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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1897
Page
3
This and That from Lovelock highlights a prosperous year with strong crops and booming activity. Residents join band practice tonight as visitors from Reno and Fairlawn arrive, while local stock, mining, and hotel interests reflect optimism.
Due to illness A. D. Wincox announces a closing out sale of the entire stock, including groceries, gentlemen’s furnishing goods, and a late invoice of men’s underwear and heavy woollen overshirts. Callan Lexamine stock before purchasing elsewhere.
Telegraphic news from across territories reports Ex Queen Liliuokalani visiting Chicago. Yellow fever cases ease in New Orleans. Mrs. L O Spellman, mother-in-law to John D. Rockefeller, dies at Forest Hill Ohio. Alamon Colorado marshal Joseph Simons shot by a mistaken prowler. A man commits suicide in Front Street area by leaping before a streetcar. Duke and Duchess of Rio Grande face charges in London for alleged horse fraud. Sheepshead Bay mile event winner Tenament, with Salvator record pace near. Port Townsend reports Governor Brady seeking naval aid amid lawless conditions. Klondike trail dispatches bleak. Crete blockade easing. Greece terms viewed as German victory. Britain voices discontent. Carson reports Emma Tousic suicide in Gardnerville amid personal distress. wedding near-term noted. Advertisement: invest opportunities in Winnemucca. Brown & Piper advertise iron and steel products.
Disjointed Globe dispatch reports about 1000 off-reservation Apache tribesmen in the Pint and Superstition mountains, armed and roaming, feared to attack settlers. References to Geronimo era depredations, military plans to post troops, and past campaigns. Includes unrelated notes on a Nevada Knights gavel gift and an 1890s Hall's Catarrh Cure advertisement.
Theodore Figel testified in his own defense at San Francisco court proceedings. He described his 26 years age and service at Leanne Rofman’s firm starting in 1888, rising from office boy to confidential clerk and cashier. The session focused on questions about the firm’s history, with objections from the defense and exchanges between counsel.
Barley quantity available for sale by City Bakery, contact Chris Diehl for more information.
Dr McDonald the dentist arrives to serve the Winnemures district for eight weeks. He will then travel to McDernat for a week to attend to additional dental needs.
A brief drugstore notice touts No-To-Bac for fifty cents with claims of druggin cures and purification. It lists price 80c and $1 and states availability at all druggists. The ad frames the product as a guaranteed remedy.
Dr C F Moore, a member of the state board of dental examiners, will professionally visit Elke and Winnenuees in the near future. Reserve your work and consider No To Be for quitting tobacco. Sterling Remedy Co. advertises cure with booklet. Brown I Piper’s offers wagon spokes and hubs at Sacramento prices.
A local Gall story notes Chanberisin e Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as the sole sure relief for long standing billoup colic in Screven County Georgia. The ad claims one dose provides relief when other remedies fail and lists W A Brown as the sale point.
Local office offers a range of legal blanks including summons subpenas warrants and complaints for justices of the peace. Also promoted are fruit jars jelly glasses fruit wax and footwear by E Reinhart Co alalf M Horman and Brown Piper lumber and hardware. Plumbing tinsmithing and local advertising notes plus a cure constipation candy ad.
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