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Newspaper
Holbrook News
Location
Holbrook, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1909
Page
2
The Holbrook News announces an application to the Postmaster to admit the paper as second class matter. It lists in advance rates for one year and advertising terms and notes ads run until ordered out. Publisher is Sidney Sapp.
An ex mandolin student played soothing melodies for recovering patients in an uptown hospital. The music eased a morphine dependent patient and a nervous woman, with nurses and doctors noting the mood improvement and hoping for more funding to provide regular musical visits.
The article argues against rocky and clay soils for foundations and promotes gravel as ideal. It notes rock causes high excavation costs and vibration, while clay traps water and expands, risking cellar damage. Gravel drains well, remains stable, and allows basements above groundwater.
The Astor fortune surges as land values and New York growth soar. Land prices rise 30 to 100 percent in five years, city population expands, and new corporate movements center in New York with $200 million in public works. John Jacob Astor’s estate, once $150 million, would be near $200 million today. The Astor wealth may reach a billion in 15 to 20 years, then accelerate further.
From The Love of the Honey Bee by Tickner Edwardes, the three lanced sting is a sliding triple blade weapon. Each lance can thrust independently with a hollow central blade and barbs. A hidden poison fills the haft to ensure fatal effect as blades advance in sequence.
A stocky man in New York City works Park Row handling rolls of pennies nickels dimes and quarters from $1 to $10. He profits about five cents per roll aiding saloons cigar stores and eateries while two assistants collect coins from busy offices stations and transit hubs for the firm of Change Artists.
A servant Mary is chided for her habit of standing with her mouth open. The mistress sternly says her mouth is open, and Mary replies Yessum I opened It in a brief anecdote from Success Magazine.
The deaths of Helena Modjeska Ethan Allen Hitchcock F Crawford and Algernon Swinburne within three days mark the loss of a famed tragedienne an American statesman a prolific novelist and a bold poet. Modjeska left a large fortune and an industrial school in Cracow while Hitchcock fought land frauds and served as Interior Secretary. Crawford authored numerous novels and studied languages as Swinburne influenced Victorian poetry with a fierce independent voice.
A fragment reflects on Creel’s suspicion of Huggins as a reader and Nett’s habit of buying a newspaper before boarding a streetcar. Miss Cayet remarks she’s seen the paper but doubts his reading. a streetcar remark about staying cautious follows.
The piece presents Archibald and his wife in a satirical domestic scene. He frets about missing items and mail while delivering a pointed line about leaving things undone, as she apologizes and complies with a request to fix her waist.
A humorous declamation on married life and gender roles with wry quips about wives, husbands, and social expectations. The piece lampoons domestic ambitions, fashion foibles, and the humor of couple dynamics in a breezy, opinionated tone.
The remark asks whether Cubans lack self government and counters by questioning if the speaker governs themselves well, implying a critique of perceived hypocrisy in political responsibility. It challenges national self-rule and personal accountability.
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