Bridge and Fourth Street Scoreboard Oddity
A fragmented snip shows a bridge and fourth street reference with digits 600 and 190, implying a brief sports or grid listing. No clear event or participants are readable.
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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1897
Page
2
A fragmented snip shows a bridge and fourth street reference with digits 600 and 190, implying a brief sports or grid listing. No clear event or participants are readable.
Weather Bureau report from WinseMucca Station dated December 14 1897 gives 24 hour conditions ending 8 PM with mean barometer 20.29 inches maximum 40 F minimum 25 F mean 4 C wind north and precip 0.24 inches. Projections note December 15 minimum 24 F by G A Rogers Weather Bureau agent.
Dr. Bergstein, superintendent of the state insane asylum, denies charges raised by Henry Wood and urges an immediate investigation by asylum commissioners. The outcome will determine whether the superintendent stays or is removed amid political charges. Also notes Orion Clemens, Mark Twain’s brother, died in Keokuk, Iowa, December 11, and that Clemens once acted as Nevada territory governor.
A New York judge rules a wife cannot claim damages from her husband for assault and battery, arguing that husband and wife are one legally. The ruling extends to divorces, claiming a man cannot be separated from himself and that suicide would result from self-action in crime. Sacramento Bee, remarks on freakish legal views as California not sole home to oddities.
In Bath Maine Gen Joseph S Smith recalls a primitive print method. The hired girl weighed 210 pounds to press type and paper on a wash stand achieving good impressions on a $100 hand press. He produced about 200 copies per edition and claimed steady effort across days.
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