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Newspaper
Yerington Times
Location
Yerington, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1908
Page
4
A column mocks local happenings from Reno detailing dog poison rumors, celebrity oddities, a rancher’s trip to Tonopah, Piute women organizing a club, Christmas gift woes, guinea pig sex tests, lynching news, views on vigilantism, and the public’s reaction to mail order packages.
A humorous note questions fair exchanges after a neighbor borrowed an ax and wood was hoarded. It contrasts paying postage and express on a buy with a one cent savings, then ponders whether the writer should lend his ax in return or send wood by wire to the neighbor with the missing tool.
Gardnerville Record-Courier editorial declares the paper will not publish mail order ads from out of state. It emphasizes supporting home merchants and community duty, noting valley stores offer wide metropolitan-style merchandise and reduce the need to order goods by mail.
The M. E. Church schedules Sunday School at 10 a m and services at 11 a m Our Frontier special program at 1 p m and 7 30 p m The First Commandment begins a series on the Decalogue Miss Mildred Whitman leaves for Boston December 1 and will sing at each service by request Advertise in the Times.
Department of the Interior announces investigation of lands segregated by the Central Pacific and patents issued. Special agents in Nevada seek proof that mining claims on railroad lands were mineral before 1902 and invite claimants to provide land numbers township range railroad access and addresses.
Nevada school teachers will hold their annual meeting in Reno starting December 14 with decisions on location and time made at a Reno meeting led by Prof. Romanza Adams. Local schools close and most teachers attend, the gathering lasting several days to share ideas and advance the state school system.
Notice warnings trespassers against hunting on the undersigned’s land. The dated 1905 proclamation lists several individuals and firms including Huxky Woon, MinissNer, FRANK FPRIGENSPAN, MILK & PRopuEK CO, J. C. Minus, A. J. JOHNSON, and S. W. Grucory.
For sale loan of mules wagon and harness one thousand pound mules six years old inquire at Norkyke. It is understood that Senator Nixon's attitude toward certain party candidates during the recent campaign has started an insurrection in the Republican ranks. That means increased demand for ammunition when the Senator runs again two years from now. The ammunition must be manufactured from a more costly metal than Reno Revielle.
The Republic reports pending negotiations between Rut ledse and Kilpatric of St Louis and a syndicate of eastern capitalists to acquire Miller and Lux land holdings in San Joaquin valley. The optioned property spans 450000 acres with stock ranches near Merced Fresno Visalia and Bakersfield and oil lands including 30000 acres. Transfers could exceed 20000000 and include northern Nevada tracts. One million dollars is placed in escrow awaiting details.
The Elko Independent notes unsolicited material from a Reno promoter for Tiptop mining camp in Humboldt County. The paper refuses publication due to lack of payment and criticizes promotional hype. Headlines commend the Independent for resisting booster content while the Nevada press era is seen as volatile.
The Nevada governor's office reports a check of 2620.67 as the state’s five per cent share of public land sale funds for the year ending June 30, 1908, to be apportioned among counties where land was sold. The Goldfield Chronicle notes railroad timetable changes by Southern Pacific and Tonopah & Goldfield to shift train 23 from 7:45 am to about 7 pm departing Goldfield, reaching Reno near 9 am, with eastbound arrivals into Goldfield around 4 pm.
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