Butters Reduction Behind Mining Syndicate Aims Control
Rumors from close observers say the Butters Reduction Company backs a syndicate that owns a majority of Best and Belcher mine stock and seeks full control. The group also allegedly holds over half the capital of Consolidated California Virginia Ophir and Mexican mines, with an extensive Virginia City plant financed to exploit vast low grade ores. The truth will emerge at upcoming annual meetings.
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Butters Reduction Company
Best and Belcher
California
Virginia
Ophir
Nalines
Virginia City
Con
Best
Belcher
S. F. Journal of Commerce
Senator Newlands Attends Return to Reno From East
State news item reports Senator and Mrs Newlands returning to Reno from the East. Other items note Grass Valley buyers acquire Sierra Valley Record with J W Maddrill named editor, and lawyer Harry B Sullivan gaining Nevada court admission. Additional notes cover ore tailings acquisition near Ely, a pine nut crop failure due to insects, a dying Austin resident, and a Belmont suicide by a half breed squaw who jumped an abandoned shaft after fatal alcohol use.
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Timothy Connolly
Austin
Yankee Blade
Nevada press and regional views echo reform calls
Gardnerville Courier notes Rev John D Hammond faces censure over Methodist affairs and book funds. Wells Herald lauds Elko county farmers as Nevada’s strongest new homeowners. Elko Independent derides public bribery undermining American government and justice.
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Gardnerville
John D. Hammond
Nevada
Baily
Wells Herald
Elko County
Union
Elio
Stolen Horse Warrant Not Served in Ogden
Bakers City horsemen Slatterly and Lockitt arrived in Ogden with a warrant for arrest on forty two horses. Sheriff Bailey confronted them but the warrant for Hardin & Son was not executed. The men claimed their workers, after drinking, took Hardin’s horses by mistake and they paid $550 plus expenses, then sent the horses east.
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Ogden Standard
Messrs
Slatterly and
Lockitt
Baker City
Oregon
Bailey
H. E. Hardin
Hardin & Son
Slatterly
Came
Cleve's Last Letter From A O Cleveland
Governor Sparks was moved by a letter from the late A O Cleveland dated the day of his death. Cleveland accepted a delegate appointment to the National Irrigation Congress at Ogden and expressed hearty support for the congress. The note, in Cleve’s clear hand, reflected a long friendship despite political opposition. August 30, Carson Appeal.
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Sparks
A. O. Cleveland
National Irrigation Congress
Ogden
Cleveland
Congress
Cleve
Mr. Cleveland
Carson
Graphite Deposits Near Carson Nevada Pencils Origin
The Gardnerville Courier notes a NEVADA graphite deposit near Carson with purifying facilities. It explains pencil lead production, impurity removal, and states most ore is imported from Eastern Siberia Mexico Bohemia and Ceylon. The Scientific American reference is cited.
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Arday
Siberia
Mexico
Bohemia
Ceylon
Nevaa
Carson
Gardnerville
The
Scientific American
Governors, resignations shape 1909 party slate in several states
Ohio Democrats nominate Tom L. Johnson for governor as the party factions unite with Populists. In Nebraska the Democrats and Populists fuse on a shared ticket. Secretary of War Root resigns and W. H. Taft is named his successor, effective at year’s start.
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Ohio
Tom L. Johnson
Nebraska
War Root
W. H. Taft
Judge Denies Naturalization in Albany
Judge Clifford G. Gregory rejected an applicant for naturalization in Albany New York and stated that he would not naturalize anyone who cannot speak English well enough to be understood, and would require answers on age nativity arrival and other citizenship questions. He warned that five years in the country without speaking English renders a man unfit for citizenship and stated he would act accordingly.
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Clifford G. Gregory
Albany
New York
United States
Democrats Advised By Coast Magazine
The Coast and Wilhelm's Seattle magazine urge Democrats to accept minority status as a chance to gain strength. They advise selecting a courageous, honest leader, then shaping platform statecraft for the people. Emphasis on integrity, restraint, and justice tempered with liberality.
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Wilhelm’s
Seattle
Wash
Beginning of Tonto storage reservoir work in Arizona
The Philadelphia Commercial List reports a landmark irrigation project under the new law. Salt River Valley chosen by government engineers for the system, with private land liens covering all acres to be irrigated. An association of landowners will repay construction costs with interest within ten years, funding gravity water to lands below and a dam power system to lift water to higher land, boosting arid land fertility and Southwest prosperity.
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Tonto
Arizona
Philadelphia
Salt River
America
Jones Trio Secures Mexican Mine Claim Near Paras Chihuahua
Washington dispatch reports former Senator John P. Jones of Nevada, with John K. Cowan and Eugene Davis, secured the Capusaya group near Pedro Alvardo in Chihuahua Mexico. The miners are said to be the world’s richest silver bed, with a price below 2.6 million. Jones predicts a return to wealth akin to the Comstock lode after paying about 2.6 million for the property.
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Washington
John P. Jones
Nevada
New York
Mexico
John K. Cowan
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Eugene Davis
Capusaya
Pedro Alvardo
Paras
Chihuahua
Alvardo
Jnes
Jones
Uncle Reuben's Opinion on Chamberlain Pills Readable
Uncle Reuben endorses Chamberlain's Stomach over Tablets and other laxatives and pills describing it as easy pleasant to take and mildly effective for health. H M Schneiders & Co. sells this for sale. William F Sharon and wife sail for a sea voyage visiting Honolulu for about two months due to Mrs Sharon's failing eyesight and poor health.
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Reuben
Chamberlain
H. M. Schneiders & Co
William F. Sharon
Honolulu
What is Life In Instanslyaia Under Strict Law
In Instanslyaiaia life is governed by strict law and abuse harms health. Irregular living deranges organs causing constipation headaches or liver trouble. Dr. King's New Life Pills quickly readjust this. It's gentle yet thorough and only 250 at Schneider's Drug Store.
Fearful Odds Against Him Bedridden Soldier Finds Relief
An old soldier from Versailles, J. J. Havens, was bedridden with kidney disease and destitute. After trying Electric Bitters, he recovered enough to proclaim, “I’m on the road to complete recovery.” The tonic is pitched for liver and kidney troubles and various stomach and bowel complaints, priced at 5 cents and guaranteed by Schneider Drug Store.
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J. J. Havens
Versailles
Schneider Drug Store
Bucklen's Arnica Salve touted for cures worldwide
An old advertisement proclaims Bucklen's Arnica Salve as superior for cuts burns sores and many skin ailments. It promises guaranteed care with a price of 250 at Schneider's Drag Store and hints at a subscription offer for Benrixen.
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Bucklen
Schneider
A Boy's Wild Ride For Life to Get Cure
A Leesville Tod resident, W H Brown, endured a severe asthma attack while his son rode 18 miles for Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds. The medicine is praised for instant relief and cure, with guaranteed bottles priced 50 cents and 81 00 and a trial bottle offered at Schneider's Drug Store.
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Schneider's
Horse and Harre: Quitting Life In The City
A New York Evening Journal quote contrasts a tired horse with a modern city, noting that if every horse could quit being harre at will, there would be nothing but automobiles. The remark captures urbanity and mechanization themes in sharp mockery.
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Harre
New York Evening Journal
Doctor Have You Had the Youthful Complaints
A humorous dialogue features a doctor asking about common childhood ailments and a witty reply from Miss Elderly and Know it All. Minnie Haba delivers a quip about foreign relations, noting all relations are local. The humor plays on aging, perception, and locality with a light Chicago News tone.
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Doctor Chicago News
Minnie Haba
There is Always Time to Share a Little
A fragmentary phrase hints at aiding the weak to climb, with mentions of Walcott Hutt and a character named Smonti and Bias. The text reads as a reflective aside on time and generosity, though details are incomplete and names unsettled.
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Lota
Smonti
Asalst
Sno Sr
Walcott Hutt
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