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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1882
Page
6
The excerpt lists rate cards for inserta tions in Leader Printing Company advertisements. It details pricing per line, per insertion, and durations for Notices and transient ads, with cents per line and line counts, noting business manager MT Morrow.
Cheyenne notes weather trends and distant events, mentions Mark Twain, Utah commission concerns, a fossil find near Fremont Ohio, and rising urban development on Seventeenth Street. Mentions potato bugs in Utah fields, recursions about emigration, and local political activity in the Republican county canvass.
The Richmond Whig reports on James Coleman, a former church member known as the colored boy, who was expelled and later subjected to provocative tests by doctors including chloroform and galvanic battery in an attempt to provoke speech. The account frames the incident amid church tensions and adds a satirical blurb on political editorializing.
A Cheyenne editorial declares the city faces a diphtheria threat due to noisome, rank vents in central areas and calls on city executives to enforce sanitary regulations. It condemns officer neglect, urges immediate action, and contrasts Cheyenne’s dry climate with eastern cities’ disease-prone conditions.
A 1880 trotting summary notes 2 year olds in 2 25 and 6 year olds in 2 10 with many below 2 30, highlighting Maude Hattie Woodward and many young horses from California. It also recalls Germany’s dancing mania linked to St Vitus and Paracelsus remedies, its decline with enlightenment and today seen as a treatable disease in children.
Geographers long puzzled over the Red Sea’s name until observations by Eick Renberg showed a blood red tint in the Gulf of Tor caused by Oscillatoria algae. Du Pont later reported the same in a 556 nautical mile stretch. Darwin and Oersted noted similar colorations from algae and tiny organisms near Brazil and Madeira, with some waters entirely tinged red by these forms.
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