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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1894
Page
2
Public notice of subscription terms for the Silver State Publishing Company located at the Silver State Blockcor Bridge and Fourth Streets. Lists prices for one year and six months by mail or carrier, and advertising rates per square with liberal reductions for regular advertisers. Names J B Case and Be Prrr authorized to collect subscriptions and renewals.
The issue carries two brief tales with a Denver, Colorado setting and a political angle on silver coinage. The Silver League report predicts strong Republican support for free silver, while a sequel notes the resolutions committee leaning against free coinage and woman suffrage. Weather data shows June 25 at Winstemucca Station: 75 high, 55 low, wind SW, 0.00 precipitation, 65 mean.
Kansas Senator Peffer offers an amendment to the tariff bill proposing a 50 dollar levy on arriving aliens. He argues that such a law over the past twenty years would have changed the country.
The Asheville municipal election returned the entire Populist ticket by a 273 vote majority. Judge Whittaker, a sitting supreme judge, publicly declared himself a Populist.
The text contrasts poverty levels in England and France noting 24 paupers per 100 in England versus one in France. It claims the difference stems from gold standard versus silver use and warns the United States is rapidly approaching England's pauper rate for the same reason.
The Philadelphia Record reports a new coin counting device at the mint devised by Sebastian Heines, chief carpenter, capable of counting two thousand silver dollars per minute and used to handle large quantities of silver bars. Director Preston authorized its test and operation, with the machine processing coins through a hopper, cogwheel tubes, and twenty grooves holding fifty coins each.
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