Local News Highlights From Golconda and Reno Area
Local items note arrivals and departures including A Lay of Golconda J D Bradshaw Charles Kemler and Thomas Shone. Reno wheelmen plan a fifty mile relay May 22. Nevada volunteers and officers move toward Cheyenne Manila and Dakotas rumors. A church entertainment at Armory hall draws crowds. Beef cattle praised by A J Splawn. Definitions of knot speed in naval talk included.
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Reno
San Francisco
Father Reynolds
Nevaden
J. A. Sadorus
Winnemuces
Battle Mountain
Sadler
Nevada
Signal Corps
W.G. Caffrey
Carson
J. J. May
Western Union
M. 8. Bonnifield
Ashland
Oregon
Presidio
San Franchisco
Nevada Volunteers Leave for War Bound Train to Cheyenne
Nevada's volunteer cavalry passes through town on No 1 bound for Cheyenne Wyoming to be mustered into U S service. Fourteen local youths ride the rails as townsfolk urged to greet them at 2 40 A M and fill their hearts with patriotic support before their perilous journey.
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Nevada
Cheyenne
Wyoming
United States
Nevada volunteer cavalry troop meeting called by H Scumupr
All members are asked to assemble at their armory at 10 o'clock this Saturday evening in uniform for the purpose of meeting the Nevada volunteer cavalry troop. Captain H Scumupr leads the call.
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Nevada Volunteer Cavalry
H. Scumupr
War Department orders 29087 volunteers assembled at Chickamauga
Army mobilization steps include twenty regiments and five battalions. Colonel Hale to move First Colorado infantry to San Francisco tonight. Major Jones to arrange transport for one Kansas regiment Topeka to San Francisco. Windlow torpedo boat reaches Key West for repair. Flying squadron sails from Hampton Roads led by Brooklyn Massachusetts Texas Scorpion and Ster ling pursuing Spanish fleet near Martinique.
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War Department
Chickamauga
Hale
Colorado Infantry
San Francisco
Jones
Department of the Platte
Kansas
Topeka
San Fransisco
Hampton Roads
Brooklyn
Massachusetts
Texas
Scorpion
Sterling
Schley
Martinique
New Orleans
Minneapolia
Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup and other ad notices
A collage of late 19th century advertisements. Promotions for Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup claim relief for teething pain in children and list cures for diarrhoea and colic. Also promotes Chamberlain’s Pain Balm, Delft blue ware, Meyers & Eshleman drug firm praise, No-To-Bac tobacco cure, and a window display of Buckeye wagons and bicycles from Brown & Piven.
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Mrs. Winslow
Mra Winslow
United States
Chamberlain
A. T. Monravux
Laverne, Minn
W. A. Brown
Meyers
Baking powder miscue blamed on alum and clay
A reader claims cheap baking powder consists of white clay and alum. The alum supposedly leavens dough while the clay fills the can. The note warns the alum is hard on the insides and calls the clay a mere peck of dirt.
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Academy
A. Lay
Golconda
J.D. Bradshaw
Paradise
Charles Kemler
Thomas Shone
G. N. Schallenberger
Helen Rose
California
Armory Hall
Jerry Hearn
McDermit
Washington
Hamilton
University At
Seventh Artillery
Arthur Rogers
Marker Ranch
Lovelock
U. S
W. C. Pitt
H. Stoker
Lovelock Commercial Company
Frank Germain
Edna Giroux
Women and Children's Hospital
West
Torrey
J. A. Rogers
Martin Clancy
Kent
Ohio
W. J. Maxwell
Philadelphia
Cox
Colonel Torrey
Newlands
Manila
Philippines
National Guard
Dakota
M. E. Church
A. J. Splawn
Seattle
Garat & Co
William Stock
Siven
Col. Hardin
Western Meat Company
Windlow
Cardenas
Key West
Mare Island Navy Yard
Charleston
Admiral Dewey
M. FE
Christ
M. Grant Hama
Naches
Macon Valley
W. ©. Pitt
Denver
H. W. Fuss
Mr. Fuss
Winnemuecca
E. Bernart & Co
Tce
Leonard
Flint
Bridge Street
Central Hotel
Royal
Moval
New York
Delft
E. Reixnart & Co
M. B. Staunton’s
E. Retenant & Co
Crescent
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