This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 14 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1883
Page
20
Fragmentary copy notes a sale of coats and a catalogue for advertisers. Reads like a brief ad item with incomplete names and details, suggesting promotional pricing and contact prompts. Entities and specifics are unclear due to damaged text.
A young woman visits her grandmother in Somerset and meets David Alcott, a poised visitor. They form a close bond as he reads to her and shares travels, art, and ideas. A shallow scandal erupts when a college friend hints at loyalties, testing their romance and foreshadowing future trouble.
The piece satirically compares roll call in the regular army and volunteers, detailing how each lettered group responds to the orderly sergeant’s wake up call. It follows Johnny and his company stationed at Charleston, Virginia, where visiting townspeople witness a comical early morning mishap during roll call.
A Chicago Inter Ocean piece recounts a tall tale about a sister and her cat named Stonewall Jackson. The narrator jokes about the cat's antics in winter, electricity in fur, and gas-meter antics, with a humorous jab at gas charges and Yankee tricks.
An officer of the British army has patented a waterproof match whose phosphorus end is coated with solid paraffin. Specimens lit readily after being wrapped in a damp rag for twenty four hours. The paraffin seals against water and slows oxidation yet does not impede ignition.
A London letter from New York describes rural English life in Blankshire with courtship, weddings, and funerals shaping social duties. It notes country etiquette, tennis as the dominant pastime, visiting customs, and the pride in lineage and peerage records, interwoven with horse and cattle branding adverts from Fort Fetterman and Cheyenne Wyoming.
A Paris Cor. piece compares escargots to oysters, noting French regard for snails as edible mollusks sold on streets. It describes picking them from shells, butter and garlic fillings, and the breeding efforts in Ander, Burgundy, with seasonal gathering and winter storage before shipment.
The piece condemns the modern rush to excess in life from pleasure to business. It argues speed harms temper manners digestion and health while offering no universal remedy. It asserts walking instead of rushing benefits individuals but notes wide agreement for change is unlikely.
A discussion on how animals respond to human speech suggests that tone, not words, drives comprehension. The piece cites mule teams responding to a professional swearer and praises English for its flexible, denunciatory oaths compared with French, German, and Italian expletives.
A Bradford concert scene ends with a man’s cough medicine bottle falling from his overcoat pocket as he struggles with hat cane and fan. Other items note a Detroit Free Press quote about presence of mind, Indiana farmers, a Baltimore Sun claim on ad rates, and U.S. fire losses totaling eighty-one million dollars since January 1, 1888.
A company formed by residents of Philadelphia and Cape May plans to trap porpoises using a new net designed for this purpose. The net can hold 150 porpoises at once and aims to produce oil leather and fertilizers from the catch. The venture highlights the difficulty of capturing porpoises despite their valuable by products.
The item cites Lord Bacon’s signs of short life including quick growth and fair skin, then lists quirky behaviors such as going into a saloon at twelve intervals daily, sitting on a railroad crossing, and writing original poetry. It ends noting a San Francisco whaling company with one million dollars capital.
The piece discusses how wind, pressure, and seasons affect mood and behavior across regions. It notes that November fogs bring gloom in English life and that April to June see higher deaths due to seasonal exhaustion, comparing European trends with German and French patterns. It ends with a speculative note about US population density versus France.
Fragmentary OCR mentions marks like EV and CE on horses and notes inexact branding details. Names GH JM mark, and letters in vague context. Little readable context about event, place, or outcome.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.