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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1878
Page
12
The issue surveys ridicule of Beech er rest, yellow fever in Cuba, and Beaconsfield on American recovery. It reports on Japanese female education, Reno death inquiry, cipher dispatches, Sartoris marriage gossip, and parlor gossip about Lorne. It covers rail, wool, and legal curiosities, plus India, England infidelity, and Afghanistan news.
The piece notes a Toronto and Canadian social uproar over a court edict requiring decollete gowns for court ladies and guests. It cites the Toronto Mail view that modesty clashes with fashion and royalty, while comparing Paris and Philadelphia exhibitions and the empire era expenditures and deficits.
The San Francisco Post argues that wealth from six companies, a strategic embassy at the national capital, ample money, influential allies in the constitutional convention, and favorable eastern press create a powerful coalition. It claims the federal government stands with them, portraying the Chinese as a foe to workers and business men.
The piece argues New England factories like Providence and Springfield are filling Russian orders for guns, rifles, and Gatling guns to supply Turkey and Russia. It notes arms shipments to Philadelphia ports for warships and cites English officials tracking the vessels amid fear of potential conflict with Britain.
Governor McCreery of Kentucky orders militia to Breathitt County to quell the insurrection amid ongoing public disorder and unrest.
The piece surveys political disruption in Spain suffrage rollback, Chicago bar protests against Judge Blodgett impeachment, Duke of Edinburgh’s critique of Beaconsfield, and varied commentary on U S and European affairs. It notes insurance payouts for Col Dwight, a wizardry scientist, Turkish Russia talks, Gladstone's Afghan policy, and Beaconsfield's stance amid Anglo Russian diplomacy.
A nostalgic poem laments a tiny child born with stars for eyes and pink dimples. It recalls a mother’s care and a father’s pride while imagining the child growing to become a mother herself, ending with prayers for the sweet little one who has passed away.
A Portland fair edition prints John G. Whittier’s note on imagining Burns writing temperance lyrics if he had known the pledge. The piece includes archaic dialect verses, a report on Donn Platt’s libel case from Washington, and assorted Civil War era items with sparse, scattered quotations.
The late Thomas H. Powers of Philadelphia was famed for generosity and unusual giving. He preferred supplying goods to cash donations and built costly structures to employ the poor during distress. He kept a bank surplus of at least 100000, reacting sharply when it dipped to 99750.
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