Proclamation Encourages Thanksgiving in Wyoming Territory
The Wyoming Territory Governor William Hale proclaims November 20, 1882 a day of public thanksgiving. The message lauds prosperity, health, and progress, urging residents to attend worship and give thanks to Almighty God. The issue also covers mining industry views on value, investment, and the need for real production over speculative stock.
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Territory OF
Wyoming
Cheyenne
United States
William Hale
Territory
Wm. Harn
Mining Review
South Sea Island
The Dark Waters Claim Curley Richardson’s Lover
Lyde Richardson known as Frankie or Curley died by laudanum overdose after a troubled life as a border town dance house woman. Her rise and fall from Gunnison and Buena Vista to camps along the Rio Las Animas are traced, noting seduction, a gambling partner, and a descent into crime amidst harsh frontier judgment.
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Colorado
Frank Richardson
Buena Vista
Richardson
Brown
Denver
Gunnison
Tance
Rio Las Animas
National G A R Encampment Set for Denver Next August
The Grand Army of the Republic reunion will be held in Denver next August with about 50 000 veterans expected. Headquarters are at the Windsor hotel and visiting comrades will seek information there. Will T Visscher assistant inspector general G A R is chief of the literary bureau. A California girl plans to attend a masquerade as a ray oyster, noting beard challenges in disguise.
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Grand Army of the Republic
Denver
Windsor Hotel
the Order
Thither
Will T., Visscher
G. A.B
California
The Way a Story Grows
Andrew Tappan of Jericho answers rumors about six months of sleeplessness spreading through papers. He notes false reports implicating his father postmaster George Tappan and mentions multiple sleep remedies readers suggested, which he and his father did not test.
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Andrew Tappan
Jericho
George Tappan
Mining profits and investment in the thirty years to 1880
The Mining Ledger reports that $700,000,000 was invested in mining from 1850 to 1880 in mines labor and machinery. Returns convert to $2,200,000,000 cash in mines mills and receipts, yielding over 300 percent profit, with half of it earned in the last twelve years. It predicts $2,000,000,000 more product by 1885 from expenditures under $500,000,000, claiming over 500 percent net profit in five years.
Woman's Column on Fashion and Society
The column notes two of three physicians attending Bronson Alcott in Concord were women and critiques society as a display of wealth. It laments changing fashion, corsages, and dainty dress details while quoting London Punch on idle thoughts and women’s clothing trends.
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Bronson Alcott
Concord
New Orleans Picayune
Ida
London Punch
Cattle Sales Report From Laramie and New Mexico Ranges
Marsh & Cooper from Laramie City Wyoming sold fifteen carloads of range cattle on market day. Ten loads of half-breeds averaged about 1100 pounds brought 4 40 per hundredweight and five loads of cows brought 3 75. Palo Blanco Cattle company New Mexico sold a train of Texans at 4124. Swan’s American cattle ten cars averaged under 1200 pounds sold at 4 30. Wyoming sheep 509 head averaging 110 pounds belonging to D Harer sold at 3 10. The Pittsburg Stockman notes growing hay trade tied to Colorado and Wyoming ranges as a valuable feed and potential market product for the northwest.
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Drovers’ Journal
KR. Marsh
Marsh & Cooper
Laramie City
Wyoming
Palo Blanco Cattle Company
Bossler Bros
New Mexico
Swan
D. Harer
Pittsburg
Colorado
Northwest
United States
Twins Lose Right Hand Fingertips In Mill Accident
Henry Bancroft of Fullerville reports his ten year old twins Dolland Lester. Lester lost the end of two fingers on the right hand after placing a hand on a buzz saw at Sprague's mill. Doll followed moments later and cut off his own finger end to match.
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Henry Bancroft
Fullerville
Dolland Lester
Lester
Sprague’s Mill
Trouble Spares Not Any Age in Youthful Woes
A reader notes that even in adolescence girlish optimism masks real pressures. The piece contrasts a sixteen year old’s cheerful image with the unseen troubles of growing up including vanity hair concerns and sun sensitivity, reflecting universal coming of age anxieties.
Wyoming stock brands and listings across Powder River area
The notice lists multiple ranch firms including Powder River Live Stock Co with manager James A Brown, branding details for Powder River and Tongue River, and a $250 reward for violation of stock laws. It also notes Stephens Mizner and Stoddard Lapham howard with ranges near North Platte, Horse Creek, and Pine Bluffs, plus numerous horse brands and owners across Cheyenne Buffalo and Omaha corridors.
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Powder River
Stoddard, Lapham & Howard
P. O. Address
Buffalo, Johnson Co
Wyo
Range
Clear Creek
Crazy Woman Forks
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Eekly
N. Moraan
G. A. Be
Woman’s Column
Sweet Sixteen
Tongue River
Stephens
Teschemacher & de Billier
H. Ford
P, O
Adaress
Cheyenne, Wyo
Ange
Lance
Old Woman Creeks
Ase Horses
Above Brand
Horsey
Algo
Bturgis & Canis, P.O. Chey
Enne, Wyo
Creek, Wyo
Creighton
D.H
J. W. Snyder & Col LP
Cheyenne, Wyatting, Ae
Iaiees
M._E. POST
Range Pots
Forse Creeks
North Park
H. C. Chandler
Hat Creek
Cheyenne River
Lodges Creek
H. A. Blair
P. O
Johnson County
Powder River, Wy
Kennedy & Ware
Goodwin
L. QW
Ik Sarmark
Crow
Hik
Philip
James Dater
B. C
Tonge, Bear Creek
Wysuetis
Mm OG
Bebe
Branton Toth
Alope
South Platte
France
THE
TRAN
Salivrs
Acopes, Ani
Berlin
Puttkame
Cologne
Chicago
Consi
Yorthcomi
Richme
Baton
Herro
Kuro
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