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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1898
Page
2
A garbled report notes the battleship Indiana fired a thirteen inch gun and the smaller guns finished the target. It claims this as a display of effective gunnery amid broader references to wartime excitement and public events.
Selected snippets recount dating and social quips from various papers. A Chicago Post item jokes about a wife’s hesitation over a man deemed right, while Brooklyn Life sketches distrustful banking chatter. Other quips touch on rain days and minor domestic inquiries.
Bisbee notes feature Tom York and local business ads for B F Graham Cols, a new ice cream parlor, and a refined arc over the Copper Queen yards. The Bisbee Choral Society prepares an evening program at the Opera House as Rev JM Kendrick visits for multiple services with a calendar of Holy Week rites and baptisms.
In Bisbee and Cochise County Outlook Hints at a busy cattle season with 30,000 head expected from local shipments and Wilcox alone forecasting 50,000. Rail relaying from Bisbee to Parbalni completed. schedule to shift to daytime passenger and mail service. Opera House event promises Prof Wood as blind musician performing tomorrow night.
Bratain and Co located at 401 to 497 North Main Street in Los Angeles California is noted in the archival listing. The entry records the street address and city for the business entity.
Regular correspondent reports from Bisbee detailing visits from Tim Taft and H W Huccgroon plus California mining talk. Edior Aten T Bird of Nog grasis and others arrive. furniture upholstery and repairs advertised. Local social events, moving of stores, and a grand lodge meeting in Phoenix noted.
A dispatch warns that pulling U S troops from Arizona and New Mexico could trigger Apache raids and threaten cattlemen and settlers. Officials fear possible Indian outbreak and indicate the regular army may be mobilized if Spain declares war. National Guard units in western states may be deployed to protect cattlemen and settlers.
Report outlines a Cochise district bundle of mines under bond to multiple operators, including Climax Standend Gold, Casey group, Noble Metzeger, Pan American Gulf, Gold Reef, and Nort Arctic and Fest. Royer notes Washington officials may allow domestic mining use of Wood but restrict shipment. A deserter named Alargsinby was caught near the desert, and Cuzae left town for Tucson under bond while a courthouse bond process looms. Arizona & Southeastern and Arizona terminals plan laid tracks. $25,000 expected expenditure for project facilitation.
An old time advertisement touts Bucklin’s Annica Salve as the best remedy for bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores chapped hands and all skin eruptions with a guarantee of satisfaction or money back. It lists price and a drug store in Tenbione. The piece also mentions a burial at a hospital and a military uniform color change proposal along with assorted notices and letters promoting various products and services.
Five wagons canvas covered and two three seated buggies offered at the Emanuel wagon and carriage shop. Also a fine stock of handsome buggies and wagons built at the shop. Corner Third and 4 Hearts invites inspection and guarantees durability.
J. W. Gray notes Arizona prospering copper districts at Jerome Tusher Globe and Morenci expanding output. Rail extension toward Globe accelerates, Apache work shifts toward peace, and irrigation schemes promise vast agricultural development. Territory foresees continued prosperity and rapid future growth.
The article extols mining as a noble calling, contrasting it with other trades. It argues miners create real wealth by extracting from mother earth, while many others merely transfer money, and praises producers like farmers and stockmen for adding to the world’s wealth.
Week ending April 1, NSv8 lists letters awaiting pickup for K.C Hicks Kitt Eddie Becket Bate I Sam Brannan F.W. Last 0. G. Line Mary FLE Baker Lettie Mann T. Hanlon Gre Hees E.W. Waleh Dave Philips W. J. Newmen Readers must call for advertised letters and provide the advertise ment date.
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