Social and business visit notes from Winnemucca
Local residents report arrivals and departures in Winnemucca including Oscar C. Stone and H. H. Forney among others. J. P. Morgan led a party of seventy on a NYC to San Francisco Pullman train en route to Episcopal convention in California.
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Lillie
Kate Peace
San Francisco
Oscar C. Stone
Arizona
Winnemucca
William Klinger
J. E. Roche
J. P. Morgan
New York
Morgan
Episcopal Churches of America
J. P
Indian Relay Rider Scores Narrow Carson Victory
In a Carson Sacramento relay race an Indian rider led for the Carson team after a war whoop. The Sacramento rider looked back and fell, allowing Carson to gain a half mile before a close finish with Carson winning by about ten feet.
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Carson
Sacramento
Pine nuts cheap this year despite potential price control
The pine nut market in the state is influenced by supply and demand. A larger crop this year and lower prices by half from last year are noted as red men reduce prices. Indians control the crop and could form a trust to keep prices high.
Southern Pacific Develops Benicia Carquines Straits Bridge Plan
The Southern Pacific Company revisits a Benicia bridge project spanning 4000 feet across the Carquines Straits. Proposed height is 140 feet above the water with a longest span of the bridge not specified in available text.
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The
Southern Pacine Company
Carquines Straits
Benicia
Excellent Piece of Road on Oregon Short Line Standards
The Oregon Short Line is credited with the best road in the Scale between Calientes and Milford in Lincoln county. Tunnels have sides boarded up and painted white and brush cleared 100 feet each side of the grade from Calientes to Avada.
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Oregon
Death of Hospital Patient Ole Anderson
Ole Anderson a county hospital patient died this morning of dropsy. The Swedish native was 61 and well known in the county’s southern part. He came to the hospital from Lovelock about four months ago.
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Ole Anderson
Sweden
Lovelock
New social club forms in Lovelock and new post office opens at Birch
Lovelock forms a forty member social club while Birch Eureka county opens a post office with Andrew C. Dibble as postmaster. Reno man H J Gosse begins a three story Reno hotel foundation this fall costing about 45000 dollars.
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Lovelock
Birch
Eureka County
Andrew C. Dibble
H. J. Gosse
Reno
Riverside
Walker Lake Bulletin
Tonopah
Manhattan Company
Pioche
Hays Well Treated In Retirement Terms
The San Francisco Chronicle reports President C. M. Hays of the Southern Pacific was generously treated in the financial settlement with Harriman. He supposedly received his full salary through year end and half pay for the next four years of his five year contract at 355,000 per year.
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Hays
Harriman
Southern Pacific
Speyers
Large Sale of Cattle Involving Mrs Winzell And Golconda
Mrs M Winzell of Pine Valley sold a large number of cattle to John Sibbald of the Golconda Cattle Company with over seven hundred head shipped Wednesday at Carlin Eureka Sentinel. Ivanhoe Lodge No 18 K of P members and visitors are asked to attend a 8pm meeting in Silver State hall where the Grand Chancellor will make an official visit. By order of the C Cc
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H. H. Forney
Southern Pacific
E. M. Dickeman
Sacramento
P. B. Roberts
Michigan
G. A. Macpherson
Wadsworth
Knights of Pythias
Nevada
Ivanhoe Lodge No
Order
Elmer
Carson
Vic Bouton
Ivanhoe Lodge No. 18
K. of P
Silver State Hall
C. Cc
Dentists and merchants advertise services at local hotel and shops
Dr. H B McDonald and Dr W B Porter list dental services at Lafayette Hotel and Bridge Street office, with crowns fillings and guarantees. F C Robins Co promote men shoes and caps, plus cakes and crackers. James Hurst advertises female cook wanted with $20 monthly wages in Winnemucca. Pasturage offered at The Lassen Meadows with W S Robinson at Humboldt River.
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James Hurst
Winnemucca
New
Lassen Meadows
Humboldt River
Robinson
Trumboldt House
P. O
Home Gold Cure for Liquor Habit Promises Home Treatment
An advertisement claims a disease model of drunkenness and presents the Home Gold Cure as a pleasant, at home remedy. It asserts guaranteed cures, offers discreet distribution by mail from Edwin Gles & Company, and targets husbands wives and families with a one dollar price and professional support.
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Edwin B. G.les & Company
Market Street
Philadelphia
Thoroughbred Bucks for Sale at Sonoma Ranch
A 400 head selection of thoroughbred Spanish Delaine bucks is offered for sale at the Sonoma ranch. Contact J F Guthrie of Winnemucca Nevada for details. Also listed are French Merino yearling bucks from Battle Mountain Nevada and prices via Flank Martin. Various patent medicines and tonics are advertised by Brown Bros including Kemp's Balsam One Minute Cough Cure Shermans Headache Cure DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve Lan's Tea with claimed health benefits.
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Sonoma Ranch
J. F. Guthrie
Winnmucca, Nev
Battle Mountain
Nev
Brown Bros
Sherman
Lan
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J. H. Griffin
Humboldt House
State News Notes
Eezekiah Brown
Julia Stewart
Lillian Stern
Western
Knights
H. B. McDonald
Lafayette Hotel
F. C. Robins & CO
W. 8. Porter
Bridge Street
F. C, Robins & CO
Norris Silver
North Stratford
N. H
DeWitt
Henry Hilp
Salt Lake Office
Chicago
Burlington
Denver
West Second South
Ssen
First National Bank
N Timp
WIXOM
Sibbald
FM. Lee
C. V. W'Bride
A. G. Moore H
Busch
Clark
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