Control of the Floods in the Mississippi Valley Crisis
Nevada editorial notes floods as a national emergency, urging immediate Congress action and reuse of Panama Canal machinery under Col Goethals to aid flood relief. It argues vast public spending is justified to defend lives and economy, citing Ohio flood losses and the Mississippi river danger. Several Nevada notices follow, including local criminal, civil, and administrative items.
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Ohio
New York
Mississippi
Cox
Panama Canal
Republic
Congress
Colonel Goethals
Panama
Ohio Valleye
Parcel Post System Surges Past Sixteen Hundred Million
Washington April 7 More than 150 000 000 parcel post packages were mailed in the first quarter of operation according to postal experts. Reports from the fifty main post offices form the basis of the computations.
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Washington
Diamondfield Jack Alive Spotted in New York Hotel Breslin
A man back from New York reported Diamondfield Jack Davis alive and well at the Hotel Breslin. He doubts Davis was killed in Mexico and says Davis plans to return to South America where he is reportedly thriving.
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Diamondfield
Jack
Elko Free Press
New York
Jack Davis
Breslin
Mexico
Davis
South America
Mona Lisa Smile Bride-To-Be Marian Wise Announces Engagement
Miss Marian Wise, niece of Senator and Mrs Francis Newlands, known as the girl with the Mona Lisa smile, will wed Charles Carroll Glover, heir to millions. The ceremony will occur in late spring. Wise was once linked to Miew Ethel Roosevelt.
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Marian Wise
Francis Newlands
Charles Carroll Glover
Ethel Roosevelt
Parcel Post Sparks Laughable Delivery Tale
A Louisville Courier Journal item recalls a tough delivery where a postman faced a bulldog and a chunk of liver in the same parcel run. The quirky anecdote highlights unexpected hazards in daily mail service.
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Louisville Courier Journal
Plans Huge Chain of Candy Stores Led by Mrs Harriman
New York April 8 Mrs J Borden Harriman announces a planned nationwide candy store chain aimed at women wage earners. She views it as an experiment toward a minimum living wage and economic relief. P Compton Miller in the Hudson Terminal building is said to be interested in the venture.
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New York
J. Borden Harriman
Wom
Harriman
Hudson Terminal
Mia
Glixir of Youth Discovered in London
Dr Saubermann of Berlin claimed radium can restore hardened arteries and prolong life in a Roentgen Society lecture. An earthenware receptacle with radium sits in a glass bottle filled with water to create radium emanations. The water gradually charges, remaining active for hundreds of years with renewal of doses.
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London
Saubermann
Berlin
Roentgen Society
Louis Dean Dies in San Francisco at 76, Reno Pioneer
San Francisco reports the death of Louis Dean aged 76. A key figure in Nevada history, he was among the last Pony Express riders shaping the West. Dean bought Reno property in 1866 for little, later selling it for a fortune and built the Dean block on Virginia Street.
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Walter Hobart
San Francisco
Nevada
Frank Baker
Tidewater
Tonopah
Louis Dean
Dean
Pony Express
West
Reno
Virginia Street
Agnes Lawsuit Wins One Thousand Dollar Damages
A jury awarded Giovanni Agnes $1000 in the second case against Pittsburg Silver Peak Mining Co. for injuries from mine work at Blair Nevada. The suit sought $26,000. Smallpox appears in Virginia City in light form. patient Lawrence Pearl, resident of the Divide, whose home is quarantined.
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Giovanni Agnes
Pittsburg
Silver Peak
Agnes
Blair
Nevada
Virginia City
Lawrence Pearl
Meat famine forecast by Buffalo Bill Cody in Chicago
Colonel Cody argues a national meat shortage is imminent, blaming high prices on overconsumption and policies that curb cattle numbers. He warns the United States may face a meat famine within ten years due to early calf killings and reduced range funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colonel Cody
United States
Chicago
William F
Baffalo Bill) Cody
Lillian Rowsell
Cody
Leonard
Union Stonk Yards Company
Want Young Men Who Know Shorthand
Executive officers of large manufacturing estab lis hments complain they cannot find capable young men who are stenographers and type writers. Young men just leaving school scorn shorthand and typewriting, viewing it as girls' work. As a result, corporations cannot fill confidential posts with qualified youngsters, though many great leaders began as stenographers and gained intimate business knowledge.
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Higherops
Reclamation Plans Drain and Reuse Churchill County Waters
The Reclamation Service advances a drainage scheme under the Cruckee Carson Irrigation project to remove underground water from a large portion of Churchill County. Tiles laid five to ten feet below surface drain surplus water into a trench, then pumped by electricity from Lahontan Dam into the Carson River canal and back to land near Stillwater for irrigation. Estimated spending is about 25,000 this year and at least 200,000 overall on drainage work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Churchill County
Cruckee-Carson
Reclamation Service
Lahontan Dam
Carson River
Stillwater
Lillian Russell Announces Retirement From Stage
Broadway buzz follows the sudden announcement that Lillian Russell wife of Pittsburg publisher Alexander P. Moore has closed for the last time and will retire to her Pittsburg home after an extended beauty lecture tour titled How to Live to Be 100 Years Old. A message from her husband canceled engagements.
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Lillian Russell
New York
Broadway
Alexander P. Moore
Pittsburg
Lillian
Joint quarterly statement of Eureka County officers
A compact financial record from Eureka County Nevada dated March 1 1913 presents a joint quarterly statement from County Auditor Edgar Bathee and County Treasurer B R McCharles. The document details accounting of public funds and expenditures for the period, outlining receipts disbursements and balances to inform county governance.
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Eureka County
Nevada
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James McAleary
Southern Pacific
Sacramento
Wadsworth
Aloone
Mirkovich
Nye
Alex Strachan
Nevada State
California
Overland Hotel
Strachan
Bremet
L. P. Adamson
Tax Commission
Eiko County
Justice of the Peace
Big Parcel Post
Parcel Post
A.D
Edgar Bathee
BR McCharles
County Treasures
Qeneral
Sea ‘High Hants & Fishy Food Fund
Ms Fund
Uch
Jureka
Pallaade
Mineral
Heowswe General Beows
Ea ‘School Eisniee
Sean Asl Seseesse
Hoboal Manes
Mons
Paul Tex
Ananes Horas
State of
the Brown Hotel
Station Touring Club of America
Daniel Morrison
Eureka
Main
Seheeline Banking & Trust Co
General Banking
Trust Company
Business Exchange
Savings Department
ACENT
Eatatea
Johnson Mercantile Co
Hiram Johnson
James A. Rattazzi
North Main Street
Saloon and Pioneer Bottling Works
U. S
Bicoln
Becker
F. J Brossemer
Frop
Eureka, Nevada
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