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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1883
Page
6
Fragmentary OCR notes describe powder shipments and traders including Harkine & per Bros and Royal condition. Mentions of LIER riculture lines and AVEN-10wn hint at supply chains and pricing.
In a Burlington lakeside memory scene, Timothy Tompkins recounts his college dreams, career shift to Chicago, and a life-long reverie. He reveals Lucy Cary, the Wilmington woman who inspired and later unwittingly aided his rise, and confesses Lucy’s death in a poignant closure.
An excerpt presents dialect humor and social observations from Opie Read about debt, wealth, labor, and vanity. It contrasts lazy and industrious characters, notes the death of the poor versus the rich, and critiques appearances and hope amid hardship. The piece uses regional voice and satirical tone to reflect rural Americana.
The Boston Transcript argues native talent matters more than college training for literary success and notes pre-natal influences shape a writer. It cites President Seelye’s view on dynamite aiding civilization and the shift toward imported ready grown children. Balloon society of London sends self registering balloons. An old German play depicts Adam racing to the garden at curtain rise.
A man named Matthew Mears tended a clock for twenty four years until the device failed and provoked a furious reaction. The tale centers on the fragile pride of the clock keeper and the sudden collapse of confidence in a cherished heirloom.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt recounts a Paris printed Treatise on all Defects of Speech with focus on stammering. It outlines a method: long breaths, syllable by syllable timing, reading poetry aloud, and practicing measured speech for weeks to cure stammering.
The writer describes a stark riverside place with no trees and rough wooden houses on rocky foundations. Dinner is a dubious porridge with tough chicken and no bread, awaiting trains. Night brings fleas, flies, and the noises of animals and beggars, making rest impossible.
In a gossip exchange a Chicago Boudoir asks why Mrs Jones Mrs Brown and Mrs Smith are not invited to a reception. One woman mentions her husband’s disapproval and recalls their divorces. An Inter Ocean remark compares Vanderbilt’s wealth to gold and silver in humorous excess.
A Cincinnati Enquirer column recounts how a funeral led to the naming of Deadwood. A grieving husband received a coffin fragment as a keepsake, the undertaker sued for payment, and the defense blamed pine timber as “dead wood,” linking the term to the Black Hills town.
The Cincinnati Inquirer laments cheaper newspapers harming integrity and character in journalism. It argues writers are underpaid and under supported, risking a decline into sensationalism and low-quality reporting, and advocates for standards aligned with patriotism and thoughtful discourse.
The Chicago Inter Ocean notes Georgia bans whisky sales in eighty seven counties and restricts purchase to larger towns, while Mississippi taxes billiard tables at a thousand dollars each, arguing they promote drinking.
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