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Newspaper
Yerington Times
Location
Yerington, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1920
Page
2
The Yerington Times lists a subscription price of three dollars per year in advance and directs mail matter to be entered at the post office in Yerington as second class. Communications and remittances should be addressed to The Yerington Times.
A New Year message years ahead urges saving to pay a looming 26 billion dollar national debt. It links individual thrift to national balance, advocates continued sale of Thrift and War Savings Stamps, and urges daily weekly and monthly saving to reduce taxes and support recovery after World War I.
The Treasury plans to replace credit bills with silver dollars in silver standard countries and promote exchanges of silver certificates for silver dollars. This aims to push the silver price toward 16 to 1 with gold, discouraging melting of halves quarters and dimes. Current Events notes the silver dollar premium returning over the gold dollar.
The quote from Professor Gilbert Murray of London on cuss words suggests they arise from a brief nervous convulsion breaking self control and revealing suppressed subconscious interests. The passage then shifts to rhetorical invocations about courage death and devotion to country attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, urging fearless action for noble ideals.
C Cottrell reviews Nevada state highway work for 1919 noting 21 contracts totaling 971 thousand dollars plus rock and cement contracts bringing total to about 1.017 million. Projects include 86 miles of gravel, 614 miles of concrete roads, 37 miles graded earth, four reinforced concrete bridges, and Reno area concrete pavement Nevada’s first boulevard outside Reno. Federal aid funds and 1920 plans emphasize Reno Carson City paving and Churchill Pershing Humboldt county projects and a Virgin River bridge in Clark County.
Notice announces hearing before Lyon County Board of Commissioners on February 1920 at 1:30 PM for the Nevada Valleys Power Company to build operate and maintain electric lines on county roads and highways for fifty years objections may be heard. Also included is a notice to creditors in the estate of Gregoire Edouard Susperreguy appointing J I Wilson as administrator with claims due within forty days from first publication. First publication January 16 1920.
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