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Newspaper
Phoenix Weekly Herald
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1882
Page
1
The item notes subscription rates and office details for the Daily Herald and Weekly Herald, with agents in San Francisco and New York. It mentions calendar items from Congress, Agriculture Department reports, and a general push for Arizona statehood and territorial development, including bills on land, bankruptcy, and postal savings, plus railroad and tariff issues.
Telegraphic notice reports Lieut Col Brown of the First Infantry arriving from Fort Grant under medical care for six weeks with dropsy of the feet. Doctors doubt full recovery within a year. Also listed: Company F First Infantry and Company E First Infantry movements from Fort Grant to Fort McDowell and Fort Verde, Arizona. A separate San Francisco item details a mysterious fish poisoning in a Sullivan family on Asastro Street, with two children dead and others ill after eating herring. investigation by the coroner to follow.
A brisk bulletin of frontier updates notes parcels of territory growth and booming land near Tombstone and Deming. It mentions Mayor and editor tensions, rail developments including the A. P. R. R. driving a spike in Colorado, and mining strides at the Tiger vein while a Tucson report corrects earlier ore estimates. Also covered are political shifts, church leadership, and national figures in transient notes from Prescott to New York.
A crowded column notes yesterday's turkey purchases and cash news, plus rentals, copper claims on Castle Creek, and odd items from Sacramento oysters to post office berry parcels. It mentions vagrants jailed, an oil testimonial, and local events from a turkey feast to church services and a temperance ball.
Patent remedy claims to cure dyspepsia impotence and sexual debility for one dollar. Contains no clinical proof and reflects 19th century patent medicine advertising practices.
On Castile Creek work at the Copperdjolis mines advances as a shaft reaches 85 feet with 3 feet daily progress. A 156 foot tunnel connects at a joint and debris is removed through it. Several other claims in the creek are actively developed with all reporting improvement.
Deservedly popular Parker's Ginger Tonic spreads widely as invalids report renewed life and vigor. Local items note Mr Hanna Napa typo, J Allen fined for profanity, Mr Blankenship injury, telegraph repairs, and incorporation of Ithaca Consolidated Mill and Mining Co. A judge returns from Tonto Basin with prospects of a mill startup, while Parker's Ginger Tonic is touted for facial health. Other notes mention quill and paste-pot devotion and social meals.
The Century magazine reveals upcoming contents by W D Howells and others including A Sea Change, Life in the Thirteen Colonies by Edward Eggleston, Foote mining tale The Lid Horse Claim, The Point of View by Henry James Jr, Rudder Grange Abroad by Frank Stockton, and illustrated national capital pieces. Special subscription offers for new and back issues are detailed.
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