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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1883
Page
8
Fragmentary OCR hints a sale notice for coats and advertisements sent to a company. The readable items mention a catalogue and inquiries to ad personnel, with potential pricing or catalog references. Further details are unreadable.
A young narrator spends a summer at grandmother Ellis's Somerset home where she meets David Alcott. Their flirtation deepens as he charms with readings and stories while a supposed marriage to another woman unfolds. A jealous encounter reveals a complex, evolving relationship culminating in a planned divorce.
The piece recalls orderly sergeants waking troops with varied calls and the chaotic roll call in a Charleston Virginia camp. It highlights the Americans from alphabet letters A to W, the quirks of each group, and Johnny’s bashful near-miss when surprised by visiting residents from home.
A humorous Chicago Inter Ocean excerpt recalls a Kentucky colonel and his sister's cat Stonewall Jackson. The storyteller describes the cat’s curious antics during a cold winter night, noting the electric fur and antics, with a punchline about gas meters and charges in the summer.
An officer of the British army has patented a waterproof match. Specimens ignited readily after being wrapped in a damp rag for twenty four hours. The match head is coated with solid paraffine, which protects from slow oxidation and is impervious to water while not hindering ignition.
A London Letter portrays Blankshire as tightly connected, with mournful weddings and shared courtesies. It details rural hospitality, baroque country houses with trellised lawns, and a strong social ritual around tennis, tea, and admiration of family pedigrees. The piece blends social color with notes on lineage and landowner pride.
The piece discusses escargots as a French delicacy, noting their street selling price and preparation with butter and garlic. It explains snail breeding in departments like Ander, field pinches for protection, and seasonal gathering from late summer to autumn before packing for shipment to markets.
The piece argues modern life is dominated by the habit of hurrying and doing too much. It labels the pace a harmful, vulgar tendency causing loss of temper, worse manners, poor digestion, and rising nervous disorders. It questions who benefits from universal rushing and notes a change requires broad agreement unlikely to occur.
A discussion on animal intelligence highlights that mules respond to tones more than words. It cites plainsmen who can drive mules with censure and swearing, arguing English oaths are versatile and potentially most understood by animals despite moral objections.
A collection of quirky anecdotes and clippings. A Bradford concert scene ends with a man lamenting lost cough medicine as a black bottle drops from his overcoat. Other items mention Indiana farmers, a bootstrapped warning horn, and the Baltimore Sun’s campaign speeches. Fire losses reach $81,000,000 since January 1, 1888 across the country and Canada.
A new company formed by residents of Philadelphia and Cape May plans to use a specially devised net to catch porpoises. The net can hold 150 animals at once and aims to produce oil leather and fertilizers from the catch. The venture emphasizes porpoise value and the prior difficulty of capturing them.
The item cites Lord Bacon's signs of short life with traits like quick growth and fair skin, then oddly lists behaviors such as visiting a saloon at intervals, sitting on a railroad crossing, and writing poetry. It notes a whaling company with one million dollars capital started in San Francisco.
A London Standard excerpt discusses how winds like sirocco and Levanter affect commerce and mood. It notes that pressure changes influence spirits, with dull days dampening outlooks while sunshine lifts them. It cites cross national tendencies in self injury and seasonal death spikes in spring. It concludes with a speculative Inter Ocean claim on US population density.
A fragmented OCR item references horses with brands EV and CE on shoulder or hip, plus mentions marks EW GH JM and initials Pep. The text is incomplete and lacks clear context, dates, or locations.
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