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Newspaper
Pioche Tri Weekly Record
Location
Pioche, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1876
Page
2
A Thanksgiving essay reflects on gratitude, national unity, and moral progress as the nation nears Thanksgiving Day. The issue also reports diverse items including Tilden rumors, Nevada politics, railroad earnings, Comstock mining patent hearings, Sacramento theater disaster casualties, and Arctic polar night length, with scattered local notices and arrivals.
Reports from Gold Hill recount a fall injuring Thomas Hollinger and a Bellef scandal about a lover spurned for refusing whisky. Property purchases include Mackay near Paris and Kirkham estate near Oakland. White Pine and Ward court actions in the Gleason case, plus highway robbery near Geiger Grade with $230 taken from Barani and others. Empire’s George Bence lauded by the New York Trade Journal as a leading cigar man. Miner's Delight mine sale in Sweetwater District to an English company for 165000 in gold, with 60 men operating a 40 stamp mill.
New Orleans and New York dispatches detail the returning board’s deliberations on protest copies from Democrats, the exclusion of Democratic Elector George Wycliffe, parish canvasses with figures for St. Mary, St. Helena, Tensas, and others, and comments from Times and Tribune editorials.
The item reports observers noting that the Sweet Wales area shows renewed activity with quartz mills, placer and bedrock mining being pursued for profit. It suggests capitalists have not fully proven or prospected the region despite abundant operations and potential.
Jobo Flagg of Bennington New Hampshire recounts a three year struggle with a severe cough that developed bronchitis and left him barely able to speak. He also describes accompanying night sweats and lingering illness affecting daily life and voice.
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