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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1880
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR notes report observations at five Signal Corps stations dated in 1880. The text references the War Department and Army signals and mentions an observation taament, but details are incomplete. The readable items include station observations and agency acronyms.
J Torrey left on Juny's train for Sacramento. Tom Shone of the Toll Mouse eater to-day. He says Jack Wasson is solid for Hancock. C J Currier telegraph operator here left to-day for California to visit relatives. He will be absent about a month.
The Great American circus travels via Union Pacific and is now on display in Wycoming Territory. Arrival in Nevada before season end remains undecided. expected around September 1. Southern Pacific Railway cars for Arizona, built in Detroit, pass through for destination and are praised as tramp proof. Conductors report shifting travel among Californiabound and coastbound lines. Exile exiles and tramps appear in limited numbers. two Wy Makee towns depart with Hebhart Co and Levy Co, carrying 404K of car loads.
Odd transcription notes a meeting of the Male Base Bail Club at Oriental Mall this evening. Members are requested to attend.
Charles Tryan attended by Dr Hanson says the injured man is crazy. Ryan, at work on a gravel train, was struck near Battle Mountain by a locomotive and later picked up near Golconda, with railroad men claiming he stepped on the track despite a whistle. His right arm is broken.
A Fort Horney correspondent reports six bands totaling 22 400 head moved eastward to Cheyenne over two weeks. Most cattle hailed from Ante lope and Prineville in Wasco county. Hardin Taylor and others held a few. Low water and steep banks at Selvie River caused crossings to be difficult and twenty head of fine steers were lost.
The Boca Mill Company has Viautt as agent to employ men for the Humboldt canal above the mill. The plan is to complete the canal from its river intersection to the mill so water power can run the works. Lyon county population totals 2.0 with Silver City 0, Satro 442, Dayton 205, Ontede 961 and an overall decline of about half since 1970.
The census enumerators report Eureka County population at 6905 with breakdowns for Eureka, Ruby Hill, Alpha, Mineral Hill, Pine Station, Cortez, Palisade and Beowawe groups. The Bullion of Paradise buys all second class ore from the Ohio mine and ships to Sedan mill. The Kansas Pacific President and others travel in Union Pacific Director car. A band of cattle destined for Nebraska moves west. Labor demand rises along the railroad and ranchers offer high hay-field wages.
Allan threw a pistol at Pineville Indiana Territory and killed a little girl on a neighbor’s porch claiming irresistible impulse. Reports also note a new French oath denying treaty references and a Shakespeare volume used as a family Bible with titled inscriptions and blank family pages.
A lower jaw of an ancient mammoth was recovered from the Dnieper River by Russian fishermen. The fossil is described as black as coal and weighs seventy five pounds.
Alexander Wise named Agent for Winnemucca and vicinity by the Northwestern Masonic Aid Association via General Agent M. J. Henley of Virginia City Nevada. The group provides widows and orphans of deceased Masons eight thousand five hundred dollars annually at nominal cost, about a quarter of standard life policy expenses, with strong indemnity and reliability. For details, contact Wise on Second Street near Bridge in Winnemucca.
The piece urges Americans to seek wealth through energy honesty and saving while promoting Green's Avura Flower as a cure for dyspepsia liver complaint indigestion and related symptoms. It claims two doses relieve instantly with sample bottles at ten cents and regular size at seventy five cents.
Fresh groceries arriving at Cagwowrrn’s cash store. Customers can buy seven pounds of brown sugar or six pounds of white sugar for one dollar. The ad boasts no anael goods or defunct stock and highlights low margins. Also promotes Everybody’s Baking Powder and Levy & Co’s Ideal as better options with no alum unless requested.
Anew Buckeye Mower and Taylor Rake offered for sale by R. W. Lewis in Winneniveca listing jy8-tf. The notice advertises farm equipment for purchase with no additional terms provided.
Fragments promote Mrs Wrveton's Soorminte Syaor claiming instant relief for teething pain and regulated bowels. Other ads tout Ahilah's Consumption Cure for coughs and respiratory ailments, Shiloh's Vitalizer for digestion and liver issues, Shloh's Plaster for chest pain, and Mackinetack perfume from Winnemucca Nevada.
Levy & Co advertises Ayrrs Sar SAPARILLA as a superior vegetable medicine for scrofula blood disorders and liver and female health issues. It claims rapid cures, renewed vitality, and forty years of widespread use, urging readers to buy for health benefits and energy.
Levy & Co opens today with a large and complete stock of dry goods buttons and clothing. They promise not to be undersold with fresh goods arriving daily and invite shoppers to call, compare prices, and inspect the new offerings in town.
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