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Newspaper
Holbrook News
Location
Holbrook, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1915
Page
4
Pleasant Hill North Carolina woman recounts three summers of severe headaches prostration and back pain then credits Cardui the woman’s tonic with full relief after three bottles. She says it strengthened her and improved her appetite and color. The ad claims Cardui is vegetable mild and helped over a million women in 50 years.
Regular correspondent John R. Hulet visits with his family. T. B. Saul of Cibecue arrives for store supplies. T. W. Tanner Wilford Rogers and Sam Rogers depart for C. H. Brown sheep camp at Walnut Springs. Will L. Flake Jr. and wife travel to Holbrook. Mrs. Flake falls ill but improves. J. H. Lionbarger and son head to Holbrook. Rhodam Willis of Linden visits on business. Percy A. Morse visits from Holbrook en route to sheep camps. Rex King Raymond F. Graft and R. W. Hussey Forest Service staff are in town for a few days. Mrs. Susie Brewer of Pinedale comes for store supplies.
John Lewis of Pinedale visited business during the week. Frank Purcell and Jersey Coombs went to Black Canyon by car with Jersey returning on No. 10 and Frank on No. 22. Alvin Mickelson from Snowflake attended to rock work for the L. D. S. church. Mrs. Frank Purcell of St Johns left for Gallup with her daughter Helen who studied there. Jones Grigsby finished his gas engine work on the new bridge and returned to drilling north of town. Tom Pickett accompanied him for the summer. Mohonri Fish and Charles Riedhead came from Lakeside. Fish operates the Lakeside Sawmill reporting good lumber trade as settlers build. Mr. Wilson, Indian farmer and stock raiser, arrived at Keams Canyon and notes extensive new building near the Canyon and further west. Ralph De Palma won the fifth annual 500 mile race at Indianapolis in a German car, with a time of 5 33 55 at 89.84 mph average. Darius Resta was second and Gil Anderson third.
C E Sebastian chief of police of Los Angeles was elected mayor last Tuesday by about 5000 votes. Estelle Lind sey newspaper writer was elected to the city council as the first woman in that role in Los Angeles.
At a Kansas GA R banquet two epicureans praised an elaborate blackberry pie. The pie sat on a pasteboard pan and soaked through to a china plate. One guest admitted the plate was eaten with the pie causing embarrassment and laughter.
A passage from the Atlantic notes a shift back to private travel in the twentieth century, comparing modern mobility to eighteenth century aristocratic practices. It cites examples of individuals traveling in their own coach or carriage and laments the era of shared railway travel.
The piece notes senators’ odd habits during opening prayer and desk rituals. It mentions Stephenson stamping his desk, Smith touching his chair, Bristow preparing for a handspring, and boy pages forming a guileless semicircle. Nicknames like Matt and Jeff for Meyers and Simmons and Gloomy Gus for DuPont appear alongside Reed Smoot as Lord Longbow.
Dr. John W. Butler says Mexican women are mentally and morally superior to men and seek education. Miss Harriet Ayres leads education and social work with four native assistants. A mission school graduate earned an A M degree at Boston University after initial language hurdles. The mission serves 5,000 children and Protestant schools 10,000 to 15,000. Women serve as supply officers marching with troops, delivering provisions and duffie.
The article traces the visiting card's origins from antiquity with Pericles and Aspasia to its European spread beginning in Louis XIV’s era. It notes early practice of naming on a wood strip, then describes evolving card designs across Greece, China, Spain, Netherlands, Italy, and motifs of landscapes, architecture, and monuments. It highlights Babel of decorative styles and famous Italian and Franco family examples.
A short editorial urges readers to choose optimism over whining. It contrasts imagined worlds of princes and paupers and champions cheerful labor, courage, and cheerful bearing of joy and sorrow. It urges readers to brighten the world with smiles and constructive acts.
The article notes dogs have strong police and service value in war, especially for sentry duty and locating wounded, citing historical uses in the Russo Japanese war and ancient times. It emphasizes dogs' acute senses of scent and hearing as assets for identification and patrol work.
The wedding plans trigger a quarrel as the organist objects to playing The Star Spangled Banner saying it is inappropriate. The bride's father insists on the anthem, arguing the moment calls for an American display amid family tensions over Belle's marriage prospects to a foreigner.
A well known Peebles gardener named McTavish, in a drunken stupor, woke in a kirkyard at dawn. He muttered that the judgment morn would find him the only awake man, lamenting the town’s lack of pace in the morning light.
Nuwedd states he has no appetite while his wife cooks for him. Neighbors tease that more appetite would worsen his dyspepsia and joke about his lucky condition.
County officers advisors B C Creswell chairman Wins lows B Gardner Weedhull Geo W Hen list names in a county official directory entry for the Superior Court judging body with presumed roles and positions.
Post office daily schedule shows train No 9 mail closes at 7 00 p m. Mail for Indian Wells closes Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays at 7 30 a m. Train No 2 mail closes at 6 20 a m daily. Mail for St Johns Springervisit Exarete channels at 6 20 a m daily. Mail for Snowflake FL Apache closes at 6 00 a m daily. Mail for train No 7 down at 4 80 p m daily. Mail for train No 10 closes at 6 00 p m daily. Office hours for money order business 10 00 a m to 4 00 p m daily except Sunday. General Delivery window open daily except Sunday 9 30 a m to 5 00 p m. Sundays 9 00 a m to 2 00 p m only. Patrons asked to bear information to promote office efficiency. Cuan Oswonsam Postmaster.
A list of names under American Letters and Mexican Letters appears for Holbrook Arizona dated May 22 1916. The postmaster is Osborn e. The names include W Roberts C Thurman G W McCollum Martin Keith Helen D Fanning William Friend Simson Day Willie Brown Isador Fried Harry T Cohn Eulalio Cuenas Pedro Garza Erminio Garcia Beni facio Knoeb Pablo Perea Anselleta Allen Cus.
A robin has been visiting the residences of Woodbury Potter J R Andrews and Oliver Moses in Bath Maine each dawn for a month. It pecks at window glass for minutes, waking residents who once fed it crumbs. The bird returns every sunrise, leaving families puzzled as to its purpose.
A description of George Rothwell Brown the wit who rejects compromise and acts decisively. A Boston club remark about a prominent Hebrew person leads to a quip about the flyleaf between the Old and New Testament.
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