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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1883
Page
5
Rates for subscriptions and advertising from the Weekly Leader dated January 4 1888. Details include daily and weekly rates, advance payments, carrier options, and contract rates for local notices and transient ads with per line charges.
In Boston wool demand remains steady and prices unchanged. December debt falls by 15,413,222 dollars. A Manistee fire costs 50,000 of business property, insured for 36,000. Indiana legislature meets in Indianapolis with lively presiding-officer contests. Washington examiners question Collins over the De Long dispute. Bradford PA oil market declines from 92 to 894, with a weak afternoon. Laborers Nimrod Owen Michael Longever and Mathew Harnett die in a New York Highland cutting accident. Judge Barrett dissolves Western Union injunction against Mutual Union pooling. Williams vs Western Union case postponed. Dr J B Thompson of Lunesburg Conn found dead in Cincinnati hotel room from morphine. A Washington diplomatic circle quarreling over a French tutor leads to a potential duel. Ex-champion Joe Coburn and Sullivan plan sparring tours with split proceeds. Vulcan Iron Works Outboard Missouri workers strike amid company negotiations. Arthur supporters say he is superstitious and haunted since Garfield’s death. death of Allen at White House forecast to depress Arthur.
The December Catholic fair in Lander, held December 18–20, drew large crowds and raised funds via raffles. John C. Bowman won the gold cane with 1,326 votes, Lizzie Lamereaux won the watch and chain with 6,960 votes, and Ella McCarthy received 4,143 votes. Receipts totaled 1,355.60, with numerous prize items auctioned off under W. W. Jackson’s guidance.
Summaries of varied items note cold Chicago weather and mild Pacific conditions. Deaths in New York exceed births by 10 500 last year. Silk workers in New York earn two dollars weekly. New York Sunday midnight temperature thirty degrees. Chinese vice consul in San Francisco denies influx of disreputable women. New York port year 1882 records six thousand three hundred eighty six arrivals including nineteen forty five steamers. Iron foundry in Camden New Jersey to be sold. Richmond radar reports 18 hours of snow eight inches deep. Earthquake felt in Rockland Maine with storm thunder and lightning. Lancaster Virginia Fulton mill suspended operations. two hundred workers laid off. Salmi Morse aims to stage Passion Play despite financial strain. Mills at Burlington Coffey county Iowa destroyed by fire. loss around thirty five thousand. Silk industry claims plain silks reduce demand. Police presence per capita noted in New York Boston Chicago. Explosion near Marks ville Montana kills three Chinese and wounds three others. English actors dinner in New York ends in free-for-all. Mrs Blaine carriage collision in Washington DC. all occupants uninjured. Seventy six smallpox deaths in Baltimore. jail case emerges. Cleveland mill closure rumors denied. reopening planned. Lake Erie Western train rear coach wreck in Lafayette Indiana. no lives lost.
Wells spoke for the prosecution in the Dickson case with Smith for Dickson. The president nominated John P. Ward of Oregon as appraiser of merchandise at Portland. Kasson notes the civil service committee will likely report the senate civil service bill to the house unamended. Red Cloud alleges Gen. Crook seized over one hundred horses six years ago and seeks $10,000 in damages. further talks planned.
President Perkins states the Burlington & Quincy Railroad will close the year with net receipts over two hundred thousand dollars higher than 1881. Excludes land department receipts which are expected to add about $150,000.
Early this morning a fire destroyed the residence of M Thedman a wealthy wool buyer in Las Vegas. The family narrowly escaped with their lives. Loss estimated at 12000 dollars.
In London Earl Hamford dies. Paris and Marseilles troops ordered to attend Gambetta funeral. At Cairo amnesty for remaining political offenders. Mayence to Worms plain becomes a giant lake. Ex-suspect McDermott to face trial for accusing judges and jurors of bloodshed. Vienna reports Danube traces gone and Count Von Wimpffen’s death due to insanity. Private affairs of the deceased are in order.
Reports from Berlin and other cities describe Rhine floodwaters at record levels with fifty deaths feared. Authorities warn of continuing damage as gambetta's condition worsens and political notes from London and Cork report unrest and military concerns.
Logan travels with the president while Mrs Langtry appears in Chicago tonight. Mrs Partington’s Benjamin Shillaker advised on illness but improves. Conkling pushes Robertson removal. the president resists. Gen Cenades of Mexico heads to Washington to aid treaty talks with Romeri. Rumor ties Miss Alice Blaine to Col Juin Coppenger in February. Friend Brothers Chicago firm suffers a $50,000 loss. Landaver & Co and Ellsworth & Co also hit hard, with 100,000. Three hundred tailors lose jobs. Wm H Bulkley declines New Haven governorship after election. Local notices cite cure claims for rheumatism with St Jacobs Oil and horse use of St Jacobs Oil profitably.
The ad touts Sozodont for cleaning teeth and improving appearance, claiming it purifies the mouth and aids digestion. It also promotes Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery for consumption and scrofula, with testimonials from John Willis of Elyria and Mr. Phep3 of Cuthbert praising cures, and notes sale by druggists.
A Washington Gazette note cites various papers noting relief from rheumatic pains with St Jacobs Oil including cases from Elkton Maryland and Sedalia Maine. It also mentions Dr Fierces Favorite Prescription and Wells May apple pills marketed for indigestion biliousness and general debility with self treatment guidance from a Buffalo address.
For tremulousness wakefulness dizziness and lack of energy a most valuable remedy is Brown's iron bitters. The ad emphasizes restoring strength and stamina through a tonic Iron supplement used in the era.
A historical advertisement proclaims Packer's hair balsam as the safest and surest method to restore youthful hair color, praising its superior cleanliness and popular use.
A Brooklyn mother writes that her baby nearly suffered cholera infantum but was saved by Parker's ginger tonic. A few spoonfuls cured hunger, and occasional doses kept the child healthy, easing the mother's nerves.
The advertisement promotes Brown's Bronchial Troches as a direct throat remedy for coughs colds sore throats and throat irritation. It claims to help asthma bronchitis and catarrh and notes physicians have recommended them for thirty years. Sold at 25 cents a box nationwide.
A promotional notice claims an oil from a white shark cures deafness and restores hearing. It urges readers to mail $1 for bottles and promises permanent relief, attributing the remedy to a Buddhist priest from 1410 and listing Heylock & Jenney as American agents.
At the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia Benson's Capcine Porous Plaster won the highest medal for rubber porous plasters. The jury included Dr. Roth, J. H. Thompson, B. White, and Ernst Fleisch M.D. The award was confirmed by the Paris exposition medical jury and endorsed by physicians in the United States and Europe. The genuine product bears CAPCINE in the middle and Seabury & Johnson, Chemists, New York.
A jumble of daily entries lists names, events, and incidents such as marriages, deaths, and trains. It references people like Donald Cameron, Julia Bri, and Henry, with mentions of a railroad accident, a murder case, water works plans, and local fairs.
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