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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1916
Page
15
Cripple Creek district produced 82 946 tons in June with an average value of 14 26 a ton and a gross bullion value of 1 183 371 dollars. Three shifts of miners work at Ruth on Indian creek and McCabe section mining improves with development.
In Montezuma district high grade ore opened and Salida poised as post office for copper based Colorado mines. Breckenridge notes near 200 men employed at Montezuma mines. Lake City Hinsdale area shows active mining amid metal price rise. Midwest Refining declares 2 percent quarterly dividend totaling 360000 dollars. Vindicator Consolidated Gold Mining Company posts 3 percent regular and 3 percent special dividends totalling 6 percent or 90000 dollars.
The Keiser Mining Company of Albuquerque filed incorporation papers with a $10000 capitalization. Leases for a test oil bore at Dayton were submitted. Mogollon Mines reported fourteen bars of gold and silver bullion plus eight tons of high grade concentrate from 875 tons ore. The Oaks Company at Mogollon found pay ore in the Eberle mine north drift and ships to a custom mill. Ore body No 1 at Clifton mine extends north via a new crosscut into the adit foot wall. The Mayfield mine east of Tularosa was bonded and leased to Guitierrez & Co. by Jack Purdy, who also leased his east of Tularosa property for $17000 with a royalty on ore.
A M Berringer rigs four miles south of Cody while Laramie Oil Development Co drills its fifth well five miles west of Laramie and encounters heavy gas flow in Well No 5. Midwest Oil Co completes three Grass Creek wells, one flowing around 700 with 150 feet of gas column above the rig before control.
The text contrasts crooked paths with straight effort and quotes Dickens on greatness of spirit. It provides a brief sugar lemon ice recipe: cook sugar and water ten minutes, cool, add lemon juice, freeze, then stir in beaten whites. It notes the grit to do distasteful duties for others.
Recipes for ham slices with sour milk, mint lamb curry, rose leaf cherry pie, cream of pea soup, not croquettes, creamed sweetbreads, and a few culinary tips. Includes quotations from Sir John Lubbock and E. B. Browning about mind and strength.
The article lists olives stuffed with caviar as a garnish for roast duck and sandwiches, plus lemon jelly with apples served with roast fowl. It describes College Sandwiches with peanut butter and chocolate, Lempinor Sauce for steamed pudding, Banana Whip with bananas cream and vanilla, and a lemon juice enriched jelly hint.
A collection of cooling beverages including Strawberry Punch Pinard Duchess Punch Cherry Julep and Mint Tea with instructions for preparation and serving. The piece notes the value of icy drinks on hot days and ends with a quotation on mind and civility from Sir John Lubbock and P T Barnum.
An Irishman named Murphy loses a hand in a quarry blast and jokes that it could have been worse, saying it might have been the hand with his wages in. The crowd offers condolences while awaiting an ambulance.
A vintage ad promotes Red Cross Bag Blue as the solution for brighter laundry with clothes whiter than snow. The message emphasizes grocery availability and positions the product as an essential wash day item.
A fragment from the Boston Evening Transcript includes quips about inviting a peculiar character named Mr. Jimson. It also notes trivia about guinea pigs not originating from Guinea and clarifies that they are not pigs. It adds a statistic claiming China imports about 200 million gallons of kerosene annually.
The article recounts ancient and varied observations of catalepsy in animals and insects. It describes Kircher’s chalk line experiment with a hen, cobra immobility in India, a frog on a board, crabs and crayfish, and insects using death reigning as a life-saving behavior per Prof. Ernest Mangold.
Instructional notes on dressing quality and several salad recipes. Swiss Salad mixes cucumber lamb lettuce peas mint juice and mayonnaise. Chicken Salad layers roast chicken radishes cucumbers onions walnuts and mayonnaise. Watercress and Spanish Onion Salads use French dressing with taragon vinegar Worcester sauce and peppers.
In New Guinea, men avoid courting and women initiate marriage by sending a string to a man’s sister or mother. If he accepts, betrothal is announced, the couple is marked with charcoal and a skin cut, and breach of promise is avoided though a jilted lover may be pursued. If the woman proves faithless, she risks being eaten.
A man with a hat spared from the ring argues care for dignity in defeat. He insists the moment must be molded into a strong epithet to avoid appearing pathetically weak.
A fragmentary line contrasts Damocles claiming danger with a demand to show a sword suspended by baldness, presenting a paradoxical safe danger image in a mythic dialogue.
Historic quips recall William S. Coy in a vacation job as bookkeeper in a plumbing shop chasing a borrowed pipe stretcher. A second tale has a father teased by son Harry Perkins claiming he believed his father had no hair on top of his head.
In the aftermath of a dynamite death Casey rushes to tell Mrs Murphy the news. He asks about Pat’s life insurance and she confirms coverage. He implies the insurance payout will face trouble collecting, hinting at trouble for the boys to collect Pat’s life policy.
A politician, approached by a down on his luck acquaintance, lends five dollars claiming ten but the other admits the trick and concludes both sides lose five, in a humorous take on modern politicking at a Chicago gathering.
A man quotes poetry asking about snows of yesterday while his wife questions the ice due this morning. The exchange frames a domestic moment of playful dispute over timing and priorities. The brief dialogue highlights a contrast between literary reference and practical, everyday concerns.
A barrel of petroleum typically holds 42 gallons. Several Siberian rivers flow over beds of solid ice, illustrating extreme winter conditions and environmental features in the region.
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