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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1901
Page
2
The Silver State announces subscription rates and mailing options for Winnemucca Nevada. Rates include one year by mail 3600 six months by mail 8 three months by mail 150. Carriers in Winnemucca charge 6 per week. Address all business correspondence to The Silver State Winnemucca Nevada.
Weather report shows 24 hour conditions ending May 14 with mean temp 62 and highs 78. Precipitation 0.0 inches. Winds from the north, min temp 4 degrees above zero, normals noted at 53, forecast calls for fair tonight and Thursday.
Charles M. Schwab testifies before the Industrial Commission in Washington and defends trusts while praising economies claimed from capitalization. The Sacramento Bee notes overvaluation, water stock, and price trends, contrasting alleged savings with rising prices on nails, wire, glass, and tin plate. Colorado restores capital punishment to deter lynching, leaving Rhode Island, Maine, Michigan, and Wisconsin as states without life for life statutes.
Having secured his brigadier general commission in the regular army, Fred Funston appears to have discharged his press agent. He can afford to be liberal in his treatment of him for what he did.
The article argues the prime mental powers lie between ages 40 and 60 with notable exceptions. It cites Swift at 49 for Gulliver's Travels, Mill at 56 for Utilitarianism, Scott's greatest tales after 46, Milton between 54 and 59 for Paradise Lost, Cowper over 50 for The Task and John Gilpin, and Defoe near sixty when writing.
The New York Press notes poets and writers reaching major works at later ages. Hood produced The Song of the Shirt and The Bridge of Sighs at 46, Darwin published Origin of Species at 40 and Descent of Man at 62, Longfellow wrote Hiawatha at 48, Holmes released Songs in Many Keys after 55, George Eliot near 50 on Middlemarch, Bacon’s Essay- or History-aimed works at 59, Grote’s History of Greece extended beyond those ages.
The American Sheep Breeder notes R. M. Marquis held the sea shearing record for both hand and machine work. In June at Bow ers Bros. ranch near Martinsdale he broke records by shearing 360 seven pound wethers in fourteen hours and forty six minutes and removing 2650 pounds of wool. Marquis has shorn at major stations, once handling over 200 in a day and totaling 17,103 sheep in a season. He also achieved over 300 in a day on multiple occasions.
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