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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1879
Page
13
The Daily Leader promotes affordable printing including posters and various kinds of job work with a new type and presses. Rates are listed for display, transient, notices, and weekly ads, with price per line and discount schedules, effective October 1, 1877.
A collage of observations from 1879 lists a Floridian seasick after an earthquake, birthplace turned candy shop, and varied items from political gaffes to railway engines and royal misprints, including Nast’s silver vase gift and Sweden's heir age. The piece threads social quirks with brief notices and local theater buzz.
Reports from Lead City Dakota note a Masons lodge there and a large deer herd near Salt Spring south of Deadwood. The Southern Pacific advances into Arizona at about two miles daily. New York hosts about 6.4 million ecclesiastical members with 1.3 million church members and $117 million in church property. Methodists are most numerous. Ogden Masons plan a Washington's Birthday ball on February 20. U S corn output rose by 30 million bushels with barley up 15 million. oats rose while potatoes fell from 170 million to 124 million bushels.
A corrected weekly Cheyenne list from Whipple & Hay shows grain, breadstuffs, canned goods, dried fruit, coffee, sugars, mackerel, nails, syrups, salts, oils, paints, and liquors with varied per unit prices. Notable items include States Corn per 100, oats, flour per bushel, butter, lard, bacon, peaches, strawberries, apples, prunes, raisins, Hyson tea, New York coffee, and Drake's and Hostetter's bitters.
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