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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1882
Page
6
Fragments mention cattle, logs, and feed terms with scattered names and places. The text references Chicago markets, pricing, and supplier terms but lacks coherent context or complete sentences. The readable parts hint at stock, shipments, and colliery like supply chains without a clear event or outcome.
In Davidson county jail a prisoner charged with murder performs a nocturnal pantomime. The man, described as somnambulistic, reenacts a homicide by fashioning a dummy, loading a broom as a gun, digging a grave, and concealing the evidence before waking. He later denies knowledge of the act.
A sunny morning visit to a young ladies' high school leads Artemas Ward to improvise a pedagogical tale after a runaway horse disturbs the street. He jokes that the carried aloft spectacle offers a moral for students and paraphrases a storied anecdote about attached hearts and a cracked coral pin, in Providence Press remarks by Oscar Hewitt.
Philadelphians claim Miss Wil Nama is far more handsome than Mrs Langtry and advise borrowing a silver dollar to glimpse her look. Mrs Menhert, ninety nine, has run the Golden Trumpet hotel in Reichenbach for eighty years and remains vigorous. Laura Keyser, once Forepaugh’s ten thousand dollar beauty now in Philadelphia, seeks a divorce from a deserting husband. Sarah Bernhardt has been engaged by the South American theaters for fifty performances at £33,000, sailing from Paris on April 20 for about 185 days.
A digest of remarks from the Chicago Journal touching Massachusetts politics, English wagers, debt relief by Archbishop Borget, and a mix of antiquarian quips. It notes Walton's horse-race winnings in England, the Montreal archbishop paying a million-dollar debt and building a cathedral, and a sharp penny-tongued anecdote about Irish nobility.
A bundle of society items, oddities, and anecdotes. Gossip about a Jersey island actress Langtry and a Paris case of insatiable appetite, with sketches of theater life in London and New York and tallies of amusements and audiences across the United States.
A fragmentary verse contemplating a second mother guiding a child to bed as life’s losses unfold. The speaker reflects on how nature removes loved ones one by one, leaving questions about wakefulness and the unknown beyond our knowledge.
A chain of artists from poet to sculptor shapes a living monument. A youthful poet inspires a musician painter and sculptor whose art elevates a peasant song into enduring grandeur. Time passes and the statue crowns the silent years with awe.
A man listening at a telephone hears a sudden call to his only daughter. The sound shocks him and he becomes distressed. In a impulsive act he wounds himself with a wire and bleeds, leading to a deadly outcome. The passage preserves tragic imagery and dramatic emotion.
At dawn a bright comet moves across the sky over New York, sweeping the horizon. It lights pink and white clouds as observers watch the fading spectacle, while the sun rises and air grows clear.
A collage of humorous clippings and anecdotes. A Boston telegraph reply on a fire scene doles out literal advice while a Sunday fishing tale from a mother and son ends with bread and butter absent. Irish and Scottish jests fill a Brooklyn hotel scene and a royal era quip links the proverb to Buckingham.
The New York Herald criticizes Chicago beef as superior claiming freshness from western slaughter and refrigerated cars. It argues eastern meat lacks rings in trade and asserts Chicago enterprise will lower prices and improve quality for consumers.
A man confined for homicidal tendencies toward his wife is released after a brief improvement. The superintendent refuses to discharge as recovered, citing insufficient observation. The wife appeals to lunacy commissioners and the home secretary, who press patience. He is discharged and kills his wife the same night.
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