This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 16 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1915
Page
5
Saturday July 4 1915 Eureka brief notices report travel between Eureka and nearby towns. John McCharles visits from Hamilton, Judge Breen heads to California for exposition, and Sheriff Harrie retrieves a prisoner for defrauding an Elko hotel keeper. Local mining activity and health notes accompany social updates and the Eureka Baseball Club improvements.
Otto Steinheimer of the Studebaker agency at Reno traveled through Eureka Saturday en route to Buckhorn with a new automobile for Mrs. F. M. Watson of Buckhorn. He came from Reno via Austin.
Eureka prepares for a three day Fourth of July celebration with visitors from nearby districts. Notables include Willie Mendes, Irene and Inez Tognoni, Elva Tognoni, Gladya Bogantini, and many others. Committee reports near completion of parade floats and costumes. Rose Tognoni named Goddess of Liberty with attendants Estella Gianoli and Estella Rosevear. Steeple Jack Rich Hooper climbs the Court House flagstaff to install a new rope, 110 feet up.
Frank Romano and son Albino visited Eureka on Tuesday to handle business. He notes most area ranches have short hay crops this year, but his Diamond Valley ranch yields an unusually fine crop.
W H Russell of Eureka protested proposed rates on Eureka to Palisade. Commission telegram from Carson June 22 recommends accepting 35 cents per hundred for empty carriers and 60 cents per gallon for gasolene Palisade to Eureka, with hearings on new questions. Rate for street shipments in any quantity Eureka to Palisade set at 70 cents. Commission notes no complaint on wire and staples and aims to reestablish April 30 rates. Interstate Commerce Commission did not suspend advanced rates.
Documents record Thomas Kearns Wade Armstrong and Paul Weber to L R Thatcher on deeds to the New York Nos 1 to 5 mines in Union district with 1500 dollars. Notices of Red Summit mine location in Buckhorn district. Colorado Girls Coming to San Francisco Fair stop in Ely July 10. Clayton family returns home from San Francisco. Seven boys at State Industrial School in Storey County observed by Sheriff Elkins from Virginia City.
In Eureka on June 2 1915 Ora Lovell’s daughter was born. At Kiko Nevada on June 29 1915 a son to the wife of William A Moore of Newark Valley White Pine County. In Antelope Valley Eureka County Nevada on June 30 1915 a daughter to Ollie Cox’s wife.
Tourists are choosing the Lincoln Highway as safer travel across the West. Reported road hazards include 14 miles into Fallon with high centers that stall cars, Mo Line hill near Carlin requiring assists, and the Overland Trail through the Humboldt river with many cars missing proper brakes. Temperatures reach 110 to 114 across the desert, steering travelers toward Eureka and the Lincoln route.
Peter Taswles, Carlin section foreman for the Southern Pacific, is in Reno starting Pasteur rabies treatment after a rabid coyote bit him in the calf near Carlin. He notes rabies fears in Elko and Humboldt counties as two dogs with him were bitten, one killed, the other at Elko. Taswles began the 21 day course Wednesday night and felt briefly sick but otherwise fine.
C. T. Bender a Reno banker and pioneer business man died at his home 347 Ralston street at 9 30 am after a brief illness of acute blood poisoning linked to diabetes. He was at his desk in the Washoe County bank when the attack began and gradually weakened at home before passing peacefully as his family gathered.
President Hendrick secures an eight thousand dollar federal appropriation to fund irrigation and pumping experiments by University of Nevada experts. The grant, issued by the Federal Bureau of Beatennectration, will be spent directly on Nevada projects.
The latest metal quotations list prices in New York with silver at 44 cents per ounce copper at 20 dollars 37 cents per pound lead at 5 dollars 75 cents per 100 pounds reflecting current market rates and commodity values.
Hervey Hoskins near graduation at Austin public school was struck by a soda bottle when a classmate tossed it. Glass pierced his right eye, drilling fluid loss, operation needed. He was taken to Salt Lake City with family. reports say he is recovering and only one eye affected. The piece also notes the Round Mountain hydraulic pipe line completion and water diversion to the Round Mountain Mining Company.
The Ford Motor Company announces an increase of its authorized capital stock to 100 million dollars and declares a stock dividend of 48,000 dollars. Subscribers are invited to the SENTINEL.
George Tassel, badly mangled in a mine blast, crawled 200 yards to his cabin last Saturday morning and lay without help until Monday afternoon. Dr. H. G. Tyson found him and ferried water. Tassel then revealed the blast caused his injuries. He is hospitalized with probable leg amputation. Tassel was known in Reno and worked a mining claim in the Peavine district seven miles north of Reno.
The Adams-McGill Company of Ely won first prize and a gold medal at the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco for its wool exhibit. Ely, amid wool growers nationwide, feels pride in this distinction. Quicksilver prices climb, and demand expands. California, Nevada, and Texas mining prospects rise as Japanese and South African buyers increase activity.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.