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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1883
Page
3
A partial OCR fragment mentions a person in Rich County and references a busi ness matters, a ship or sail and a stranger connection. The text is severely garbled, with missing names and dates, leaving only hints of a narrative about kinship and travel.
A terse garbled OCR fragment hints at someone describing usual work hours and tasks. The readable bits suggest timing references and a personal plan, but details are incomplete and names or places are not identifiable. The text remains too fragmentary to determine a clear event or subject.
Fragmentary text provides limited readable facts. no clear events, dates, or proper nouns to summarize into a coherent newspaper item.
The issue surveys oil riches in Colorado rivaling Pennsylvania. It notes busy Washington correspondents, a costly local election, theater talk and advertising, and social reports. Grants and European tensions appear, along with pension agent numbers, a pain insensitivity method, and sewerage findings prompting calls for vault isolation.
A man about 30 is found shot and drowned seven miles east of Sidney on Richard Keenger’s ranch. The body lies face down in Lodge Pole creek with a hat nearby and blood on the ground. Only $2.35 is found, hinting at a murder for money, identity unknown, with a fragment of envelope reading Wm Peter Twin Creek Pinta county Wyoming. Sheriff S O Fowler seeks information.
Boomerang defends Laramie merchants against the Sentinel harshly, arguing enterprise and vitality exist and that local exchanges mock the town’s prospects. The piece praises merchants for readiness to support measures aiding Laramie and notes they would boost the town if capital were as abundant as in nearby cities.
Yesterday's Cheyenne Sun recounts Thomas Tierney being injured while wiring a telephone during a storm at Schwartz's ranch. He reportedly fell lifeless, then revived, applied arnica and court plaster to burns, and again acted as if alive. The account labels the scene highly peculiar and miraculous.
John B. Stewart files to prove residence and cultivation on the southeast quarter of southwest quarter and lot 4 section 7 township 18 north range 67 west and south half of southeast quarter section 12 township 18 north range 68 west. Proof before the Cheyenne Register on November 23, 1883. witnesses A. W. Bristol E. L. Warner George Q. Danforth and John Wurl, all of Cheyenne. Edgar W. Mann, Register.
Fort Worth commentary urges better cattle care to lift profits as beef prices range from 4.15 to 5.50 per hundredweight across Western Texas. Reports note strong Hereford influence, crossbreeding doubts, and a Scotland Scotsman correspondent probing dressed beef trade for English markets. An unrelated tale tells of an American wife to ex king of Portugal and the social reception of a Paris visit.
A vigorous growth claim for Parker's Hair Balsam. It promises to restore youthful luster and color to gray hair, renew life, and remove irritation and dandruff.
A $500 reward is offered by multiple cattle interests including J M Carey and Son and Powder River Livestock Co for information leading to arrest and conviction of those responsible for branding stealing or killing stock. Sylvia Jackson sues Lafayette M Jackson in the Wyoming Territory First Judicial District Court in Laramie for divorce alleging habitual drunkenness cruelty and neglect and fixes a reply deadline of December 29 1883 with a potential default and confessed bill.
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