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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1877
Page
7
A historic newspaper snippet touts CLARGEST PAPERS IN THE WEST offering commercial job printing of all kinds. It promotes cards, bill heads, letter headings, blanks, posters, and other printed materials produced quickly with newer type and presses at low prices.
A correspondent notes the Temple of Zeus at Olympia cleared of soil with new museum additions. Olympian sculptures show less grace than Parthenon works yet impress with bold execution, offering a broader view of Greek art. Pausanias’s errors include misattributing a helmet to nominus. Pelops wore it, while Cine mans bore headbands.
A London Times letter recounts the bastinado torture of Ali Nasmi and a related late English case. The victim describes being tied with feet bent, staff restraints, and a sequence of blows that numb pain, cause swelling, and render feet useless, with 500 to 600 strokes often causing death.
A six inch square landscape is embedded in a slate rock found on Carshalton reef. Water and iron give shading to a grass plot ponds a farmhouse and poplar trees. Viewers see a nearly perfect scene credited to natural formation rather than a painter, a curious natural artwork.
Describes two main groups among Indian Territory inhabitants: 20,000 wild Indians by blood labeled blanket Indians such as Osages and Pawnees who do not cultivate land, and mixed civilized tribes including Cherokees and Creeks. White men marrying into tribes gain tribal rights and land, with analogies to white women marrying Indians. notes presence of treaty linked black Indians.
The Cherokees, Creeks, and Seminoles had freed their enslaved populations by the 1866 treaty, while the Choctaw and Chickasaw did not grant tribal citizenship to freed blacks. About 65,000 are listed as civilized Indians by blood, white Indians by marriage, or black Indians by treaty, plus 6,500 freed black citizens of the United States who are not Indian by status. The Territory totals around 77,000 people, larger than Nevada.
A Galaxy sketch notes English women in business and hotels. Women manage or run hotels, replacing the American stereotype of the aloof hotel clerk. The author praises cheerful, respectful service from well-mannered, quietly efficient women in black attire, whose femininity shows in care for guests.
Exiled Russian count spent two years in a ureki restaurant serving as a waiter. Local young women, embarrassed they did not learn his true identity, discuss the discovery and joke about the idea of becoming a countess. Remarks highlight his refined service and question who ever heard of an angel hired to sling hash.
A dated sermon-style piece extols living within means over debt. It compares paying cash for simple goods to owing shops for furniture, pianos, or clothing and urges honesty with creditors, avoiding looming financial obligation.
A quarrel at the Peoria Democrat erupted when the supervisor of Kickapoo township demanded satisfaction after a controversial unguarded moment. The editor hurled an inkstand creating a war map on the sanc tum wall, and the supervisor drew a pistol but did not fully act. The aggressor fled, leaving readers to see the outcome next week.
A disjointed OCR fragment cites the Washington Star on fish odor and a Hamilton Newsman line about a drunkard entering heaven. It references The St. Louis Daily Journal remarking that repentance is needed as the hour approaches. The text is incomplete and contains garbled repetitions.
Our special correspondent reports Custer City alive and prospering, with cash sales across major firms showing steady daily totals. The town serves Castle French Spring Battle and Rapid creeks mining districts, benefits from Cheyenne route traffic, and plans water and irrigation works as Hill City expands mining along Spring creek. Prices in Deadwood echo high regional costs while local Cheyenne trade remains active. future reports promise Castle creek placer mining updates.
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