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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1883
Page
2
A compact telegraphic digest compiles stock market movements and mining sector notes with concise items from multiple sources. It highlights price shifts, company developments, and notable shifts in commodities, aiming to inform investors and readers of market mood.
A Cincinnati Enquirer excerpt notes how luxury elevates expenses for the affluent. It contrasts regular living costs, fine wines, grand entertaining, and the roles of brokers and social parasites who cultivate and exploit wealth.
John Jacob Astor aimed to unite lakes to the Pacific with trading posts from Astoria to a Columbia River depot and a Pacific station, funded by a government backed force. The plan collapsed after British capture of Astoria during the War of 1812, ending his continental trading highway.
A man returns home past midnight and a sharp smelling gin aroma prompts a playful exchange with his awake partner. They name spices and conclude that a ham sandwich and brandy might yield a proper mince pie, before he drifts to sleep fearing bad dreams.
In Arkansaw Traveler style the text portrays an elderly man named Dave who receives a telegram to clean a well in the country, with dialectal narration about growing importance and the frustrations of limited mail and telegraph access. It also notes Mrs. A. T. Stewart turning 80 with a cheerful, merry tone described by a correspondent.
Albany gamblers remembered Dutch Hank as a high minded single figure who piled fortunes and outplayed Chicago sharpers. He drifted to New York and Brower House, played big pots, and finally lost to a clever mirror trick before dying with a jovial, masked face noted by peers.
Aunt Sukey questions Gabu Sloshing about city life with a country wife. he claims to have two wives seen nightly, one in the looking glass and one before it, as a humorous boast about bigamy.
The Tribune under Horace Greeley faced a fatal misstep amid presidential schemes. The Times rose and fell with leadership, then benefited from late ring-fraud exposure. The New York Herald weathered early struggles and, under Bennett’s heirs, saw profits soar near a million dollars in the year ending 1883.
E J Smith the county coroner found four gold fishooks in a South American river bed near Call Cauca United States of Colombia in 1866. The hooks, likely crafted by prehistoric Indians under Inca influence, were taken to San Francisco where only four remain. He has refused offers including twenty dollars for a single hook.
The Washington editor Clinton A Snowden of The Washington Republican invents a potato peeler and announces engagement to the daughter of Assistant Postmaster General Hatton. George W Julian of Indiana is also noted for writing political reminiscences.
The widow Mrs Moss hides a box of Confederate jewelry gifted by Gen Breckinridge and other cabinet members during a wartime visit. After pressure from Yankee troops and a trusted yet greedy intruder, she dies with the box still buried in her garden. The narrator, related to her husband, contemplates custody for her children.
Virginia Readjuster Gen V D Groner recounts bunko attempt on Broadway. A stranger pretended to recognize him and followed with a second con, then vanished after a boast of being a Brooklyn Bridge engineer. He avoided the ruse and walked on.
A fragmentary reminiscence recounts fear and chaos during a cigar encounter as furniture and doors seem to move and a character recalls facing death with resolve. The narrator notes sin as death yet a small cigarette offers bold bravado in a period piece of frontier storytelling.
A Paris philanthropist starts a restaurant for the poor offering soup meat vegetables bread wine and dessert at 7 cents. The kitchen serves about four thousand people daily and kills its own ox each day to supply meals.
The Pall Mall Gazette recalls Mr Oscar Wilde's American story introduced in London by Sir Charles Bowen at a bar dinner last year. A town with three churches faced a Sunday lockout when worshippers found all doors barred, until a young lady’s anonymous note—All is discovered, fly—forced the clergy to flee.
In a humorous column the Laramie Boomerang recalls odd beliefs about finger nails and Eden. It cites tales of nails growing on amputations and Napoleon’s toe nails through boots, then a quip about small souls in church capable of dancing on a cambric needle.
A jumbled collection of references to Colorado and Pennsylvania oil deposits, investigations of glass and minerals, and mentions of military action and political figures. The text hints at interviews, specifications, and research claims, with scattered mentions of places like Denver, Greeley, and Madison Square, plus references to biologists and funding.
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