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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1920
Page
2
Chicago reports a potential new party for President with a July 10 convention in Chicago to adopt a platform and nominate a candidate. The plan aims to attract Roosevelt, Johnson, La Follette voters and place a full national ticket on ballots nationwide. A stray line notes potato-based alcohol production and rising prices.
Carson City June 12 The Nevada Supreme Court issued a permanent writ of prohibition barring Secretary of State Bradigan from submitting to voters at the next election the referendum on ratifying the Federal prohibition amendment. An alternative writ was made permanent. The action followed petitions by state officials and Reno resident A B E Lasher, with guidance from the U S Supreme Court Ohio referendum decision influencing the case.
Washington reports a June 17 conference in Chicago for Western bankers and sheep ranchers to discuss restoring wool markets and providing loans. Senators Walsh Pittman King Hitchcock Chamberlain will seek a fund to loan wool producers, mirroring a 1914 cotton loan program to restore market confidence.
Carson City on June 16 the State Text Book Commission met to choose history books for public schools. The plan includes complete records of the late war up to the armistice. Other texts for the coming year were already chosen earlier but histories were postponed for a full war record. The commission members include Governor Boyle Superintendent Hunt ing and others.
The Wool Growers Cooperative Association of New Mexico forms to boost growers’ returns by skipping middlemen. Plans call for a Chicago warehouse this year to grade and sell wool, with bonded warehouses in the state later. New Mexico’s wool clip is projected at 13 million pounds, with 3 million pledged to the association.
Warren G Harding, a resident of Ohio and publisher of the Marion Star, is profiled as the Republican presidential nominee. The piece traces his Ohio roots born November 2, 1865, early work in farming, teaching, printing, and journalism, his rise to senator in 1914, business leadership in Marion, bank directorships, church trusteeship, and marriage to Florence King in 1891. Numerous named places and roles anchor the biographical sketch.
The Salt Lake Tribune notes the 1920 census shows Los Angeles as the largest Pacific coast city with about 575000, surpassing San Francisco. It marks a coastwide city realignment, moving LA toward the ninth or tenth rank and leaving San Francisco eleventh, as Detroit and Pittsburgh hover near the top.
Ely Record notes John Tilford, leaseholder at the McEllin mine dumps in Hamilton, will begin concentrating ore as haulers are secured. About 80,000 tons await treatment, with expected output of 75 to 100 tons daily. Aiming to concentrate six tons into one to produce a $100 per ton product. Plant built and tested last year, now ready for operation.
Dr Mabel K Young is again in her office on Spring street prepared to do all kinds of dental work. Office open all day and evenings. All work guaranteed.
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