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Newspaper
Las Vegas Age
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1917
Page
4
A collection of vintage recipes including Prize Pastry with rai Bins lemon sugar and thin crust, Cranberry Puffs with sour milk and cranberries, Little Banburys with raisins dates and lemon, Scotch Bread with sugar and butter, Caraway Seed Cookies, Caraway Spice and Cinnamon Rolls, Eastern Brown Bread steamed over cold water, Breakfast Rolls with yeast and milk.
Recent suits include Margaret Baxter v William Baxter for divorce due to failure to provide with Thomas Ham as counsel. C R Welch trustee v Colorado Nevada M M Co to foreclose deed of trust for 60000 plus 9800 interest. John Rowla Brewen v Rosa Brewen for desertion and custody. Arthur A Musgrave v Mamie Musgrave for divorce with abuse allegations. Los Angeles Salt Lake R R Co v Moapa Garden Co to collect 424.40 plus costs. Nettie M Long administratrix v LA & Salt Lake R R for 5000 plus costs. Adeline R Glenn v William Glenn for divorce and custody with Stevens Henderson as counsel.
A number of Vegas residents joined the July 4 celebration at Nelson, despite extreme heat. Attendees reported a pleasant canyon visit. list includes Dr. R. W. Martin Harley A. Harmon Will Beckley D. L. Murphy F. J. Pierce Wm. Lloyd Jas. Clark H. S. Workman Howard Conklin Rosco Conklin Matt Kelly Jas. Kelly H. H. Johnson and Mrs Knight.
Douglas White of the Salt Lake Route and party passed through Vegas on the way to Los Angeles. They filmed 1500 feet of scenic footage and 200 stills in Zion Canyon to showcase the Arrowhead Trail. The group travels in a six cylinder Oldsmobile on Goodyear tires and photographed artesian wells near Vegas.
George Wingfield gains controlling interest in the Zanzi Bar Mining Company in Manhattan. Plans include reorganizing the firm and equipping the property with a modern machinery plant. Entry into Manhattan is seen as boosting activity in the district. Charles Miller, son of Reno attorney A Grant Miller, broke an arm and injured a leg when his car left the Reno Wadsworth road west of Wadsworth and overturned twice. This marks the second auto accident for the family in a year.
Miss Rachel Rand art instructor in the Reno city school department drowned Monday afternoon near her Palisade home while attempting to swim the fast running Humbolt river. Funeral services planned at Palisade. she had been spending vacation with her parents 12 miles from Palisade.
Louis E. Roberts of Nelson was among the arrivals at the Overland Thursday, marking a local travel note and noting his presence among recent visitors.
Last evening the Grammar School Boy's Band was chauffeured by Mrs. Doolittle and Mrs. Cazel to a ranch. There they enjoyed a fine chicken dinner and full access to the swimming pool, making the boys very happy with the hospitality and they regard the hosts as staunch friends.
The War Department outlines a second Western Department Officers Training Camp at the Presidio, San Francisco, opening August 27 1917 and ending November 26 1917. Eligible applicants include qualified enlisted personnel and officers under specified age limits with prior service or eligibility under 1917 orders.
Senator Borah of Idaho declared liquor doomed in a Senate speech on the food conservation bill amendment. He argued the industry brings want and disease and urged support for the house amendment to conserve food and citizenship.
Mrs H J Jarman alleges nonpayment of annual 1916 assessment work on Caprite and Malechite lode mining claims in Yellow Pine District Clark Nevada. If co-owners Robert English Wallace Wilkinson fail to pay proportion and publication costs within 90 days after last notice, their interests may vest in the claimant under US statutes. First published June 16 1917 last Sept 16 1917.
In East St Louis Illinois mobs burn five negro neighborhoods and kill or wound many black residents. A white detective sergeant was killed, Adjutant General Dickson ordered troops deployed, and property damage is put at 300000 to 500000 dollars with the Broadway Theater and railroad cars destroyed.
A Peking dispatch reports Manchu Emperor Hsuan Tung restored to the throne and President Li Yuan Hung told to retire. General Chang Hsun, Anhwei governor, reportedly Dictator as power shifts unfold. Li Yuan Hung held prisoner, provinces retract declarations of independence.
A Belt Line Great Gorge Route car derailed after leaving rails, plunging about twenty feet into the Niagara River near Whirlpool Rapids at Gara Falls. Nine dead, two missing presumed dead, many injured. washout from recent rains cited as cause.
London reports Spain on the brink of a revolution as monarchists crumble. Republicans Radicals and Socialists form a bloc and plan a manifesto signaling abdication of King Alfonso and the establishment of a republic.
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