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Newspaper
The Pioche Weekly Record
Location
Pioche, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1906
Page
3
The text surveys renewed desert irrigation prospects in the Sahara via bore holes deep to 2000 feet, noting springs and palm groves potential. It also recalls a Harvard Oxford anecdote about a clergyman’s prayer misstep, and quotes remarks on wealth and the “simple life” from period sources.
N R Snyder a prominent New York financier receives a Portland telegram claiming his son Carey Snyder was killed by men tied to a bank robbery plot in Forest Grove Oregon. Forest Grove and Portland authorities suspect Carey Snyder Pinky Bill and George Perry, with Blits and Perry noted as local police figures and Spyder previously in trouble.
Washington reports France will demand an immediate apology from President Castro for an insult to French charge d affaires M Taigny. Three French warships near Venezuela, two more en route, with possible actions including blockade or seizure of customs houses if apologies and diplomacy lapse.
The article reports an increase in coal miner wages aligned with the United Mine Workers 1904 concession, and notes a Chinese proposal to open all foreign settlements beyond treaty ports. It also covers Boise sheriff transfer of Harry Orchard, charges of shipper fraud in Kansas City stockyards, and the Manhattan rush in Goldfield with geologists entering the field.
Ex governor James H. Peabody his wife and daughter Cora were poisoned at breakfast in Canon City Colorado. The daughter is in danger as physicians treat her condition. An intimate friend said several notes threatening similar fate were received in past weeks referencing the death of Idaho Governor Steunenberg. Peabody recalls labor troubles era when Colorado troops occupied Cripple Creek and Telluride and the Independence depot disaster occurred.
Advices received by the steamer Moana report a raid near Port Moresby in New Guinea where 33 villagers were killed as they slept and the village looted. A constable was raped and survived with others, prompting a punitive force. In Port Keats another massacre killed six whites and three natives with tomahawks.
Eighteen men are believed dead after a powerful explosion in a Detroit and Kanawha Coal company mine at Detroit on Paint Creek, twenty-five miles from Charleston. The blast occurred at 12:30 PM, shaking the hills and flinging debris blocks at the mouth of the mine, hindering rescue work and increasing the tragedy.
Delegates at the Moroccan conference held a private two hour session Thursday afternoon and reached agreement on main lines of a plan to repress contraband entering Morocco. Officials feared Franco German tension over enforcement, but an escalation was avoided. In Chicago, the tract of J Ogden Armour and others indicted for conspiracy to restrain trade opened in federal court before Judge Humphrey, with defendants including J Ogden Armour, Charles Armour, T J Comfard, Edward Morris, and others.
Severe water flood hit Evanston after the Union Pacific dam failed above the city at 10 o clock Tuesday. No deaths reported, but residents were compelled to flee their homes. The flood wrecked property, with a great wall of water carrying trees and debris. Damage estimated at two hundred thousand dollars.
A jumbled mix of medical advice and product pitches appears, touting stomach strength, a conspiracy of ailments, a peculiar Golden bearer, and advertisements for Allen's Foot Troubles. The text displays dubious medical claims, testimonials, and a note about penny-price rubles, concluding with an impossible task claim by a professor.
The lord mayor of London laments clerical labor as overdone. He argues clerks have little chance of employment in the colonies and that the clerk element represents a broader issue in London’s workforce.
A fragmented 19th century essay discusses lighting a pipe with wooden spills and two matches, condemning wax matches. it then argues salt shaped civilization by enabling trade routes, seaside migration, and long sea voyages that spurred commerce and cultural exchange.
Mrs. A Maurer of Chicago writes that after seven sores on her hands resisted three doctors a doctor feared touching them and another said incurable she used Cuticura Soap and Ointment three days later the peeling sores healed and hands became smooth and clean while she continued working in the dye house dated July 1 1906
Paul Pocel, a young Italian traveler, discusses cannibal customs observed among French African tribes. He notes that eating prisoners is common in some groups, while within certain tribes only hostile enemies are eaten. In one tribe, elders are spared while the young are consumed, a practice tied to beliefs about vitality and tradition.
A scientist explains visions in sleep as hereditary memory, tracing the common dream themes to ancient survivor habits. The falling dream supposedly reflects ancestral fright from tree top escapes, while other dreams like pursuing monsters and reptile fears are linked to ancient instincts retained through evolution.
Mrs. Nancy Jameson of Marblehead, a devout Second Adventist, tells an antique furniture dealer to prepare for judgment. She believes next week marks the appointed time, prompting the dealer to offer to buy her old chairs. She declines, saying John’s “going to” exchange.
A report notes that about 70,000 people take their own lives annually in Europe, with 11,000 in Germany. Over the past decade German selfmurder totals reach 113,546, claimed to be nearly three times the soldiers killed in the Franco Prussian war of 1870 71.
Advice column notes that many women seek health guidance from Mrs and other female advisers amid concerns about illness and infection. The piece emphasizes practical remedies and social support for women's health.
Old place was good enough, says Squire Lord, famed Be fingham resident. He built a country store fortune, moved to Portland seeking social life, found no welcome, and returned home declaring, I’d rather be a king among hogs than a hog among kings.
A cautious business college man extols a remarkable pattern involving 142857. He notes that multiplying by 2 yields 285714 and by 3 gives 428171, by 4 gives 671428, by 5 gives 714286, and by 6 yields 857142, with each result containing the same digits as the original number, illustrating a cyclical property.
The Rockford Register Gazette reports Dr William Langhorst of Aurora treating a rare case of optic nerve damage linked to heavy coffee use. A Beach county man, O A Leach, who drank multiple coffees daily, has lost central vision while side vision remains. doctors deemable incurable.
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