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Newspaper
The Pioche Weekly Record
Location
Pioche, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1906
Page
2
Reports detail railroad developments from Salt Lake to Tonopah including new lines to Greenwater mining district and Caliente Nevada. Accidents kill and injure several workers in Wyoming Colorado Oregon and Montana while investigations address Burlington safety violations and a coroner in Seattle reports a poisoning case.
President Roosevelt, after a long trip through Central America and the Caribbean, expressed pleasure with the Panama trip and the United States role there. He will discuss the Panama canal in a forthcoming message and has returned to Washington late Monday night.
Marena i Mo The bandit who held up the Chicago and Alton train between Glasgow and Slater was brought to the county jail where he agreed to confess if charged with burglary. Prosecutor warned of possible death in train robbery but suggested ten years imprisonment as a possibility. The man gave his name as Claude Handall 21 and was believed to be an ex convict.
The article traces Thanksgiving from early religious harvest observances in Massachusetts to its modern social form aided by steam travel. It notes Plymouth as a harvest festival, not a religious holiday, and cites scattered observances before and after the revolution. It states 60 plus years after Plymouth, Thanksgiving was legislatively appointed, with compliance carrying legal penalties.
Reactionaries and monarchists hold a meeting in Moscow to pressure Count Witte out of the empire after reports of his revival of Slovo publication. A Sochi wire dispatch notes Witte’s lands and hints at a parliamentary candidacy, stirring strong interest among factions.
The article traces the origins and meanings of Thanksgiving from ancient harvest rites like Jewish Sukkot to American observance. It contrasts material abundance with gratitude and notes how the holiday grew from fast days into a national day proclaimed after crisis and for democratic unity.
In November the climate shifts to winter, stressing the body. The text explains that reduced sweating increases kidney workload and can lead to functional kidney diseases. Peruna is advertised as invigorating kidneys, preventing toxin buildup, and supporting health during cold months, with claims of long use and doctor endorsement.
A reflective man and a woman writer debate why men look inside their hats before wearing them. The piece satirizes views on love and education while noting a Cairo pyramid plan becomes a hotel site. Also covered are Picquart defending his career, and a short Atchison Globe anecdote about a girl preferring chocolates over a gold watch.
The 1906 annual report of the military secretary shows 1,268 desertions, 7.4 per 100 soldiers, the highest rate in field artillery at 9.2 percent, with cavalry at 7.8 percent. Desertions had averaged 4.6 percent from 1895 to 1904, marking a sharp rise last year.
Mrs Emma Kaufmann wife of a wealthy man was arraigned in the state court on a charge of murder against Miss Agnes Poltelah a sixteen year old servant in her employ The defense asked for a continuance to a future term of court The proceedings were not sensational Maneuvering of parties noted in a brief hearing in Stone Falls D A. Barrick H McCarren commented on political matters elsewhere in New York
A young resident of the western town section suffers a bizarre experience after using a bottle labeled for hair care. He rubs contents into his scalp and becomes wild eyed, repeatedly visiting a top hairdresser. Meanwhile, a local ambulance class discusses handling wounded arteries and an improvised neck tie stops bleeding in a curious, unsafe fashion.
Fragmentary 1906 notes mix travel and rates from Utah to Missouri with odd anecdotes. A Delilah joke in a barber shop and Samson joining a Chicago football team sit beside a Madras Mail ghost tale of a temple dancer haunting Tennur riverfront nightly.
A mother turkey lectures her self centered young turkey who pushes others for food. A village girl and a man choose the turkey for Thanksgiving dinner, and the bird realizes too late the consequences of greed and vanity.
A reminiscence frames Edward Atkinson’s youth chasing balls on Hoste common, his later meeting with Constable Erastus Clapp, and a doctor’s joke about general paralysis. The passage links past mischief to present perception and humor in local memory.
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