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Newspaper
Holbrook News
Location
Holbrook, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1912
Page
3
Holbrook News published weekly with mail details and contact for advertising. Includes Holbrook and Winslow in Navajo County, population figures from 1910, and the county supervisors list: JE Richards chairman, E T Hatch, Barnett Stiles, C M C Houck clerk.
Mail closing times listed for Holbrook post office and nearby towns. West bound No. 9 closes 6 30 am. East bound No. 2 closes 7 30 am. Mails from Springerville and Eagar arrive by 9 30 am. Snowflake and Ft. Apache by 10 am. West bound No. 3 closes 5 30 pm. East bound No. 10 closes 6 pm. Mails from Snowflake arrive by 4 pm. from Springerville and Eagar by 10 pm daily.
An advertisement from The Holbrook News offers several kinds of high quality stationery for personal correspondence. The notice invites readers to visit and view the available boxes and best selection.
Board of Supervisors announces no bounty paid for coyotes raccoons lynx and wild cats. By C M C Houck clerk.
Edwin Booth recalled a double duty early in his career when he pasted his own bills in Honolulu after a theater engagement. He joked that, unable to trust locals who ate the paste, he would remove his Iago Hamlet or Othello costume and go out with paste and paper to announce his next appearance.
Dresden dispatch details an illustrated streetcar network where all lines are numbered, color coded by parity, with in-car route maps and zone signs. Fares depend on zones crossed, stopping points marked on lampposts, and blue street-name signs aid travelers. Aimed at ease for strangers, the system minimizes transfers and emphasizes intelligible passenger information.
Sir Andrew Clarke met a dangerous Englishman atop an Italian tower who threatened to throw him over. The quick reply Pooh kept him calm and convinced the maniac to move. Sir Andrew then used the moment to attract help and escape the peril.
The narrator recalls Bret Harte’s early career at Overland Monthly and a cautionary anecdote from the Soaring Eagle era. An editor helps a hungry tramp claiming six days without food, joking that uncovering the tramp’s method could keep their paper afloat for another week.
Mrs. Black confronts her servant Norah after witnessing the grocer’s boy kiss her at the back door. Norah jokes that the boy will kiss no one but her, claiming it would be useless for Mrs. Black to intervene.
The temple elephant in southern India earns great respect as physical contact with him is believed to benefit health more than medicine. Adults touch his legs and press them to their eyes, while sick children are carried on his back a short distance for a hoped cure, per the Madras Mail.
A weary husband accepts his wife Molly's care as she guides him to supper and comforts. He consents to a plan for a new dress tomorrow, while she arranges slippers and pipe on the desk and writes. The domestic scene hints at underlying tension.
The article discusses ancient Egyptian wall painting methods using distemper and pigments like chalk ochres blue glass and charcoal. It then notes a tale about how Kansas got its name via a proofreader's error changing Kans to Kansas, as claimed by Colorel Inman.
A curio collection recounts Napoleon's harsh discipline with grenadiers who looted and murdered. Anecdotes include a desert confrontation with Eugene Beauharnais and a casual toast to punishment. Other tales cite Apache warnings and a barrister's grim wit about marriage.
An exploration of the word cutler noting that its current use for a maker of cutting tools diverges from the root meaning. It traces through French and Latin terms custellarius and culter to related words like cutlass and cutlet, explaining semantic drift and historical connections.
The article notes rudimentary traces of a third eye exist in all vertebrates including humans. It states the third eye forms part of the pineal gland located near the brain’s center, suggesting the expression mind's eye has scientific basis.
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