Nevada Legislature Acts and County Provisions Summary
Long list of statutes and local measures including tax adjustments, land laws, duties of public officers, state school and mine acts, incorporation acts for Reno and Tonopah, penalties for firearms on closed property, poison ads ban, and funding for the Orphans Home. Provisions cover road and water rights, timber protection, rail and transit authorizations, and revised election procedures. Includes appointments, salaries, and public notices affecting Washoe, Lyon, and Nye counties and the Nevada University cadet program.
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Washoe County
Pines
Board of Capital Commissioners
Capitol Grounds
Nevada
Battery A
Virginia City
State Agricultural Society
Sadler
State Board of Canvassers
School of Mines
Lyon County Commissioners
Jvgaee
District Court
Nye County
Tonopah
Belmont
Nevads
Thew
Nevada University
T. E. Gibbons and Associates
Vegas Valley
Lincoln County
Reno
Opera
Board of Education
A Lesson In Humility From a Boyhood Lesson
A narrator recalls a boyhood incident when caught stealing a watermelon. His stern grandmother and a Sunday school scene with Doc Hoover teach him humility. The memory ends with a hard lesson about pride and restraint lasting decades.
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Doc Hoover
John
Eye Strain Warns of Hidden Health Dangers Arbor Day Proclaimed
Chicago Record-Herald notes eye strain can trigger headaches indigestion insomnia and irritability with the real cause often hidden in the eye. The bulletin urges readers to heed health advice and connect symptoms to eye abuse. Governor Sparks proclaims Friday April 24 as Arbor Day across the state.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Department of Bealth
Sparks
Old Gorgon's Alphabet Collection of aphorisms and quips
A playful collection of maxims and wry observations arranged as an alphabet from A to Z. The pieces offer humorous takes on manners, business, loyalty, marriage, and social norms, with pointed, period voice and names of common archetypes.
Quotations on temperance pride and patience
A series of aphoristic lines on character virtue and folly. Reflections on temper, honesty, pride, gentility, and social hypocrisy expose human frailty and the limits of self deception in everyday life. The mood is didactic with sharp witticisms about patience punishment and Lent vanity and religious pretense.
Nevada and regional state items surface in brief notices
Tenopal's dance halls closed under a new act while Reno candidates court voters. Utah supplies Nevada wheat feeding Douglas, Washoe, Humboldt and Elko counties. Edt Newlin daughter of Senator Newis and Charles Johnson of Washington announce engagement. A two foot gold vein found on Cottonwood Creek Esmeralda County worth about 500 per ton. USGS agent to study Toropsh ores with another Nevada trip planned. Harris sentenced to nine months for obscene mail matter. OC& P to adjust runs. Ogden to Carlin trains revised. Ducker and Guthrie wed in Reno. reside in Winnemucca. Salary scales shown for Salt Lake division train workers. Carnegie taxed in New York. quips about dying rich. San Francisco birth record notes a Eureka Nevada wife bearing a son.
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Walker Lake Bulletin
Coton Wood Creek
Esmeralda County
United States Geological Survey
Toropsh
Nevada
Corbett Triumphs Over McGovern In San Francisco Fight
The president began a western trip on Wednesday in a special train with six cars. In San Francisco the Corbett McGovern bout drew the largest crowd for a fight in the city. Corbett knocked out McGovern in the eleventh round after a fierce contest. Corbett's confidence and early rounds indicated he was McGovern's superior. The champion appeared in better form than in his prior Hanlon bout.
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Corbett-McGovern
San Francisco
Corbett
McGovern
Tsater
Hanlon
Quakers Qalt and the Gold Lode Prospect
The Tonopah Miner notes shifting interest by Quaker investors toward a gold lode near the silver deposit. It warns that profitable prospects require a large, symmetrical ledge rich with virgin gold to attract Philadelphia bourse buyers and Saint Anthony’s acclaim.
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Tom Colehaneaya
Anthonios
Philadsipuila
Tonopah
Nevada Press Comment and Local School Trouble Note
The Nevada press criticizes the California Nevada Mining Company for aggressive advertising in the East. Tonopah School troubles report Miss Patterson and Mrs. Sinkwan in Justice Court over a dispute about disciplining a child, jury disagreement noted. The Ancient Order of United Workmen paid out 910,000 in Nevada in February, and 72,000 in 1902 statewide, highlighting financial backing.
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Nevada Press
California-Nevada Mining Company
Tonopat
Order of United Workmen
Nevada
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Utah
Douglass Washoe, Humboldt and Elko
Mise Edt
F. G. Newisnls
Charles Johnson
H. B. Harris
U. S
Osteen
Storey County
OC. P
Ogden
Carlin
Wadeworth
E. A. Ducker
Winnemucca
Misa Dollie Guthrie
Reno Mosday
Ducker
Panenger
Salt Lake
Southern Pacific
Andrew Carnegie
New York
Carnegie
E. A. Skillman
Eureka
Odd Fellowship
Eureka Opera House
Bullion
Karekes
Diamond Rebekah
Frank J. Bronsom
L. Bray
John Northey
J. H. Hoegh
John Ivey
Order
G. Gibson
Tiemets
Prof. Rice
Eureka Live Stock Company
Roberts Creek
Otto T. Williams
Court House
Elko
Stockholders’ Meeting
Ruby Hilluboel and Mining Company
Bareks
Ceveral
Paul
White Rabbit
Fleck
MRS. H. M. Schneider & CO
H. Kind
General Merchandise
Ona
Ellram Tohnson
Elko County
Philip Paroni
Hylton & Williams, Proprietors
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