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Newspaper
The Pioche Weekly Record
Location
Pioche, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1878
Page
2
The Virginls Footlight argues voters must award offices to honest capable men beyond party labels. It cites disillusion with party names, calls for qualified nominees, and notes concerns about state printing contracts, state debt and local political clashes amid 1878 Nevada races.
A wide mix of notes from Eureka area papers reports stalled wagons and loaded fare trains, ore, mining progress, and public notices. Mentions of Virginia Chronicle, Belmont Courier, Tybo Sun, Elko Independent, and other outlets describe court cases, construction, and mine outcomes with local color.
A jumble of 19th century clippings describes brisk wheat trading methods along the Upper Sacramento with bag weighed deals instead of bulk, a dramatic runaway train near Evanaville ending in a death roll, a Fort Benton paymaster loan by a brave soldier, an ambulating man with a lamp in Herkimer County, and Colus Spreckels purchasing vast land in the Sandwich Islands for sugar and rice cultivation.
A fragmented OCR passage describes improvised furnaces in a central locality and mentions tobacco use and a theft incident. It hints at a plan to run multiple furnaces, each burning a different brand, with patrons observing but not drawing on others’ tobaccos. The narrator reflects on a faster life and a pocket being picked.
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