Winnemucca News Bits and Local Color Highlights
Local chatter notes Lovelock growth and easing railroad traffic after rate cuts. Cattle shipments to San Francisco are common. Sacramento visitors eye the famed snow. Winne mucca clubs, weddings, and plays stir town life. the Two Orphans might headline. Northern news mentions sulfur deposits near Granite Point and a plan to drive chickens to the Midwinter fair.
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Sacramento
Truckee
San Francisco
Winnemucca
Reno
Wadeworth
Corbett Jackson Fight Planned in Nevada State Grounds
Virginia Enterprise reports organizers led by Colonel E D Boyle plan a June Corbett versus Jackson bout in Nevada. A joint stock company with 1000 shares of 50 each is formed to fund a pavilion at Reno's state agricultural grounds. With a 50000 purse and legal glove contests, Nevada eyes major future pugilistic events.
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E. D. Boyle
Virginia Enterprise
R. T. Hoffer
J. E. Jones
Chas. Colburn
H. M
McConnell case ends with settlement and discharge
The McCo case is settled with all criminal proceedings against McConnell dismissed. Sloan and company release McConnell from damages for false imprisonment and debts. A receiver holds McConnell’s goods to pay $7000 to his family creditors, with property valued higher than debts. The article notes McConnell’s reputation as honest in Warreston.
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McConnell
Sloan and Company
Spokane
Sloan & Co
Warreston
Prospective Truckee Gold Ledge Draws Local Excitement
A new gold bearing ledge near Truckee is reported by The Republican to show rich free gold in extracted rock. The discoverer is an old-time prospector trusted to have future potential and the find may spur further prospecting in the area. Also notes a Town Topics advertisement and literary items.
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Truckee
Republican
H'e
Champion Bissell
San Domingo
Town Topics
Town Topics Publishing Co
Weat 23d Street
New York City
Health and cure notices and patent medicine ads
A collage of old notices and remedies including Syrup of Figs and Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup claims. Also ads for Hall's Catarrh Cure and Krause's Headache Capsules praise cures and livers regulators. Various names, dates, and locations appear in a newspaper fragment.
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Alleghany
Norman Liehty
Des Moines
Krause
C. W. Smart
Eagle Drug Store
Local Notes on Visitors and Arrivals
Personal notes list J. R. Benton from Kennedy Miss Ida Harris visiting Trends. Minnie Decker visiting Trends. H. F. Nossinger returned to Carlton. Albert Lay arrived from Golconda. J. Jones cattle buyer for Shoenfeldt & Co. San Francisco in town. H. S. Bettinger Pacific Mutual Insurance arrived from San Francisco. J. H. McBride came from Ogden en route to California for relatives and the Midwinter Fair.
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H. F. Nossinger
Carlton
Albert Lay
Golconda
J. Jones
Shhoenfeldt & Co
San Francisco
Bettinger
Pacific Mutual Insurance Company
J. H. McBride
Ogden
California
Carson Shooting Team Heads to Mid Winter Fair
Captain G W Cowing and eleven Carson guards arrived in Reno on Tuesday on the way to San Francisco for the Midwinter Fair rifle tournament. Ex Warden Frank McCullough and others accompanied them to root for Nevada. The report notes a poverty social with calico gowns and old clothes and fines for missing patches, raising humorous remarks about newspaper men finding a shine.
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G. W. Cowing
Carson Guard
Reno
San Francisco
Local Advert Printed Sparks Subscriber Backlash
A Colorado town reader canceled his paper over a proprietor printing a local social dance ad. The editor quips Catholics might now oppose the paper for meat market ads on Friday, highlighting community censorship debates.
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Colorado
AY THE M. E. CHURCH Meters
W Bonnifield Geo 8 Nixon and Dr Cartwright oversee meters for the M E Church in a note listing names and roles amid a civic or church administration item.
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Meters. W. Bonnifield
Nixon
Dr. C
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Lovelock
Ziegler
Winnemuce Dramatic Club
Company C
Int
William Ross
John Raser
Granite Poit
West
Humboldt Counties
Good Templars
White Pine News
Adams
Goodrich
Southern Pacific Company
C. P. Huntington
Omaha
Elko County
Eugene Sandow
San
Wadlaworth
Nadhes
McCo
U.S
Reval
Cashel
Loy
Hood
Paul Neth
Charles Neth
Jennie Neth
Porter
4Th and
Melarky Streets
Moti
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Tse
Wenslow
Mrs. Winslow
Simmons
Ayer
Simmons Liver Regulator
J. R. Benton
Kennedy
Ida Harris
Yostay
Miss Minnie Decker
Ing Trends
The
Carson Shooting Team
Demorest
M. E. Church
America
Marvin Hill
Earl Charter
Opal Miller
Eddie Nicholas Long
Mary Conner
Cora Rutherford
Pearl Trousdale
Wilbur Miller
Jargie Williams
Grace McGonagle
Feed and Sale Stable
Upper
Chas. A. LaGrave
Cunningham Bros
Sali
Rocky Mountain Coal
Nev
Henry Busch
J. G
Leonard
P Dentist
Callearly
Busch Hotel
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