Nevada News Roundup From Exchanges Headlines
State and local items from Nevada in 1912 include Herbert Badt named Postmaster at Welle Elko County reports no arrests that year Sheriffs office notes. Carson adds horse and wagon to post office for parcel handling. county election funds show about ten thousand in Washoe County Auditor report. Tonopah Miner suspends publication awaiting new plant. various incidents involve misty deaths legal cases and militia upgrades across Nye White Pine Elko and Churchill counties. ongoing land deals and bounty costs for coyotes and lions. plus an alarming case of a 14 year old Indian girl found strangled near Fallon.
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Herbert Badt
Welle
Elko County
Nevada
Sheriffs Office
Mineral County
Carson
Washoe County
Nick Borsch
Quartette
Searchlight
Hart
Supreme Court of Nevada
Joseph Josephs
Supreme Court
Joseph Legate
Harry Priest
Wells Herald
Shoshones
Tonopah Nevadan
Tonopah
Sanders
Nye County
Newlands
Ira D. Wines
Heine Heinkel
Galfield
Lone Mountain
John Cloud
Miner's Union
Ely
Balkans
White Pine County
Sadie Stewart
Fallon
Tom Murray
Goldfield
Pierce
Cassy
Idaho
Bull Creek Charley
Indiana
A. Grant Miller
Fish Lake Valley
Esmeralda County
Mary's River
Edward Libinger
George 8. Nixon
United States
Nixon
Reno
Oreana
Humboldt County
Southern Pacific
Rochester
Plan To Melt Icebergs With A Far Reaching Jetty
The New York Board of Trade endorses a bill by Congressman Calder to create a Government Commission to study building a steel cable across the Grand Banks Newfoundland to obstruct currents. The idea aims to form a sand ridge 200 miles out to shift Gulf Stream and Labrador currents so iceberg melting occurs before reaching ships. Estimated cost is about 20,000,000.
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New York Board of Trade and Transportation
Calder
Brooklyn
Washington
Grand Banke
Newfoundland
Grand Banks
Gulf Stream
Labrador
Four Babies In One Year In Des Moines Twins Born Twice
In Des Moines Iowa on January 9 for the second time in a year twins arrived to Mr and Mrs Klemm. On January 18 1912 twin girls were born to the Klemm family. The stork previously brought two seven pound boys. All are reported in good health.
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Dew Moines
Iowa
The Expanding Parcel Post
The parcel post gains popularity and prompts calls for flat-rate pricing and fast freight expansion. Experiments show parcel post arriving earlier than express in many cases, with a Maryland congressman proposing door-to-door collection, central-point assembly, and 100-pound limits to push efficiency and lower rates.
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Salt Lake Tribune
Bureau of Enggraving and Printing
Parcel Post
The
Chicago Tribune
Boston
Express
David J. Lewis
Maryland
Congress
United States
Former Countess to Marry Boston Banker
Mrs. Alice Copley Thaw, once Countess of Yarmouth and a noted social figure, will wed Geoffrey W. Whitney, a Boston banker and broker. She has a Washington home and may resume her Pittsburg, Washington, and New York social duties, after a troubled marriage to Harry K. Thaw and his notorious Stanford White case.
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Alice Copley Thaw
Yarmouth
Slater
Harry K. Thaw
Geoffrey W. Whitney
Boston
Washington
Pittsburg
New York
Thaw
Stanford White
Copley Thaw
Pointed Paragraphs on Procrastination and Society
A collection of pithy lines on money, marriage, jealousy, and social codes. It mocks procrastination, gender stereotypes, and urban manners with fragmentary quips about fate, fame, love, and optimism, reflecting a dated social column voice.
Water Notice of Application to Appropriate Nevada Waters
Public notice records Angelo Florio of Eureka Nevada applying for permission to appropriate public waters from Upper Ratte Spring on Prospect Mountain. Open cut and tunnel to supply 0.025 cubic feet per second for stock watering, water not to return to stream. State Engineer M Krarney signs. first publication December 21 1912. last publication January 18 1913.
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M. Krarney
Notice of Application for Water Right in Nevada 1912
Notice details an application by Angelo Florio of Eureka Nevada for appropriation of public waters from Lower Ratte Spring. The plan uses an open cut and tunnel to convey 0.025 cubic feet per second to troughs for stock watering, with water not to be returned to the stream. State Engineer KEARNEY posted dates December 21 1912 and January 18 1913.
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U. S. Mineral Monument No
Prospect Mountain
Notice of Ranch Transfer in Antelope Valley Nevada
To whom it may concern notice states Dominick Cerrutti Barbar Celatte and Pete Sufietti have full charge of the ranch in Antelope Valley Eureka County Nevada and the author will not be responsible for any debts or matters related to the ranch from this date. East Cemavrre. 980-2m.
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Antelope Valley
Eureka County
Nevada
Dominick Cerrutti
Barbar Celatte
Pete Sufietti
East
Eureka mining district maps offered with Windfall additions
The Seyrin EL introduces a limited run of new black and white prints for the Eureka mining district. Besides the Pardy map, Windfall and other adjoining mines in the Secret Canyon district are included. Price is 22 dollars per map, with 6 cents postage extra by mail.
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Seyrin EL
Eureka
Secret Canyon
Eureka ad offers cordwood and hauling in Nevada
Tam prepared to deliver A No 1 wood In Eureka at 8 00 per cord Am sleo Gitted to take orders for all kinds of hauling Leave orders at the Eureka Cash Store W N CARTO Notary Public Insurance Prompt at tention given to typewriting and copy ing At Post Office Eureka Nevada Legal blanks for sale at the Sarrivxt of Bos
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Eureka
W.N. Carto
Nevada
Sarrivxt
Bos
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Ely Expositor
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Cherry Creek
Robert M. Mitchell
Sparke
Mitchell
War Department
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Robert Douglas
Churchill
Minn
Eleanor Ernst
Elko
Oakland
California
Nevada Supreme Bench
James G. Sweeney
William Mackay
Frances Mohawk Mining Company
Mackay
Bult
McFadden
White Pine
A. J. Butler
A. H. Hows
Goldfield ‘Hotel Company
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Bas
Joseph Pierce
Strauss & CO
M. Mahoney
Eureka, Nev
Hylton
Uot
Hylton & Hanna
Hope
Isa
Hina Cam Store
Ae Aon
J. B. Biale
Eureks
Giant Powder Co
Henderson Banking Company
Elko, Nevada
L. C. Hexperson
Lawax
Hexvensox
M.D. Bam
H. C. McTerney
P. O. Box
American Keaieray Comrant
Erie
Pennsylvania
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Eureka Mining
A. Broy
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