Local Nevada items mix boom and bustle in 1900s style
News notes from Reno and surrounding areas include band practice at Armory Hall for the Sixteen to One, a Reno Carson relay challenge for next month, and arrivals from Virginia City and Mill City. Mines and ore shipments continue at Golden Eagle, Klondike coverage, and dance postponements due to building work. Prices and economic chatter appear, with hay forecast to reach twenty dollars a ton in California and a God Creek mine deal rumored at fifteen million dollars.
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Virginia City
Reno
Wew Hoe
Carson
Riverside
H. Wilbur
Golden Eagle
Winnenruora
Nev
The
Tribune
Angel Camp
California
Salt Lake Tribune
What the Girls Say from Winnemucca to Virginia City
A regional snapshot shows Elko Reno Carson Virginia City and Winnemucca girls reacting to a suitor’s question with a mix of blushes astonishment resignation and bold humor. The responses range from cautious consideration to playful boldness reflecting local attitudes toward courtship.
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Elko
Reno
Ita
Carson
Virginia City
Enya
Forage Plant for the West Aims at Semi Arid Adaptation
The agricultural department plans an experiment with a new forage plant, bromas meringas, a grass from the Asian steppes. Orders for seed have been wired to Moscow after a telegram from Prof. Hanson, the department’s agent, who says he can secure one or two tons. The grass thrives where ordinary forages fail and is hoped to suit plains near the Western mountains.
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Moscow
Prof
Hanson
Mounturing
A Mystified Mother and a Telegram Request for Funds
A Southern paper recounts a mother receiving a telegram from her son in New York asking for $50 by wire after claiming a broken leg. She mourns his misfortune and urges her husband to send $100 for the best city doctor. The fragment cites humor from Jim Townsend about Klondike miners and long nights.
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New York
Jim Townsend
Klondike
Aminer
Wheat Drops Five Cents in Chicago Market and Warms up News
Telegraphic items report wheat prices down five cents in Chicago while the G A R encampment gathers in Buffalo and President McKinley arrives. Texas Congressman Bailey reshapes his plans for 1900, rail and mine labor disputes erupt, a fishing trip goes missing near Lake Superior, and a Fayetteville execution shocks 2000 witnesses. Kansas farmers flood markets, wagons clog towns, and grain shipments soar amid high prices.
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup and Cholera Remedy Ad
A vintage advertisement extols Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething babies and Chamberlain's Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. The copy promises relief from diarrhoea, stomach upset, wind, and teething pain, claiming universal availability and decades of use. A testimonial from Henry Stow rexcer of Allentown praises the cholera remedy after chronic diarrhoea.
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Chamberlain
Aml
Henry Stowrexcer
Allentown
W A. Brown
Blanks for Sale at Local Office
Legal blanks offered for sale include summons subpenas warrants of arrest writs of attachment and commitments for imprisonment plus complaints for justices of the peace Sold at reasonable cash prices.
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Gold Creek
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