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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1880
Page
3
Fragmentary notes from the War Department Signal service dated January 2, 1839 record simultaneous observations and station activity at multiple signal stations. The text confirms routine operations and timing in a military communications context.
Yesterday the district court resumed the Lamance v Vignnes case with witnesses for the plaintiffs and the defense moving for a continuance. In the Bow Ling felony case the defendant was arraigned and granted time to plead after State consent.
One of the season's largest lively parties drew many ladies and gentlemen to the Central Pacific Hotel last evening. Guests enjoyed a guessing game and music as the hours flew by in a festive atmosphere.
An emigration car attached to the train was left behind with passengers aboard. A passenger asked who was in the rear carry. the porter joked that it was the Kiamatiant Room. Railway staff say east and west emigration by rail averages about twenty emigrants daily in each direction.
A scientist reports lamp explosions stem from gas vapor above oil as flames heat the lamp. Factors include air drafts near windows and doors, moving the lamp, strong chimney draughts, extinguishing by blowing, damaged chimneys, mis-sized wicks, or using old burners.
Son Pastime Charles Wesley Hymer, jailed since May, records the jail’s ironwork. He notes 30 sheets of sheet iron 12 feet long, floor 16 pieces, 197 large bolts 38 inches long, 93 rivets in rows, 205 rivets on the floor, 7405 rivets in cages and cells, and 108 window bars with 23 cross bars and 15 perpendicular bars outside plus 7 cross bars inside and 9 perpendicular bars between shutters.
The Choral Class will meet at the M. E. Church this Friday evening at 1 o clock. Members are urged to attend promptly and in full. The Winnemucca flouring mills have resumed operations after Christmas shutdown, producing high quality flour. The public distrusts pawnbrokers, who are seen as opportunistic. An exception is Uncle Harris, pioneer, at 22 Kearny Street San Francisco between Bush and Sutter.
A landlord driven eviction in Knock Rickard Mayo provoked a fierce attack on the process server and constabulary. Police with swords rifles and bayonets faced enraged villagers including wounded women amid potential loss of life.
Local notices promote Shilohs Vitalizer and Porous Plaster at 75 cents each through C A Desausure Druggist Winnemucca Nevada. Also announces C W Johnston to leave town for two months and urges prompt dentistry. Watchmaker Geo F Jackson with J E Sabine offers warranted work. Free lunch at Palace Saloon and oysters from A Booth & Co. plus local dry goods and champagne ads. The piece ends noting a meeting aiming for greater success.
Sheriff Fitch of Elko escorted Pat Ryan an insane man to Stockton. He notes this is the third Elko county transfer in a month. The piece jokes that locating a lunatic asylum in Eastern Nevada would save costs but drive Reno and Carson residents mad.
One of George Baker's teams departed for Silver City Idaho loaded with 20 000 pounds of merchandise by local forwarding merchants. It marks the first freight team to leave this year for Silver City.
An advertisement touts Shiloh’s Consumption Cure as the best lung medicine claiming to cure common and chronic coughs in half the time and relieve asthma bronchitis whooping cough croup and consumption. It promises safety for children and offers 50 cent and one dollar prices along with Saloh’s Porous Plaster sold by C A DaSavssone, Druggist.
Superintendent Towne informs residents that the railroad shops will be removed from Wadsworth in the coming summer or early fall.
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