Interstate Commerce Commission acts to ease Eastern food shortage
Washington reports a sweeping ICC campaign to relieve thousands facing hunger due to railroad car shortages. Despite no legal authority, the commission directs the car service division of the American Railway Association to rush food trains to New England and other Eastern cities, as potatoes in San Francisco range 4 3 cents per pound and beans onions rise about 12 cents per pound with vegetables up 100 percent from last year.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Car Service Commission
American Railway Association
New England
New York City
Pittsburg
Philadelphia
San Francisco
California
America Could Feed Itself If War Interrupts Trade Says Agriculture Dept
A statement from the Agriculture Department asserts the United States could feed itself even if war disrupts imports. It notes meat output around 23.0 billion pounds with imports under 100 million pounds, mostly from Argentina, Australia and Canada. Sugar output about 2.0 billion pounds with imports over 5.5 billion pounds from Cuba. Milk production near 7.5 billion gallons with imports around 1.6 million dollars mainly condensed milk from the Netherlands and Canada. Additional figures cover cheese, eggs, corn, wheat, rice, fish, potatoes, and citrus production with imports from Canada, the UK, China, Italy, France, Bermuda, and others.
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United States
Articultural Department
Argentina
Australia
Canada
Cuba
Netherlands
Denmark
Italy
Switzerland
France
England
China
Norway
Bermuda
Mexico
West Indies
Live Stock Interests Opposing Fulton Bill
Carson City February 20 livestock men sent representatives to oppose the Fulton trespass Act amendment. The proposed law would bar any owner or manager from driving or herding livestock onto another’s lands or water sources and from grazing within one mile of a bona fide home or ranch. It preserves rights to herd on one’s own land and to move livestock along public highways.
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Carson City
Carson
Elko Hosts Woolgrowers Association Formation Meeting
Northern Elko County sheep owners joined with Nevada and Idaho sheepmen in Elko to organize a woolgrowers association. The gathering aimed to coordinate prices and marketing, with delegates discussing cooperative efforts and mutual support for the industry.
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Elko County
Nevada
Idaho
Elko
Legislative notes on bills affecting coyote bounty and autos
The Senate passed the Buol bill repealing the coyote hide bounty and the Thatcher measure requiring dimmers on headlights for all autos. An Assembly committee introduced a rural school consolidation bill. Readings proposed nepotism Act amendments bar school district officials from employing relatives within the third degree. County Commissioners would regulate wagon tire width per Assembly bill 108.
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Senate
Assembly
Committee On Education
Reading
Gallagher
White Pine
Boards of County Commissioners
Harriman of
Churchill
Committee On
Libel Suit Over False Reports Against Nevada Official
G F Talbot former district judge Washoe County and former Nevada Supreme Court chief justice sues attorney C E Mack for 50000 damages claiming false reports damaged his good name and reputation. The letters were mailed in January 1916 to over 200 Nevada Oregon and California stockholders of the Nevada Fire Insurance Company.
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Nevada Fire Insurance Company
G. F. Talbot
Washoe County
Nevada Supreme Court
C. E. Mack
Reno Journal
Nevada
Oregon
California
Rhoads and McNamee Marriage In Eureka Home
Miss Genevieve McNamee daughter of Mr and Mrs F R McNamee of Los Angeles and former Eureka residents wed Harold B Rhoads in a ceremony performed by Father Clifford at the bride’s Eureka home Las Vegas paper notes the bride’s charm and popularity in Las Vegas where she has visited her brother Leo A McNamee a practicing lawyer.
Fred Funston Dies Suddenl y in San Antonio Hotel
Major General Rad Funston commander of the southern department United States army since 1916 died suddenly after dinner in a San Antonio hotel He collapsed in the lobby while talking with friends Funston 51 years old had led on the Mexican border and directed Vera Cruz operations noted for Aguinaldo capture and hard line orders to Mexican forces
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San Antonio
Texas
Rad Funston
Southern Department
United States Army
General Funston
Little Inez Silverberg
Des Moines
Iowa
United States
Punston
Pershing
Funston
Aguinaldo
Vera Cruz
Nevada counties may earn interest on deposits under bill
A proposed Nevada bill by Booker of Elko would pay two and one half percent interest on all county funds deposited in banks. Interest would be computed on the average daily balance and the measure was referred to the committee on banks and banking for consideration.
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Nevada
Booker of
Elko
Committee On Banks and Banking
Fisherman Defies Season Rules by Trout Quip
Game warden confronts a youth fishing for trout and notes the rule against off season fishing. The youth retorts that trout appear when it is not season and disappear when it is season, and refuses to obey the rules if the fish won't comply.
Teale mining locations listed at Tonopah office
At Tonopah Nevada on February 15 1917 a daughter was born to the wife of Joseph Clifford. Legal blanks and mining locations for Teale are filed at the office.
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Tonopah
Nevada
Joseph Clifford
Charges of Assembly Control in Excise Bill Debate
Nevada controversy centers on Wingfield organized assembly claims. Booker of Elko says Chapin briefed Burton and Barton on status of Senate gambling bill and warns excise passage is tied to Senate action. McNamara moves to committee, Williams seeks special order. 22 to 9 approve, bill sent to public morals committee.
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Chapin
Carson City
George Wingfield
Assembly
Booker
Elko
Williams
Clarence F. Barton
Wingfield
Senate
Burton
McNamara
Committee On Public Morals
Beard
Bell
Golden
Blundell
Coryell
Fairchild
Fulton
Gallagher
Garrison
Griffith
Gruber
Kaeding
Lindsay
Renfro
Stodieck
Tidd
Winters
Wind damages courthouse roof and buildings in Carson City area
A strong morning wind in the valley blew off the roof of the new county courthouse at Minden. A barn belonging to Mr. Dangberg at Gardnerville was blown fifteen feet, sixty by ninety feet, half full of baled hay. The front of a Gardnerville dance hall was also blown out.
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Carson City
New County
Minden
Gardnerville
Dangberg
For Sale and Wanted Ads for Saginaw Michigan
Classifieds advertise a nearly new Remington typewriter for cash at Zadow Hotel. Also seeks Eureka area agents with no prior experience and a free instruction school. Notice from Massachusetts Bonding and Insurance Co Accident and Health Dept in Saginaw with capital of 1 600 000.
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Remington
Zadow Hotel
Eureka and
Vicinity
Massachusetts
Bondimg and Insurance Company, Accident and Health Dept
Saginaw, Michigan
Congress Strongly Adopts Bone Day Measure
Washington February 21 The House approved by a four to one margin the Senate measure to bar liquor imports into prohibition states after two hours of debate. Expected to win President Wilsons approval within a week, it would add about one third of the continental United States to bone dry territory and ranks as the most far reaching federal action short of a constitutional prohibition amendment.
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Washington
House
Senate
Wilson
Continental
United States
Women on Humboldt grand jury outnumbered by one
Nevada State News reports 1917 Humboldt County grand jury members selected by District Judge Ducker in Winne mucca include eight women. The article notes other local items such as Indians carrying whiskey in oil cans in Douglas County and the new Winnemucca Indian school with Miss Verne Haywood as teacher for pupils from Golconda Mill City Paradise Valley and nearby areas. It also mentions state press notes on irrigation project film circuits and the murder conviction of Christ Milosevich with a ten years to life sentence and an appeal planned.
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Humboldt County
Ducker
Winnemucca
Douglas County
Verne Haywood
McDermitt
Golconda
Mill City
Paradise Valley
United States Reclamation Service
Truckee-Carson
Indiana
Hoosier
Christ Milosevich
J. B. Campbell
St. Louis
del Monte Road House
Reno
Stoddard
State Penitentiary
Supreme Court
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Baturdat
Eurekass
Bingle
America
New York
Fred Funston
Philippines
Congress
Prohibition
State News
the Sentinel
Eureka Power & Light Co
Inc
Eureka
Eureka Power & Light Company
A. G. Hillen
D. E. Sayre
Ford
Eureka Garage & Supply Co
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