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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1921
Page
3
The notice records that Eureka’s publication is in its fifty first year and entered at the post office as second class matter. It notes timing markers and formal postal status within the newspaper’s archival record.
A satirical note mocks calls for collecting foreign debt to lower living costs, arguing bonds and monetary rights of major financiers like Morgan Rothschild Rockefeller Stillman. It jokes that newspaper editors know nothing about money and offers editorial guidance for $1 a year.
Washington action limits prohibition agents power to stop private home brewing. By a vote of 96 to 54 lawmakers adopted a substitute for the Stanley search and seizure amendment, allowing private manufacture for personal use unless there is proof of sale intent. The change weakens mandatory warrants for raids on homes and kitchen distilleries.
Charles MacKnight Sain of Logan Dale Clark County declared his candidacy for the United States Senate. A Nevada resident for twenty six years, he has lived in Virginia City Lovelock Elko and Clark County. He previously published the Lovelock Tribune and now runs a ranch in Meadow Valley Wash Clark County.
The State Board of Education ordered a pension from the teacher retirement salary fund for Miss Mollie Somers, a Virginia City schoolteacher who completed 30 years of teaching, 29 in Virginia City and one year in Humboldt County.
Belgrade Aug 16 King Peter of Serbia died today after a long illness. Earlier reports said he had pleurisy, then improved, then suffered congestion of the lungs. He sank into unconsciousness Friday and faded until death Sunday night.
King Peter of Serbia aged 76, white haired and deaf, relinquished state care in 1919 as Crown Prince Alexander succeeded him in the new state of Jugoslavia. He praised Serbia as free, then led wartime efforts despite infirmities, renouncing temporary abdication to rally troops and reorganize forces in exile after Belgrade and Nish fell to advancing powers.
Paris Aug 11 1915 reports that the secession to the throne of Jugoslavia by Alexander, son of the late King Peter of Serbia, is viewed by political and diplomatic circles as reinforcing Alexander’s regency policies amid a country laid waste by war and fire.
Washington authorities report a flood of rare foreign liquors entering the United States through lax border gateways. With enforcement stretched by reduced budgets and staffing, bootleg networks push in Scotch Irish English and French brands, undercutting domestic shortages as trucks and trains move liquor inland from Canada.
Washington reports best estimates show 5 735 000 people unemployed in the United States, with figures excluding former service members. The data compares payrolls with the 1920 employment peak, noting the highest unemployment in manufacturing and mechanical trades, including building, along with mining, transportation, trade, clerical, and domestic service sectors.
Congressman parents have named Lawton Butler of Nye County to the United States Naval Academy and Harold H. Kelly of Manhattan to West Point. Butler will take the examination in April 1922 while Kelly will take the mental examination in March 1983.
Washington announces William J. Burns will become Director of the Bureau of Investigation in the Department of Justice succeeding William J. Pigna. A. G. Dougherty praises Burns as intelligent and courageous and vows rapid reorganization to boost efficiency and expand cooperation with police nationwide and worldwide.
The 15920 census shows 2,090,232 more males than females in the country. Immigration, mostly male, contributes to this gap. In educated times many women seek higher matrimony standards and will not marry hastily. The next generation could improve if more independent women found suitable husbands, a trend unlikely while many men lack marriage-ready qualifications.
Tonopah Goldfield railroad officials reversed an order to end Sunday train service citing a recent revival in business. The change preserves weekend operations and reflects improved demand on the line.
The Panama Canal handled 181000 tons eastward and 411000 tons westward in May, with major shares from the Atlantic coast, Mexico petroleum, the UK, and Europe. Eastbound traffic favored the U S eastern coast, the UK and Europe. westbound routes centered on the western United States, the Far East, and Australia. 1920 results show reduced net receipts versus expenditures and Suez Canal gains, with dividends totaling francs.
Nevada news notes a Reno baker plan to reduce bread prices thanks to falling flour costs. Elko reports copper under twelve cents a pound dampens mining. White Pine sees flood damage to Steptoe Valley farms and a rabid dog stray, with further abandonment of Delamar.
Nevada stockgrowers, in talks with Southern Pacific Railway officials, condemn the high cost of feeding stock in transit. They argue railroads ceded feeding to private contractors and profit from it, urging railroads to provide feeding at cost or handle it themselves. The issue to be discussed at upcoming stockgrowers conventions.
The Elko area sees gasoline prices slashed three times recently, with Bow selling five cents per gallon. The Union Oil Company planned an Elko agency last spring, drawing praise from locals who expect lower costs. Elko, a major distribution hub in eastern Nevada, faces anticipated relief throughout the year.
A Lovelock milk dealer will appear at two hearings in Reno this week on charges of selling skimmed milk as real milk. Prof. S Digs more, head of the state food and drug administration, notes most samples of the ice cream tested exceeded 14 percent butter fat, but nine instances used saccharine in place of sugar as required by law.
Paul Lovelace a two term penitentiarian inmate is confined in the Austin jail under a sixty day sentence for attempting to swindle Austinites by selling a barrel of whiskey that proved to be colored water.
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