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Newspaper
Holbrook News
Location
Holbrook, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1917
Page
4
Christmas visits and church services receive brief notice along with livestock market results. Reports mention Miss Pauline Woods in Winslow, LDS services, Camp Funston recruits, and a Holbrook sale reflecting higher prices for stockers hogs and lambs with specific ranges and top prices.
Advice urges giving Chamberlain's Cough Remedy at first hoarseness to ward off croup attacks and avoid danger. Also reports Kansas City livestock prices for Dec 24 1917 with cattle receipts around 4500 head, hog prices up to 16.00, and beef cattle trading early with most sales from 9.25 to 12.40.
Navajo County Highway Commission in Holbrook Arizona calls for sealed proposals by noon January 8 1918 for improvements on the Holbrook Winslow Road from Little Colorado River to Cottonwood wash. Project includes about 7000 cubic yards earth excavation 10000 feet grading 6000 feet bridge timber and 3300 cubic yards gravel surfacing plans available at the Highway Engineer office with specs $2.00 fee refunded on proper bid or return of specs. W E Ferguson Secretary Navajo County Commission.
Chamberlains Tablets are praised for stomach troubles biliousness and constipation with claims of permanent relief and cures. An official grazing permit notice states applications for Sitgreaves National Forest cattle horse sheep and goat grazing for 1918 must be filed by January 25 1918 in Snowflake Arizona with details on fees and forms from Supervisor T C Hoyt. Chamberlains Cough Remedy earns maternal endorsements as safe for children and effective for coughs colds and croup.
A New York Sun report details the seven month process designer Adolph A Weiman used to create U S coinage. He describes sketching designs, crafting wax models, reducing scales, casting brass and bronze reductions, and the hard steel dies used to strike coins, noting each die yields 100 to 120 coins before replacement.
A Christian Herald critique contrasts New Hampshire like parks with Pilgrim figures and distant South American parks featuring a matting warrior with lance and sword. It casts the Spanish explorer as a ruthless invader who dispossessed Indigenous peoples to claim wealth.
In a light exchange Miss Cayenne admits poetry holds little appeal for her while noting Claude Algernon recites verses convincingly. The moment contrasts personal taste with a critic’s praise and adds a playful tone to the scene.
In a Stevenson story John God, a shepherd from the Pentland Hills, tests his clever dog with two missing Edinburgh sheep. A hard farmer at Braid holds the claim, but the dog identifies and recovers the pair in a single park, restoring them to John as they journey home from Fairmilehead in light humor.
A Times-Star column argues women seek wider horizons beyond stagnant circles, predicting a growing independence reshaping romance and social status. It notes many may work as stenographers or in clerical roles, while stressing self support brings respectability. The piece contrasts this with a call to seize opportunity and avoid indulgent despair.
A quotation attributed to Cato argues that private individuals must engage with government to secure happiness and protection. It rebukes the notion that private citizens should not meddle in governance and stresses personal responsibility in societal outcomes.
The piece contrasts fashion obsessed women with a note on wardrobe prep. It then explains sidereal time as 23 hours 56 minutes 4 seconds, noting sundials show a noon-to-noon day longer by about four minutes due to Earth's orbital movement.
The Spokane area is linked to a legend of a long ago immense lake that covered the land. Major Gwydir cites tribal traditions stating the lake’s subsidence formed Spokane and the first village at Broadway and Post Streets. The tale blends geology and Indigenous memory, while remnants of the original people dwell in today’s city park area.
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