Local News and Items of a General Ravers
Ernest Davivier of Mill City and L B Ward arrive in town from Paradise as Winter holidays bring diverse personal crises. Senator-elect Summerfield returns from San Francisco. Shep Case visits from Reno for holidays. Weather remains springlike. Paria hosts a noted endurance performer Suevi the Italian. Christmas tree events brighten town. teachers institute prep grows in Elko with a special Reno train for visiting teachers. A humor piece recounts chickens, ducks and turkeys feasting on cherry brandy remnants and becoming comically intoxicated at Sonoma Ranch.
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Summerfield
San Francisco
Shep Case
the Journal
Reno
Chia
Harlow Hanson
California
Paria
Suevi
United
Died at Mill City Peter May 16 Died of typhoid fever at Mill City
Peter May son of Mr and Mrs Peter May of Mill City died at six o'clock Thursday afternoon from typhoid fever. He had been ill for some time and died under medical care. He lived with his parents until three months ago when they moved to Mill City where his father works for the Southern Pacific. He was about 16 years old and had many friends in Winnemucca. His body was sent to Reno with his parents and interment will likely be in Reno under Catholic auspices. The family has the community's sympathy.
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Silver State
Order of Eastern Italia
Eaid
Thavelay
London
James Drake
Shield
Carlefort
Sardiia
Dunkirk
Charles Jones
United States
M. E
Winne—uca
Elko Bens
Reno Institute
Reno
Elko
Chers
Hiko
Peter May
Mill City
Iad
Kingdom of Heaven
May
Southern Pacific Company
Winnemucca
Indian Peantars Death Attempt and Desert Mining Talk
An Indian known as Peanut was brought from McDermit for medical treatment after a self inflicted gunshot wound. The wound is dangerous only if blood poisoning occurs from inattention. The young man recently married found life hard after discovering his wife’s infidelity and attempted suicide. A correspondent in Randsburg notes the uncertainty of local prospects and questions why others might move there despite few large mines paying out. The Barto company reportedly employs 30 men across three shifts.
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McDermit
Hlangon
Randsburg
Cal
Walker Lake
Barto Company
King
Death by own action in Paradise valley teen
News from Paradise reports the death by self harm of Marnie Holt the fifteen year old daughter of Mr and Mrs W Holt in their valley home. Rumors link a young man who worked in the valley to the tragedy though no charges are noted. The pastor announces Sunday services with gospel messages and free seats.
Forecasts of Storm Waves Crossing Continents.T
Fosters bulletin describes a sequence of warm and cool waves crossing the continent from late December into January. It outlines predicted timings for the Pacific coast, Rockies, great central valleys, and eastern states, with limited precipitation east of the Mississippi and possible snows in northern Rockies.
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Fosters
Pacific Coast
Rockies
Great Central Valleys
Rocky Mountain
Mississippi River
Croan
Great Central Valley
Man Staked Wife On Election Result in Patent Agreement
The article reports an Indiana man William Coabus who agreed with George M. Barnell to seek a divorce if William Jennings Bryan won the presidency and to arrange a marriage if William McKinley Jr. won. It also mentions a 1892 cattle rustling leader Jack Flagge organizing a 100-strong force to Cuba, Utah election returns, a lodge notice for Winne mucca Lodge, and an advertisement for Hood's Sarsaparilla.
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Indiana
William Coabus
George M. Barnell
Elkhart
Wm. Jennings Bryan
United States
William McKinley Jr
The Fourteenth Wife Confronts The Pasha In Old Tale
A fragmented 19th century text shows a defiant scene with a fourteenth wife declaring she will demand a separation from the pasha of Boom tarara. The excerpt mixes sensational drama with product advertisements and brief notices including a bank meeting, a California trip, and local crafts in Nevada. The passages blend fiction, medical pitches, a legal notice style, and local business notices.
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Palid
Boomtarara
Yusef
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promotes Peculiar Merit
An 19th century style testimonial extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as uniquely curative. It claims dramatic health benefits and notes a boy of seven with fever and rheumatism who suffered sores on the thigh, once deemed hopeless by doctors.
Christmas sales and local ads flood the town page
The notice touts a Liberal Christmas Offer with gifts from ten cents up and no drummer's tariff. Chris Dieu Sr advertises a Second street gallery near Bridge and a guarantee of satisfaction. Also promotes Chamberlain's Pain Balm via W. A. Brown and features Hotel Busch for sale with blanks for legal forms offered.
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Chris Dieu Sr
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Rans and
Ocal
Ernest Davivier
L. B. Ward
Paradise
Sinver Star
Sonoma Canyon
J. W. Gurnere
Sonoma Ranch
Marnie
W. H. Holt
Winnemacea
Francis Brown
Foster
Cuba
Buffalo
Wyoming
Jack” Flagge
Champion
Ray
South
Texas
Texas Rangers
Corpus Christi
Utah
State Board of Canvassers
Bryan
Sewall
McKinley
Hobart
Palmer
Buckner
W. H. King
Lafayette Holbrook
Warren Foster
Winnemucca Lodge No. 19
R. M
J. Appenson
W. M
R. W. Lewes
Hood
ROYAL
Alam
Royal Baking Powder
New York
Seralgio
The
California Fig Syrup Company
M. Hofman
New York City
Hall
First. National Bank of Winnemucca
Nevada
Nixon
Porter
Sam
M. E. Brinces
Lovelock
Nev
Howard
Apa L. Moopy
Fay Street
Lynn
Mass
J. Hood & Co
Lowell
Second Street
Bridge
Paulin & Larivere
Germany
Jacobsen
Chicago Lumber Co
Des Moines
Iowa
W. A. Brown
E. Reinhart & Co's
Upper
Tuomas Suoxe
Busch Hotel
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