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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1877
Page
15
The text lists advertising rates for various categories such as local notices and weekly advertisements, including per line charges and multiple insertion discounts. It notes the newspaper Cheyenne and Glaloke as proprietor, with a claim of larger circulation than any paper in Wyoming.
General outline of Gold in the Black Hills with Deadwood and Whitewood districts highlighted. Cheyenne serves as a major outfitting hub with stage lines, rail routes, and through-ticket options to Cheyenne and Deadwood. It lists supplies, prices for mining outfits, and distances from Cheyenne to Deadwood City, plus a legal notice and stock association notice.
A late 19th century notice discusses westward migration toward the Big Horn country and presents a distance table from Cheyenne to points including Lodge Pole Creek Bear Springs Chugwater Hunton Ranch Phillips Ranch Cottonwood Elkhorn Wagon Hound Fort Fetterman Sage Creek South Fork Cheyenne River Buffalo Wallow Dry Fork Powder River Fort Reno Crazy Woman Fork Clear Fork Old Fort Phil Kearney North Goose Creek Bear Creek Grass Lodge Creek and other stations. The excerpt also includes a legal notice from Henry W. Simon filed February 17, 1877 in Laramie County Wyoming Territory seeking a divorce, with response due by April 16, 1877.
Wiebke C Wolff files a divorce suit against Henry Wolf a non resident of Wyoming Territory in the District Court of the First Judicial District of Wyoming Laramie county on the chancery side seeking dissolution of marriage on grounds of abandonment for over a year The answer date is set on or before April 30 1877 Complainant Wiebke C Wolff represented by solicitor W W Corlett.
The notice extols a railway line famed for elegant coaches and splendor in mountains and valleys. It promises low fare compared with rivals and through Pullman Palace Cars between major Western and Eastern cities. Agents list ticket offices for tickets baggage checks and train movement.
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