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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1897
Page
2
An office listing at COR BRIDGE AND FOURTH STS notes the address 1 8600 400. The fragment appears as a municipal or property reference with no additional context or actions specified.
Prominent Nevada lawyers dispute a licensing bill for boxing exhibitions as unconstitutional and infamous. Debates center on disqualification of supporters, possible disfranchisement, and whether to test the law in court or let the fight proceed to reveal and curb the alleged moral and legal violations.
The governor vetoed the semi annual tax collection bill after Senate debate showed nine to six, missing one vote for a two thirds majority. Denton proposed raising salaries for several state officials to 1600 per year from January 1 1897. Ways and Means heard militia bill arguments from National Guard members in the afternoon.
The article lists shipboard penalties for quarrel, knife, spirits, smoking, lights, sleep, meal timing, grooming, insolence, striking, and smuggling with wages lost from one day to a month. It also promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla and Hood's Pills for blood and health, then includes a hotel sale notice for Tuomas Suonr of Busch Hotel in Winnemucca with terms.
The ad extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as unequalled for merit and sales, claiming it purifies and vitalizes blood. It recounts a family statement about a seven year old boy with rheumatic fever and acute rheumatism, noting sores on the thigh as a featured cure claim.
A boy named Howard suffered scrofula for a year and a half with bone fragments emerging from sores. Doctors warned surgery to scrape bone might be needed. After starting Hood's Sarsaparilla in late February he began improving following a prolonged illness.
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