Local Notes Mix Weather, Social News, and Controversy
A varied Lovelock area roundup reports fair weather, Arbor Day plans, sheep industry optimism, and a Nevada exhibit donation. It notes a suicide in Candelaria, a Carson City marriage, matte shipments from White Cloud and local photographers in town. Controversial passages question Chinese labor and local horse-killing, reflecting era attitudes and rural tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Winnemucca Orchestra
Lovelock Commercial Company
Nevada
Fresno Witness Sobbing Dying Woman Links Reel 8 to Murder
Mrs. Cora Palmer, a dying Fresno witness, testifies in the Richard Heath trial about an incendiary scene the night of L B E McWhirter’s murder. She details a buggy ride, a burning handkerchief marked R 8 H, and identifies Reel Terry as among two men. Heath grows pale as she testifies before medical certainty ends her days.
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Fresno
Cal
Cora Palmer
Richard Heath
L. BE. McWhirter
Terry
McWhirter
Washington Colony
Heath
Keel B. Terry
San Francisco
Tragic Idaho Wounding: Sister Killed by Brother
In Emmet Idaho a 15 year old girl named Price was killed by her 12 year old brother Saturday afternoon. The boy, handling a gun while watching sheep, slipped while removing caps and the weapon discharged. the shot struck her head and she died instantly. He was restrained as he raved in grief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emmet
Idaho
Price
Death notice for Robert M. Burge in Paradise Valley
The notice details the death of Robert M. Burge at his Paradise Valley residence on the 13th, noting a life of quiet honesty and a later unbalanced mind due to successive hard times. He leaves a widow, five children, and a stepson. several relatives live in Missouri and Mountain Home Idaho. The piece also references local business items and notices about mail-order goods and market prospects.
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Carsons
Golconda
Evan Williams
United States
China
Robert M. Burge
Paradise Valley
Missouri
California
Mountain Home
Idaho
Local notices and ads from Winnemucca and Fort Worth era
Fragmented reads show notices about stock spaying services in Winnemucca with testimonials, Mrs. Jennie Neth estate settlement by Charles Neth, seed and wallpaper ads in Winnemucca, a medical claim about deafness cure via Hall's Catarrh Cure, and a reminder on Simmons Liver Medicine and Ayer's Pills as tonics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Texas
Winnemucca
J.G. Hattoway
Nevada
Paul Neth
Charles Neth
Jennie Neth
Hall
J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Dragansts
Krause's Headache Capsules Advertised By Liberty Seller
An 1891 Alleghany Pennsylvania letter from Norman Liehty of Des Moines endorses Krause's Headache Capsules as a quick neuralgia remedy. The note mentions Eagle Drug Store handling the product and cites other tonics such as Simmons Liver Regulator Hall’s Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer and Ayer's Sarsaparilla as spring medicines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alleghany
Norman Liehty
Des Moines
Krause
C. W. Smart
Eagle Drug Store
Hall
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Gynasium Club
1.C. G. T. Lodge
Lovelock
W. E. Hill
Candelaria
Dove & Murphy
Carson City
Will Davis
Carson Appeal
Ida Irene Spooner
M. A. Spooner
Lake Tahoe
White Cloud
Kaiser
Pritchard
Lsmay
Auastin Reveille
Brown & Piper
Star
Extra Star
Elaine
U. S
M. E. Ward
Soda Springs
Hawthorne
Reno Gazette
Repaias
Ive
Ae Pure
Monroe
Favorite
F.C. Ronis & Co
Brown & Piper's
F.C. Rourxs & Co
Porter
4Th and
Melarky Streets
Moti
Leeds
E. Retsnarr & Co
Brown & Piper’s
Simmons
Ayer
Simmons Liver
D&price
Feed and Sale Stable
Upper
Chas. A. LaGrave
Cunningham Bros
Rocky Mountain Coal
PIPER
Bridge Street
A. D. Wilcox
City Bakery
Chris. Diehl
Lapayette
Nev
Germain
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