Classified Ad Rates Posted for Advertisers
All classes of legitimate advertisements may be inserted in this column at a rate of fifty cents per week. This notice informs local merchants and residents of the pricing for space in the newspaper.
09 Jun 1884
Page 1
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Newspaper
Reno Evening Gazette
Location
Reno, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1884
Page
1
All classes of legitimate advertisements may be inserted in this column at a rate of fifty cents per week. This notice informs local merchants and residents of the pricing for space in the newspaper.
London Tron reports Henry Wiggin & Co have created a new metal named Silveroid using cadmium to achieve extreme whiteness and high tensile strength. It targets brass bronze and gun metal replacements with low price and broad applicability including railway fittings and carriage ornaments. A separate note corrects a historical error about New Guinea’s naming linked to a Spanish voyage. A Mississippi accident description follows.
A railroad accident left the engineer battered but conscious, a postal clerk aiding with his head in his lap. The wounded man begged to be left alone and refused immediate medical aid, insisting the 25 ton locomotive had already done enough damage. He later recovered.
A mother admiring four elderly men calls one a fine specimen of green old age. Her daughter agrees the old age is green and notes the suitor, who is poor yet healthy, recently proposed to marry her.
A Lovelocks correspondent reports George Lovelock received 1200 dollars from San Francisco parties on 15 tons of cobalt and nickel ore shipped there, valued at about one third. Ore reshipped to Swansea to be worked, with full returns to trigger further shipments. The Humboldt river rise damages dams and farms as lake backing drives families from homes amid allegations against the New York Company over dam operations. The Houston Post notes Texas ants methodically harvest and tend grass seeds, drying or poisoning them to control sprouting. A Nevada City fire causes $20000 losses, $12000 insured, with strong winds and shade trees aiding fire crews. Algerian solar-energy inventor sets up machines in Algeria and Porquerolles, testing sun-powered crops and water production.
The notice states the next school year starts Tuesday July 2 1884 and invites readers to send for the catalogue from Jeiddwam.
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