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Newspaper
Holbrook News
Location
Holbrook, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1913
Page
3
Display inch rates per issue three lines. Instructs readers to mail to Holbrook News Publishing Co for ads. Mentions per month and per issue charges and request for prompt attention.
State officers including Governor J .G Callahan Secr't to the Governor J G Callahan Auditor F Johnson Treasurer Geo Purdy Bullard Attorney General C D Case Supt of Public Instruction Lamar Cobb Engineer Chas W Harris Adjutant General Veterinarian Supt of Public Health Cyrus F Tolman J Geologist Tuscan H Plunkett Examiner G H Bolvnine Inspector O N Creswell Inspector of Weights and Measures Sidney Sapp Superior Judge State Senator John H Willis Snowflake Representative Frank C Mattox Winslow Navajo County population 1910 14603 County seat Holbrook Population 1910 620 Supervisors J B Richards Chairman E T Hatch Barnett Stiles C M C Houck Clerk
Northern Counties list jury terms for Monave February June October and Yavapa January May September. Coconino opens January second Monday and Navajo holds February June October third Monday.
Time of close for mail at Holbrook post office with daily general delivery hours and Sunday exceptions. Details include money order window hours, and specific closing times for trains 9 and 2, plus mail arrivals for Springerville Snowflake Snowflake and Heber, with a note from Postmaster E. J. Smith.
Algernon Fuller recounts how L'Enfant planned a grand capital on the Potomac, envisioning a metropolis rivaling London or Paris. Washington and the Revolution’s financiers guided his vision, but politics and friction doomed him, with Andrew Ellicott finishing the plan. L'Enfant died embittered, later interred at Arlington with a canopy sculpted to honor his founding design.
A Boston girl about four, wearing spectacles, fights the urge to paddle at Nanasketset Beach. Her nurse forbids barefoot play, while the child pleads to remove the glasses so she can cry, confusing a friend who thought she meant her tan pumps.
In a casual family vignette a four year old named Julia reports that the Smith children have a new ailment called pigeon toes which her mother confirms as a non contagious condition. The anecdote reflects child speech and domestic concern during illness in a neighborhood.
A schoolteacher angrily offers a scholar two pence to buy brains after failing to get satisfactory answers. The boy retorts asking if he should tell the shopkeeper they are for the teacher, a witty moment noted by the London Telegraph.
A short dialogue reveals a man named Herbert declaring certainty of love through his eagerness to marry. The exchange centers on commitment and the link between affection and intent to wed.
Hon ry Bryne state land commissioner and Miss Angie Parker deputy clerk of the Arizona Supreme Court wed at the bride’s father's home on North Third Street with Chief Justice Alfred Franklin officiating. The couple will continue their official duties. Parker remains in court and Bryne resumes his land commission role. Bryne’s prior work included the National Forest Service and Old Dominion company in Globe-Republican.
Three ancient guns unearthed by Eaton’s Wash workers half a mile outside San Gabriel on a county highway project led by Roadmaster E. Strain. Two cast iron pieces and one copper gun, with one loaded, are now at Johnson's store for Native Sons to move to Exposition Park museum. The cast iron piece bears a worn inscription.
Wireless waves over the Bering Sea sparked a race to rush Fred M. Chamberlain, government naturalist at Saint Paul Island, to Seattle after he suffered heart disease while conducting the seal census for the Department of Commerce.
The Holbrook News announces a sale of carbon papers in all sizes at competitive city prices, promising top quality for customers seeking reliable writing materials.
C H Hines of Whitlow Ark describes spending hundreds on medicines in St Louis and New Orleans with no cure. After returning home he started Chamberlains Tablets and improved. Sold by all dealers. Adv
The cork manufacturing process begins with boiling bark to render it pliant, then sorting into at least ten grades. Cork is cut from the bark sheets into strips and blocks, carved, polished, disinfected, and counted by a French machine for shipment. Byproducts like cork linings and tiles are exported, and waste is converted into items such as linoleum and insulation. Women largely perform machine work. Barcelona plants use electric power. waste is not a loss but reused in byproducts.
In a London Tele snippet, compliments fly as Mrs. Smith recalls meeting Mr. Jenkins. The exchange mockingly lauds his conversational intellect, while Mrs. Smith slyly notes she met him at the start of the second hour.
Fogg corrected a meat shop sign misspelling rib roast no waist. The butcher says many others challenged it, sold ten cuts, and decides to leave the wording unchanged. Fogg leaves the store with a package under his arm.
All professional cards in HOL BROOK News will be charged at a rate of 75 cents per month.
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