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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1883
Page
12
The notice presents a business item with manager IRA L. FREDENDALL stating no consolidation of old goods is planned, indicating a company policy stance and leadership direction. The fragment mentions a managerial name and a formal assurance regarding asset handling.
The text recounts three life romances of Joshua Sears the Boston grocer and notes a satirical view of Congress. It describes Sears’s early poverty with a wealthy railway romance, a midlife engagement to a rich widow resolved by a bribe, and an old age marriage arranged by a friend, ending with a quip on moral standards in politics.
The article notes Kashmir's floating gardens crafted by an indolent population. Water nine miles around becomes soil from intertwined weeds and plants, then divided and banked with mud for sowing melons and cucumbers. Yields are high with melons selling at ten to twenty for Y cents and cucumbers at two cents each in clear seasons. Floating wardens in Mexico pursue a similar method for Downrs.
In a New York side street tale a man relies on his wife to manage a million dollar drunkard’s life. The trio travels the world together while society eyeing their unusual bond, the man and his wife remaining loyal despite scrutiny.
Landlord Roberts awoke to noises in the night and found a visitor claiming to seek a feather from a pillow nest. The intruder insisted he had sent the pillow somewhere and wanted to retrieve it for a new use.
Stockton Harate argues a man who speaks truth is like a hedgehog to be avoided by a newspaper. He says papers must conform to what the average reader believes even if the writer disagrees, shaping public opinion through conformity.
A note discusses the difficulty of typographically rendering the Scotch pronunciation of Burns in The Century. It notes that prolonging the "r" sound is impractical, and that 16 occupies more space than a single r in print.
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