Nevada State News Highlights From Tonopah and Reno
Nevada items report Tonopah toll road plans costing 15000 with routes and stations. Attorney General Thatcher travels to Reno for an eye operation after pebble injury. Elko man Matt Johnson injured in Thatcher car crash. Washoe County Treasurer D B Boyd dies after weeks with grippe. Elko Industrial School contracts total 26987 for buildings and services. Ely restaurant fined for public health violation. Tax Commission to tax 60 percent of mine net proceeds boosting state revenue. Idaho youths detained but fled Charleston constable. two girls aged 14 and 15 traveling with them.
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Geo. B. Thatcher
Reno
Matt Johnson
Elko
Mr. Thatcher
Independent
D. B. Boyd
Boyd
Washoe County
State Industrial School
McGinty & Son
W.T. Smith Company
Joe Yong
Ely
Justice Court
Carson
Tax Commission
Idaho
Herbert Walker
Harry Greve
Ada Walker
Beth Robertson
Jarbidge
Charleston
Graham
A Cruel Joke Unfolds In A Family Letter Twist
A popular young woman finds a love letter from her father to her mother. She reads it aloud replacing names, enraging the mother who bans her daughter from any liaison with the writer. The daughter hides the letter, and the house grows quiet as dust settles on the parlor furniture.
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Halcyon
New Star Route Awarded to Fallon Fairview Wonder Carrier
C L Benadum notified of acceptance by the post office department to carry government mail of all classes between Fallon and Fairview and Wonder for four years starting July 1. Contracts not yet completed but expected soon. Benadum to be paid 2400 dollars yearly for first and second class mail and one cent per pound for third fourth and post mail matter.
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New Star
C. L. Benadum
Post Office Department
Fallon
Fairview
Wonder
Goldfield Plans Independence Day Automobile Road Event
Goldfield schedules a Sunday July 3 celebration featuring an automobile road event. Local organizers promote a community gathering with a parade route and associated activities for residents and visitors.
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Goldfield
Pancho Villa seizes northern Mexican control after coup
Juarez time report says Villa dominates Juarez Chihuahua Saltillo Torreon Durango and Caranza capital. Government offices funds and supplies seized. Villa claims resignation of Carranza and continues campaign with 30 000 troops. Telegraph censorship blocks details. correspondent travels to Laredo for dispatches. Carranza seeks to limit info while Villa’s generals split loyalty.
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Juarez
Mexico
Pancho Villa
Joarez
Chibcabis
Torreon
Durango City
Saltilla
Caranza
Villa
Carranza
Laredo
Texas
Washington
Zacatecas
Natera
Pioneer rancher J C Tognoni visits Ely Nevada
Ely visitors recalls long Duckwater water rights battles and land development. J C Tognoni, early Goldfield settler, spent days in Ely last week. He owns about 600 acres cultivated near the Duckwater springs and continues opening up a larger ranch.
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Ely
J. C. Tognoni
Duckwater Country
Tognoni
Duckwater Valley
Priests Resign at Tonopah Diocese
Father W. J. Flynn, pastor of St. Patrick's Church, has resigned. His resignation was accepted by Bishop Scanlan of the Salt Lake diocese, to which Tonopah is attached.
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Tonopah Bonanza
W. J. Flynn
St. Patrick's Church
Scanlan
Salt Lake Diocese
Tonopah
Local Birth Report in Goldfield 1914
At Goldfield Nevada on June 18 1914 a son is born to the wife of Thomas Spreckin.
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Goldfield
Nevada
Thomas Spreckiin
Copper Strike Near Bullion Camp Prompts Mass Location Rush
Prospector Bally Roberts reports a large copper ore ledge south of Bullion camp two miles over the divide from Banker Hill property. In three days over 100 claims have been located and many more staked around the strike. Ore is low grade about one percent copper with traces of silver and gold. surface values are typically low but may rise with depth. Word spreads that the Bullion field may rival Ely district in extent and activity. residents rushed to the ground, with work halted in Bullion as people seek samples, visible at the Palm saloon.
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Bally Roberts
Bullion
Banker Hill
Iung
Ely
Wm. Fordham
Palm Saloon
Elko Free Press
Precedent Set in Pneumonia Death Case for Heirs
A commission awarded $5000 to the heirs of William Blum. The widow was declared incompetent, trustees to be appointed. Blumstrum fell while carrying a machine drill, was hurt, reported for work next day, pneumonia developed, with experts assessing if the injury caused the fatal illness.
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William Blum
Blumstrum
Primary election notice for Eureka County Nevada 1914
County Clerk BR McCuanim of Eureka County Nevada issues notice of the September 30 1914 primary selecting candidates for national state district county and township offices. The list includes U S senator congressman governor secretary of state state treasurer and many county posts with terms and jurisdictions noted. The notice was received June 11 1914 and first published June 20 1914.
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McCharles
Bureks County
State of
Nevada
Assembly
County Board of Education
Justice of the Peace
Eureka Township
Ruby Hill Township
Palisade Township
Palisade
Buckhorn Township
Beowawe Township
Secretary of State
Jane
BR McCuanim
Eureka Oosoty
Winfrey Announces Candidacy for Nevada Supt of Public Instruction
E. E. Winfrey declares formal candidacy for the Democratic primary to be held September 1, seeking nomination as State Superintendent of Public Instruction. He details 29 years in Nevada schools across multiple counties and roles, including deputy superintendent, with extensive teaching and administrative experience.
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Nevada
Washoe County
University of Nevada
Washoe
Lander
Lyon
Humboldt
Eureka
Reno
Sparks
Winnemucca
Austin
Winfrey
Advt
Bullion Ore Shipments Reported by Elko Supervisor
Superintendent Davis reports ore movement near Bullion with three ton and four ton loads reaching Bullion last week. Nine tons were loaded on two trucks and descended the Steep grade to Highland with ease. Three six horse teams haul ore from the old camp to Raines siding on the E P railroad. Miners are sinking on a new copper strike south of Bullion.
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Elko Independent
Davis
Bullion
Kerr & Peterson
Elk Dump
Highland
Raines
Franklin P. Mannix Dies at 56 in Tonopah Nevada
After a long chronic illness ending in a few days of acute illness, Frank P. Mannix Nye County Treasurer died in Tonopah on Monday. He came to Nevada from Victor Colorado where he worked in newspapers and founded the Bullfrog Miner. Mannix, 56, leaves a wife and daughter in Tonopah and two sons in Denver. He belonged to the Elks and Knights of Columbus in Tonopah.
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Frank P. Mannix
Nye County
Tonopah
Nevada
Victor
Colo
Bullfrog Miner
Mannix
Denver
Elks and
Knights of Columbus
Spoon ing centers planned for Denver playgrounds
Otto F. Thum, Denver commissioner of property, calls for recreation places for youths titled spooning centers. He proposes setting aside venues where young men and women may meet under municipal supervision, believing the plan would boost happy marriages through better chances to become acquainted.
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Denver
Colo
Otto F. Thum
Fernley Board Seeks Marriageable Teachers for District
The Fernley district school trustees announce a controversial push to hire marriageable teachers. They state only candidates who are considered good looking and matrimonially inclined will be considered, with explicit exclusion of others. The decision targets reducing bachelor numbers among staff.
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Board of School Trustees
Fernley
Wilson accuses business lobby of stalling tariff talks in Congress
President Wilson charges a coordinated business lobby intends to derail trust legislation and delay Senate action on tariffs. He cites letters from executives urging opposition and says a wave of manufactured business depression is used to sway public opinion. He vows to stay in Washington to push administration measures through this session.
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Washington
W Son
Congress
Spd
Wiren
Wilson
W. B. Abnett
Pictorial Review Company
New York
Victor Barndt to reopen Spanish Belt mine in Nye County
Victor Barndt, Tonopah operator, in Carson reviewing northern Nye County mining records now owned with Tonopah and San Francisco associates. They plan to install a pump to unwater and rework the old Spanish Belt mine between Belmont and Manhattan, reopening levels 400 feet lower than before. machinery due early next month. The note ends with a moral quip about the average man and family.
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Victor Barndt
Tonopah
Carson
Nye County
San Francisco
Belmont
Manhattan
Mr. Barnett
Salt Your Hay Practiced Kansas Oklahoma Farmers Claim Gains
Farmers in Kansas and Oklahoma report that salting hay adds 50 cents to $1 per ton value when about one ton of salt is used for 100 tons of alfalfa hay. Salt cost should run 10 to 12 cents per ton and helps hay stay greener, reduces leaf loss by 10 to 16 percent, and improves palatability and fattening.
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Kansas
Oklahoma
Day Old Chicks Shipments Weekly From Santa Cruz
Exocn Crews runs Baby Chick Factory in Santa Cruz offering weekly shipments of Barret Rocks Rhote Island Red Orpingtons Annenneans White and Brown Leghorns and Brown Baby Turkeys to customers.
Metal market quotations in New York rates
The latest metal quotations show silver at 56 cents per ounce, copper at 14.80 cents per pound, and lead at 3.90 dollars per 100 pounds, all in New York.
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New York
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