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Newspaper
Holbrook News
Location
Holbrook, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1915
Page
5
Attorney C H Jordan transacted business in Winslow yesterday. Numerous locals and guests travel between Winslow Snowflake Holbrook and Show Low for business social calls and events. Highlights include tax collection trips, cattle roundups and racing plans with a $500 prize.
Mr W S Smith telegraph operator at Holbrook Santa Fe office and Miss Katherine Flora Lasater of Mangum Oklahoma were married yesterday at the bride’s parents home in Mangum. Cards reached Holbrook friends this morning. After visiting Chicago and St Louis the couple will settle in Holbrook after July 31. The News extends best wishes for a happy life.
Mrs Florence Slife of Wabash Indiana reports using Chamberlains Liniment for sprains bruises and rheumatic pains with great benefit. The ad claims prompt relief for rheumatic pains and states it is obtainable everywhere.
E. T. Hatch of Taylor reports Lakeside residents repaired the Whiteriver road in both directions at no cost using a drag and other tools. He commends their enterprise and urges others to follow suit, noting a good highway aids travel and boosts the local economy.
Ranger W A Pierce notes May visitors to Cliff Dwellings numbered 349, mostly transient people who have visited Flagstaff during the month. May is early for main travel and later months will probably flood the ancient city.
A leather saddle bag and a small tan leather grip marked U S Forest Service disappeared Thursday morning between Holbrook and Milky Wash. A paper package containing a coat was also missing. Finder should notify the Forest Service office in Snowflake to receive a reward.
Residents and visitors from Holbrook Pinedale Show Low and Taylor converge in town. Notables include A G McCloskey and family returning from Los Angeles via San Francisco fair, missionary visits by several locals, and a surprise seventy fifth birthday for Grandma Willis. Fishing trips, prairie dog drives, and petrified forest tours add local color.
Advertisement notes a lightly used Oliver Typewriter Standard No 3 with visible writing, 84 character capacity, offered at a low price. It invites inspection at THE NEWS office.
Travel over the new bridge averaged seven vehicles per hour last week. The Keams Canon road bridge and levee near Holbrook are complete and ready for summer rains. Bridge bond election petitions await estimates required by law, expected to be finished today. Colorado River water is at its lowest level of the year as abutment reconstruction near Holbrook progresses, with reinforced concrete on bedrock eighteen feet deep.
A short health note describes bilious attacks causing constipation nausea and headaches. It claims Chamberlain's Tablets will tone the liver cleanse the stomach and restore health at a cost of a quarter and available everywhere.
Job notice seeking a man and wife to work on a ranch in Pinetop Arizona. Woman to handle general housework, man to care for horses and perform outdoor ranch duties. For more details contact Chas. P. Cowley, Pinetop, Arizona.
Ice tickets are available by calling the telephone office for Holbrook Ice and Transfer Co. Buyers can save money by purchasing in advance. Ticket price is 1000 pound at $10.00.
A person reports a lost bundle Friday morning in Holbrook including keys two magneto wrenches and a button hook. Finder should notify this office to reclaim items.
In Louvain a new detective agency offered monthly behavior reports to parents for a fee. Several hundreds of students marched to the agency offices and damaged windows. They then demonstrated at the vice rector's house, who endorsed the scheme. The students demand the vice rector's resignation.
A Family Doctor note argues meat in daily rations shaped soldierly ferocity across nations. Carthaginians, Romans, Greeks, Persians, English, Germans all show varying meat appetites and battlefield outcomes. Exceptions arise as British Scots and Irish regiments exhibit high bravery despite meat being scarce.
The New Hampshire supreme court allowed evidence of a man’s habit of stopping, looking, and listening for approaching trains to show whether he acted at the crossing. While not admissible for general carefulness, such habit evidence may indicate whether the person did a specific act at the relevant time.
A Gogol quote frames the discussion on serenity and passion, arguing that passion is out of place in a right cause and only clouds judgment. The line suggests restraint in debate and the dangers of emotional bias in moral matters.
This 19th century dental domestic guide notes that washing the mouth with warm bicarbonate solution three times daily hardens gums and firms teeth. It advocates charcoal powder for whitening and cleaning embedded debris, cuttlefish powder for severely decayed teeth, sage leaves as a tonic, lemon juice occasionally, and common salt with soot as an alternative whitening and gum hardening method.
A policeman at a Broadway crosswalk halted traffic for a minute or two. A hand organ on wheels, pulled by a man and a woman, stopped at the edge of the crossing drawing a long queue of trucks and wagons behind it. Once the signal sounded again, the organ team guided the line forward as drivers obeyed.
The Sterculias genus, common in Queensland, includes the bottle tree of western Queensland. Seeds are eaten in the Philippines when roasted or boiled, and Blacks eat seeds from a coast species. The tree relates to Theobroma, source of cocoa and chocolate. Fruct uses scarlet split fruit with black oval seeds and purple bloom, lasting long on the tough leathery fruit in jungle gloom.
A small curly haired dog led to identifying a Cleveland woman who collapsed from heart disease in a restaurant and died en route to a hospital. The dog stayed by her chair, followed the ambulance, and whined as it was distanced. A policeman traced Chester Avenue to the woman’s home, identifying her through the dog’s loyalty.
Lord Brampton, famed Sir Henry Hawkins, rejected theories endorsing drafts. He reportedly built a movable sentry box to avoid drafts in court and preferred suffocation to chilling, a claim noted by J. A. Foote.
The piece traces the dragon’s mythical aura and real lore from serpent biology and literature to banners of British kings and Roman standards. It notes St. George’s dragon bearer role, Greek terms for standard bearing, and compares Bevis and Spenser to challenge a tidy dismissal of dragon imagery.
A man in Boston rests in a park after a picnic and overeats. A kind old lady sits beside him and asks if he is over eight, prompting public embarrassment. He proudly replies he has overeaten, restoring dignity despite the critique. The tale appears in National Monthly.
The Musee Carnavalet in Paris, national museum of French history, dates to 1544 and was enlarged in 1660 by Mansart. It houses relics from vanished buildings, a Henry IV portrait, an autograph order from Louis XVI, and the infamous 1793 constitution bound in human skin.
The piece notes wild bird adaptability under new federal migratory bird law. Ducks quickly discover sanctuaries and abandon richer feeding grounds. Ptarmigan stay protected yet mingle among them. Prairie chickens shift habits from stubble to corn to windbreaks and timber, even alighting in trees.
A housekeeper finds weevils in flour and bags, usually due to unclean flour bins. The article urges millers to maintain clean mills and occasionally fumigate with hydrocyanic acid, which does not damage dry milled products but requires careful handling due to its extreme toxicity.
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