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Newspaper
Wadsworth Dispatch
Location
Wadsworth, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1897
Page
4
A garbled weather summary notes a mix of conditions across the week. It references temperature trends and atmospheric patterns, highlighting unsettled skies and periods of precipitation. Readers should expect variable winds and periodic changes in visibility through the coming days.
A meandering note set touches on Thrifty Book sale at the office, Spring fashion, railroad improvements, a price discount on novels, Mrs. Wartleigh’s death, a pay ore strike in Silver Peak, mining employment highs in California, G B Fair-Hanks studio opening, a St Patrick’s parade accident, Dan Stuart’s carnival plans, a coroner’s Maine verdict on drink death, Nevada dining fame, Calanthe Temple ball, Talbot’s Reno visit, fish creek coal sale, a voyage to San Bravelico, and assorted local chatter about prosperity and misadventure.
Fragmentary notes describe copper mine purchases in Nevada, ore values, and a bonanza potential. A Carson crowd praised after a Corlitt Fitysimmons fight, while a Fresno writer questions voter generosity. Also mentions cottage listings, Eastern visitors, and multiple newspapers praising agricultural Nevada prospects.
Late Saturday afternoon the State Agricultural Society held meet John Fitzgerald of Reno and Len Allen Churchill county, two newly appointed directors, were present with other officers elected for the year. Re-elected President Len Allen. Vice President J.P. Burmitt. Secretary C.T. Bender. Treasurer T.K. Mymers. Track Superintendent A. Fitzgerald. The penalties and date for the next Fair were fixed between Rep lem Dor Zou and 25th, inclusive.
Congress passed the Carson Mint appropriation bill providing a total of 17,000 for salaries including Superintendent 3000 Avenger and refiner 00 Chief Clerk 9800 bovkeeper, carrier, assistant maker and weighing clerk 100 and miscellaneous items 4009 for incidentals wastage, etc.
Mrs C B McBean visits Wadsworth at Clippenger’s residence on March 29 and Lovelock in April offering a fine stock of millinery and fancy goods direct from the city at fashionable prices for the season.
A garbled 19th century note warns about the grip and various suggested preventives and remedies. It mentions Chamberlain and purported beauty cures, presents speculative health claims, and references monks and a permanent remedy, all in fragmented prose.
In a private ceremony at the bride’s home, Rolent Wek Lanl and Mica Beryt Budden united in wedlock. The couple, long connected with Ware and social circles, will reside in Wadsworth with their families and friends offering warm congratulations.
Report notes strikes at Dexter Mining Company property in Tuscarora. Judge Dickson releases details showing ten inches of ore valued at 40.8 and a vein extending about twenty feet with high grade ore, indicating a continuous vein. Work resumes on the Nevada Queen as ore shipments begin.
The article outlines Fitzsimmons entitlement to six months during which he need not fight or heed challengers. After that period he must accept a challenger he has previously defeated or retire. Corleste ignores rules but Fitzsimmons is expected to comply. If he retires the title cannot pass to another challenger.
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A fragmented poetic fragment laments a broken family and a missing father, invoking memories of a lost mother, distant kin and years of separation. The narrator clings to the hope of reunion beyond time, with lines of sorrow and a wish to see loved ones once more.
A Shamel Sunday evening report from Battle Mountain states a dead man was found beside a railroad track four miles west of the station. A citizen posse moved the body to town while calls grew for the Austin coroner to act promptly and humanely, with locals demanding deputy relief or a justice of the peace oversight.
In Cripple Creek severe cold endured after fires, tried many remedies with no relief until using three mini bottles of Chamberlains Cough Remedy. Cough and cold vanished. High altitude noted. Sold locally by dealers and the Commercial Co of Lovelork.
In Reno we saw striking draped photographs finished in the New Carbon style. The Riverside Studio on Virginia Street near the bridge is noted for this artistic photography.
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