09 Sep 1916
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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1916
Page
1
Henry Ford aims to run factories 24 hours a day with four shifts and six hours per worker while paying each laborer one dollar an hour. The move would replace the standard five dollar day, reflecting Ford’s willingness to invest in labor even as Wall Street questions its feasibility amid large profits and stock value.
Governor Boyle announced a Treasury check of 17597 dollars 15 cents to Nevada representing 25 percent of grazing and timber land lease moneys. Funds are to aid public schools and county roads in forest-reserve areas with distributions listed for Douglas Elko Esmeralda Eureka Humboldt Lincoln Lyon Mineral Nye White Pine and Washoe counties.
CENERAL DRAYING offers draying and hauling at reasonable rates with wood coal and hay for sale in large or small quantities at reduced prices. Delivery available in any part of Eureka. Leave orders at Otto Maus on Main Street and the Local Railway Depot in Eureka.
Notios is hereby given that the taxes on the proceeds of the mines of Eureka County for the quarter ending June 30, 1916, are now due and payable to meet my office in Eureka and the law in regard to the same will be strictly enforced. H. McTorney, a memor of Eureka County, Nevada.
R A Ward of the U S biological survey spoke in Austin about jack rabbit extermination in Nevada. He cited a four year program testing methods and said poison is the most effective and economical, noting a cooperative Oregon effort where 75,000 rabbits were killed in December and January before fading in June. He warned against heavy spending on poison now and urged individual farms to run their own camps, with winter and summer poisons having limited value in the Carter’s ranch experiment.
Spokane reports five-year-old twins Robert and Grace Rice demonstrate extraordinary shorthand speed of 100 words a minute. Home taught, they receive two daily lessons, each fifteen minutes, and excel in spelling and drafting. Father E. J. Rice advocates simplified curriculums to reduce repetition and boost mastery by grade five. Over ninety children tested, eight show promise. Subscribe for Sentinel-$3 per year.
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