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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1922
Page
4
A Nevada Press Comment argues fifty percent of tax money funds schools and public education yet questions the expansion of university offerings. It contends taxpayers face rising costs for many free courses from arts to vaudeville and urges focusing on essential education and merit over broad, costly subjects.
A cave-in at the Mizpah claim in Tonopah Nevada occurred last evening, collapsing a 200 by 100 foot section of the old Mispah area and destroying the assay office and an oil house. Water mains broke. Belmont mine operations halted but carbide safety concerns were addressed. revival expected as crews resume work tonight. The event recalls Goldfield’s Hampton stope disaster of 1907 during the American Mining Congress.
Col James G Scrugham state engineer and Nevada Public Service Commission member fled the Record Courier run by Bert Selkirk. The story notes jockey Carson Berett Denny, who traveled abroad with race chorusses, attempted suicide last week and is now in a Fallen hospital with doctors optimistic about recovery.
June records show 33 hunters totaling 915 days with 430 true predatory animals destroyed including 64 bobcats and 368 coyotes and 1 raccoon. Trapper Meece led yearly totals with 18 bobcats and 306 coyotes from 342 days, earning a top month 78 animals by John Penola.
Winnemucca Nevada July 30 After four hours imprisoned in the tunnel of the burning National mine seven miles north of town Superintendent Joseph Bolam and Peter Madison were released not badly hurt their escape aided by a fire under control report says they had been working about a thousand feet from the entrance when a collapse trapped them. fire progression caused the cave in.
Card of thanks from Mrs Amos Plummer and family Mineral Basin Eureka County express appreciation to friends for support after the death and burial of beloved husband and father Amos Flammer.
A survey of disparate items notes rising smoking among English women prompting railroads to provide special smokers, a new air driven ore hand-pick from Germany, and wireless signals strongest far from sending stations. Canadian patrols target salmon raiders, Bolshevik Kremlin wealth spared, and Canadas radio factories run three shifts. London builds a dance hall for 1600 dancers, red-wrapped bank messengers in Wall Street, and London houses with tiny footprints. California piles face teredo risk with paper supports and steel caps, while soda fountains expand beyond London. Road progress moves Los Angeles to Portland, and a Hudson’s Bay dividend nears half the capital. Princeton professors may retire on half pay at 55, and new naval gas cur rents proves cheaper than helium. Sweden sells cheaper cut glass, Harlem children face drug abuse, Norwegian fishers reap record mackerel catches, Argentina beef prices and profits noted for American markets.
Deputy Attorney General Robert Richards states that section 14 of chapter 245, 1921 Nevada statutes, makes officers at primaries nonpaid. The Carson News notes the opinion to Nye County District Attorney Dunn that serving without compensation is constitutional and aligns with duties already performed without pay in jury duty and sheriffs posse calls. It outlines nomination by county party committees and furnishing official registers to inspectors, with no pay from county or state.
United States Department of Agriculture and state experiment stations find delaying alfalfa cutting until near full bloom yields more hay over years and prolongs stand life. Early cutting reduces yield, risks stand death. harvest timing should allow plants to reach six to eight inches before cold weather. Broadcast stands outperform row planting in most rainfall conditions. cultivation offers limited gains and can harm plants.
A fragment from a light fiction scene shows Elsie sharing a rumor of a charm to reveal a secret beloved. Sophie counters with a humorous plan to test a romance by watching a man on a sofa under a lamp awaiting a sign.
The Sheriff of Eureka County Nevada announces a postponed public sale of real and personal property described as lode mining claims Lucid A Lucid Taffa Exte Gdalen Pack Saddle and Pack Saddle Fraction No 1 plus listed equipment and tools. Sale at 1 pm at the Eureka County Courthouse the 2nd day of February 1922 with multiple postponements to June 1 July 3 August 3 and August 17 1922.
Notice of Application No 6724 by Georgia Hinckley of San Francisco to appropriate public waters of Nevada from a well in section 16 T32N R49E for 3.75 cfs through pipes and ditches for domestic use March 1 to September 30 each year. Water not to be returned to stream. State Engineer J G Scrugham published August 6 1922 with last publication September 2 1922.
Milk for sale at a home on South Main Street with delivery to Haraka patrons who desire it. Seller is Lena Tognons, listed as MRA in connection with the Sale.
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