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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1900
Page
2
The notice lists daily except Sundays delivery details for the Corner Bridge and Fourth streets newspaper. It provides subscription rates by mail for various durations and by carrier in Winnemucca, indicating weekly and monthly pricing terms.
Weather data for the 24 hours ending 4 M shows mean barometer 20.53 inches and temperatures from a high of 72 to a low of 42. The mean is 67 with normal unspecified. Prevailing wind direction 8.9 and 2 hour precipitation of 0.06 inches. J C Hayden observer.
The forecast calls for fair conditions tonight and Friday with a cooler trend. The notice is dated Thursday May 24, 1900.
A New York Journal correspondent argues that strikes, though painful, have yielded gains for workers that arbitration alone could not secure. The piece notes repeated railroad strikes, the high cost to both sides, and the long gradual progress labor has made against capital through vigilance and organized action.
A collage of remarks from multiple papers notes Baden-Powell rising from a mule to peerage and Victoria Cross, a San Francisco divorce over yacht fondness, Jim Jeffries slated for the stage, and a wry take on Edwin Booth and others’ posthumous status. The Denver Post mentions a Kansas preacher named Damm and followers bitten by conscience.
The Chicago Chronicle reports an Italian opera company in Brazil was wiped out by yellow fever. The piece notes some may claim the deaths result from old age, a skeptical aside in the account.
A recent Boston Society of Arts paper explained artificial silk production. The process uses soluble lower nitrates of cellulose in alcohol ether, forcing solution through capillary tubes into water to form fine nitro cellulose filaments. The filaments are spun and denitrated to reduce combustibility, yielding lustrous but less durable silk for decorative use.
John E. Clifford of Norwood New York touts Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as a proven cure after his children suffered severe coughing during a winter whooping cough outbreak. The ad notes sale by Brown Bros Druggists and endorses Hood's Sarsaparilla as a preventive tonic. Also promoted is Winnemucca dentist Dr HH A MacMillan offering crown and bridge work with round the clock access.
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