Elko District News Roundup and Local Notes
Rain and repairs mark Elko area progress with sidewalk work and a new 82 candle power electric light at the courthouse. Deeth and Carson Valley shipping, Measles closures in schools, a Schubert Symphony Club concert, and tributes to figures in San Francisco and state events fill the item with regional updates and social notes.
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Deeth
Nevada
Elko Tidings
Phil Triplett
Riddle & Sons
Bridge Street
M. Hofman
William Jennings Bryan
Chas
Gulliver
Lyon County
Carson Valley
Elko
H. Fredrick
Jewler
Eagle Drug Store
Carson
Diamond Valleys
East Fork
Gardnerville
Garfield
Diamond Valley
Mining Location Rules and Southern Utah Ball Room Etiquette
The article outlines detailed mining location rules from Copp's American Mining Code including required locators names dates and boundary descriptions and penalties for overclaiming. It also reports Richfield and St George citizens adopting cardboard posted ballroom rules to curb fights at dances with hats off smoking liquor profanity and boisterous conduct and notes local editorial praise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Land Department
Utah
Ogden Standard
Richfield
St. George
Iron Record of
Bret Harte
Shower of Birds Rains Dead Birds on Baton Rouge Streets
Early risers in Baton Rouge report a shower of dead birds falling from a clear sky. Species included wild ducks, catbirds, woodpeckers and canarylike birds, scattered across city streets. Experts suggest a recent storm off Florida drove birds inland, with air currents and temperature change causing fatalities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Florida
Advertising gripe in Nevada City paper prompts remark
A Reno Gazette writer recalls a Nevada City reader who criticized the local paper for not revealing stage information in its advertising pages. He suggests that had local merchants advertised clearly, the reader would not have a complaint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gazette
Nevada City
Reno Gazette
Shoes made of human skin disturb readers in Philadelphia Times report
A Philadelphia physician reportedly uses human epidermis from bodies linked to a medical college to craft shoes sent to Womelsdorf, Berks County, where a local man tans them into soft glossy leather. The account, claimed as first hand, describes the grisly process and final product.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Womelsdorf
Reading
Berks County
Philadelphia Times
Take Away Woman and The Pities Of Teething Elixirs
A mix of crowd dialogue and local ads. notices include a call to health with Hood's Sarsaparilla, reference to Chamberlain's Pain Balm via Jacobsen, a dentist opening in the Wilcox building, and travel times from Winnemucca to Chicago and other cities. Also promotions for stoves, galley ware, Reinhart's wares, and Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething babies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Jacobsen
Chicago Lumber Co
Maines
Iowa
Chamberlain’s
W. A. Brown
Winslow
New Home sewing machine offered for sale
Call at E Reinhart and Co to view a New Home sewing machine in was described as good as new. Price asked is 65 dollars and the seller will take 95 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Reinhart & Co's
Blanks for Sale in Local Office
Local office advertises legal blanks for sale including summons subpenas warrants arrest writs of attachment and commitments for justices of the peace Sold at reasonable cash prices.
County Warrants Posted for Payment by Treasurer
All county warrants registered through February 6, 1896 are posted for payment in the county treasurer’s office. Interest stops January 8, 1807. DP Laverga, county treasurer, declares.
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Laverga
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Socal News
Schubert Symphony Club
Rathbone
Miss Delaney
Miss Parcell
McPike
Tommy Purcell
Mia
Sarah B. Cooper
Harriet Cooper
San Francisco
Cooper
Kindergarten Association of Schola
Agen
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
First Congregational Church
C. O. Brown
General Beatty
M.S. Bounifield
Supreme Bench
Eugene Howell
L. C. Henderson
Foster
Pacific Coast
Rockies Country
Great Central Valleys
Rockies
Silver State Chapter No
Order of the Eastern Star
Liner State Hall
Jayxie L. Trewrex
Suanday School
Ap. W
R.s
Everbody
Praxcis
Pastor
U.S
New York City
Upper
Winnemucca
Tuomas Snore
Busch Hotel
Lie Orator
Tekinge Hood
E. Bertsnarr & Co
Porter
Wilcox Building
Postoffice
Windemones
Chicago
Ogden
H. Kitto
Southern Pacific Co
D. E. Burley
Union Pacific Co
Salt Lake
Sy2set
Reinhart’s
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