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Newspaper
Las Vegas Age
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1920
Page
2
LAS VEGAS AGE editor Charles P. Squires urges strict enforcement of wartime and constitutional prohibition. He condemns saloon owners profiting from illegal whiskey sales and warns officers to uphold the law, insisting the public backs prohibition and will not tolerate lax enforcement.
The city’s whiskey sale persisted after the state prohibition amendment. Distribution was well known, and intoxicated individuals boasted of obtaining liquor. After a year of lax enforcement, District Attorney Stebenne secured goods against Lon Groesbeck, marking a decisive legal move against illicit liquor.
The Stindt-Donohue lease in its ninth month of operation has reached a pivotal stage as a vertical fissure vein over 12 feet wide shows extensive mineralization. Sampling suggests 0.12 oz gold, 11.8 oz silver, and 4.2 percent lead, a low grade but milling‑suitable shipping product. Development remains limited, with evidence the vein feeds higher grade bodies via quartz stringers.
San Francisco reports of deaths and blindness from consuming denatured alcohol prompt Collector Justus S. Wardell to vow full penalties against bootleggers and others misusing denatured alcohol. The law requires poison markings and skull symbols on all related labels and warnings to the public.
The Majestic Theatre announces David Wark Griffiths Broken Blossoms to be shown Saturday Jan 6 with matinee and evening showings. The film has earned extraordinary acclaim and sensational audience response wherever displayed.
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Reviewers praise the Majestic for screening D W Griffiths Broken Blossoms adapted from The Chink and the Child by Thomas Burke. The film is hailed as a stunningly tragic love story, surpassing expectations for a motion picture.
County Farm Bureau directors met in Overton on December 27 to plan subdivisions and projects from prior talks. They voted to petition the State Veterinary Control Service to send veterinarians to test tuberculosis and to form a Livestock Marketing Association to boost hog, cattle, and poultry output. Committees from various towns were appointed to gather data, with future plans set for January 31 1920 in Bunkerville on silo construction soil improvement seed selection and farm credit organization.
Dean C S Knight of the University of Nevada urges farmers and ranchers to adopt modern methods amid rising land value and potential price declines. The Annual Farmers and Homemakers Week at the University of Nevada runs January 20 24 1920 with talks on range management crop production irrigation animal diseases and home economics for women urging participation.
The College of Agriculture will be open exclusively for farmers and women of Nevada from January 20 to 24, allowing access to its faculty laboratories equipment libraries and classrooms for exclusive use.
Information wanted as to missing man Ralph W Joyce aged 26 height 5 feet 5 inches weight 135 pounds light complexion gray blue eyes prominent nose nervous manner last seen leaving Ashland Oregon September 30 1919 with a Spokane Portland and Seattle Railway ticket bound for Pueblo Colorado no further progress known and ticket not turned in possible stops Davis California Reno Nevada or Ogden Utah Joyce could work with his brother in Chicago any information to Stella J Leavitt mother Ashland or to the Governor's office Carson City Nevada.
The program lists daily featured acts and films at Myajestic Theatre from Sunday to Saturday with titles such as A Scream in the Night The Red Glove Lord and Lady Algy The Avalanche Good Bye Bill Rustling a Bride and Broken Blossoms plus comedies and a D W Griffith title. Regular admission 15 and 20 cents with war tax details and matinee and evening show times. A reward notice from Southern Nevada Cattle Owners Association vara for grand larceny stock and cattle theft with specified amounts and conditions.
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