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Newspaper
The Pioche Weekly Record
Location
Pioche, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1906
Page
3
Report from Portland Oregonian details a fan tail train arriving from San Francisco that struck a deer on the track at nine o'clock in the evening near Cow Creek. The blinded animal remained on the line as the train stopped and crew loaded the carcass into a baggage-car.
A jumble of travel notes and household advice outlines trains via the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe and routes to Kansas City St. Joseph Chicago Galveston El Paso and Mexico City. Also features kitchen sinks porcelain enamel materials drains and antiseptic boric acid instructions and a quip about a medical student.
The British steamer Hankow from Canton burned at Hong Kong wharf on Sunday morning. Hundreds of Chinese passengers, including men women and children, perished in the flames or drowned as the ship became a furnace. European passengers and crew were saved. the blaze followed an overturned lantern by a opium smoker, destroying cargo of cotton and silk.
Havana reports that at noon Saturday War Secretary Taft transferred Cuba's provisional government to Charles E. Magoon by issuing an extraordinary Gazette copy. Taft stated he held office August 99 and handed authority to Magoon by presidential direction.
Mrs Emma White of Camden New Jersey claims a complete skin recovery from disfiguring eczema after using Caticura. She says her face and body were covered, eyebrows fell out, and the condition even touched her eye. She credits Caticura with restoring clear skin and urges others to try it. The letter is dated April 26 1906 and lists 641 Cherrier Price as her address.
A narrator jokes about superstition in farming and notes a belief that thunderstorms avoid copper mines hidden on a farmer’s land. A wary farmer tucks aside funds to test the spot for copper. The piece also notes animals that drink little water and dairy cows and goats in Lozere producing Roquefort cheese without frequent drinking.
The Possum Cereal Co of Battle Creek ran a contest inviting thousands to form words from Y O Grape Nuts with prizes of 31 boxes of gold and 300 dollars. Postage costs ballooned as lists poured in. inspectors, mainly educated young women, corrected words, with Webster's dictionary as standard. The $100 gold prize went to L D Reese of Denver for 9941 correct words, and the $10 prize to A K Fraser of Lincoln, Pa with 9921 words. delays in judging led to extensive public reports.
A vivid, early 20th century style news digest reports a fall of snow in Marquette, a fatal football game death in Morriston, and fresh outbreaks of kurere in North China. It notes the Hankow disaster victims, a editor’s death in Poland, a Bristow opera fire, and inventor Joseph Glidden’s death. Also covered are fires in Kansas, a teacher’s murder-suicide, Sicilian earthquakes, Moroccan band activity, a kidnapping scare in Buffalo, Panama floods, frost-damaged cotton crops in Oklahoma and Indian Territory, Havana yellow fever status, large indictments in New York, drug law enforcement support, Quebec mill clashes, and a string of violent accidents and legal actions across the U.S. and Europe.
A near head on collision on the Hudson between the Adirondack of the Peoples’ Line and the Saratoga of the Citizens’ Line caused one death, five missing, and about 1000 passengers involved. The Adirondack sustained heavy damage while the Saratoga was nearly out of commission. The missing oiler is George L. Horton of Troy, freight clerk on the Adirondack.
Washington reports Moody states Morrison and Kellogg have gathered vast testimony in the Standard Oil investigation. In San Francisco, patrolman John Law is jailed for robbery after a clash over a woman left bar owner John Lovejoy badly hurt and robbed. In Los Angeles a street car crash kills W M Barrett and injures twelve others. In Cincinnati actor Henry Opsteld is badly hurt by a shell explosion, risking the loss of an arm and sight in one eye.
Charles King of East Liberty near Pittsburg is a careful man who has held tax receipts for four decades. At 78, born 1828 in Baltimore, he moved to East Liberty in 1857 and recalls voting for John Fremont and Theodore Roosevelt. He jokes about finding older receipts in his home strong box. A second note tells of B Frank Doremus of Indianapolis praising Doan's Kidney Pills after kidney trouble and a near amputation, claiming long lasting relief after using the pills.
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