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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1892
Page
1
Subscribers to the Datty Prospector or Wrex vy Errrarnu share a cattle brand run without compensation. A page on local affairs news is devoted. Also ads for spaying cattle contracts, water use permissions, and wines and a piano for sale in Tombstone.
Public notice offers 500 dollars reward for arrest of eight jailbreakers from Tombstone dated March 31, 1892. Names include Arthur Mendez Ignacio Velasquez Jacob Memo Alantra Dematrio Whitefield Oldham Antonio Vega L. E. Mitchell and a sixth suspect listed with blurred details. Also contains ads for whiskey, goods, employment, and supplies.
A collection of curious notes from various places and times. Items include a Ohio arrest under a school attendance tower, reflections on republics led by regicides, Belden silk works drill for water, a Michigan curiosity of two hemlock trees, a Pennsylvania woodsman finding an ox shoe in a chestnut tree, and a Viennese memoirist claimed to be ancient. Also mentions a parrot gifted to Spurgeon that later died.
A Maine fisherman sent a 28 pound lobster to New York while Lassen County California boasts an 800 pound cinnamon bear. Prospect Maine reports a storm predicting rooster that crows all night. A Florida car killed a five foot alligator, and a harpoon from an old whaling vessel was found in a captured Arctic fish. Substantial notes cover language shifts, a Georgia movement to fund a poet priest monument, and aging literary claims about Sir Walter Scott. Floral decor and fashion chatter finish with tips on inks, wood boiling, and varnish care.
Gov race revised returns show Brown leading with 27 464 votes Burton 188 Gilbert 1587 Wardwell 25 385 and scattered votes. Confederate reunion hosted by notable guests including Gordon Daniels Kirby Smith Caleb Davis and Miss Winnie Davis as cavalry group meets. Appraiser Leavy in San Francisco dismissed for fraud. Spain objecting to US consulate at Ponapi recalled Rand. Charley Ress believed found in Bentons Missouri. ads list wines, lard, soap and groceries.
Long list of arrivals including Max Markham St. Louis W Shilliam Benson Tucson SAN JOSE M Watanabe San Francisco Mrs Tausehi San Francisco C M Flowers Phoenix Gus Heyman San Francisco PALACE A Armbold San Francisco Neuralgia Cure in 15 Minutes touted by editor J B Sturtevant of Waupacay Wis as a must have. 50 cent bottles offered by H J Peto druggist. Also a Tombstone post office general delivery list for week ending April 9 1892 with letters for Fred Brunner Edward Brown Charles Hoyl and others marked advertised.
Mexia Texas publisher Jas O Jones reports surviving a second grip attack this year. He used Chamberlains Cough Remedy and was in bed just over two days in the second case versus ten days the first time. He notes the remedy helped greatly and a 50 cent bottle is sold by H J Pero Druggist.
A collection of quips and aphorisms from Golden Days Brooklyn Eagle and Binghamton Republican. Pithy lines describe real estate misers ground hogs lazy men optimists and exhausted jokers with editor's aim to shorten stories.
M. E. Church invites all to Sunday school at 12 15 p m and services at Ila m and 7 15 p m Pastor F W Downs presents morning topic What it is to be a Christian and why we should be Christians Evening address on Temperance and Prohibition All are welcome to attend
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