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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1914
Page
2
Opinion essay argues the current global conflict will impoverish nations and disrupt trade, with the United States adversely affected. It foresees weakened monarchies, rising popular power, global labor unity, and financiers seeking to curb future wars, urging postwar cooperation across social political economic and religious spheres.
The article criticizes wartime food price increases as criminal, blaming middlemen for price hikes in flour bacon onions and other staples. It argues Europe’s trade is constrained, demand at home remains, and suggests harsh measures like arresting middlemen to curb prices with a nod to potential legislation by President Wilson.
London editor J L Garvin argues the Char ter fight shows a decisive face of a prolonged war with vast losses and demands for mass military training. He notes German and Russian maneuvers, French supply strain, and Allied efforts on the Franco British front amid shifting positions and fears of a wider conflict.
In Voges the allied army repulsed German forces with heavy losses, one division reduced to about thirty men. British forces claim destruction of five German battleships at Heligoland clearing the way for landing on German soil. Russians-offensive capacity limited in the east, main armies press toward Berlin and Paris as Servia mobilizes 125000 men in Austria. England sends reinforcements while German plans may seek to halt them and Turkey could aid Germany. London dispatch notes British troops stand on second defensive line. allies push Germans back to Chimay on Belgian soil.
A discussion of European royal intermarriages shows Kaiser Wilhelm and Czar Nicholas linked to Queen Victoria through multiple lines. The article notes German blood in the Romanoffs and Hohenzollerns and argues royal ties have little effect on policy. Also brief obituary: rancher George R. Hayden, 78, found dead near a White Pine cabin.
Silver and other metals markets reopen with silver at a fraction of a cent per ounce. Predicts rising prices and full mine output across the United States within days as producers back a rapid shift toward higher values. Local shippers set provisional settlements on August shipments.
Al Towers, superintendent of the Douglas mill at Sodaville, died Wednesday evening from a burst left ventricle while cranking a car on the road to the Douglas mine seven miles from the mill. He had left the mill with his wife and was cranking at a steep place when the engine died.
Nevada State News reports a major campaign issue in Lander County over moving the county seat from Austin to Battle Mountain. Sol Hilp, Reno registration agent, has suffered a second stroke and is bedridden. The Tonopah Extension mine claims Louis Caton in a raise accident. Hoovers and local notices touch on ranch sales, a Yerington death, and Las Vegas postmaster appointment.
The article argues allied and German forces are in a staged phase with censorship tightening as both sides prepare for decisive actions. It speculates on Belgian fortresses, possible evasive maneuvers, and the strategic aim to delay a breakthrough while Russians move to eastern fronts and Allies seek diversions in the Balkans and Dalmatia.
Kate A. Win of Pallaade, Eureka County Nevada, filed to enter under sections 206 and 2307 U S R 8 the lands described as SW of SE, NW of NE in Sec A, Tp 2 N R 51 BM DB M containing 50 acres. Claimants of rights or protests must file affidavits of protest before the 10th day of September with Register Joux BE Konnis at the Land Office.
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