Holbrook News details and county notices
Admitted to the mails at Holbrook as second class matter May 14 1909. All communications to Holbrook News Publishing Co. for prompt attention. Advertising rates on application. Advertising runs until ordered out. REPRESENTATIVE Frank O. Mattox Winslow Navajo County population figures and supervisors listed. Superior Courts jury terms for Northern and eastern counties including Monave Yavapai Coconino Navajo schedules.
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Holbrook
Holbrook News Publishing Co
Bw No 10 No 2 No 4 No and Flagstop for No 8
Train note records indicate carriage flags and passenger service adjustments. No. 2 and No. 8 trains receive special stop patterns with flagstop status as noted in the railway schedule snippet.
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Cassenger
Mail closing times at Holbrook post office listed
Holbrook post office closes for West bound train No. 9 at 6 30 a m and East bound train No. 2 at 7 30 a m. Mails from Springerville and Eager arrive by 9 30 a m. Snowflake and Ft. Apache mail closes at 10 00 a m. West bound mail No. 8 closes at 5 30 p m and East bound mail No. 10 closes at 6 00 p m. Mail from Snowflake and Ft. Apache arrives by 4 p m daily. mails from Springerville and Eagar arrive by 10 p m.
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Holbrook
Springerville
Eager
Los. 2
Snowflake
Ft. Apache
Eagar
Stationery Sale Ad Notices Best Kinds Available
You Need Occassionally For your personal correspondence a box of best stationery We have them several kinds Will be glad to show them to You The Hopsrook News.
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Hopsrook News
Alpine tragedy from a reckless ascent ends in death
A 1908 Grindelwald tale follows a young English climber who wins a wager by glissading down the Great Couloir after snatching a silken handkerchief. His inexperienced companion cautions descent by the side rocks, but the fatal rush leads to his fall and death, with the handkerchief recovered at the glacier.
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Wetterhorn
Grindelwald
George D. Abraham
Pall Mall
Nice beggars and a winter tale of a yachtsman
A yachtsman recalls a winter in Nice where beggars plague the Promenade des Anglais and claim a starving wife, only to reveal a new wife has replaced the old one. In a separate vignette, William returns from college wearing flashy clothes and a blunt father's scolding echoes a past likeness to his father.
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Nice
Promenade Des Anglair
Cercle Mediterranee
William
Geneman
Orange Blossoms Symbol in Bridal Traditions
Uncertainty surrounds why brides wear orange blossoms though it is seen as a sign of fruitfulness. Some authorities link the custom to Saracens who viewed the orange blossom as a symbol of prosperous marriage, noting the tree bears fruit and blossoms simultaneously in the East.
Curious fishing method used by Malays in Malacca Strait
The article describes a fishing technique used by Chinese and Malays in the Strait of Malacca where a white canvas screen stretched on wood is lowered from a boat. Fish mistake it for an obstruction and jump into the boat, yielding catches from the shoal.
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Strait of Malacca
Bismarck’s Tender Moment Amid War Wounds
A French army surgeon recounts Bismarck during the Franco Prussian War meeting a severely wounded French soldier. Bismarck remarks the blame lies with politicians, offers wine, and shares a quiet benediction as he asks the soldier his name and origin.
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Bismarck
Czernicke
Rezonville
Rossignol
Brittany
Wash Money Etiquette Sparks Laundress Spat
A New York Press item recounts a quarrel over paying a laundry bill. Miss Philis confronts the laundress’s daughter about timing and respectability, with the girl asserting that some respectable women still avoid payment, leading to a sharp exchange about debt and propriety.
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Miss Philis
New York Press
Bacon's Mother Warns Him to Guard Health and Habits
The London Chronicle notes a 1594 letter from Francis Bacon's mother to him, then age 33 and a leading lawyer in Parliament. She admonishes him to avoid late nights and excess drinking, warning it harms health and digestion and noting many sickly people suffer headaches and eye trouble.
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Bacon
House of Commons
London Chronicle
Milton's Paradise Lost Began in Early 1640s
The epic Paradise Lost started between 1639 and 1642 and finished around the London fire of 1666. Milton drafted ten to twenty line passages then dictated to a helper. Samuel Simmons published the first edition in 1667, with a second in 1674. Milton earned £10 from the editions and his widow £8.
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Milton
London
Samuel Simmons
Fit At Rival Tailor Leads To Hospital
A bystander reports an ambulance backing up to a tailor shop as a customer suffers a fit and is taken to the hospital. The tailor quips that he has never seen a customer have a fit in that establishment before.
Wagner Tours Vienna Amid Political Serenade Threat
Wagner faced a planned German protest in Vienna as the Prussian party eyed a grand serenade. Chancellor Baron von Best warned of trouble unless Wagner left. After a cordial dinner and an autograph show, Wagner saw a 1848 proclamation linking him to revolution and departed the next morning for Bayreuth.
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Wagner
Vienna
Baron von Best
Empire
Hungary
Austria
Beast
Beas
Palmerston
Bismarck
Napoleon III
Heine
Bavaria
Richard Wagner
Saxony
Reading Faces and the Professor's Bold Claim
A man boasts to Professor X about reading faces and declares he can discern a lady's traits. He points to a woman in the room, describing her chin as obstinate and her mouth as voluble. The onlookers react, and the reveal shows the woman is his wife.
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Professor X
What Breathing Amounts To
An adult inhales about one pint per breath and averages sixteen to twenty breaths a minute. Children breathe faster, standing increases rate, and the lungs’ surface area is about 200 square yards. Daily air inhaled approaches 10 000 quarts with minimum hourly needs near 380 quarts. The heart circulates roughly 5 000 gallons of blood daily.
Word Curiosities From Global Tongues
A London Tit-Bits excerpt notes the quirks of language such as "blow with the foot" for kick in French and "close and open the eyes" for wink in Portuguese. It recalls a missionary who could not translate "love" into Algonquin and had to invent a word.
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London
Jones sells dog to save face in Lancashire tale
In Lancashire a worried Jones tells Smith he has sold his dog because he cannot afford another. Smith quips to go without one, but Jones insists a man looks foolish without a dog, highlighting local canine culture in a humorous London Mail item.
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Lancashire
Jones
Smith
London Mail
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Stanley Steamers
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