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Newspaper
Encampment Record
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1916
Page
11
A five pound package of e wall tint is mixed with two quarts of cold water and stirred about one minute to create ready to apply Alabastine. Readers can achieve new shades by combining regular tints with the base.
Prices for metals are listed with copper at 26.12, lead at 7.87, bar silver at 69.0, and tungsten prices in several brackets. Crushing begins at the old Yuma mine with 100 workers. Orville Bozarth sells the hubernite mine to B. J. Temple for 5000 dollars. Oatman area shows ore finds at Merry Widow shaft and new rich gold ore in North Homestake at Carrizozo. Big Four Exploration enters New Mexico. White Oaks Consolidated shows tungsten prospects. Bradshaw tunneling near Prescott advances. Ongoing oil drilling preparations near Cuervo.
Work has begun on a 300000 addi tion to the Greybull oil refinery. A company formed to develop Wheatland placer mines will start immediately. Reopening of Hartville iron mine has employed several hundred workers. Indications of oil on Cody dump site led to three royalty offers. Northwestern cuts crude rate to 5 cents per hundred from Lander to Casper. Several land filings cover about 700 acres in Hot Springs county near Croaby with bids from 20 to 50 dollars per acre.
In Georgetown area mines tributary to Georgetown show higher 1916 production. The London mine now yields 500 tons monthly at over $100 per ton. Tungsten strikes spark winter to spring excitement near Bulida and near Cripple Creek, with the Laura Lee and Patten Hole developments among notable surface finds.
An unsolicited letter from J F Ward of Donalda Alberta extols high yields and low costs. He notes oats from 60 to 100 bushels per acre and wheat 25 to 62 per acre on 66 acres, selling hogs and hog profits, and compares farmland to Iowa. He describes soil, water, weather, and taxes, urging Toledo readers to consider emigration.
Mr M A Page of Osceola Wisconsin writes an 1916 letter praising Dodd's Kidney Pills after a long kidney trouble. He notes three years of good health at age seventy two and credits continued use for his recovery. The ad also mentions Dodd's Dyspepsia Tablets and a Buffalo based company.
In a neighborhood a group of five mothers agrees to pack the lunch for the fire one day a week to ease monotony and offer children a variety. They suggest custards, brown bread, crackers, and fresh fruit with careful wrapping, paper napkins, and small treats to delight children.
A collage of two maxims: it ain't never no use puttin up your umbrella till It rains from Mrs. Wiggs and It is better to make a thousand mistakes and suffer a thousand reverses than to run away from the battle from Henry Van Dyke.
A collection of practical tips from a vintage household column includes remedies and home hacks. Suggestions cover preserving foods, cleaning with steel wool, using lemon juice, making head cheese, rubber fasteners, and elevating feet for rest. The fragment ends with a garbled note about garments and laundry.
A Nashville woman describes relief from the Change of Life through Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound claiming tumor disappearance and renewed health after using the remedy. The letter promotes the product as a pure old fashioned herbal cure for women's systems during menopause.
A rural town famed for dull nights sentences a beggar to leave within three hours for vagrancy. The tramp pleads to be gone in three minutes, fearing the long wait in the un lively place. A girl’s tale ends with a note on a hypnotic prank and an engagement ring.
A fragment recalls a man’s question about fulfillment and his answer that two things, advice and water, would suffice. The brief exchange hints at a rustic or moral vignette, contrasting desire with simple necessities.
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