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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1900
Page
2
The item details subscription rates and mailing options for The Silverstate Winnemucca, including one year six months three months by mail or carrier, and directs correspondence to The Silverstate Winnemucca Yeoveda.
Weather Bureau report from Wixwemucca Station dated February 12 gives 244 hours of data with mean barometer at 30.10 inches a maximum temperature around 4 degrees and a minimum 12 hours later. Mean temperature 29 degrees and normal baseline at 4 degrees. prevailing wind from the east. precipitation for four hours minimal. Observer J G Hayden notes readings for February 14 with temperatures above zero.
Cloudy with possible rain or snow tonight and Wednesday. Willson Tuesday February 13 1900 reports a survey for a Pacific cable is finished with soundings mapped but not released until sent to Washington. Standard Oil declared a 20 percent quarterly dividend and raised kerosene prices by 2 cents per gallon.
Matthew Stanley Quay remains hopeful about winning the United States Senate seat. If he succeeds, Hon Henry T. Gage would react angrily over the extra session he called that resulted in Dan Burns losing the Senatorship.
Nevada Senator Jones is billed to speak on the financial bill today in Congress marking the first notable reference to the senior senator from the state in three years aside from his absence listing.
Experiments with a Venezuelan shrub product claimed to cure leprosy are to be conducted in Hawaii under Dr. Carmichael of the United States Marine Hospital. Washington directs the tests as part of ongoing medical research. Five years ahead the American navy is expected to exceed 180 ships, with a detailed fleet expansion including battleships, cruisers, monitors, gunboats, and torpedo vessels.
The Brooklyn Eagle notes the first solar total eclipse visible in twenty years will be observed next spring. It will travel a narrow corridor from Norfolk Virginia toward New Orleans through western North Carolina South Carolina and upper Georgia Alabama with the event set for May 8 in the afternoon. The prior U S total eclipse occurred in 1878 spanning the Mississippi to the Pacific.
A roundup of humorous and critical items from Chicago and other papers. Notes mock war lyricists, report a dentist chair death during tooth extraction, discuss spies in Ladysmith, and joke about political figures and whisky in the South. Notable voices include St Louis Globe-Democrat Chicago Times Herald Inter-Ocean Buffalo Express and Hardeman Free Press.
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