Nevada Mines and Farms Propel State Prosperity
Nevada resources could support a large population. Battle Mountain reports many mining experts visiting, with investors from the East convinced Nevada is not exhausted. Irrigation could unlock thousands of acres for productive farming, ensuring prosperity even if mining declines. Tonopah is rising as a potential garden spot with rail access and water systems, while lumber shortages hurt costs.
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Nevada
Union
Tonopah
Reno
H. C. Cutting
San Francisco
Congress
Small Boy Explains Heat Concepts At School
Visitors watched a Preston class examine heat with a child answering. The boy noted heat expands and cold contracts and contrasted long summer days with short winter days, drawing applause as he topped the class.
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Preston School
New Orleans
Good Medicine for Children
A reader from Deming Indiana recounts using Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy to treat an eleven month old during teething in June and July. He reports the baby’s bowels returning to normal after four drops in water per dose. Sold by Brown Bros.
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O. P. M. Holliday
Deming Ind
Chamberlain
Brown Bros
Railroads plan $40 million upgrade for Union Pacific lines
In New York, Union Pacific directors outlined a multi year program to spend about 40 million dollars on Central and Southern Pacific systems. Improvements include a Sierra Nevada tunnel for 5 to 6 million, grade leveling, heavier rails, and faster trains. Southern Pacific will see main line relaying, oil powered locomotives on some divisions, oil land purchases, and roadway repairs.
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New York
Union Pacific
Southern
Central Pacific
Sierra Nevada Range
Southern Pacific
Mining and ore movements across Nevada districts
Cap tain George H Nihil travels to Sacramento to arrange lumber for a ten stamp quartz mill at Meadow Lake. Reno Star mine develops with hoisting machinery setup and ten days to run. Joana mine at Cocomongo reports 13 000 pounds of ore sold for about 120 per ton, yielding over ten dollars daily per worker after expenses. English cavalry horse purchases foretell 59 000 animals for South African war service. Lane’s tea claims to purify blood and aid skin conditions in ads by Brown Bros.
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Truckee Republican
George H. Nihil
Sacramento
Hartley Lodge
Meadow Lake
Crane
Reno Star
Saya the Gazette
San Francisco
Gazette
Cherry Creek
White Pine News
Richard Culver
Joana
Cocomongo
Culver
Nevada
Foglish
East Oregonian
R. B. Wilson
Burlington Company
Pendleton
Mr. Wilson
Why a Woman Helps Sick Women When Doctors Fail
An appeal to women to seek Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for ovarian and womb inflammation. Mrs Chappell of Grant Park Illinois, whose portrait is published, endorses the remedy after personal cure and urges others to consult Mrs Pinkham's Laboratory in Lynn Massachusetts.
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U.S
Chappell
Grant Park
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup Promises Teething Relief
Vintage medicine advertisement touts Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup as the solution for teething pain and digestive woes with claims of immediate relief. It also promotes De Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve for eruptions and DeWitt’s pills for piles and headaches with Brown Bros as seller.
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DeWitt
DeWitt's
Brown Bros
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Mines and Mining
Lane
and G. H. Chappell
Mrs. Winslow
Sherman
Trown Bros
Main
The
Silver State Flour Mill
Lorenzo Recanzone
Prop
Paradise Valley
Recanzone
Miller
W. J. Samuels
Orees Apt
Bridg and
Foure Reets
D. T. C. Hanson
Weber Building
Eagle Drug Store
Alfred Chartz
Carson City, Nevada
W. #. HOLT
Humboldt County
Acress
Paradise Valley, New
Charles M’connell
John O’kane
Lovelock
Nev
Kohler & Chase Music House
Cal
ABC
American Brewing Co
St. Louis
Abc-Abc-Abc-Ab
W A. Henry
Winnemucca, Nevada
C.D. van Duzer
J.T. Wheeler
Wheeler & van Duzer
Attorneys-At-Law
Diehl Building
Bert L. Hoop
Courthouse
Giroux
Wisnemucca, Nevada
City and County and French Hospitals of
Stanton's
LPM
Tod P
Diehl’s Book Store
Bridge Street
Winnemucca
City Bakery
C. Diehl Sr
G. W. Summerfield
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