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Newspaper
Yerington Times
Location
Yerington, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1920
Page
3
In Justice Collins court an Omaha store sues Miss Josephine Hill for ninety dollars over a moth damaged suit. Hill contends a moth created many holes, not drawn at all, after a 30 day wear period. Clerks debated hole shapes while Hill wore the garment and the judge delayed ruling.
The Elton sisters, successful businesswomen living next to the Smith sisters, call each other old maids and petty others. After overhearing Smiths disparaging younger women as immodest, one Elton sister decides to stop using the term pesky old maids and shifts to calling them the other old maids.
New deposits of granulite found on the northern borders of Dartmoor Devonshire England promise a new glass industry. Experts say granulite contains silica potash soda and alumina essential for glass making and yields high quality ware. An experimental facility is in use two others are being built and commercial production is expected to begin soon.
The first American vaudeville producer was Silas W. Steges of San Francisco who inherited 400000 in 1865 and spent it quickly. He toured Europe, spent time at the Alhambra in London, planned the New York Alhambra, hired hundreds to come to the US, but his funds exhausted and he disappeared after leaving his party on a boat in New York bay.
An illustrated Popular Mechanics feature notes wartime undernourishment causing widespread rickets among German children. It describes devices to stimulate jaw and neck muscles, including an inclined board and a two-strap harness operated by a nurse at the head to avoid bone deformities.
Fifty thousand Indians from all parts of Mexico recently finished a week of homage to their patron saint the Virgin of Guadalupe and completed their pilgrimage to the shrine of the Virgin.
The Rawhide mining camp, once centerpiece of a 1908 boom with an estimated 14 000 to 15 800 residents, now shows depopulation and enduring activity by Gratt Brothers Scheeline interests and multiple lessees. Ore shipments from the 200 foot level and a 700 foot high vein drive investor confidence, while mills falter and infrastructure decays amid golden era nostalgia and cautious optimism for a later revival.
County law requires all owners of horses cattle or other live stock with a brand to re record it with the County Recorder by January 1 1921. After that date abandoned brands may be used by new owners only after re recording in their name. Fees: fifty cents for old brand re recordings and two dollars for new or ownership changes. First publication November 17 1920 last December 29 1920. JAS F Barton County Recorder.
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