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Newspaper
Holbrook News
Location
Holbrook, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1912
Page
3
In Puri India pilgrims revere Juggernaut and a huge black idol. A new car is built yearly for the two mile procession with ropes held by thousands. wheels cut the sand causing delays. The British government now bans human sacrifice, contributing to decline in the festival.
A west side laundress advertises washing umbrellas as a specialty with a full bath and soft brush massage. Customers surrender their umbrellas fearing wear, and the seller claims a hot soapy bath and glycerin prevent rusting. An umbrella dried in sun after treatment is said to look like new.
Two anglers boast about catches lengthening their arms as they recount past triumphs. The tall man exaggerates a trout and a salmon while the short man counters with a longer pike, finally confessing frustration at the arms disparity.
The article explains sewing buttons with extra thread and a knot held by teeth, then waxing to keep twist, using a pin across the button to form a stem after sewing. It suggests sewing children's waist buttons this way so multiple garments can be buttoned on the same waist.
A quip from the Washington Herald features a young man with prominent socks and a matinee hair girl debating a fortune teller's statements about marriage and a large fortune. The exchange plays on expectations and fortune telling.
A simple home experiment uses a deep dish of water and an oil drop to produce evolving, intricate oil patterns. With sperm oil or castor oil, films form and break into ovals and circles, yielding unique designs each time. Placing paper over the surface captures the pattern, then inking transfers reveal a white oil design on black.
Frederick the Great kept a chocolate ritual in his breakfast room at Sans Souci. A giant painted spider web marked the day a poisoning attempt was thwarted when the cook shot himself after his plot was discovered. The ceiling painting honors that narrow escape.
A star boarder asks his landlady to marry him in a boardinghouse scene. She冷ly notes four years of punctual payments and good meals but declines, saying he is too good a boarder to be put on the free list.
A humorous Clemens anecdote about war sieges and a country boy’s cow lesson. Twain recalls a Frenchman who ate dogs during a siege, a woman’s icy remark, and a city boy asking about horns on a cow and the horn’s sound.
A scanned recipe passage details seed loaf cake and several loaf variations. It covers Seed Loaf ingredients and method, Two Simple Loaves including Yeast Loaf Cake White Loaf Cake Currant Loaf Cake and Fruit Loaf Cake with quantities for butter sugar eggs flour milk and spices, plus rising times and baking steps.
A New York Journal tale describes a rat cast into the sea by a ship, attacking a seagull, and using its wings as sail and oar to steer toward shore. The bird dies, the rat climbs aboard the corpse, and the story ends with a wry “Rats.”
A man rushes into a barber shop and asks for a quick shave. The barber notices the uneven shave and the customer admits a poor prior barber work. The exchange ends with the line that each man is in his own trade.
An anecdote about William H. Crane recalling a failed Hamlet joke and a boast about being called before the curtain. The piece reflects on how a youth’s use of spare hours shapes destiny, linking ambition and character with success or ruin. It ends with a note that lying costs rise with higher living costs, and that what counts as a necessity has expanded over time.
The piece notes a Southwark physician, underpaid yet charitable, who hid medical patches in a secondhand coat to ease examinations. At eighty he gave freely, sometimes leaving money in a pill box labeled To be taken as required, addressing poverty with true Irish tenderness. Introduction came via a journeyman printer to Richardson and high life in letters.
A reading stroller in San Francisco's Chinese quarter notes a row of laundry signs with puns. One reads 1 Sing across from Yu Sing, then Sam Sing further on, followed by We Sung and All Sung, prompting amused exchange about linguistic coincidence.
Notice details the assignment of C. A. Daniels Saddlery Company to Charles P. Cooley at Holbrook Arizona for the benefit of creditors. Creditors must present verified claims to the assignee at Holbrook, with oath, dated November 25 1912, first publication November 29.
In the Superior Court of Arizona Navajo county the estate of Louishuey deceased is settling accounts. J E Cox as administrator has filed final account and petition for final distribution. A hearing is set for December 7 1912 at 1 30 p m in Holbrook court to allow objections and conduct the distribution. First publication November 22 1912.
State of Arizona Navaho County hear E M Holt deceased. Notice of hearing petition filed for estate proceedings.
Joshua Uphofst administrator files in court his report of sale of real estate. The hearing is set for Saturday December 7, 1912 at 10 a.m. in the Holbrook Navajo County Arizona court. All interested parties must appear to show cause why the sale should not be approved. Dated November 25, 1912. First publication November 29.
Application for grazing permits to graze cattle horses hogs and sheep in the Sitgreaves National Forest for 1913 must be filed in Snowflake Arizona on or before January 15 1913. Full information on grazing fees and blank forms is furnished on request. Chas H Jennings Acting Supervisor.
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