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Cheyenne Weekly Leader

Location

Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America

Date

Jan 18, 1883

Page

2

Sand-Hillers of South Carolina Described in Harperian Letter

A contemporary letter from Columbia describes the Sand-Hillers of coastal South Carolina as a distinct degraded white community living in sand hills. It portrays their poverty, lack of ambition, and dependence on wood selling and whiskey, with crude carts, one-horse teams, and sparse agriculture amid rural quiet and social indifference.

South Carolina Columbis D. C New York Sun Korea Sand Hills Pinel Strees Carneat

Lincoln Height Measured at Six Foot One, 1860

Leonard W Volk recalls measuring Abraham Lincoln in April 1860 to six feet one inch, with a wall mark and a note that Lincoln possibly grew an inch or two. He recounts a Springfield wager where Lincoln stretched to surpass O M Hatch. The item also notes Barnum aboard the City of Rome, telling anecdotes and a long pamphlet of past figures.

Virginia City Chronicle Tena Tor Jones Truckes Abraham Lincoln Leonard W. Volk Lincoln Douglas Mr. Lincoln Lani Springfield Mr. Hatch Harper’s Bazar Rome Liverpool P. T. Barnum

Two Rival Men Vying for Fifine in Cincinnati Romance

A melodramatic tale set on the quay follows Lippiatt and Goudenay as they court Fifine. Rivals scheme, money changes hands, and a matinee outing ends with a sly alliance and a farewell between the two men.

Lippiatt Goudenay Goa Fifino Tam Gondonay Fifine Tifine Gondenay Boudinot Vifine Sid Lippiatt Ale

Club-Room for Tenants At Seventy-First Street Flats

The Improved Dwellings association houses on Seventy-first Street and First Avenue provide a club-room for men with a public bath and circulating library. The bathes cost five cents per bath, open daily for women and by evening for men. The library holds about five hundred volumes and trade journals. The club-room operates 6 to 10:30 pm with no charges or strict rules, and hosts chess, dominoes, and conversation. Families benefit as saved five-cent drinks help fund home needs.

New York Herald Seventy-first Street First Avenue Improved Dwellings Association Kely

Charles Reade the Novelist in Gentleman's Magazine Portrait

A vivid portrait from Gentleman's Magazine depicts Charles Reade as an imposing Englishman. He sits in a wooden chair amid books and paintings, greeting a caller with courtesy, listening intently as he resumes his papers.

Gentleman’s Magazine Apollo

Equal Rights in Washington and Home Manners Reflected

A humorous dialogue notes Washington as a symbol of equality where women might vote and men have no more vote than women. It contrasts national manners at home with civic equality and hints at broader social reforms.

Washington Mary Jane Courier-Journal Dickey Union

Simplicity of City Folks Highlighted by Water Work

An Onion Creek farmer mocks Austin Water Works laborers for digging a quarter mile trench for water. He notes they might strike water within forty feet by digging straight down and drives on, illustrating rural skepticism of urban expertise.

Texas Siftings Austin Water Works Company Onion Creek

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