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Newspaper
Wadsworth Dispatch
Location
Wadsworth, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1896
Page
3
A detailed account of pineapple handling from the Florida keys and Havana to New York ports. Workers count and load fruit in bulk using baskets and tally marks, achieving rapid throughputs of 2000 to 8500 pineapples per truck, with multi-hundred counts tracked by chalk marks.
The piece traces humor to past brutality, arguing laughter arose from pain and superiority. It cites a philological phonograph of literature and notes the gradual shift toward pity while preserving echoes of brutal amusement across generations.
A jumble of rental offers and notices appears: pasture land at Feline ranch with cattle grazing at 2 a heal per month, a five room dwelling on River Street with rent 10 per month, a four room house near the school with price 8, and another four room near shops with water on premises. Also ads for fencing and lumber from Foulks and Powning, and a hunter trespass warning from T G Henman. Plus health ad for Viayin treatment by Mrs E Fowler.
Local note praises Olinghouse's cottonwood cordwood length as a preferred summer fuel. Housewives report it lasts well and stays cooler, making it a practical choice for homes.
An unsigned notice urges readers to use local agents for the Weekly Examiner, warning against traveling agents and promising same prices and premiums if orders are placed at the discard office or the post office.
A. W. MACPHERSON advertises new stock of fresh candies and nuts and a first-class grade of cigars tobacco and stationery. The notice invites customers to call for mail and view the “sweetest things in town” at P O Building Wadaworth.
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