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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1877
Page
5
The notice announces the Weekly Leader as a large western paper with Thursday issues and yearly rates. It advertises commercial job printing including cards, bill heads, letter headings, blanks, posters, and more, highlighting new type and presses for affordable, prompt work.
Wyoming memorial urges relief from timber cuts on public lands to aid settlement and internal improvements. It requests federal law change enabling use of necessary timber for homes railways towns and construction, and asks delegate W W Corlett to push the measure. The narrative shifts to theatre programs praising performances and orderly attendance, then reports Sidney Telegraph rat desertion as it heads to Rapid City.
Governor John M Thayer proclaims November 29 1877 a day of Thanksgiving urging Wyoming residents to attend worship and gather at home to offer praise. The proclamation notes Cheyenne as the signing city dated November 16 1877 with Secretary G W French. The document follows a public notice style typical of territorial governance.
Jury changes and guilty verdicts mark the Tuesday session with cases Territory v Jas Colvin and Territory v Louis Fabre concluding, Talbot and Faulkner hearing postponed. Senator Chaffee expects votes for the Union Pacific bill. Jay Gould contends with a $1 million pledge amid market speculation. Glover-Glover in this city reports a son born to Mrs. R F Glover.
In Cheyenne, Miss Emma Hightman and Mr. Thomas T. Rennick married at the Congregational parsonage on November 19 1877 by Rev C M Sanders. In Dakota Custer County vote contest looms with threats to discard the Custer precinct Ballot contest could shift results.
The notice touts the fastest direct route with connections to Richmond Lynchburg Norfolk and the Southeast Philadelphia New York Boston and the East. It highlights elegant coaches grand scenery and Pullman Palace Cars with through tickets baggage checks and train movement handled at major ticket offices. Agents Dorsey Cole Barry Sharp and others advertise Western and Eastern accommodations and transport leadership.
A. H. Swan serves as president, A. H. Reel as treasurer, and Thos Sturgis as secretary for the Cheyenne association, all based in Cheyenne Wyoming.
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