a joke from M. de Lesseps.
In early career as attorney general Jere Black is linked to a costly money mishap. A visitor handed a bill. Black failed to find his checkbook and flaunted a receipt duplicating charges, accusing the man of swindling as onlookers watched and a tumult ensued in the Justice Department.
notes correspondent George Alfred Townsend works at his New York residence dictating letters to two stenographers. He paces the library, spells difficult words, and crafts two separate letters on different subjects in a single two hour session. His memory and quick fluency produce detailed anecdotes about telegraphers strike and company practices.
A compilation of cattle and horse brands from Wyoming ranches and outfits. Brands include XY on left shoulder and LAKE VOORHEES and CO. on left hip, GV on left side, G V on left hip, VL on left hip, and 919 96 MPL NW VL among others. Ranges cover Powder River Tongue River Running Water Rawhide Buttes Deer Cherry creeks and more.
In a stage tableau a pretty girl asks Mr Welsh how to pronounce bac ka che a French word confused by Townsend and the Young Minister. The minister debates the spelling and sounds while Miss May winks and the scene plays out with a light, theatrical miscue.
A Popular Science excerpt by Jas T. Bixby explores how natural surroundings mold religious faith. It argues rivers, skies, and climates influence divine personification from serpents to thunderers, with gods reflecting temperate or tropical skies and the landscape’s mood.
In Washington Sherman is highly social and rarely declines invitations to breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and receptions. He enjoys theatre, mentors Mary Anderson and Lotta, and greets John McCullough at stage doors. He loves actresses, attends performances nightly when pleased, and orders his staff to accompany him, drawing mixed reactions from fellow officers.
A New York Sun account describes a cheery steward aboard an ocean liner discussing seasickness. He notes women endure the sickness with dignity but become maudlin, while men collapse quickly and seek medicines, with no proven prevention other than cautious dieting and simple remedies.
A grocer mistook tar for molasses and sold it to an old farmer. After no complaint, the farmer replied humorously that the staff is already sopped up and his wife called it something out of fix with the molasses. Simon Tappertit adds a note on strange hearts.
In the St Louis Republican obituary, the author notes Gray’s lifelong filial devotion after his mother’s separation from her husband. She sent him to Eaton and Cambridge, and he died unmarried to honor her, buried beside her at Stoke Pogis churchyard, a literary shrine. Frances Hodgson Burnett recalls a baby’s first word agoo. The piece also mentions the telephone’s growing use to reach the Alps.
A Western Union operator in New York tried to wake the sleeping Duxbury cable man by sending a love message to Plaisted Cove in Newfoundland. The plea crossed Atlantic routes through Valencia and London to Paris, then back to Duxbury, proving the path was rapid as the instrument ticked out the return line: That is a nice way to do, go ahead, Your own true love.
Stanley, the explorer, tells travelers he meets in Africa that natives are his sons to ensure safe passage. An ex explorer with a colored servant asks about two sons of different color, and he replies that the negra is his old wife’s son, not the new one.
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