No Advertisement Inserted for Less Than Fifty Cents
Advertisements rates and agents listed for THE LEADER appear in this transcribed notice. It notes various per line charges from 6 to 25 cents for transient ads, with multiple insertion options and year-long commitments, alongside advertising agencies in New York, St Louis, Chicago, Philadelphia, and other cities.
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Lyader
Bourgeois
Wrergy Drader
Cheyenne
Dun
Ist
Fh. Glafcke
Leader
New York
M. Patten HL & Co
Park Row
Gee
P. Rowell & Co
St. Louis
Rowell & Chesman
Third
Chestnut Streets
Ae Slrate Publishing
Chica
C.H. Chandler
South Clark Street
Philadelphia
Political Notes On Hayes Tilden Sentiment Across States
The Tribune notes rising Hayes support in multiple directions. Augusta Constitutionalist praises “Boys in Blue.” A Macon Democrat testifies for Trayes as a noble man. Vermont Democrats seek Tilden Reform songs but send them back. Soldiers’ voting and southern sympathy themes appear in Louisville Courier Journal commentary.
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The
Tribune
Hayes
Tilden
Augusta
Macon
Trayes
Vermont
Boston
New Hampshire Copperhead
New Hampshire Regiment
Case of Representatives
House
Sitting Bull's Next Move Revealed in Canadian-British Dispatch
Officials report Canadian authorities may arm 2000 Blackfeet for defense if Sioux hostilities reach Canadian or British territory. The note states the United States will seek capture of Sitting Bull for transgressions. Sioux movements northward suggest Sitting Bull may appear in the British Possessions soon.
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Sitting Bull
United States
Plains
Crook
Terry
Reminiscence of Lincoln in Early War Era Print
In the early war days a Chicagoan spoke with Lincoln at the White House urging the regimental reorganization of a captured and exchanged unit. The visitor referenced the Seward plan to whip the South in ninety days with 75,000 troops, noting the Spring quota under the President's proclamation had not yet been abandoned.
Lincoln and McClellan debate over a regiment’s fate
The anecdote depicts President Lincoln despondent over funding and feared discharge of a regiment captured at Lexington. He ponders money sources, jokes about corn-fed and mash-fed hogs, and defers to McClellan to resolve the service status. The unit remained in service from its original muster, losing Colonel Mulligan at Kernstown in 1864.
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Lincoln
Jingo
Lexington
Price
Illinois
McClellan
West Point
Mulligan
Kerns
Town
Laughing at Round Lake Fish Prank Ends in Cotton Surprise
At Round Lake a young man hosted twenty to thirty friends for a giggly fish arrival. The St. Lawrence catch, sent by Hilman and cooked by D. J. Chew, looked superb until the eater found the fish stuffed with cotton and painted. Laughter followed as the prank was revealed.
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Round Lake
St. Lawrence
Hilman
D. 3
Chew
Troy Press
Conviction in Utah for Mountain Meadow massacre case
The article notes the conviction of Lee in Utah linked to the Mountain Meadow massacre, a crime carried out nineteen years earlier, underscoring the persistent pursuit of retribution.
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Lee
Utah
Mountain Meadow
Lead pencils show contrasting ends in Council Bluffs ad
A local dealer in Council Bluffs touts Tilden and Tendricks lead pencils as good at both ends. The item notes a more apt pencil would have one hard end and one soft end, implying limited value at either end.
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Council Bluffs
Tilden and Tendricks
Colorado election to choose legislature and state officers
The October 10 election in Colorado will select two United States Senators and Presidential Electors, along with a Governor and other state officers. The statewide canvass is actively under way across the new state.
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Colorado
United States
Times proprietor notes Yellowstone as agricultural district
The Times reports the proprietor visited Yellowstone last week and observed Farrell's ranch crops. Oats yield up to eighty bushels per acre and corn yields around fifty bushels per acre with large ears and good maturity. The region's farming potential is highlighted, beyond its pastoral image.
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Times
Yellowstone
Farrell
Bozeman
MM. T
Newspaper as window to world and home paper duty
A veteran exhortation extols newspapers as a window to world events guiding readers to stay informed. It urges readers to subscribe and pay for their home paper, framing print media as an enfolding encyclopedia and perpetual source of current history.
Never to Run in Debt Says Homely Counsel
The passage counsels debt avoidance during hard times. It notes many lose wealth to mortgages when strained finances arise and urges young men to adopt a strict rule against debt to keep life calm and secure.
Missing youth returns maimed after mysterious spring disappearance
The Norristown Herald reports a young man vanished from home last spring and reappeared yesterday severely injured with a broken nose four deformed fingers a torn ear a missing eye and a crutch. His mother initially feared nitro explosion but he then uttered a grim remark upon entering.
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Norristown Herald
Pro Baseball Trip Described In Brief Encounter
The narrator recalls realizing he had been traveling with a professional baseball club and refrains from questioning the player, showing courtesy and restraint in the moment.
Changes in Piute fuel and labor since early settlement
The Virginia City Chronicle recounts how Piutes once supplied settlers with wood from the mountains yet now flock to the city to beg, steal, or collect fuel, while whites and later Chinese have stripped the hills of fuel, leaving Piutes unable to cook meals.
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Virginia City
Watterson’s brief Capitol stint and audit scandal
The National Democratic Convention leader Henry Watterson of the Louisville Courier-Journal was elected to Congress to fill a vacancy and served one day. He occupied a House chair for two hours and incurred a $418 bill audited by Indiana reformer Blue Jeans Williams. The episode is called a swindle and exposes hypocrisy in Democratic retrenchment claims.
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St. Louis
Ienry Watterson
Louisville Courier-Journal
Watterson
Congress
Blue Jeans Williams
Indiana
Dalrymple farm wheat harvest at Casselton Dakota Territory
The Dalrymple farm in Casselton Dakota Territory covers 80 000 acres with 1800 sown to wheat. Harvesting took a week with nine self binders and twelve men. cost per acre for sowing, reaping, threshing and marketing is $9, yield averages 17 bushels per acre, profit about $7 000, and 9000 more acres will be sown next year. One hundred teams are used during breaking with six mile furrows, and a remark on Washington's view of farm sizes closes.
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Dalrymple
Casselton
Dakota Territory
Washington
Blowing the Gate Rocks to Complete Free Channel
A Sunday operation will blow the rocks at Gate to open a free channel. Progress has been steady and safe. The change is valued by coasting trade and local steamboat lines, reducing wrecks and property loss from the dangerous passage.
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Fell Gate
East River
Subterranean Lake Yields Fish and Corn Field Anomaly
In Dickinson's Bullard creek area near Six Mile station a ten nere underground field lies beneath soil eighteen inches deep. A spade-deep hole fills with water. fish four to five inches long, eyeless and scaleless, are found swimming in the black marl soil. The ground grows corn at thirty to forty bushels per acre but cannot bear horse weight. The crust dissolves when a rail is driven through. The marshy region yields mud after rain, and experts are urged to study this subterranean waterlike habitat and its outlet possibilities.
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Dickinson Place
Bullard Creek
Six-Mile Station
Second massacre in Aiken County shocks South Carolina
The article reports a second massacre in Aiken County, South Carolina, where six Black individuals were killed and one white man wounded after a riot described as inexcusable. It quotes Rebel sources and cites a Colonel Ingersoll remark about racial violence, condemning the mistreatment of Black people compared to white threats.
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Aiken County
South Carolina
Hamburg
Ingersoll
Humor turns to solemnity as slave doctrine provokes outrage
The writer condemns Southern Democracy rhetoric that degrades Black people. He cites the Holly Springs Reporter claiming Niggers belong in fields, not in politics, juries, or legislatures. The piece argues such views incite persistent rebellion and negro massacres under Tilden and Hendricks.
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South
Holly Springs
Mass
Tilden and Hendricks
Death of a Confederate Hero in St. Joseph
Gen. M. Jeff Thompson dies in St. Joseph at Pacific House after a four to five month illness. Born January 22, 1827 at Harper's Ferry, he rose from shop work to surveying and civil engineering, helped build the Hannibal and St. Joseph railroad, served as St. Joseph city engineer and mayor, led Confederate Missouri State Guards, was captured and exchanged, commanded brigades in Price’s Missouri raids, and finished as chief engineer of the state in New Orleans until his death.
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Jeff Thompson
Pacific House
Mississippi River
Gen
M. Jeff Thompson
Harper's Ferry
Charleston
Philadelphia
Missouri
Liberty
Clay County
St. Joseph
Middleton & Riley
Hannibal and St. Joseph Road
St Joseph
Tle
Guy. R. M. Stewart
Denver City
Troy
Kan
I Hannibal and St. Joseph Company
Jos. Warbine
Missouri State Guards
Johnson’s Island
Port Delaware
D. C
Shelby
Price
Memphis
Tenn
New Orleans
Warmoth
St. Joseph Therald
Astonishment in a New Orleans Drug Store
A startled man bursts into a New Orleans drug store and, after ordering soda, is struck by a falling perfume bottle and a smashing counter. He dashes to the door, runs into a policeman, claiming the store has exploded in a frenzy of misread signals.
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New Orleans
Jerusalem
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Wyoming
National Republican Ticket
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Hendricks
Riett
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L. Jones & Co
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American News Co
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Deadwood
Black Hills
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Thames
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Fort Fetterman
Medicine Bow
My. Wetterman
Pioneer Pony Express CO
Mail & Express
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Otter & Ingalls
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Ageal
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U.S. Treasury Dept
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Horse Creek
Cheyenn
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M. F. Facan Proprirtor
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This Ranch
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Black Ffilla
Joseph Armijo
Pole Creek Ranch
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