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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1882
Page
6
A fragmented item describes a pageant with a queen wearing a velvet dress and a silver plate prize. The scene mentions a refined royal procession, plenty of color, and fabric details in a decorative display.
Excerpts reveal hotel fullness, water works on Ferguson street, and local industry. Military courts, the Ames monument critique, and travel notes reflect life around Cheyenne with names like Post, Sun, Law, and Pollock amid broader regional changes.
The Wyoming game protective association filed articles of incorporation with Secretary Morgan. Five trustees were named for the first year J H Lord Thomas Sturgis M C Barkwell Morton Frewen and Harry Olerichs. The aim is to enforce existing game laws and protect wild game by hiring detectives to track transgressors and extend operations.
Reports from Denver Junction and Ogalalla detail shipments of ten cars of sheep and twenty six cars of cattle. Earnest Bros. send 300 range cattle from Ferris Wyoming while market observers forecast fewer cattle sales unless weather improves.
Denver hosts a temperance revival as the tenth annual Colorado Industrial Association fair opens. A decomposed body found near Littleton. Senator Jones of Nevada and ex Senator T C Platt of New York in Denver. Miss Nellie Abbott robbed and nearly killed at Mrs Marsh's Ouray boarding house. Albert Grant's Kensington palace auctioned for 10000 pounds after a 250000 pound build. site and gardens to become fashionable streets.
Land Office Cheyenne announces Theodore W. Chaffee filed notice to make final proof for his land claim in section 28 township 15 north range 63 west. Proof will be before the Register November 2, 1882. Witnesses: Thomas Sturgis James M. Culver Sherman B. Chaffee Fred I. Chaffee Vol. EpGar W. Mann.
Advertisement touts Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup as a safe pleasant remedy for teething pain in children. It claims immediate relief, bowel regulation, and rest for mothers, endorsed as the prescription of a respected female physician. Sold widely for 25 cents per bottle.
Public notice from Isaac Bergman Treasurer and Collector announces the 1882 tax list is in hand for collection. All territorial, county, school, and district taxes are due at the office and payable by the first Monday in November. penalties of ten percent apply to unpaid delinquent taxes.
An early advert claims a product named Chis Ol can restore hearing and cure deafness. It cites a supposed Buddhist discovery and Chinese use for 50 years, offering to send the remedy for $1 with testimonials and instructions to mail payment to Kaylock & denney, New York, as sole American agents.
For sale or exchange a good Howe sewing machine. Would trade for a good cow or horse. Inquire at the Leader office.
An old advertisement promotes Parker's Hair Balsam as a pure hair fall remedy and Allen's Brain Food claiming to cure nervousness and generative weakness. It lists price offers and a mailing address in New York with Cheyenne selling location Geo. W. Hoyt.
Advertisement seeks two thousand sheep to run on shares or by the head. For information call at the Leader office.
A Cerro Gordo County, Iowa gentleman endorses Kidney-Wort as the best remedy for liver kidney and bowel complications. The Journal and Courier notes its specific action and the thousands of cures it performs, with liquids or dry forms both effective.
A card advertises a free cure for nervous weakness early decay and loss of manhood discovered by a South American missionary. Readers are told to send for a recipe by mailing an addressed envelope to the Rev Joseph T. Inman in New York City.
A 19th century advertisement offers a 500 reward for cures of liver complaints and dyspepsia using West's Vegetable Liver Pills. It claims sugar coated pills in boxes of 50 for 25 cents, sold by Druggists, with counterfeits warned and a free trial mail offer. Manufactured by Joan C. West & Co. in Chicago.
A fragrant appeal for Floreston Cologne promising long lasting freshness. The copy touts a refined aroma and enduring notes, urging shoppers to invest in a perfume described as delightfully fra grant and revitalizing.
A vintage ad touts Brown's Bronchial Troches as a direct remedy for coughs colds sore throats and throat trouble. It claims to soothe without stomach disturbance and to aid singers speakers with asthma bronchitis and catarrh. Physicians endorsed for thirty years and sold for 25 cents a box everywhere.
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