Tonopah Mines Sale Talks Stir Au ton Town
Correspondence from Tonopah describes bond terms on eight company claims and a failed sale after Price and Brent could not meet payment. Ore values shift toward gold, with an estimated two million dollars in sight. Local growth includes a Tonopah Bonanza newspaper, new reduction works plans, and rising lot prices as mining and services expand.
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Austin Reveille
San Francisco
Brent
Gayhart
Battle Mountain
Tonopah
Treasury
W. W. Booth
Yeasers
Sequel to Young Officer's Death Reopens Tragic Romance
A Sumioris ambulance report at Powell and Ellis Streets led police to investigate a young woman named Lilian Marette taken to City and County Hospital. Dr. von Hoffman said she is not in serious condition and recovering. Miss Marette, 20, had been a Nevada schoolteacher who moved to the city months ago after a romance ended in 1900 with Gordon Freeman, a Nevada Cavalry lieutenant who killed himself over her.
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Powell and
Ellis Streets
Bili
Lilian Marette
San Francisco Chronicle
von Hoffman
Nevada
Miss Marette
Reno
Gordon Freeman
Nevada Cavalry
Philippines
Marette
Freeman
Oregon Short Line to Let Contracts for Los Angeles Route
The Oregon Short Line plans to award contracts soon for a section of its line to Los Angeles. Engineers and contractors review the Meadow valley wash route while President Burt of Union Pacific tours Nevada with the Kilpatricks. If selected, the route through Clover Valley Junction will trigger bids for at least sixty miles of new track and work continues all summer to advance the line before winter.
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Oregon
Los Angeles
Salt Lake Tribune
Burt
Union Pacific
Nevada
Kilpatricks
Meadow Valley Wash
Clover Valley Junction
Oregon Short Line
First-Class Fruit Tree Sprayer From Robins & Co
Prospects food for Fruit announces a hand fruit sprayer for spraying fruit trees to keep worms away. The device can throw a stream over any tree in town as offered by F. C. Robins & Co.
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F. C. Robins & CO
Allied Armies Compared in Peking Expedition
George Lynch notes living with allied forces reveals contrasts in discipline, mobility, and fighting spirit. He praises American recoveries by commissaries but criticizes surface discipline. Japanese troops show vigor and schoolboy zest, while Germans appear highly drilled yet mechanical. Russians impress with endurance, and colonial French troops are denounced for looting and abuse toward locals.
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Peking
Commissariat
Army and Medical Corps
George Lynch
Independent
United States
Amyo
China
Japan
Mets
Perade
Orient
To Prevent Pneumonia and Grip
Laxative Bromo Quinine removes the cause. This ad claims the remedy prevents pneumonia and grip by addressing the underlying issue. It presents a medical claim tied to a commercial product with no modern medical qualification.
Tea and Witch Hazel Remedy Ad Promises Health Boost
An ad touts Tea is a pleasant digestive aid that improves complexion and eye yellowing while keeping kidneys healthy. It urges readers to get a 2be package tonight from Brown Bros druggists. A testimony notes DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve cured a long lasting pile condition.
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Ani
Brown Bros
Lane
Sherman’s Headache Cure Promises Quick Relief
An advertisement touts Sherman’s Headache Cure claiming to cure headaches and neuralgia with one pill. Sold as a box by Brown Bros. druggists.
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Shermen
Brown Bros., Druggista
Jury awards Burke $1000 against Modern Woodmen of America
A Clinton Iowa jury awarded Joseph Burke one thousand dollars over injuries from being dragged across a lodge room floor with a rope tied to his feet and other rough treatment. The case centers on alleged harm at a Modern Woodmen of America event.
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Joseph Burke
Clinton
Iowa
Woodmen of
America
Burke
New Stock Exchange
New York
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