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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1882
Page
4
A brief notice announces a weekly publication by the Leader Printing Company E G Baird with editor Frank W Clark and other staff. The fragment lists printing and authorial names, indicating a local newspaper notice or masthead style.
A jumble of topics fills the 1882 column: Dakota and Washington statehood efforts face delays, Irish groups form for republican aims, and pension lists prompt congressional action. Other notes cover politics, a Lincoln relief move, smallpox, and Albany’s new state capital progress with vast construction and costs.
The Wyoming council and house debated and advanced multiple bills. Key actions included appointing clerks and reporters, read and referred measures on civil procedure, health boards, irrigation disputes, water supply for Cheyenne, and opium restrictions. Adjournments and sessions resumed with notices of new bills and committee referrals.
Special to the Leader Rawlins January 24 1881 two railroad accidents end fatally. J E Brandon a Union Pacific brakeman died after being crushed when a freight train moved while he walked atop the cars near Filmore. A woman from Maine and her child on an emigrant train near Washakie Wyoming suffered fatal injuries. the child died after leg amputations and the coroner’s jury exonerated the railroad company.
The congressional session in Washington on January 23 included a resolution in honor of the late Senator Burnside and several eulogies before the Senate adjourned. In the House a bill set five Lincoln Monument Association trustees as a quorum for business. Multiple proposed measures touched pensions, land grants, and public officer appointments.
An 1881 Adrian Michigan advertisement touts Sins-Your Safe Kidney and Liver Gure as a cure for kidney and liver trouble, praises Enamelins for teeth, and pitches various products. It notes suppliers Dare Collins Addams Glover and lists carpets and cosmetics from J Warren Co and Glenns sulphur Soap.
An editorial warning flags diphtheria linked to a New Jersey mansion and a fatal faulty vent. it then details Bright's disease, its wide effects on kidneys and liver, and promotes Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure as an effective treatment endorsed by physicians and widely used.
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