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Newspaper
Weekly Nevada State Journal
Location
Reno, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1883
Page
1
The Nevada State Journal arrives every Saturday morning with county news, editorials, and society notes from Reno and nearby towns. Readers find farm reports, markets and weather summaries, plus advertisements and reader notices throughout the issue.
Senator Jones has leased the upper levels of the California and Virginia mines, a move praised for Comstock and statewide mining prospects. The expansions promise low grade ore with modern reduction, yielding profit and steady jobs for idle workers amid dull times. Also noted are mortality tables on self harm, with June to August figures, and a preview of Senator Stainsby’s Civil Rights bill push across states.
The Memphis Avalanche urges General Hancock renomination claiming he can mobilize the Democratic vote nationally. It cites state results: Ohio ahead of Tilden, New York close to Cleveland, Pennsylvania ahead Hayes, Indiana surpassing Tilden. Also notes Senator Coke’s quip on Blaine and Conkling. Reports floods and accidents in 1883, and Salt Lake City cable streetcar company formation. Ogden residents unhappy with electric light and push for gas.
The article outlines a three year contract between Consolidated Virginia Mining Company and Hon John P Jones for mining and milling ore from above the 1550 foot level. It covers profit shares, royalties, expenses, bond requirement, and quarterly accounting, plus a similar agreement with California Mining Company. It notes no change in the Speakership fight and Republican nomination discussions involving Walter Phelps, Keifer, Heiskell, Robinson, and Kelly.
In early Spanish America the richest mineral field, with gold initially valued at about 20 000 castellan os per piece and miners earning up to 250 castellanos daily, saw placer mining give way to amalgamation after Bartolomé de Medina’s 1557 quicksilver process. Zacatecas soon housed thirty five reduction works as ores previously deemed worthless gained value, with Spain supplying the quicksilver for the method.
A London banker’s daughter fled with a professional gambler a year ago to New York, then Chicago, living there until detectives forced them apart. They planned to move fourteen young women to Omaha as an opera company front, but a Christian mission superintendent rescued the English girl before departure. The father plans to travel to Chicago. The Tuscarora streets are to be macadamized with gold and quartz.
Washington Letter recalls Wheeler visit to press Blaine and Conkling together at Wolckar's dinner, Conkling's explosive rebuke, and failed reconciliatory talks by Bosler and Grant. It notes Conkling’s belief in two nations within the United States and predicts political dominance based on northern and southern blocs.
Washington telegraph reports Congressman Payson of Illinois will early in the coming session introduce a bill to forfeit the Texas Pacific land grant. He will also seek forfeiture of the grant now claimed by Northern Pacific in Oregon and press actions against the Ship Island Railroad in Mississippi. The move targets Southern Pacific settlers and hopes to aid settlement and development amid calls for investigations into railway corporations and Pacific road management.
In an annual report to the Secretary of the Interior Governor Crosby of Montana urges that polygamous Mormons be disfranchised and barred from entering government lands to curb Mormon expansion in the Territory. De Lesseps responds to London workers: greater success in Suez canal, hopes for future Panama canal progress.
A stranger visits a Broadway dry goods store and questions staff about ownership. Each man declines bold claims, revealing roles from shipping clerk to book-keeper. The final reveal shows the man speaking was the very owner, the "old man himself."
In a San Francisco Call note, a Carlisle supporters forecast places on the first ballot at 95 votes, including four of California’s six. The piece argues California’s tariff interests lie in protection, with wine and growing manufacturers needing shield from cheap foreign labor. It warns against campaigning a false free trade impression.
A man seeking a dyspepsia cure sent a postage stamp to an advertiser and received a blunt reply dig in your garden and let whisky alone. The Wein Medical Blotter notes ergotinin is the market’s costliest drug at 335 dollars per grain and about 1500 dollars per pound.
Long article details the expansion of railroads across North America. Describes four U S routes to the Pacific, the Canadian Pacific line, and the Atchison Topeka Santa Fe connection. Notes Mexico and Panama links, and contrasts ports and geography affecting routes and costs. Also includes an ad for Mrs Winslow's Syrup Teething.
On first symptoms of debility and cough seek relief with Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery billed as a blood purifier and strength feeder. It is promoted as superior to cod liver oil and remedies lung consumption, with claims of spitting blood relief and broad curative reach. Also notes T. E. Haydon reappointed Commissioner of Daods for Oslifornis.
Dyspepsia or Endigestion presents as oppression at the stomach nausea satulence water-blast heart burn vomiting loss of appetite and constipation. Dyspeptic patients suffer bodily and mental miseries and should stimulate digestion and secure regular daily bowel action by the use of moderate doses of an unspecified remedy.
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