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Newspaper
Weekly Nevada State Journal
Location
Reno, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1884
Page
3
Fragmentary document outlines business hours from 8 to 12 A M and 1 to 9 P M with Sunday hours 8 30 to 10 20. Date noted May 1 1884 and places referenced Ogampo Evays and P M Raxo.
Brief items list visitors and residents from Winnemucca to Comstock and Long Valley. Notes on weather, transport, rail freight, and civic events include a Grand Army post forming at Ellewort, building and public notices, and a liquor and grocer ad by Parker's.
A private letter depicts broad business stagnation in San Francisco due to lost wholesale trade with Oregon Washington Territory and the northern and southern states. The writer notes Portland Los Angeles and other hubs siphoning freight and wholesale volume, with widespread layoffs and retreat from printing cloaks and other industries. Local political notes follow with primary dates and candidate mentions in Eureka Elko and Humboldt counties.
Charley Becker arranges the atrap hinges in the cellar way on Commercial Row to keep sidewalks clear. He embeds the hinge and levels the iron plate with the sidewalk to remove an ob struction and set a example for town businesses.
The crowded theater praised Effie Eiteler for her Hazel Kirk impersonation and La Belle Russe performance. Critics note her versatile talent and high artistic style with strong support from the ensemble.
Numerous Reno items note Chas Bender at the Sacramento Fair Nasby seeking a shop boy bargains at Emrich's dry goods D A Bender from Carson A H Manning Bay business trips Bay calls by State Superintendent Young and others optimistic about N O railroad work Wells fall races Bay area visitors and local court session Thyes Co crowd lively Knights of Honor Thanksgiving ball and political planning Freeman arrival for medical care and local business growth Bodie water shortage hurting mills and various travel plans for residents and families.
The Reno register lists 630 names with the books to be closed October 20. Oakland horse dealer L B Woodworth is in town breaking cavalry horses at Hamilton's ranch on Susan river. Local rail conductors changes and court actions follow, including grand jury summons for September 24 and a district court rehearing over Buckley estate items.
C A Thorsten keeps on hand at the Postoffice news depot all the latest periodicals magazines and libraries along with leading daily and weekly newspapers of the coast. Stock includes Harper's New York and San Francisco papers and many others across genres from science to fashion with a full line of comic songsters.
The Genoa Courier extols Carson City public structures. The Nevada State Capitol built in 1870 uses sandstone quarried at the State Prison site. The U S Branch Mint matches the same stone and is open and solid. The State Orphans Home houses many orphans and provides education and moral culture. The State Prison lies about a mile east, with smooth roads radiating to nearby sights.
The Boise Statesman notes a fossil fish found in Umatilla County Oregon. The stone shows a six inch fish resembling a trout with flinty texture, clear tail fins ribs and vertebrae in bold relief. The locality is rich in fossil shells but fish remains are uncommon there.
The following gentlemen are summoned to appear September 24 as Grand Jurors at this term of Court: RB W Ash, A H Barnes, E Crane, B G Clow, Geo Deremer, M Gulling, Jas A Ferguson, Geo H Fogg, J S Knowles, H H Beck, J C Hagerman, H Whistler, H M Frost, Jas Hall, Geo Becker, G BR Holcombe, B W Whits, Sol Levy, F Kline, Henry Berry, C T Bender, E Morrill, D W Bryant, B F Sheldon.
Smoothe running at the Asylum. Al White due home from the East on the 25th. Theo Wintera to Smoke Creek. Jim Burke returned from the mines with supplies. W E Ward sold the Plumas National to P L Halstead. Prof Young visited Reno schools and gave teachers guidance.
The Jewish New Year began at sunset marking year 5646. Jews in town closed stores to observe the holiday with festivities and a Day of Atonement approaching, a 24 hour fast preceding the major feast.
An old Western State farmer reports years of potato raising experiments showing three crops per potato: early middle and late. He notes eyes near the root end ripen two to three weeks earlier than central eyes and advises discarding eyes at the root end as they yield small soft watery potatoes.
Pyramid reports the new furnace curbs ore flow by ten tons daily and yields about 600 dollars of bullion each day. Pierce Evans, the Company Secretary, assesses the Weekly Journal as 36 readable columns. Reno leads the coast weekly scene while F Levy Bro store closes Friday night and plans Monday reopening. Three men were taken from a loaded freight car and jailed pending findings.
A satirical fable depicts a herd of asses choosing a leader amid vanity and waste. They mock a weak, hidden candidate while misreading the truth of leadership as a braying display. The tale closes with a note that young St John in Washington will back Blaine over his father.
Reports from Washington say Nevada Senator J P Jones may be appointed Secretary of the Treasury to fill Secretary Folger's vacancy. The obstacle is his silver stance, opposing remonetization while supporting use of silver dollars to fund public expenses. Nevadan support remains strong for Jones as a Cabinet pick.
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