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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Sun
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1889
Page
2
Depew will visit Atlanta in January to address the chamber of commerce. The item notes general interest in his visit and the aim of sharing insights with local business leaders.
A witty note mocks Tut Alfa California for devoting two newspaper columns to the inspiration behind champagne while ignoring the hardship or labor involved in earning money to afford it. The remark implies a broader critique of sensational framing.
Helena Fourna notes the new fast mail delights San Francisco residents while those at intermediate points, whose mail travels sixty miles per hour and returns the following week on a mixed train, seek clearer benefits. The exchange resembles a 14 13 15 puzzle in complexity.
The iron trade is described as an index of general business health, with iron tonic words suggesting renewed vigor if reputation holds. The Denver Republican notes furnaces and rolling mills show the largest outputs ever known in the country, implying a booming industrial era ahead.
J. H. Rogers of Washington, famed for the pan electric telephone, has invented a synchronous telegraph. Two wheels at sending and receiving stations rotate together. A typewriter prints the message, puncturing holes on a slip of paper. The slip passes through the sender and the message prints in Roman letters at the receiver without an operator.
Tin Sun reports a proposed organization to protect western interests in Congress. The association includes members of the House, senators and delegates from the Mississippi river region, and Minnesota, and held a meeting on Saturday.
A western alliance led by Senator Stewart as president and Congressman Hansbrough as vice president aims to unify efforts for western development. Carter Carey and other officers hold secretary and treasurer posts. Offices have been secured near Shoreham to coordinate activities and push projects benefiting a neglected western region.
The New York era paper recounts Grady’s illness after vertigo and repeated illnesses. He left a sick bed to speak at a Masonic banquet then faced pneumonia risk in Boston. Returning to Atlanta he grew worse with a violent cough and fever. Doctors Morse Everett and Golthwaite concluded there could be but one result.
Senator Auwison of Lowa states he would be proud to call Miss Stoughton his wife but has no plan to marry her. The speaker suggests an amicable settlement to confirm a recent report and hints Miss Stoughton could aim for the White House.
An exchange quotes a German professor claiming influenza, though misused by some, is actually a benefit to humanity. He asserts its mission is to exterminate typhoid fever and other dangerous diseases, reframing the virus as a physician to public health.
Joan MacDonald, longtime London Times editor, dies after worrying over the Parnell forgeries scandal and its fallout. The paper notes his career and pivotal role in reporting the affair.
Tuk Marquis of Lorne premieres his novelette A Canadian Love Story in a London magazine, highlighting a cross Atlantic literary debut as the work appears in a periodical setting.
A press comment contrasts New York with other cities, praising New York's streets as dirtier, while Denver cites Colorado Springs and other towns as healthier options for consumptives. It notes Denver’s smoke and dust as a reason to avoid residency if the air becomes as smoky as St. Louis.
A mosaic of whimsical aphorisms and wordplay from a 19th or early 20th century page. It touches on domestic scenes, misheard phrases, and social quirks, naming a few colorful characters and fuming notions about advice, influenza, and imports. It reads like a clipped humor column with compact anecdotes and clever vignettes.
The Pacific Short Line contract for grading forty five miles from Plainville to O Neill Neb has been awarded to Reynolds Bros and work will continue as weather permits. A Missouri river bridge at Sioux City will cost 1350000 with St Paul road sharing in construction. The line aims to finish and be ready for business January 1 1891. First ten thousand tons of steel rails have been delivered. Total build cost is 19000000. The enterprise is led by A C Goodwin of Brooklyn as president and Donald McLean as general manager with Manhattan Trust Company of New York as mortgage trustee. The St Paul road shares bridge use but Short Line remains independent.
The passage argues that belief in a benevolent God may justify suffering and future reward. It suggests immortality is plausible if love and hope persist, and urges painting a hopeful future on the canvas of the soul. It questions whether there is life after death yet remains optimistic about a joyful afterlife.
Maks Twain invested 100000 dollars in a type-setting machine company and his stock has soared to about a million. The market shows natural gas as the second best paying commodity after Standard Oil, signaling strong energy sector returns.
A terse note describes an intense pursuit where strong affection meets resistance. It frames devotion, wealth, and looks as factors in a pursuit that resists rejection, implying social and romantic tension without details.
The renowned chess grandmaster Monsikun Temimoneng from Russia lands in New York, signaling a busy period of events and potential matches in the city.
Union Pacific offers one fare round trip tickets from Kanoas Nebraska and stations east of Green River Wyoming for travel within 200 miles. Sale days December 24 25 1889 and December 31 1889 and January 4 1890 with return valid through January 8 1890. Contact nearest agent or KE Lomax General Passenger Agent Omaha for details.
A veteran recalls a year with a western circus and details how ticket sellers used swindles to skim profits. He describes methods from 50-dollar monthly “privileges” and fake change schemes to box-stage con men, counterfeit coins, and alterable bills, all aimed at inflating a ticket hawker’s take.
The passage notes a dexterous wrist move revealing a quarter rather than a half and attributes the trick to right-hand specialists. Though money was small in these schemes, repeated plays enabled circus folk to stay ahead financially, keeping the wolf at a comfortable distance from the door.
J. B. Toomer recounts a Georgia rural tale from Aiken County about a well pitcher at Montmorenci tied to a fatal lightning strike. Locals report a chilling repugnance to touching the pitcher, with visitors deterred by an indescribable influence and unexplained sensations as they approach. The well has since been filled. Toomer affirms his reliability.
A reader describes a solid black walnut plant stand with eight inch deep sides and no top, using a zinc pan and slats for drainage. The stand keeps plants Sunlit evenly by level placement, is mobile on casters, and can be moved to wash or dust. It supports various setups from flowering displays to foliage only for a stylish winter table.
A fragment from a 19th century account notes Asiatic workmen using advanced shop machinery. It describes a cutler's shop in Aiuala with a grindstone on an axle, a rope looped around the axle, and comparisons to Sheffield craftsmen as rivals in a harsh urban competition.
A vivid scene shows a rope end in each hand pulled by a man in the street, making the grindstone rotate toward or away as the motion shifts. Beside him the knife grinder, crosslegged, turns the knife to ride the evolving stone. The piece likens their labor to Edison’s electric dynamos and the failed flying machine, noting their adaptation to market forces.
In northern Norway crows including ravens and magpies raid eggs and young birds such as eider ducks. Drakes heroically strike and drown attacking crows, while water battles end with the crow's death. Fishermen note no young birds found in deep fish stomachs amidst cod and halibut rich waters.
Robert Carter recalls Brook Farm as a refined but lightly profitable experiment in New England utopian life. The piece notes moonlit wanderings and moral restraint, Hawthorne’s losses, and the site later becoming the town poor-house, with Hawthorne’s pigs care noted.
In a Maine tale from Denter Guselte, Colonel John Goddard, a stern figure among Penobscot lumbermen, refuses to help his child escape a perilous wagon perch. After the mother cries for aid, he orders the boy to climb down, whipping him to descend. The child breaks a leg when he falls, while Goddard remains unmoved and unyielding.
Leaning on the parapet the writer extols the Great Wall as a monument of human patience and awe at its vast scale and enduring fortitude. The London Lady Guide Association is expanding with new rooms and thriving departments.
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