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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1900
Page
2
Public notice lists subscription rates by mail and carrier for Winnemac area with terms for yearly semiannual quarterly and weekly delivery. Correspondence directed to The Hilver State in Winnemacen Sevada.
Weather bureau report from the station records temperatures for the 24 hours ending 4 My Meridian time. Mean barometer 3010. Maximum 43 degrees. Minimum 2 degrees above zero. Mean 38 degrees, normal 37. Prevailing wind direction NW. Precipitation 14. Readings dated Feb 26. Feb 27 low 42. J C Hayden server Weather Thures
Fair tonight and Wednesday. In war news General Cronje surrenders 3,000 to Lord Roberts as British forces claim a decisive victory. Other notes discuss leap years in the century beginning 1901 and a cattle car confinement bill advancing in Congress.
A critical cartoonish critique notes that Americans flood the Philippines with bug juice to civilize natives, but soldiers return demented from drinking it. The piece claims Filipinos tolerate the drink yet Americans gulp it down eagerly, prompting commentary on cultural superiority and consumption.
Scientific men predict pathogenic bacteria will be exterminated in civilized lands. Medical advances already curb typhoid and diphtheria, hunt consumption bacilli, and sanitation cities reduce fears of cholera and yellow fever.
The article notes a young woman executed for murder in Canada after a fair trial. It emphasizes that sympathy for the murderer did not alter the outcome and her youth did not influence the judgment.
The Troy Times compares the use of a forfeit in crime cases with how other states raise a row of public sentiment when a woman is arrested for murder. It notes the strong, revolting attitudes regardless of the bloodiness of the act.
Feb 27 Sacramento reports another smallpox case at Truckee. The victim is Julia Finnegan a post office clerk. Health officer requests vaccine from Dr W P Matthew and notes additional cases in eastern Nevada and Utah.
Four degrees above zero in New York City. Attorney General Nolan of Montana recalled in Clark case. Samuel Larssen killed by dynamite at Great Falls Montana quarry. several others injured. Pacific cable bill advanced by House Commerce Committee with progress toward final passage. Five Aberdeen trawlers lost hope of safety after gale. seventy five crew. Uganda railway telegraph reaches Nile at Ripon Falls February 19. line across river established. Adirondacks record deep freeze with Plattsburg twelve below, Malone fourteen, Saranac Lake twenty two. Rex Swedish mail steamer stranded near Lohrme Began Island. five stewardesses drown. Mr. Depew of New York addresses Senate on Philippine policy, Beveridge proposal debated. Fire destroysClarion Pennsylvania business district. ex-Judge W W Barr dies. fourteen firms destroyed. loss about 150000. Pipes freeze. fire department powerless. residents thaw fire plugs with snow and bonfires.
Tell Your Sister A beauty complex on is impossible without good pure blood. This tea acts on the bowels liver and kidneys to keep them healthy. Price twenty and fifty cents at Eagle Drug Store.
Reader urged to tell bilious colic sufferers about Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It promises prompt relief and is sold by Brown Bros., Druggists.
In Paradise Valley on February 24 1900 a son was born to the wife of J H Carter.
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