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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1883
Page
6
Fragmentary OCR recounts Dr Pera samples and powder stock references. Mentions Harkins Harper Bros and Royal in relation to powder, with scattered dates and locations including Chicago and Colorado. Text shows partial lines about agriculture and government open stance, but specifics are unclear.
Fragmentary OCR text lacks coherent events or identifiable names. The readable parts mention offers and items like VHS but provide no dates places persons or organizations to anchor a news summary.
An urchin-like Pariser flea theatre story details a manageress and 300 fleas trained to pull chariots and perform a ballet under glass boxes. A Russian, German, English acts and a rope dancer Eliza entertain for a 5 pence fee, with fascinated observers noting the fleas wear tiny collars and perform to a miniature stage.
An authority on pearls explains that fresh water pearls come from streams across the United States and Scotland, with notable yields in Illinois, Tennessee, Ohio, and Salem New Jersey. Rough pieces are sold to New York jewelers, then divided into shapes like elephants and birds for scarf pins and onyx jewelry. Attempts to force growth include Linnaeus in Sweden and Chinese methods. in Japan the oysters are salted.
Four Alaska mummies were transported from Alaska by the schooner Kodiak on her last voyage. Three go to Berlin and one to the Smithsonian. A. Jacobson collected them for the Royal Museum of Berlin over two years. The mummies, possibly 200 years old, show remarkable preservation with intact skins.
New York correspondent notes a clothing merchant who uses sharp one liners in ads to draw trade. The Rev Dr Deems is described as the pastor and friend of the merchant, enjoying crafting these concise advertising proverbs without salary involvement.
An inebriated porter in the parlor car is crushed in an oil city blizzard incident. A passenger hands him a dollar and a lead nickel as the porter recovers to murmur that the money and a friendly call felled him. The porter was found insensible and left at the next station after doctors treated him for two hours.
Scientific men assert that a barrel of bread contains enough alcohol to intoxicate a man. It is to be feared bread will never become popular as a great American beverage.
A Cincinnati Enquirer account portrays a Langtry style haircut with two front sections trimmed to create a short front, wavy look. The barber offers philosophical lore on hair health and suggests a tartar salt rinse and soap flakes as homemade shampoo, concluding with a price of thirty cents.
George A Townsend notes Navarro flats on Fifty-ninth Street span two hundred feet deep by seven hundred to eight hundred feet long. Eight to nine stories high, built of stone brick and iron in Gothic Spanish style with Saracenic arches. Estimated cost at least two million dollars, with all apartments sold at premium. A neighboring Hawthorne house rents at two thousand two hundred dollars per year per floor. Brown’s rooms include a library parlor wife’s bedroom kitchen servant’s quarters and multiple bathrooms with recent papering and ceiling painting.
A western hunter argues birds lack the sense of smell after observing wild turkeys remaining undetected when nearby and still. He reports deer, quail, prairie hawks and other birds approaching objects without reacting to scent, citing experiments as proof.
A New York actress wore a string of cranberries around her neck and the press the next morning called it a magnificent coral necklace in a playful misprint.
The Fargo editorial scene astonishes visiting English correspondents as they tour The Fargo newspaper office. They meet a four hundred pound editor who parades a grand library and recites war time poetic headlines about Uncle Rufus and the Northwest harvest. The trip includes a reading of a famed Fourth of July speech and playful but intense pressroom theatrics.
A Chicago merchant aboard a CG and A train is targeted by young con artists who pretend a baby is being shown for affection. One man distracts passengers with peekaboo while others steal the traveler’s diamond stud. Police later arrest two suspects. the Chicago man fled home and the infant was recovered by its mother, the baby escaping the ruse.
A Detroit prominent citizen who studied fire escapes witnessed a blaze at East Woodbridge Street. He attempted an escape via balconies but fell, breaking his leg and injuring his watch chain and coat tail. He was helped from a window as steamers arrived, shouting for aid and asking to go home.
A Kentucky legislator skeptic ridicules education efforts as "too well educated" claims. A friend notes education will bring more work in voting and signatures, as the scholar laments the extra effort of reading and writing in public life.
A dialectal wisdom piece from the Arkansaw Traveler notes the passour's surprising cunning as he feigns death to trap animals. The tale uses humorous rural speech to illustrate clever deception and caution in the countryside.
An aged veteran known as Old Jim stands beside a marked figure, sightless from a prior blaze. He could not see the raging flames later but saved a child by risking his life in a separate fight over cheap liquor.
The ad by Dr Henry Wagner at 3 Larimer street Denver promotes treatments for chronic male and female diseases and warns of five hundred dollar forfeit for failures. It touts cures for urinary and sexual disorders with free consultation and a five dollar exam, and sells The Young Man's Pocket Companion by mail.
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