High School Notes Debates and Magazine Control
Tina and Petrina Damele returned to school after months away. Principal Morgan was absent due to influenza in his family, delaying classes. Robert Laird volunteered to supervise magazines kept in the cabinet. students may borrow overnight and must return them next day. Freshmen defeated the motion that they should not debate before older students. next week’s topic concerns federal ownership of railroads.
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Tina
Petrina Damele
Morgan
Robert Laird
Unusual Auto Accident at Oak Station
Thomas Plummer and companions Jack Tyler and Henry C Tuttle experienced a peculiar mishap when their Ford brake failure sent the car sliding down a 20 foot deep bank at Oak Station into a creek. Rescuers used blocks and tackle under supervision to pull the vehicle out after four hours, with the front damaged but engine and radiator undamaged.
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Thomas Plummer
Jack Tyler
Henry C. Tuttle
Oak Station
Oak
Tts
Eureka Live
Isadore Sara
Ford
Tackle
Blocks
Frank McBride
Eureka
Plummer
Death of Tonopah Resident Veronica Bricca at 82
Veronica Bricca aged 82 and a longtime Nevada resident died after a short illness that led to pneumonia. Born in Italy, she moved to Eureka then Tonopah, living near Salisbury Wash for 17 years. She was mother to Antoniazzi of Salisbury Wash and grandmother to Clifford and Shields children in Tonopah.
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Eureka
Tonopah
Nevada
Veronica Bricca
Antoniazzi
Salisbury Wash
Edward Clifford, Jr
James Clifford
Joseph Clifford
Robert Shields
Italy
Clifford
Asylum Superintendent Accused Of Forging Will In Nevada Case
Sensational developments in the Strother will contest at Virginia City end abruptly as papers release involved law firms from contracts. Dr J J Sullivan, superintendent of the Nevada State Hospital for Mental Diseases, is cross examined and accused of forging Mrs Strother's signature to create a will. The estate totals about 200000 with eight heirs. The State Board suspends Sullivan pending governor's return and a hearing is requested.
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Strother
Virginia City
Dan
Frank Sullivan
Hoyt, Gibbons & French
Sullivans
Roy Stoddard
J.J. Sullivan
J. J. Sullivan
Nevada State Hospital For
Sam Platt
Sullivan
Sullivan Brothers
Boyle
Carson
Death of Fish Lake Rancher in Tonopah
Walter Starkey, a wealthy young ranchman from Fish Lake valley, died in Tonopah on Saturday from pneumonia contracted during travel to the city. He was about 25, survived by a wife who had just given birth to a son ten days earlier. The family, including the wife, two children, and his mother, were ill but not seriously. The wife died four days after him, and the newborn 10 day old baby was reported seriously ill.
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Fish Lake
Tonopah
Walter Starkey
Fish Lake Valley
Starkey
California
Nevada lawmakers' new laws bound for distribution
Advanced sheets of the laws passed by the last session and signed by Governor Boyle have been completed by Joe Farnsworth and distributed. The bound volume will be ready for distribution soon. Legal blanks for asse at the Szwrmnet office.
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Nevada
Boyle
Joe Farnsworth
The Moving Pictures and Local News at Eureka Theatre
At the Bureka Theatre on Sunday April 20 The Honorable Argy stars Charles Ray with a tale of an Englishman sent to America to secure a rich marriage. Carmen of the Klondike opens Wednesday April 23 starring Clara Williams with stunning Alaskan scenery. Dorothy Gish stars Friday April 25 in Children of the Feud about Judge Massey’s killing, with Love and Fish and Careless America reels. Arthur Fern, a life prisoner in Carson, killed his brother and died by suicide in his cell after long suspected mental illness.
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Bureka Théatre
Honorable Argy
Charles Ray
Monteith
America
New York
Alay
United States
Algy
Wall Street
the Klondike
Clara Williams
Klondike
Alaska
Skagway
Snowboand
Dorothy Gish
Judge Massey
Hillsville
Carroll County
Allen
Miss Gish
Peggy
Pap Clayton
Richard Cavanagh
Arthur Fern
Elko County
Nevada sheep shearers form union for higher pay
In Lander County Nevada sheep shearers organized a union demanding 15 cents per sheep, up from 12 cents set by owners. Other regional items include a fatal car crash near Laughton's Springs, ex Congressman E. E. Roberts planning a Reno law practice, a murder discovery in Ely, a U.S. marshal resignation, a whisky seizure in Ely, Fallon highway funding plans, the return of Blackie Graham to Carson, and editorials criticizing his prior placement in the industrial school.
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Lander County
George Zerangue
Reno-Verdi Road
Laughton’s Springs
Zerangue
Mrs Phoebe Hearst Dies At 76 In Pleasanton Calif
Mrs Phoebe Hearst widow of late United States Senator George Hearst of California died at her Pleasanton home from influenza complications at age 76. A Missouri native who came to California around 1864 she was a UC regent and had given more than a million dollars to the university. Survived by her only child William Randolph Hearst. The notice also includes an advertisement for leather goods and seeds from Eureka Cash Store.
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Pleasanton
Cal
Phoebe Hearst
United States
George Hearst
California
Missouri
Real estate transfers and a notable Nevada marriage
A series of 1919 deeds record transfers of undivided interests and parcels in Mount Hope mines Eureka County Antelope Valley properties with nominal considerations. Also noted is the marriage of Charles A Norcross, director, and Mabel Sweeney in Salt Lake City, linking state education and governor’s staff circles.
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Dominico Cerutti
Matilda Geratti
Elizabeth Morrison Englebright
Antelope Valley
Eureka County
Sweeney
Charles A. Norcross
Nevada University Extension Service
Mabel Sweeney
Jem Hildebrand and Pearl Cobb Married at Ely Nevada
A marriage notice from Ely Nevada reports the wedding of Jem Hildebrand and Pearl Cobb on April 10 1919. Both brides and grooms reside in Oxyrant Creek Nye County.
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Ely
Nevada
Jem Hildebrand
Miss Pearl Cobb
Oxyrant Creek
Nye County
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MA. Seiliman
EpwaArb Skillman
Dr. Sullivan
Szwrmnet
Eureka Garage & Supply Co
Ford Dealers and Service
Ford Motor Company
W. H. Russell
State News
E. E. Roberts
Congress
Reno
Washington
K. Miyamotto
McGill
White Pine County
Miyamotto
Joe McEachin
District of Nevada
Tom Pickett
Sam Pickett
Ole” Elliott
George McDonald
Oakland
W.C. Durant
Detroit
Michigan
General Motors Corporation
Lincoln Highway
Blackie” Graham
Taber
Elko
Pardon Board
Elko Free Press
Eureka Cash
RROGH
John Repetto
Ben
Hercules Nos
Mt. Hope
Tony Romano
Jennie
Jennie Romano
W. R. Reynold
Union Hotel
GEO, W. Snider
Union
Houreka County
Frank D. Lewis
E. A. Skillman
J. B Biale
J. B, Biale
Frank
Lewis
E A, Skillman
Palamas
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