Divorced Couple Ends Marital History in Court
Angelos announces final divorce decree filing on November 26. Charney quapita’s settlement lists $57,500 to Mildred Har and $100,000 paid. final satisfaction of judgment recorded. Chaplins married October 24, 1918, separated after a year, Chaplin had sued for cruelty and accused husband of being a tightwad while claiming $60,000 spent on wife.
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Angelos
Charney Quapita
Mildred Har
Simcome
Spencer Chaplin
Chaplin
Asfar
Mysterious Tonopah Fire Destroys Airdome and Homes
A Sunday dawn fire in Tonopah wiped out the airdome dancing pavilion and two adjoining houses, causing about 8000 dollars in damage and partly insured. It also damaged Lnotype machines at the Tonopah Bonanza office across the street. One destroyed home belonged to George Wingfield, famed Nevada mining magnate and banker. Cause of the blaze is undetermined.
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Tonopah
Bonanza
George Wingfield
Nevada Aining
Daylight motion pictures debut proposed by Davenport inventor
A. F. Victor of Davenport announces two machines to exhibit motion pictures and waveoptical views in full daylight. He claims the invention reverses the naval process by projecting light from behind the screen after ten years of experiments.
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Davenport
A. F. Victor
Victor
London Nightlife in Prohibition Era London
A visiting American notes that postwar London has limited nightlife due to wartime liquor restrictions. Night clubs flourish near Piccadilly but people stay home after midnight. Few taxis roam, and all-night wagons offer tea and buns for a few pence. He claims the U S A seems gayer by comparison.
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London
Piccadilly
Shaftebury Avenue
Europe
Pussyfoot
Piccadilly Circus
Spider Bite Fatality Ties to Mining Deal
H Ht McCarthy once of Pioneer and later Clark died in Prescott Arizona from a spider bite complications. He had wired a Tonopah friend about hospital operation and a pending mining deal. Reports say he may have two sisters in Medford or Portland Oregon.
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Tonopah
H. Ht
McCarthy
Pioneer
Clark
Mizpah
Prescott
Aria
Kingman
Mercy Hospital
Medford
Portland
Ore
Prospecting Sutro Tunnel by Comstock Company
Development work by the Comstock Tunnel Development Company is under way 16,000 feet from the Sutro tunnel portal. A drift along a dyke in quartz shows low values while prospecting aims at the Baker nine ore body now called the Comstock Phoenix. Work occurs about 1,500 feet deep as the first prospecting in years.
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Comstock Tunnel & Development Company
Sutro
Baker Nine
Comstock Phoenix
Nevada Mining Prensa
Big Mill A Success At Simon Property Ore Mill
The large mill built to treat Simon property ores near Mina has begun a trial run and experts call it a perfect success. Ore yields silver lead and zinc through flotation with three separations. Current output is 225 tons per day, rising to 1,000 tons daily when full capacity is reached as power arrives over Mineral County’s new line.
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Simon
Mina
Mineral County
Flying automobile proves success in French aero scene
Paris reports a successful demonstration of an ordinary car with folding wings and two engines. One engine provides ten horsepower for land use and the other 300 horsepower for air travel. The vehicle performed both automobile and airplane feats at Bus in Seine-et-Oise.
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Paris
Bus
Seine-et-Oise
Goldfield Diggings Reuse Replaces Vacant Buildings
The new Western trenching frontier appears ready to absorb many vacant Goldfield structures. Several cabins have been moved to the new diggings in recent weeks, with more to be installed. Tono pah briefly secured several loose houses from the Goldfield boom era.
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Goldfield
Tonopah
Provisioning a Modern Liner Majestic for Maiden Voyage
An article details the massive provisioning for the liner Majestic. For a single round England to America with 4100 passengers and crew, supplies include 75 tons of meats, 10 tons bacon, 28 tons fish, 18 tons poultry, 6000 game birds, 30 tons potatoes, 7 tons carrots, 10 tons cabbage, 1600 pounds tomatoes, 600 boxes apples, 400 boxes oranges, 60 boxes pears, 1 ton grapes, 1 ton ice cream, 3 tons jams, 35 tons flour, 8 tons sugar, 5 tons butter, 3 tons tea and coffee, 80,000 eggs, and 500 gallons milk.
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Majestic
England
America
High tariff stance on bootleg gin urged by unnamed state figure
The Clark County Review quotes a leading citizen, whose name cannot be disclosed, advocating a strong protective tariff for bootleg gin. The opinion, presented verbatim, labels bootleg gin as an infant industry needing encouragement for posterity.
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Clark County Review
Weeping at Weddings Reminds Some of Past Mistakes
A reflective remark notes that some women cry at weddings because the moment evokes memories of past errors they made. The line highlights the emotional weight of commitment and personal regret in social tradition.
Black replaces bright stockings in London fashion trend
London fashion notes show a shift toward black as bright stockings fade from streets. Stylists blame wartime mourning fabric stockpiles and a postwar craze for somber dress, with black extending from stockings to undergarments.
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London
Bend Street
Regent
Railway Office to Open Station at Gold Hill
Arrangements are under way to open a station and telegraph office at Gold Hill with instruments being installed and an agent to start at the first of the month. The mining revival at Gold Hill boosts V. and T. business and reopens a station abandoned eight years ago. The new office will serve the Comatock area as road work keeps the line busy. The Carson school board refused parents’ request to excuse children for religious instruction during school hours.
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Gold Hill
Comatock
Carson
Pioneer Soda Factory Price List Down to Pre-War Levels
Pioneer Soda Factory offers lemon cream orange raspberry grenadine root beer ginger ale and other soda waters at 2.25 per dozen large bottles including war tax. J Brossemer proprietor lists extracts and pure cane sugar quality and wide on-hand selection at Main and Gold Streets corner.
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Pioneer Soda Factory
Wingfield Back in Hospital With Dislocated Vertebra
Wingfield, a mining man, suffers a dislocated upper vertebra and is at Adler Sanatorium after a train transport from Goldfield to Ban Pran Ace. He had earlier strained his neck in Reno. Nevada physicians recommended removal to San Francisco. discharge likely in three weeks. Elko dairy home of C. G. Bergher destroyed by fire early Saturday. estimated loss $6,000 with $3,000 insurance.
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Adler
Wingfield
Elko
C. G. Bergher
Eureka Nevada Railway Co Notice Bulletin 3
The Eureka Nevada Railway Co states under the Railway Act of February 29 1920 that from July 1 1920 no carrier may deliver freight until all tariff charges are paid. Agents are urged to enforce the mandate and prosecutions will follow violations, signed J B Sexton General Manager.
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J. B. Sexton
Eureka Nevada Railway Demurrage Charges Notice
The Eureka Nevada Railway Company states that all cars held over free time will incur charges in the future.
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Eureka Nevada Railway Company
Water Notice of Permit Application in Nevada 1921
Pedro Corta of Elko Nevada applied November 7 1921 under 1919 statutes for an appropriation from Corta Well 52 to supply stock troughs in sections 14 and 52 H M D B and M D B. The water will be pumped at one fourth cubic foot per second and returned to the stream after use. State Engineer J G Scrugham sets first publication November 12 1921, last December 10 1921.
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Pedra Corta
Elko
Eiko
Nevada
Corta
Nbx
Ney
Cordance
Pedro Corta
County of Elko
State of Nevada
Bec
M.D
M.D. B
J. G. Scrugham
State Engineer
Notice of Forfeiture in Mining Claims
Julius Huebner and heirs are notified that 1920 21 labor expenditures on mining claims Rustler No 2 Windfall Extension Fraction and related claims total 126.00 dollars. If not paid within 90 days of service or publication, your interest will be forfeited to co owners R McCharles and Dan Morrison. Eureka Nevada dated August 24 1931. First publication Aug 27 1931. East publication Dec 8 1931.
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Eureka County
Eureka
J. Hooper
Nevada
Julius Huebner
Igne
R. McCharles
Dan Morrison
East
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Elko, Nevada
Repre Goldfield
Stockgrowers and Ranchers’ Bank OF Reno, Nevada
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S. J. Brossemer
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W. M. Clute
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Geological Reports
Clarence Johnson
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Silver State Chemical Company
Winnemucca P. O
Marco Venturino
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Eureka Mining District
Eureka Brokerage & Investment CO
Henderson Banking CO
Cunard Ling
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West Temple
Salt Lake City
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Eureka Nevada Railway * CO
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Matice
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