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Newspaper
Duncan Arizonian
Location
Duncan, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1912
Page
2
In advance subscription price set at two dollars. Editor L. F. Vaughn announces the Wednesday June 12 1912 issue. Local readers are prompted to renew or begin new subscriptions with the stated payment terms.
Directory listing members of Congress Governor Secretary of State Treasurer Auditor and other state officials. Includes Miss Sharlot Hall Prescott Historian and Alfred Franklin Chief Justice with other Supreme Court justices, county officers for Greenlee and Duncan precincts, territorial institutions and university.
Franklin residents approve funding for a new school building to be ready for the next term. Prof. Holder, praised as a leading educator and Drury College graduate, is engaged as principal by the Franklin trustees, signaling a strong term ahead.
The article extols California as a land of prodigious abundance with milk honey corn wine oil and a wide array of fruits suited for visitors to the San Diego and San Francisco expositions. It praises Southern California’s garden like productivity and scenic beauty and wealth of resources, inviting interest in the region.
The Eighty Five company acquired the Superior mine adjoining its southwest boundary for 100000 dollars. The Superior, the camp’s oldest producer since 1878 patenting, has changed hands many times with profitable runs for workers who also held other properties. D W Rockhart and El Paso associates owned it. W P Black arranged the sale last week, placing the Superior under Eighty Five control, with capital to expand including potential mills if needed.
The company has an accomplished mining engineer W. H. Kinnon and will either continue selling ore to smelters or erect reduction works, choosing the path that yields the largest net return from its ore, as stated by Liberal.
Duncan church announces Sunday services at 11 a.m. and 7 30 p.m. Sunday school at 10 a.m. L R Dykes superintendent. Long Wednesday services. Minister J Craig Watt invites all to make the church home.
A 1900s style notice offering death and accident benefits with 2000 death benefit 15 weekly for accident or sickness 1000 for loss of limb or eyesight 100 emergency relief for a 6 yearly fee. Men and women 16 to 65 eligible. $100000 state deposit to guarantee claims. Write with age sex occupation to Dept 441 Erie Pa.
Multiple classifieds offer items for sale and rent including a 16-inch John Deere plow, a buggy and harness, two Jersey cows, a second-hand heating stove, an oil heater, old papers, a white sewing machine, 20 acres of garden land in Arizona, two income properties on Main Street, a gentle buggy horse, and two lots near Campbell's mill. Contact L. F. Vaughn or the Adams office for details.
The piece mocks hollow promises with a string of paradoxes such as a doorless, wheelless, and roofless world. It argues skepticism toward a so called Roorbackless campaign, likening it to absurdities like a boozeless Maine and creamless butterines.
Patent 920,902 grants Thomas H. Bartlett of California a hair restorer using pork fat and bean oil. He boils beans with salt pork for eight hours and bakes twelve hours, then rubs the mixture into the scalp to “fill” and make hair stick. The piece adds a light jab about culinary mentions.
A humorous exchange frames a parachute worker quitting when he hears a whistle two miles up. The aeronaut explains the whistle signaled quitting time due to union membership.
A playful fragment presents a poet declaring a blank mind as he contemplates writing sonnets for a magazine. The lines mix self mockery with a flourish of literary ambition.
A brief historical vignette recalls Marco Bozzaris crying To arms and Iphigenia Kalikrates obeying. It notes that ancient Greece had Sunday beaux and wars, blending romance with conflict.
A New Jersey woman was sentenced to two years in jail for beating her husband. The dialogue notes a desire for a state where crimes carry life sentences, contrasting views between Mrs. Peck and Hen Peck.
London reports describe the Siamese coronation as a grand, color filled ceremony at Bangkok's Dusit Maha Prasad. The king, barefoot in white with gold embroidery, accepted the crown amid conch blasts and gun salutes.
Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria, aged 91, who despised "devil wagons," has ordered his first automobile. After recovering from a horse accident, he rode in a car and enjoyed it enough to commission a costly limousine.
Hazel Conklin of Denver becomes a great grandmother at forty seven as her granddaughter Lydia Rauch recently bore a child. Conklin wed Memphis at fourteen, defying her mother. Her daughter Mildred Ferguson married at sixteen and is now a grandmother at thirty four. Lydia Rauch also married young at fifteen.
Cleveland attorney P hk. A Leighley proposed to serve a ninety day workhouse sentence for Charles Woodward who was sentenced for contempt of court but the sheriff rejected the bid.
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