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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1897
Page
3
A practical guide explains weighing cattle by girth and body length, using a formula that multiplies the square of the girth by five times the length and divides by 21 to approximate forequarter weight in imperial stones. It notes fatness and skin proportions affect total weight and mentions other miscellaneous items from the period.
A Humboldt County visit shows the county hospital crowded yet clean with careful management under Superintendent Hurst and staff. The single story building holds six rooms, many beds, and a morgue, with needs for three more rooms to ease overflow and better ventilation noted. Patients, including elderly men and a cataract case, receive attentive care from Mr and Mrs Hurst and Miss Pearl Bradshaw.
Brown & Piper report receipt of two thousand rolls of wallpaper in fifty patterns this year. Call and inspect stock before buying, with emphasis on quality and price. Also promote Oliver Chilled plows from F C Robins & Co for prospective buyers.
An old advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething children. It claims relief from teething pain and associated symptoms, including diarrhea and stomach upset, and promotes the product as pleasant tasting. Price listed as twenty five cents per bottle. Sold by druggists worldwide.
Union Pacific offers rapid through service from Winnemucca to Chicago St Louis Omaha St Paul Denver with faster times than rivals. Daily 2 15 p m departures include through Pullman family sleepers dining chairs and library cars with agents H Kitto Winnemucca and D E Burley Salt Lake handling folders and inquiries.
Notice invites sheep owners to use modern shearing corrals and a band in a day aided by a new sheep dip and Pure Extract of Tolacco Black Leaf to cure scab. It promises immediate dipping after shearing and notes correspondence from L. Dorentre of Golconda, Nevada. Also advertises Richards the photographer returning to Winnemucca for two weeks with a call-ahead deadline before April 1.
Attention sheep shearers. E Reinhart & company offers the largest assortment of genuine BBA and Shepherd brand sheep shears at lowest prices. Examine the Shepherd shear and testimonies. Also Oliver Chilled Plows Nos 20 and 40 on exhibition with other numbers available by order from F C Rontz & Co.
300 REWARD, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure sm all itsues and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure a known to the medical fraternity. It is a constitutional disease that requires a constitutional treatment. The proprietors offer One Hundred Dollars for any case it fails to cure. Bend for testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO. Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75¢.
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