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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1922
Page
3
The National City Bank of New York reports improved fundamental conditions and rising confidence for 1922. Rail and steel sectors show gains while farm prices climb, supporting a view that agricultural and industrial sectors will recover.
In Furnas County Nebraska a coordinated gopher eradication campaign used neighborhood party methods under the Biological Survey and extension agent with USDA and State College of Agriculture. Teams of farmers worked all plots in a district, applying poison bait and opening runs, covering 2,500 acres in alfalfa along the Republican River and nearby creeks, with substantial potential savings.
Ormaby County Commissioners set this year’s tax at $5. The estimated valuation is $1,860,000. The county rate is $3.21, the state share 62 cents, city rate $1.02, and special school tax 15 cents.
Mining tax notice issued by W J Hooper Eureka County assessor states taxes on mine proceeds for quarter ending March 31 1922 are due at his Eureka office and will be strictly enforced.
A trove of brief items reports a burglar captured in Providence after posing as a graduate, a balloon found 11 days after release in Altoona, and the Bible Society planning to close its New York plant. Also noted are a thornless blackberry debut, Bangkok street life on bamboo rafts, costly U S fire losses, Japan’s talking movie concept, and a New York hotel church project with censorship and prohibition on dancing.
In Key West Florida Manuel Gonzalez operated a coffee shop with a roulette wheel built in the rear. Officers raided the shop and seized the layout revealing a wheel made from a graphophone disc record painted with numbers one through thirty. The hidden record of There's No Place Like Home was observed. Gonzalez did not explain the song title's meaning to the court.
The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad proposes a line from its Searchlight terminal along Arrowhead Road across Dry Lake to the Black Canyon, about 66 miles of trackage, to challenge Union Pacific which could reach the defile with under 23 miles from Las Vegas.
Emmet T. Flood, Chicago AFL representative, announced a complete boycott of professional baseball by his unions and will continue it while Judge Landis remains baseball commissioner. He said it cheaper to pay Landis 50,000 a year for six years and dismiss him than to antagonize union labor. He alleged Landis allowed himself to be used as a tool in a Chicago building trades dispute.
Winnemucca butcher C R Squires was arrested after he failed to require the seller to exhibit the hide and brand as required by law for beef purchases.
A Montreal Family Herald piece recalls Osman Digna’s annual caravan into Khartoum where fifty Sedancer carried ivory gold and gems to a secret cache. A trusted lieutenant later murdered the carriers, leaving Digna sole keeper of the cache until his capture in Cairo.
German and Dutch smugglers hid diamonds in sandwiches at Konitz and the Holland frontier. Inspectors found gold coins layered in bread with butter in a German basket and multiple diamonds, rings, a brooch, and unset stones hidden in a cigar lighter. The haul valued at about 28,000,000 Polish marks.
Haying takes over the draying and general jobbing business of Marco Venturing and offers all kinds of hauling by team and truck at reasonable rates. The owner announces readiness to handle loads, moving, and general transportation tasks for area customers.
Dialog on the docks at Brest features boastful rivals and a sailor recounting Shackleton's voyage. The tale mentions a plumber father, a crude ax, and a keg labeled not to be opened until the south point is reached containing axle grease and other odd contents.
Washington April 6 The Higune today passed the alien deportation bill aimed at violations of the prohibition law. The measure targets foreign traffic in narcotics and provides that any alien convicted under prohibition or narcotic laws shall be deported to the country of origin.
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