Post Office Schedule and Nearby Mail Closes in Holbrook
Official directory lists daily mail for train No 9 at 7 00 am and train No 2 at 12 30 am. Mail for Indian Wells St Johns Springerville Snowflake and Bagarete closes at various times, with general delivery hours 9 30 am to 5 00 pm daily except Sunday. Postmaster Cons Osponne urges patrons to aid efficiency. Albert Warren offers Palm Beach suits with a free two piece suit with each $25 order for one week.
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Postofice
Clones
Indian Wells
St. Johns
Springerville
Bagarete
Cons
Osponne
Albert Warren
Holbrook
Arizona
Highest Paid Navy Admi ral Salaries Abroad
The United States navy pays top salaries among world navies with an admiral earning £3000 a year and officers well paid. Lower deck pay can reach £30 a month and sailors gain life pensions after ten years. Enlistment has no citizenship requirement, and a eturned figure lists 636 Germans and other foreigners among naturalized sailors across nationalities.
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United States Navy
Great Britain
Germany
Wronged and Waco Tea Tells of an International Alliance
Representative Henry spoke at a Waco tea recounting a tale of a rich heiress, an earl, and finance talk. The old man fretted as the daughter mocked his views, noting the suitor’s interlocking directorates and suggesting a diamond might win her heart.
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Henry
Waco
International Alliance
Kansas City Livestock Prices June 21 1915
Kansas City Stock Yards report shows corn fed cattle up 15 to 30 cents with strong buying from packers. Receipts 3,000 head amid high water fears. water threat eased as skies cleared. Prime fed steers from Canyon City sold at 9.10 to 9.25, 1,314 to 1,444 lbs. Phoenix, Arizona steers 7.85 to 8.25 around 1,200 lbs. Native spring lambs 9.50. stockers and feeders in demand with limited supplies.
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Canyon City
Texas
Phoenix
Arizona
Ft. Worth
J. A. Rickarr
Various Stages of Smoking All Out of the Ordinary
A collection of eccentric smoking habits and curiosities from youth to old age, noting long ashes, careful handling, and changing manners. Also a string of odd feats and scenes from Popular Mechanics style trivia, including a Brooklands car crash, dining in a locomotive fire box, and peculiar factory images.
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Brooklands
Reading
California
North Carolina
Cincinnati
Sianfu the Ancient Chinese City of Enduring Fortitude
The article lauds Sianfu as possibly China's oldest city with two millennia of continuous existence, rivaling Athens and Luxor. It highlights its historical role as a refuge for Empress Dowager Tzuhsi, its walls as a bulwark against revolts, and its strategic location on the Shenai border. The city’s population is estimated in the hundreds of thousands and its walls, though less effective against modern artillery, remain formidable and well maintained.
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Sianfu
China
Athens
Luxor
Rome
Tzuhsi
Stanfu
Shenai
Peking
Islands and their curious island life in a seaside era
Islands serve as volcanic outposts and ports, crowded with rocks, natives, and tourists. Governors lounge over poker, while regiments parade nearby. A hotel sits atop each island’s crest overlooking the sea, and the humor rings through steam yachts and railroads as pithy social satire.
Flowers on Icebergs Blooming Far From Land
Icebergs drift into warmer seas carrying mossy growths on animals' feet which decay into shallow soil. Seeds from buttercups and dandelions lodge in this soil and bloom as the icebergs float southward, carried by winds and melting surfaces.
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Pacific
North Atlantic
Polar
Real estate complaint over bungalow lot turns into houseboat mix up
An irate suburban accuses Josh of Josh and Bluster Real Estate of pressuring him to buy a Swamphurst lot. He expected to build a bungalow, but the seller delivered a house boat instead. The quarrel centers on miscommunication and the buyer’s disappointment with the property type.
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Mr. Josh
Josh
Swamphurst
Putting Yourself to Sleep by Self Suggestion
Prof Marcus Hartog describes a self help technique from the Manchester Guardian. It involves counting breaths in bed and repeating mental suggestions to induce sleep. He notes issues with waking or counting fatigue and offers refinements to achieve continuous and sudden sleep.
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Marcus Hartog
The
Manchester Guardian
Burglar Note Prompts Use of Safe Combination in San Francisco
In a recent case a San Francisco firm found a note pinned to its safe asking burglars to use the combination rather than explosives. The same night in another eastern city a safe was blown and a burglar insurance policy found, which the thieves mailed back the next day. The piece suggests a skeptical view of social progress and reflects on burglaries as a critique of society.
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San Francisco
Champ Clark
Big Doses of Radium Treatment Claim in Skin Cancer
Dr A Schuyler Clark of New York told the United Medical Society of New York a few weeks ago that radium, used in large single doses, effectively treats skin cancers. He cited many of his cases showing healing with one massive treatment and no recurrences, contrasting with multiple small doses that often fail to heal or recur. He noted the resultant scars are smooth and minimally deformed after the single high power dose.
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A. Schuyler Clark
New York
United Medical Society of New York
Clark
Magnetized Mouse Wand Demonstrated in France
A French invention uses a concealed magnet in a square wooden wand wrapped in silk. A colluloid mouse with iron at its base appears to climb the wand as a lead weight on a cord pulls a magnet along beneath the surface. When tilted, the rod draws the animal upward.
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France
Lost Matches at Chicago Club Praised by Ade
George Ade praised bachelorhood at the Chicago Athletic Club with a wry remark about love and loss, asserting it is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all, delivered with a cynical smile.
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George Ade
Chicago Athletic Club
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Official Directory
Secretary of the Treasury
Navy
Interior
Commerce
Labor
Agriculture
Geo. W. P. Hunt
Sidney P. Osborn
R. E. McGillen
Leroy A. Ladd
J.C. Callaghan
Mit Simms -Wiley
E. Jones
Public Instruction
Cane
Lamar Cobb
Scheaia
Jes
Peterson
Houston Post
Standard Oil Company
Kansas City
Vofing Manufacturing Company
Wat
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Adesta
Cleveland
Ty Ncmeapolis Sem
Francico Sesitle
Londen
Hamburg
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