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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1882
Page
14
An old advert lists rates for notices and ads with per line charges and multiple insertions. It notes 6 or 8 line formats, cent-per-line pricing, and durations such as six months and one year, with names of managers and departments.
The Cheyenne daily column reports unsettled weather with near 100 degree heat and soggy lakes near Cheyenne. It notes political canvassing for the Republican county ticket, construction on Seventeenth Street, and a push by local financiers to settle in Cheyenne. It mentions a fossil near Fremont, Utah emigrant streams, a poker incident, and Governor Hoover supporting Senator Quinn on the fish commission.
The Richmond Whig reports on James Coleman, a seventeen year old expelled from Rev. John Jasper's church, who was subjected to pins and electricity under Dr. Tabb and Dr. Lee. The account notes his speech returns briefly then ceases, and ends with a plea for mercy as the battery is turned off.
The Cheyenne press denounces city officers for neglecting sanitary regulations amid a diphtheria outbreak. It argues deliberate enforcement is needed to curb rank vapors and unhealthy conditions in central neighborhoods, stressing the dry climate should prevent such disease. The piece urges immediate corrective measures for public health.
The article recalls 1880 trotting records with Maude and Hattie Woodward leading the 2:10 and 2:14 marks and lists horses that beat 2:25 for the first time in 1886 including Mand ch m Chicago and Hattie Woodward. It also describes Europe’s dancing mania St Vitus dance chronicling outbreaks in Strasburg andParacelsus remedies and notes decline with enlightenment.
Geographers long puzzled by the Red Sea name. Eick Renberg first linked the red hue to Oscillatoria algae in the Gulf of Suez. Du Pont later observed the same bloom over 556 nautical miles, with similar findings noted by Darwin near Abrolhos and Oersted near Madeira. The color sometimes comes from microscopic organisms or crustaceans. some species irritate skin.
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