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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1897
Page
2
A brief notice lists subscription rates for The Silver State with options by mail for one year six months and three months and a weekly carrier rate in Winnemucca.
The Ogden Standard reports Lyman J. Gage plans to retire greenbacks and treasury notes replacing them with banknotes backed by bonds and to sell treasury silver to move the nation onto a gold standard. The piece argues the policy favors bankers and Wall Street and faults voters for backing the Hanna McKinley coalition.
Opposition grows to a proposed bill by Mills of Ormsby to cap admission to glove contests at one dollar. The measure aims to curb promoters and could derail plans for a staged hippodrome in Nevada, though passage seems unlikely due to political bad faith concerns.
A motivational reflection urges self reliance and personal effort to gain fame, money, or love. It argues fortunes come from hard work, not patronage, and warns that relying on others can hinder progress. The piece highlights the value of decisive action, self discipline, and inner resolve.
Advert claims Hood's Sarsaparilla is a medicine with a record of cures and the true blood purifier. It urges those with impure blood to take Hood's Sarsaparilla with confidence that it will do them good.
On account of sickness I offer for sale the whole of my hotel property in upper Winnemucca. A money making opportunity and reasonable terms to the right party. Thomas Stone, proprietor Busch Hotel. Hood's Pills assists digestion 25 cents.
A testimonial-style claim extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as unequaled for curing blood disorders. It cites a boy with rheumatic fever and severe sores on his thigh once treated by doctors as hopeless, implying dramatic healing through the product.
A patient with scrofula sores suffered a year and a half of illness and bone protrusion. Doctors discussed cutting the leg to scrape bone. The family, in desperation, started Hood's Sarsaparilla in late February as the patient declined.
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