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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1900
Page
2
The Silver State published by Windle & Bracket, lessees with a daily except Sundays edition. Subscription rates list one year by mail six months by mail three months by mail and carrier in Winnemucca per week with address for business communications at The Silver State Winnemucca Nevada.
Weather Bureau report from Winnemucca Station for four hours ending 5 PM shows mean barometer 30.51 inches and temperatures ranging from 3 degrees to 24 degrees above zero with an average of 28 degrees. Prevailing wind 5 W and no measurable precipitation. Readings note normal 45 degree benchmark and a November minimum of 0.24 degrees above zero.
Fair tonight and Saturday with warmer conditions expected tonight. The forecast for Friday notes continued mild air as a high pressure system moves across the region.
The Salt Lake Herald lambastes McKinley policy as Western neglect shows in Nevada population drop from 62,266 in 1880 to 42,336 in 1900 while a new monitor named Nevada replaces Connecticut after Eastern objections. It argues fair West-leaning legislation would boost national growth and reduce dependence on trusts and eastern banker influence.
The piece notes consumers view a beefsteak as a generic item and distinguish only between round and sirloin. It observes shoppers assume no quality difference among sirloins and resist price variation, while a porterhouse selling for 5c versus 25c elsewhere suggests to shoppers a shop runs on some system of pricing.
A Denver Stockman urges a public education plan to help consumers distinguish good steak from inferior meat by appearance. He argues that awareness will raise demand for high quality cattle and explain higher prices.
A contemporary alleges a Halifax newspaper compositor mixed a marriage notice with a grocer advertisement causing the notice to read that John Brown and Ida Gray were united in holy sauerkraut by the quarter barrel. It adds Mr Brown as a codfish at 10c per pound and Miss Gray selling pig’s feet cheaper than rivals in town.
An advertisement touts a costly lavish book with Christ and the Virgin, 100 full page engravings, European gallery references, a child’s department, and biographical notes. It promises lucrative earnings for agents in Massachusetts New York and demands state managers with commissions or salaries.
James F Sloan withdraws from the co partnership N L Cattle Company with George B Nixon and Frank M Lee and sells his interest to the surviving partners who will continue the business under the same firm name and settle all debts. Signatories James F Oldan George B Nixon Frank M Lee. Nov 26w3.
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