Amusing Anecdotes From Chicago Editors
A collection of vignettes and quips from Chicago Times-Herald and Post reporters. A pine forester outsmarts a greedy creditor with blunt advice and a stingy thief is sent to the penitentiary. A restaurant trick involving fake pearls tops off a round of city journalism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan Pine
Chicago Times-Herald
Bilkins
Chicago Post
Chicago
Pearl
Cleve
Plain Dealer
Local Business Station and Notices in Truckee Adverts
Town notices promote Whitney House accommodations and fencing supplies from Foulke and Powning Verdi or Reno with pine lumber at Verdi. A hunter trespass warning by T. G. Ieman viavi warns enforcement. Mrs. E. Fowler offers Viava treatment information and inquiries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truckee
Whitney House
Verdi
Reno
E. Fowler
Don’t Forget Us Weekly Examiner Agents Advertising
A local notice urges readers to purchase in town through the Dispatch Office or Post Office and warns against using traveling agents. The message promises equal prices and premiums and asks residents to give the in-town agents a chance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weekly Examiner
Disgatch Office
Post Office
Fresh Candies and Nuts At A W Macpherson Store
A W Macpherson announces a choice stock of fresh candies and nuts and a first class grade of cigars and tobacco. The notice invites customers to visit the P O Building in Wadsworth to view the sweets and tobacco goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. W. MacPherson
P.O. Building
Wadsworth
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Riverside Dairy
B. M. Shaker
S. J. Hodgkinson
Reno, Nevada
Grand Central Hotel
B. Whitney
Prop’r
Wruckee
California
Pioneer Dairy
T. G. Herman, Paorgucrok
The
White House
T. Lothrop
Prop
Wingtrout
Wadsworth, Nevada
E. P. Butler
Nevada
OM Pictures
San Francisco
Wadsworth Dispatch
the Dispatch
Ladies’ Journals
Dispatch Office
T. G. Ieman
E. Olinghouse
Columbus
Galoon
Chicagiora
Wadsworth Com
Mercial CO
R. Herz
Give
WM. Sanders
Lindertaker
C. D. Horman
Wadaworth
Wasnor County
Lonkey
J. F, Condon
Trusteen
O. Lonkey
J. F
Compox
Powarsa
East Lake
Appuees
Verdi Mile CO
Vernt
Nevana
J. A. Gregory, Prop
Dog
Pinniger’s Pharmacy
Virginia St. and Commercial Row
J. M. McCormack
Readstones
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