22 Nov 1913
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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1913
Page
1
A miscellany of home hints covers cleaning with alum water and glycerine, avoiding hot water on colored fabrics, and refreshing bread with cheese. Tips suggest vinegar for tarred potatoes, linseed oil for nails, and turpentine for enamel. a note from Hogwallow Kentuckian mocks missing church bench at Dog Hill church.
Miss Jessie Wilson plans a New York wedding cake weighing 135 pounds with a four inch thick layer and twenty two inch spread. The cake, two and a half feet tall with orchid toppers, costs about 500 dollars and holds 19 ingredients. It is part of a 2000 box distribution and features silver initials and sugar lilies. The gift to Miss Wilson from the House of Representatives is a pear shaped pendant of a six and a half carat canary diamond surrounded by 85 diamonds, to be worn on a neck chain. The wedding to Francis B. Sayre occurs at the White House on November 25.
A compilation of diverse global trivia cites losses from shoplifting in Kansas City merchants, daily poultry rations in New York, housing and population counts in Missouri, and numerous odds and ends. It mentions opals, maritime fatalities, old age pensions in Britain, and a Missouri professor joke, as reported by the Kansas City Star.
A collection of editorials urges government action against wildcat stock brokers and dubious real estate schemes. It lauds young leaders, praises Nevada and Colorado mining revival plans, and calls for dismantling useless commissions to curb high taxes and waste.
A saloonkeeper faces prosecution as youths who had been sold liquor broke into the saloon and wrote unseemly remarks on blackboards. the youths are in jail. In Six Mile Canyon fifty four sheep drank from the creek on Sunday and later carcasses were found. The creek drains an area with cyanide plants. A. W. Henson of Elko lost control of his automobile when steering gear failed on Sunday. the car rolled, injuring Henson two daughters and a Miss Hiee. Jesson rescued the others. The Humboldt Star reports a Bell auto crash three miles below town injuring Albert Lowry and Tom Lewis. three other boys uninjured.
In a White Pine News piece the paradox of liquor is discussed as both a truth teller and a liar. The column notes that intoxication may reveal honesty, yet the relief wears off and regrets arise, while also claiming prohibition areas show drinkers lie to cover procurement, especially when faced with arrest for disturbance.
Nevada reports Telluride camp expansion drawing dwellings from old Rhyolite. William Gray improved 160acre in Carson Valley and sold half for 13000. Pacific Live Stock plans a major dam and bridge at Winne mucca site. Final proof surveys set for Smoky valley and Austin reserve work, with a surveyor arriving for next year. Newell brothers arrest in Tonopah for disturbing a high school football dance.
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