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Newspaper
Wadsworth Dispatch
Location
Wadsworth, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1894
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR shows a historical notice from Wadsworth Dispatch dated February 24, 181M with scattered names and times. The legible bits hint at a public or community item possibly involving a person, place, and a schedule, but most details are obscured by garbled text.
Col King departs for Washington while Hy Suprema Lodge plans a session with J G Aiguet Sh to attend. The piece mentions Pythian Sisters and Brooks Mu Clase receiving a grade, plus a stray anecdote about an aurora display and Moody and Sankey revival meetings in Washington's Convention Hall drawing large crowds.
The Pythian Sister group held initiation last Wednesday evening at Fraternal Hall. Four anxious candidates waited as brothers teased and teased. Mike Donelyt urged Bob Arthur to proceed, and Johnie George volunteered amid playful pressure. A social gathering followed with refreshments and общего merriment.
A fragmentary column recounts a mayoral elopement with a gin-slinger at El Dorado saloon and a spate of town misadventures. It notes the fiddler’s death after an overlooked invitation, a constable’s arrest of a newspaper editor, and family troubles from Hog Eye to law studies, with assorted local notices and ads interwoven.
A whimsical note from Watsonville promises a Midwinter Mate beauty made entirely of sugar. Wadsworth girls run an antislang society raising funds to a treasury of 7640. Other brief items joke about red hair, local editor chatter, a funny doctor scare, and art classes at the library with lessons for youth.
Morning service at 1 a.m. Evening services at 74 M. Sunday School at Jee Bay. Rector listed.
A garbled period piece cites scattered lines about governance and local reform. It mentions a new gang imported from Delaware and Uncle Bill Gibson being urged to leave, while Nevada faces accusations of corruption as the Carson mint is reportedly being knocked endwise, signaling broad editorial frustration.
A London telegram reports money sufficient for a year of operation has been deposited to the reorganized National Nickel Co. A Nevada political note predicts three strong parties this fall Silvermen Democrats and Republicans If Republicans show strength by summer conventions Senator Jones may join them Otherwise 92 campaign echoes A Stoker farm yield update revises from 70 to 60 acres and wheat yield from 50 to nearly 70 bushels per acre The coast challenge on yield is implied.
Nellie Madden’s dancing school meets at Music Hall every Saturday evening from 7 to 9 pm with good attendance. Beginners welcome any time with special attention to new scholars. No afternoon class.
The notice informs that Hop Lee has claims against him in the laundry business at Wadsworth and demands presentation of bills immediately as he plans to leave the state. An unrelated medical ad for Hall's Hair Renewer urges prevention of balding by addressing scalp tissue and hair follicles.
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