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Newspaper
Daily Evening News
Location
Modesto, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1901
Page
4
Public notice from the Daily Evening News regarding the estate of J. A. Spencer. It lists a location at Saddrile Nanaureg Everton, Bor. 1 and Eleventh Streets, and includes a model telephone number with designation One Year.
Local Modesto items report W L Tregea as a watch leader and small notices about windmill tanks, bee price notices, and pigeon loane from Los Angeles. Wheat prices fell in San Francisco and Modesto with milling wheat down to cents. Dr Bainbridge granted more time in a murder case. Company D NG C plans daily drills for a State encampment. C D Swan named manager of the Madento creamery. Board of Supervisors visited Merced to bid on a San Joaquin river bridge near Hill Ferry. Shirley company concluded a week at Plato’s Opéra House and prepared for Fresno. A man named Connors seeks remedies at the Tyoan Hotel. Caspar Severna’s hand injury expected amputation saved. Cancer and morphine habit cures offered locally.
Dense smoke poured through basement ventilators at Turner Hardware Company near H and Ninth Streets yesterday after 4 pm. Willie Davie and Abe McLean forced entry. Davie opened the trap door but was partly overcome by smoke. McLean sustained a cut to his right wrist while breaking the window. Firefighters sprayed two streams of water. the blaze centered in a basement corner burned only rope and some food, with estimated damage low.
A general complaint is raised that strong winds since maturity cause kernels to shed, especially in barley and rye. Wheat shows some loss but less than the other cereals. Farmers fear the large standing stalks and heads, with barley and rye ready to shed as pods form.
On Saturday evening bids for a cottage on Thirteenh Strant between H and 1 were opened and read by John Cadzett. The successful bidder was W. AL. Arnold who bid 1500. Two other bids for larger amounts were received. The house will cost about six rooms plus closets and a lab with modern improvements. The architect was J. Mowrot.
Barley shipped by boat from Grayson to Stockton due to heavy crops on the west side of the Sao Janquin river with four thousand barrels staged for river shipment. A stove explosion at the Sison hotel in Jamestown, Tuolumoa County, caused nine buildings to burn as winds fanned flames. Losses listed include Pedro, Preston estate, Camporn & Bruno, and others with varied insured amounts. A later wave started a fire on Tenth Street in Modesto, threatening a town block.
Fragmentary note recounts a reunion where two men discuss memories of a hermit life and a wife connected to a season of women’s clubs in Indianapolis. The text is garbled and offers few clear facts beyond the strangers’ reminiscence.
Permit me space to express appreciation to the Modanto fire department for the able and skillful warner they fought the fire in the base went of my store yesterday afternoon. To their judgment and skillful handling of the fire the loss was very low. Takopors Tuxsen MobeeTa Jims 10 1m.
A fragmentary 1920s style ad notes Tregen watches and a new lot of Keippendorf Dittman goods. It mentions a Ventheretona bicycle for $89 at Hiraintor’s Shoo and a Fat Boy jogger item, with scattered brand names like Schafer Co and Indies in the cluttered sale fragment.
DeVoe's cannot be excelled in this valley. The finest lock of fruit-class furniture all that can be desired. Call and see hint on Tenth Street. Goll stock ping Racycles at A. Stiefvateria. For tool det of eraam for bye nts ota logs Rode mil Ma ala atakes Impars Bloo.
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