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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1894
Page
3
P B Roberts leaves for Waideworth while Sheriff Hadley returns from Carson. Butter from Carson feeds California, and Mint at New Orleans reports 52000 dollars. A Reno jockey club drive seeks September races as frosts raise winter potato prices. A stage robbery near Truckee nets 33 dollars.
Union Pacific to charge half a cent per mile for freight car use starting August 1, matching rates on other lines, down from three quarters of a cent. Pullman works opened with 250 workers reporting out of 800 expected, while about 1,000 strikers taunted returning workers. Also noted: Pullman pays high liquor licensing costs for palaces cars and taxes on its plant.
A mosaic of notes proclaims the midwinter fair a marvelous creation after mixed charges of fizzle. The page also advertises syrup of figs for laxative use and Hall's Catarrh Cure with notary attestation from 1856, plus notices of water shutoffs on Second and Third streets and local business ads for flour, mill stuff, groceries, and Winslow’s soothing syrup for teething children.
A Humboldt County Silver Party meeting on July 24 1804 set district delegate quotas for Lovelock Rye Patch Mil City Dun Glen Pleasant Valley Stonehouse Rebel Creek McDermit Paradise Willow Point Winnemucca with polls 2 to 6. Precinct judges listed and the ballot question pledges support for US independence and Silver Party nominees.
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