Rates and notices from a Victorian era newspaper
Advertising rates and a long bulletin on grain markets and wheat dynamics fill this page. It notes space rates for daily and weekly ads, obituaries, and memorial notices, followed by a Boston banking bulletin on August wheat purchases, freight charters, and farm receipts with figures. It also comments on silver politics and public crib criticisms, ending with a promo for De Witt's Little Early Risers.
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U.K
New York
Atlantic coast
Chicago
Minnesota
North Dakota
South Dakota
Kansas
Undertaker's Dilemma Over Pawned Casket Hint
A shabby man posing as an undertaker sought a pawnshop loan by pledging a casket with silver trimmings to buy a funeral shroud. He proposed to redeem the casket from the bereaved family after the funeral, claiming business woes and urgency. The pawnbroker declined, leaving the outcome unknown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Twelfth street
Columbia avenue
Philadelphia Record
Tran
Monuments of gin worship in Africa fiction or fact
A New York Journal piece questions a dramatic claim about Kru coast Africans worshiping gin bottles. It cites explorer Joseph Thomson who photographed a scene for the Royal Geographical Society, notes the Krus as key West African workers, and alleges gin as symbol of white civilization leading to widespread drinking and a single man’s madness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
New York Journal
Joseph Thomson
Kry coast
Thomson
Royal Geographical socety
London
Absent Genius Remembered By Former Classmates
An old Troy Polytechnic graduate, Fay, predicted 100 story buildings and sketched a bridge on end to show how it could be done. He vanished after a period of speculation, with classmates recalling him as brightest yet peculiar. They speculate genius and madness are closely linked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carson
ths close
Sadler
D. Kelley
Silver Party
Ls Grave
Weaterfield
M. FE. Bonnifield
W. A. Massey
Belknap
Troy Polytechnic institute
high Neave
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
mariel
Colorado
Postmaster Licks Stamps At Customer Demand
A Grass Valley postmaster who is also a store owner recalls a middle aged woman who slammed a two cent piece on the counter and demanded he lick stamps. He obliged and the woman left. He says a prior incident six months ago when she had him lick a lamp purchase and she kicked a barrel of molasses, causing a loss of about eleven dollars, while his annual salary is twenty three dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grass Valley
Detroit Free Press
Tea contest promises money back at grocer’s
Advertisement states that if you don’t receive part of the $1000, you still get the tea. If you dislike the tea, your money will be refunded at your grocer. Rules of the contest appear in large ads about the first and middle of each month.
Why Women Have the Blues and How to Beat It
A London doctor with a large practice argues that melancholia in women stems from neglecting physical and mental care. He blames indulgence and idle routines, urges occupation and practical tasks, and promotes walking, exercise, work, and worldly interest as preventives and cures. He notes poverty intensifies despair, while active, purposeful living helps recovery.
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dan
asiun
Herbert Spencer
London
Cold Stove A summer cooling device from patent chemical
A stove cooling method uses salt ice and a patent chemical to chill the stove so much that skin blisters on contact. Salt cheap, chemical uncertain, oven self-generates frost. likely to widespread use in warm climates. Death by self harm in Brussels prisons prompts new policy preventing solitary cell confinement. Germany Belgium potato eaters consume over 1000 pounds per person. English child dies after ingesting buttercups. coroner finds no other cause.
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JAZETTE PUBLISHING CO
ALLEY GC. BRagG
KATHY
Qarny
wall
WerkLY
KATH
Temple Court
astern Advertisings
Pate, Wester & Co. bankers and brokers of
Boston
The GazETTe
De Witt
Wm. Pinnige
tod
Brussels
Germany
Belgium
Porras Davo
Coxe
GATARRH
ers
Elwe
fsa
Eska Ely
ig uckrev
eure
Opeus
Warren
WASHOE COUNTY BANK
RENO, NEVADA
H. J. WARDLAW, D.DS
First Nattonal Bank
Reno
New
Banka
San Francisco
United States
Pars
Berlin
Genoa
Bellinzona
Copenhages
Stockholm
Europe
W. C. H. MARTIN
W. MAPES
WARD
T. BENDER
G. H. TAYLOR
seeees
wea
seco Cashier Asst
RENO CASH STORE
Choice Family Groceries
CHRISTENSON & NELSON
Virginia Street
Bet
RE. W. PARRY
Feed & Sale
THE
PENNSYLVANIA College of Dental Surgery
Philadelphia
D. ROLISON , D.S
F. J. PETERSEN, M
Second Street New Investment
reams
Nevada
BERTHA W. PETERSEN
F. J. Petersen
upgett
KATHERINE FEE, M.D
GEORGE FEE, M.D
FIDE AND RESIDENCE
INVESTment Company
Second Street
W. T. E. WARREN, M.D
Cees ahanaed
Investuseuc
Nevada Bank
jersts
R. W. PARRY
T. B. HOLMES, M. D
Ls. Philips
BANK OF NEVADA
Turrittin
Moritz Scheeline
R.S. Osburn
toga
Daniel Meyer
G. F.Turrittin
Mortis Scheeline
P. L 'Flannigan
J. M. Evans
A. G. Fletcher
8. R. Bigelow
THOMAS WREN
WREN & JULIEN
Law
Eureka Block
mytott
FRANK H. NORCROSS
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
SECOND JUDICIAL DIStrict Court
State of
Washoe
Caroline B. Norcross
George EB. Peckham
County of
F. B. PORTER
angela
Bank of Nevada Building
Attorneys-at-Law
Caliornia
THE RIVERSIDE
GOODWIN & DODGE
Hack and Transfer Co
Charles Lake
Will, Pinniger
Chas Lake
J. RLEASON
ENO Qe
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Courtanf
JAMES F. DENNIS
YHFICH
Ilteinia Street
apriz
ALFRED CHARTZ
CARSON CITY
HODGKINSON’S
COMMERCIAL ROW
H. J. THYES
Washoe Co. Bank
BLOOK
QLAUSEN
Carcastle
A A. TILMAN
A. A SILMAN
AT THE
ALAMO
TOHN SPARES
RENO, NEV
colts
Wieland’s Steam Beer
DEGK
PARRY BROTHERE
Virginia
WM. PINNIGER’S. PHARMACY
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