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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1882
Page
12
The piece notes Dakota’s high paper count, 1300 miles of new U S rail, and Portland Oregon as the wealthiest U S city by population. It cites Kansas corn prospects at 150000000 bushels and reports on a lynching story from Arizona linked to a prior rope scar.
George Howard, a Philadelphia comedian, is recovering from a deafness that nearly incapacitated him. At one point he could not hear his lines, and his wife in the audience had to signal him to proceed when his interlocutor stopped speaking. The flaw was so well concealed that the public never suspected.
In Council Bluffs Iowa two physicians occupy houses on opposite a tombstone establishment. Across the street an undertaker works, and next door a third doctor shares a wall with a nearby livery stable. A hospital stood nearby until recently. The Nonpareil queries if any city can top this arrangement.
The New York Times reports a split within the national party driven by Rose Crans in California and Ohio interests. Representative Flower leads the central committee aiming to replace Crans but shows little involvement in New York gubernatorial efforts. The Boomerang cites a Sun post on Hoyt and mocks the delegation fight as a convention strategy.
In New York the case of Frank J. Tully was clarified after a patrol officer sent a paper found on an unclaimed burial at potter's field to the coroner. The document revealed he was run over by a streetcar on August 20 and his body lay on Harris Island to be retrieved.
Reports note over 200 theater tours from New York next month and Barnes to hold Chicago meetings after Indianapolis. Texas peaches flood markets at ten cents a bushel while plans for a Harrison statue in Indianapolis surface. Census figures for Illinois populate early history with 8,077,161 in 1880 and voting breakdowns. Anecdotes recount jokes, sports frays, and curiosities from bulls to street brawls and famous publics.
Fragmentary verse line hints at a theoretical exchange between two figures as one pursues a wave and faces ruin through recklessness. The passage contemplates whether kindness or cold suspicion can redirect a fallen path and return to truth.
Reports from Berlin note officials investigating a deadly range incident while promoters debate Suez policy and Holland Spain access. Elsewhere coronation delayed and harvests show large wheat rye surplus. Dublin police plan a meeting amid constitutional protests.
Market notes from Texas and Colorado report cattle shipments by Carothers and Searight from San Antonio to St Louis in four days thirteen hours, Drake's Colorado farm crops and expected profit, large cattle movements from Texas to Wyoming, wool clip sales in Colorado, California sheep drives, and Chicago price trends with several ranchers selling up to 15,000 head.
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