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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1883
Page
2
A lyric fragment contrasts romance with a scientific note about a 3500 mile telegraph circuit. The piece describes a deep emotional reaction alongside a report on a record daylight cross country connection between Boston and Guaymas via Santa Fe Railway lines.
A ragged narrative weaves a comic stove episode with a chaotic morning and a wife’s scolding. The piece shifts to a social column recalling Amelia Barr and Lizzie Adelaide Neilson, then discusses Theatrical Manager Joseph Howard and the era’s newspaper publishing, highlighting the vitality of theatre and press.
Alexander Stephens recounts Toombs maneuvering to push him toward a Senate bid. Toombs invited Stephens to ride to court, then urged him to work for Toombs after a chance at credibility. Stephens concedes Toombs manipulated him and kept the opportunity, leading to Toombs being selected.
The famed Ware W and Louisville Courier-Journal reports Maud eight, a racehorse valued at 100000 dollars, arrived from New York and held a reception at Chester Park near Cincinnati. She rests in a pine-ceiled winter room with straw bedding and velvet backdrop, her coat bright and health evident as she poses for admirers.
The Atlantic Monthly writer asks how to civilize the colored or indigenous person by teaching manners such as proper use of cutlery and napkins, dining etiquette, arrival times, attire, drinking habits, and social dancing. The text satirically equates these refinements with civilization, implying a critique of racial assimilation concepts.
The San Francisco Chronicle notes that water absorbed during vaporization hides nearly a thousand degrees of heat. A cord of green wood yields about the same heat as dry wood, but most heat is lost to evaporate sap. Chemistry explains the latent heat in evaporation.
The New York Herald reports on Mrs Langtry facing crowds of fans seeking her autograph. She considers signing only for albums brought by owners, noting it would save energy but risk angering many admirers and drawing even larger crowds.
An old wheat rower, noted as generally successful, favors drilling east and west. He argues winter thawing and nightly freezing cause less heave and winter kill with east west rows. He notes sun thawing only on the south ridge, leaving north wires to freeze and expose roots. He has always preferred east west drilling when possible.
A teacher in Italy formed a pupil society to protect vegetation by destroying pests and aiding harmless birds. In four months the class reportedly destroyed millions of insect eggs and larvae, including moth eggs, grasshoppers, and snails, with prizes for laureates. If similar efforts spread nationwide, injurious insects could be reduced significantly.
The San Francisco Chronicle notes horses should not be watered immediately after eating. Thirst should be quenched before feeding, and if water is given it should be a small mouthful, with two to three hours allowed for digestion to proceed.
A early notice describes an electrical balloon concept dubbed for flight with power by electricity. It credits Yissan diay, a French aeronaut, as investor and hints at the challenge of steering air navigation while progress continues.
Fragment cites crime access and a newly married couple attempting to pay veterans. Details are garbled. readable facts are scarce, with no clear events, names, places, or outcomes to anchor a card.
The New York Sun reports that criminals are unusually small as a group, with about nine hundred prisoners on Blackwell's Island. The heaviest inmates include a 263 pound weed and a 250 pound man recently jailed for larceny, while lighter, placid figures are described as mild and untroubled.
The Chicago Times mocks a New York rumor claiming Albermarle Hotel laundresses offer women’s undergarments for sale to young men as if they were Langtry’s items. The piece ridicules the tale, warns of possible exposure, and calls for names of any laundresses involved.
A Herald reporter visiting Mrs Langtry at the Albemarle room near the Park fire was bitten by her pet lap dog in the fleshy part of the leg. Langtry comforted the dog claiming she hopes it will not make him sick. Also recounted is a stage anecdote from Barry Sullivan’s Hamlet tour where an actor in the company refused to play a passage and ended up playing Yankee Doodle.
An eminent pulpit orator and editor emphasized a stark metaphor in a national affairs speech. He warned against establishing a throne and urged bold action, using the image of a man going to sea in a stone boat with iron oars and leaden sails driven by divine wrath toward hell as port.
The London Times runs editorial articles of less than half a column length, a startling innovation described as unprecedented in its brevity and impact.
Denver reports a $1,000,000 sale of the Denver Circle railroad and Denver Circle real estate to Thomas M. Nichols of New York for an eastern syndicate led by Nichols and ex Governor Marshal Jewell of Cincinnati. The item notes numerous cattle brands and ranges in Wyoming and Nebraska.
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