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Newspaper
Wadsworth Dispatch
Location
Wadsworth, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1897
Page
4
Local notices sparse yet lively with holiday color. Mrs James Shepley is ill and Sheriff McTonis visits from town. Deer hunted near Carlin. State University closed for holidays. many travel and social plans for Christmas week noted.
Next Monday evening at Music Het there will be a lively entertainment with performers including Mrs. Birdie Parkes Mims Nelile Chay Lily Brannin Alice George Mamie Donella Genevieve Donelin Lila Abbay and Mary Painters Mesire A U1 Grin Googe F J Behler James A McKinatey and others. The cake walk is the highlight with a prize awarded at J A Gregory's. The judges are two ladies and two gentlemen. A dance follows the cake walk the music for which will be under Mrs Cora Peek.
San Francisco hosts the California State Teachers Association gathering December 28. Nevada teachers may get special rates via the Southern Pacific, with round trips Reno-San Francisco $11.95 without stopovers or $12.45 with privileges, return tickets valid to January 4, 1898. Superintendent Cutting provides details and assists with arrangements.
The Gardner & Glamell Piano Co at 208 Pont Street opened for inspection on December 1st. Buyers are invited to visit the store to view a large, elegant selection of pianos and organs at reasonable prices, touted as the finest and most varied in the city.
The Palace Bakery of Reno announces receipt of the largest and best selected toy stock in the state with many useful items for young and old in the Xmas line. They highlight candies, wedding cakes, and special prices for Sunday schools and parties.
The Christmas number offers two parts with picture plates and stories such as A Little Love Story Rich Orchestra Her First Part Life Movie An Episode and more. The December part features A New Story Pretty Polly Pennington Twilight Terror and fashion plates. Also ads for jewelry and dental services with local merchants promoting sales and offices.
A local seller advertises wood for sale in short cut lengths for 20 dollars per load. Delivery is available to any part of town.
A garbled column recounts villagers and officials in odd, humorous vignettes. It mentions Warren Golling, Dr Kistler, Sheriff Melania, and Captain Charlie's squaw as part of a rambling scene with jokes about loans, love, and a strange wood tick remedy. The piece blends dialogue, misprints, and local color, ending with odd medical advice about ticks.
The ad urges constant vigorous battle against consumption and weak lungs. It recommends taking Scott's Emulsion of Cod-liver Oil with Hypophosphites at the first sign of ill health to boost resistance against germs. The message lists the product and a New York chemist as endorsers.
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