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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1913
Page
2
George Wingfield urged unity at a banquet in Goldfield, praising steady mining progress over the boom era. He warned against bank risk and urged buying local products, noting Nevada’s improving farm sector and payroll nearing $125,000 monthly with 4000 residents, promising prosperity if residents pull together.
The latest motel quotations list silver at 57 cents per ounce Comper at New York 14 1 4 cents lead at New York four dollars per 100 pounds.
In Bureks Nevada on December 20 1913 a nun was born to the wife of Louia Stocker.
Lost pure black hairtailed saw, weight 150 to 200 pounds, wandered from daughter’s house. Last seen on Raby Hill near Kepowrn Zapow Teadave People’s Market. Information leading to recovery will be gratefully received.
James A. Raycraft died at his Carson City home from heart disease. Dr. E J Hyatt of Humboldt County died of apoplexy. J M Davis of Southern Pacific resigned for an Eastern railroad post. Hank Daniels, Fallon resident and former Churchill County official, died. Lovelock fire losses prompt re opening plans. Carlin allows skating on pond. Winnemuca jury acquits Vincente Mendioli in a sheep killing case. George Wingfield ships 400 dairy cows to Fallon for his creamery. Mrs Earl Croney dies in Tonopah from acute alcoholism. diamonds and bank book found.
A Kansas City Star piece recounts W. J. Florence recalling his first stage appearance in Evadve a romance starring Mary Anderson. He describes delivering the line Hold back and the audience’s laughter as he spoke his very first words on stage, recounting the manager’s advice about confidence. The memory anchors early theatrical audacity and the thrill of performing before a crowd.
A Negro preacher known as One Eyed Walling in Virginia displayed original ideas about theology and human nature. A gentleman challenged him about Genesis seven devils in Mary Magdalene, and Walling’s reply led to a humorous punchline about other women having devils too. The excerpt then shifts to a moral ode on thorough, earnest work in all pursuits, urging complete, honest effort in any task and warning against negligent methods.
A rich retired businessman with a country estate in New Hampshire hires an Irish contractor to build a cut stone wall for amusement. During a final inspection the owner jokes that future generations will say he had more money than brains, to which the Irish contractor quips that some people say the same now.
The tale recalls Dublin gossip about Lord Dufferin and a nameless old driver Pat who teased the future lord about marrying Kate Hamilton. It also retells a Johnstown lecturer’s dispute over keeping an audience, and the Voltaire Rousseau clash ending with a prank joke about a pig on a book.
An Irish worker on a tall building project climbs to a top floor with materials and cannot find the way down. The boss calls up and asks Pat to descend. Pat replies he cannot go down the way he came up and insists he came up the bead dret, a mispronounced line prompting comic confusion.
New York December event features Secretary Daniels denouncing foes who label progressive measures as hysteria. He defends initiative and referendum, income tax, direct Senate election, primaries, tariffs, and anti-trust reforms as essential to curb special privileges and protect labor.
In a Scientific American prize essay on the ten greatest inventions of the last quarter century the winner lists the electric furnace and the cyanide process among others. The eight others include the steam turbine gasoline automobile moving pictures wireless telegraphy aero plane linotype induction motor and electric welding.
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