02 May 1885
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Newspaper
The Pioche Weekly Record
Location
Pioche, Nevada, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1885
Page
1
Local authorities report a gun tear incident escalating into a tense scene as witnesses describe loud blasts and several injuries. Police closed streets around the scene while investigators review surveillance and interview residents and bystanders for leads.
Fragmented notes recount early steamship experiments, builders, and voyages from 1789 to 1807. Names such as Hille, Fulton, and Symington appear alongside vessels like North River and Vnterprise. The narrative touches on transatlantic routes, river journeys, and engine makers Houlton and Watte, with scattered anecdotes about trees and a Washington steamer episode before shifting to unrelated social vignettes.
A garbled OCR fragment reports on varied global topics including British affairs, U S politics, Michigan forecasts, Chicago polling, Philadelphia expenditures, and Morro Bay paper garb. It mentions shipping, rail traffic, and a surge of oceanic buoy counts, with scattered figures and dates.
At Sherman’s winter camp near Oktibrno in 1864 the general team planned a temperance gag involving whiskey powder in Howard’s quarters. Howard refused to stock whiskey, and Sherman pressed doctor Moore for a substitute. The prank hinged on the doctor supplying a harmless powder, while Howard prepared a safe solution, revealing a light moment amid military high command.
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