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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1899
Page
2
Daily except Sundays office at Corner Bridge and Fourth Streets lists subscription rates by mail: one year advance 60 dollars, six months 30, three months 15, with weekly 2 dollars. Also mentions Winnemucca and address for business correspondence.
Weather Bureau report for Winnemucca Station notes four hour period ending 5 PM local time with mean barometer 20.08 inches. Maximum temperature 8 degrees, minimum 0 degrees, mean 4 degrees. normal 46 degrees. Prevailing wind from the W. 0 precipitation in past 24 hours. temperature October 1 percent 4 above zero. J A Hayden, Observer.
Local forecast calls for cloudy and threatening conditions tonight with a fair day expected Thursday. Hayden region shows showers tonight and Thursday. Meadie area follows similar wet pattern with rain likely over the next 24 to 36 hours.
The notice calls for subscriptions to welcome Nevada cavalry back to the state with a fund to host a reception. County officers are named to receive contributions. A Clinch county Atlantic Constitution note recalls Brother Jones’s failed rain prayer and drowning. It also mentions Joe Pete’s surrender talks for a $500 reward portion. The piece comments on war poetry and songs spurred by the Spanish American War.
The accident to the Shamrock yesterday is deeply regretted. Sailors dislike wins gained by disqualification, as Columbia did by finishing within time. With two wins needed out of three, the American yacht remains safe. The Shamrock, though a fine boat, is slower, and its trio of skippers, even with William II’s sailing master, fall short of Captain Barr’s American crew.
Bryan draws sincere, heartful receptions in Kentucky while McKinley is met by crowds of organized workers who are urged to cheer for sound money and protection. The piece accuses McKinley of courting hypocritical support from laborers who were once driven to Canton for the campaign.
The Nebraska platform calls for enforcing federal law, enacting new legislation, and a constitutional amendment if the constitution protects trusts to curb private monopoly. The Examiner compares this to Republican platitudes and questions its own sports predictions about Columbia’s defeat and a recent American win.
Unvaccinated voters are barred in Norway. Ceylon natives believe the cocoa palm grows with human voice. Winter guests in Swiss hotels seen without overcoats. Iceland grants political equality to men and women. Japan plans first international exposition in 1902. Suitors for a Borneo girl offer gifts. gifts not returned. China has two great walls: one around Peking and the Great Wall built 2,115 years ago.
A humorous quip contrasts anxious mother and practical father facing a child’s toothache. The father says the pain will stop before reaching the dentist, jokingly implying no money is needed for relief.
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