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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1877
Page
12
Wyoming newspaper reports the death of Tom Greek Premier and Vice-Admiral Canaris by apoplexy. The long item also covers Canada harvest figures, Russo Turkish war notes, political gossip, and frontier city history, with local reflections on Cheyenne and the Union Pacific era.
A moral exhortation against prying into neighbors private lives. The author attacks busybodies who judge others for packages, fashions, temper, or relationships, arguing such gossip harms innocent people and privacy should be protected. Meddlers deserve punishment for violating others rights.
A Albany gentleman experimenting with a telephone recently heard music from a concert within the line. The anecdote hints at early acoustic experiments and the potential of telephone technology to transmit sound.
The Jewish year 4088 is a leap year of the sixth embolismic type, lasting 385 days with 13 lunar months. Passover falls on Thursday April 18, 1878, three days before Easter Sunday 1878, and the civil year places Nisan as the seventh month.
In a reception for Western lawyers after Tyler’s accession, Leonard the lobotomized guest toppled a gilt satin chair, crashing into a crowded drawing room. Webster rushed to aid him and quipped that no cabinet work here would hold, sparking laughter and ending Leonard’s chair misadventures.
The Atchison Champion recalls a case where a local cigar firm went bankrupt with over $4,000 in liabilities. The assignee battled constant attachments and replevin actions as stock moved between capture and release, complicating a planned sale and dragging in a persistent cycle of legal wrangling.
Long discussion in the Navy Dept on building a fresh water basin at Norfolk Virginia to aid ironclads after saltwater exposure. Also a pasteboard of society notes and anecdotes on manners, philanthropy and social events with several named individuals and places.
A mixed vintage of items notes Walter Pisha as Graphic’s chosen successor to Brigham Young. Obituaries report I. W. Thomas dies at age 70. political chatter includes McCormick’s Treasury retirement and California’s 27th anniversary in the Union.
Odds favor Osman Pasha becoming Turkish minister of war. Bis marck and Andrassy reportedly plan talks at a hotel today. Sime Clydé shipwrights resume work after arbitration following a six month strike. Wisconsin predicted Republican victory uncertain. Greenback ticket weak. Portsmouth orders prep ships Triumph and Hercules for sea by October. Fort Sv. Nicholllas seen as key to Russian lines in Schipky Pass. Russian forces muster around 45,000 under Raditzky. Suleiman Pasha about 40,000.
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