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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1877
Page
5
An 1876 advertisement from Clark’s Printery promoting nitty printing services and various ad rates. It lists bill heads letters blanks posters and cheap, rapid work with local notice rates per line and durations. The piece notes advertising costs for daily papers and transient notices.
The president pro tempore announced Justice Bradley as fifth member of the electoral count commission. A new ticket distribution rule for the south wing access was adopted. Hereford took the Virginia senate oath. Belford seated after Colorado seat dispute. House and Senate debated railroad safety, fiscal bills, and gallery access during the count. Coroner reports Brooklyn calamity verdict. security life insurers face indictments.
The electoral commission set rules for counting votes with open sessions and limited access. It details secretary and staff roles, two hour counsel limits, allowed objections, witness processes, and open session admission rules, amid partisan tensions and leadership disputes.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad advertises the shortest direct route to Washington with connections to Richmond Lynchburg Norfolk and the Southeast Philadelphia New York Chicago and the East. Travelers are urged to remember the pleasant and comfortable trip offered by this line.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad touted its clean coaches comfortable sleeping cars and scenic views through the mountains. Through tickets baggage checks and through movement of trains are provided at ticket offices across North South East and West with agents Dorsey Cole Nalry Raelakp and Thos. Nalry listed.
An excerpt discusses westward migration toward the Big Horn region with a projected influx by 1877 78. It provides a distance table from Cheyenne to various landmarks including Lodge Pole Creek Bear Springs Chugwater Hunton’s Ranch Phillips’ Ranch Cottonwood Ranch Elkhorn Wagon Hound Fort Fetterman and more. It notes water scarcity along the routes and references political commentary and local notices.
Advertises August Flower as a cure for dyspepsia and liver complaints claiming over seventy five percent of Americans suffer these ailments. Describes symptoms such as sour stomach headaches heartburn and indigestion and urges readers to buy 75 cent bottles from Addams & Glover with a 10 cent sample offer.
A summary of routes to the Black Hills from Cheyenne and the Cheyenne and Black Hills Stage line. It covers expected gold yields in 1876, key mining districts around Deadwood and Whitewood creeks, and the best overland path via Cheyenne to Deadwood. It also lists average prices for outfits, animals, wagons, and common provisions for miners heading to the Hills.
Copies of the compiled laws of Wyoming Territory are available by mail for five dollars plus five thirty postage. The volume covers all enacted laws, the Declaration of Independence, Dakota and Wyoming Organic Acts, treaties with Sioux and Shoshone, public land and mining laws, town site and timber laws, coal land laws, and related U S legal provisions.
A dated column lists numerous names and places including Longford C Lawson EF Loysersonce J Lewis and many others with occupations and towns such as Cheyenne Wyo and Deadwood. The item also advertises Glenns Sulphur Scar for rheumatism and gout with a brief medical claim and a 125-dawlt notice.
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