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Newspaper
Duncan Arizonian
Location
Duncan, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1913
Page
2
The notice lists publication details for Duncan Arizonian including Wednesday issue days, second class mail status, and a subscription price of two dollars in advance. It notes advertising contracts are handled at Duke Advertising Agency locations in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
National lawmakers, state governor, secretary, treasurer, auditor, superintendent, attorney general, historian, and judges named in Prescott directory. Alfred Franklin Ra y chief justice and D L Cunningham and Henry D Ross associate justices noted among court ranks.
The piece argues the Payne Aldrich tariff keeps import costs high while labeling domestic fabrics as imported to mislead consumers. It cites sample No. 56 printed dimity as a familiar fabric used to justify inflated prices and deceive shoppers into paying 50 to 100 percent more.
A collection of social quips on bluff and fame, remapping public notice. Jokes target Taft as editor prospect, buying attention with noise, and the ease of fault finding over remedy. Humorous takes on aging and domestic worry reference neighbors and a late night home life.
A historic note recalls threats by the New Jersey bandits who warned to ill Wilson. The Bull Moosers also attempted similar intimidation, reflecting a pattern of violent rhetoric in the era.
A fragmented line suggests Madero may become an envoy to the Sultan of Turkey if he misses a ten day window. The text also notes a woman’s comfort in quirky footwear when she has a warm muff.
A delicate suffragette, known for waking her husband to mind the baby, proves she can endure a grueling trek on foot from New York City to Albany to press the legislature on voting rights. Her bold march highlights persistent demands for women’s suffrage and public action.
A California inventor patents a document envelope with an inner lining of asbestos coated with carbon paper to receive and retain copies of inscriptions written on an outer paper layer, safeguarding contents if the outer cover is destroyed by fire.
A remark praises Chinese women choosing skirts while Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt promotes trousers for American women, noting a divide between Orientals and Occidental sisters and implying rapid westernization.
Two Pansas farmers met on the road by lantern light. Each asked the other why they carried light. They sought the man who promised tax reductions. Neither found the promised man by night’s end.
A tariff editor toured a department store in a New England city of about 100 000 residents and found a counter piled with Irish dimity goods prominently placarded for sale.
The tariff board finds that so called Irish dimities bought as imports were produced in New England. A Boston jobber sold fabric at 10 cents a yard with a 90 percent retailer profit. American cost of production runs about 7 1/3 cents, while tariffs in Canada would push a 10 cent fabric to 12 1/2 cents.
The Plumed Knight J G Blaine Jr the silvery tongued orator will tour the West next year. He will lecture in Duncan in January or February on modern thought common sense and free speech.
The Atlantic Monthly notes authors often speak of writing as a lonely craft and urges readers to treat writers as humans and let them talk. It warns against prying and tactlessly praising manuscripts, explaining how a single word can reveal discomfort about proofs and manuscripts.
Robert Louis Stevenson spent the winter of 1887 in a tiny overheated Adirondack cottage with no ventilation as he battled a long illness. Richard Mansfield visited him, while Stevenson complained of visitors and remarked on the great washed, not the great unwashed, being feared.
A London tavern named the Castle on Cowcross Street near Farringdon Street operates as a fully licensed pawnbroker. Dating to George IV and tied to a royal warrant, the establishment has offered loans on personal belongings since the reign, with the three-sphered symbol over the door. The Castle is noted in Dickens-Stray Stories.
A collection of placards from Boston venues displays witty and practical notices. A moving picture house warns parents with young children, barber shop offers, Tremont store boasts empty gift boxes, a tailor proclaims its dye service, and clothing shop promises pants fit. Nearby, a silversmith and a restaurant advertise plated jewelry and seafood.
An elderly woman at a Nice hotel describes her night during the quake. She says she woke to a cracked ceiling and, in a rush, threw on a fur cloak and a long black suede glove, joking that she was the best dressed person in the hall as others gathered downstairs.
A tense exchange unfolds as a woman warns I will be your nemesis while a man mocks her leverage of leap year and insists on an alternate outcome. The dialogue hints at a looming rivalry and defiant standoff.
A Daily Consular report notes black opals are rare in the Lightning Ridge ironstone and sandstone areas of New South Wales where opal values exceed 5.56 million since 1890. Queensland also yields opals and sapphires, with yearly opal output around 75 thousand dollars and total sapphire gems about 700 thousand. Diamonds occur in New South Wales and South Australia, pearl harvests along Australia’s northern coast add value though pearls are small.
A Tennessee inventor introduces a telescoping hammock support with two bars and A shaped uprights. The design lets ends move closer or farther, adjusts slant with brace rods, folds for storage, and can be used indoors or outdoors with optional canopy for sun protection.
A Paris map for airmen appears. seeds germinate in ice. pneumatic boxing gloves are invented in Philadelphia. Sandpaper from port wine and stout bottles. acetylene torches for fogs supplied to Paris police.
Classified item offering bundles of old papers for sale at 25 cents each. Suitable for under carpets cupboards kindling and similar uses.
Tim Chapman R L Herrell S L Daniels all of Sheldon Arizona announce Frank H Parker as Registrar with this public notice.
Dock E. Wilkins of Franklin Arizona filed notice of intention to make final three year proof to establish his land claim on the N1-2 NE1-4 SE1-4 NE1-4 NE1-4 Section 5 Township 9 East Range 32 East G S Meridian. The hearing before Ben M. Crawford Clifton Arizona on December 28 1912 lists Garnett Gilliland Owen G Odell T J Nateans and James F McGrath as witnesses.
Notice from the Sunset Ditch Company outlines contract terms for 1913 including bonds, ditch maintenance, uniform width, prompt repairs after breaks, stockholder preference for team work, inspection rights, and bid deadline December 20 1912. Bids to SUNSET DITCH CO Box 42 Duncan Arizona.
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