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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1894
Page
2
Attorney Gasnust Ouer has created a new serial plan in Washington. He hosts Sunday dinners for friends described as swell affairs. As a Presbyterian church member in good standing he faces a sharp remark, answered with humor about coming to our senses.
At the Trans-Mississippi congress on Wednesday resolutions were adopted urging Congress to empower admission of Oklahoma New Mexico and Arizona as states. A second resolution demanded immediate restoration of free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 without any foreign consent. These two requests are meant to carry weight.
The experiment of the free silver platform in Ohio damps its own vote by 127,138 from 1892 while lifting the popu list vote to 14,852. The passage notes decline of free silver and rise of mono metallism as a repeated historical pattern, arguing wealth concentrates and harms government.
A fragment discusses the governor's pardoning power, arguing it remains essential for justice even though it is sometimes abused. It notes penitentiaries and fake witness concerns and asserts that removing the veto would threaten constitutional liberties.
W. J. Cheyney of the TM&M Co represented Arizona at the Trans Mississippi congress. He is praised as a steadfast friend of silver, attending gatherings over a thousand miles from Philadelphia to aid the silver cause, earning distinctive credit for Tombstone and Arizona.
Henry Wilson, postmaster at Welshton Florida, says a long standing diarrhoea was cured in hours by one small dose of Chamberlains Coke Cholera and Diarrhea remedy. He notes many cures with this remedy and that it is pleasant when diluted for drinking.
An island recently ceded to the territorial prison by act of Congress is being rehabilitated by prison labor with vegetables and crops to raise its value. Levees are under construction to resist Gila River floods, promising a potential revenue from land long considered useless. Governor Hughes pardoned eight prisoners and commuted four sentences, including Wilson Douglass from life to fourteen years. Douglass, once trusted, faced a brutal crime and will likely depend on his wife for support after release due to age and inability to work.
Mrs Phoebe Thomas of Junction City TL was told she had consumption and no hope until two bottles of Dr King's New Discovery cured her. Thomas Eggers of 139 Florida St San Francisco suffered a severe cold near consumption, bought a bottle and in two weeks was cured. Free star bottles at Tombstone and Misbee drugstores. Regular size 50c and 1.00.
A fragmentary sale notice from Wolcott lists household goods and kitchen utensils for sale or by cost. Items include wash tubs, milk pans, irons, pots, sieves, baking tins, strainers, tea kettles, frying pans, and related wares. The text is obscured and readable entries focus on basic household merchandise.
Money ready for immediate purchase where property has fixed market value. Security and title must be clear. No commission. Applications solicited. Blanks furnished upon request. AutEs & Co, 40 Broadway, New York.
A roundup of arrivals and happenings from Bisbee and Tombstone with hunting trips, weddings planned, cattle shipments, a boxing or baseball game against Tombstone, a grand Rathbone Lodge ball, and a report on Elmer Crouch returning from Congress work in Mexico. Deer sightings and local hospital patients are noted, along with a note on the A and S E railroad men and the lower Sulpher Spring round up.
Popular remedy Electric Bitters is extolled as pure medicine that cures liver and kidney diseases clears skin conditions and wards off malaria. The ad promises complete satisfaction or money back and lists prices at 50 cents and 1 per bottle in Tombstone and Bisbee drugstores.
The Hillman case lands in Tombstone as William Herndon is arrested in a Salvation Army camp near West Hanchisoa and brought to court. Detectors Gamel and Finley capture the suspect while Sheriff Scott White holds a warrant. Allen English defends, aiming to prove the real Hillman is not this man.
The stock market shows a slide with silver prices dropping and Japan buying war materiel cited as a drag. In Washington rumors over the president’s health spark brief statements from an aide denying severity. Dallas reports ongoing drought hardening water supplies while public prayer spreads. Across regions, Moscow notes royal praise of liberal habits, and Shanghai reports a corruption memorial hitting Li Hung Chang. China seeks peace as talks with Japan via the U.S. ministers.
A Texas mother details her adopted 14 year old boy’s horrific scrofula sores. After using Hood's Sarsaparilla, sores healed in a month, legs straightened, and he could walk normally. She calls Hood's the best medicine for scrofulous humors and health restoration.
Mise Many E Coonan lives in Hilliston Mans Avren. after her father's death ten years ago she became sole manager of sixty eight acres. A school teacher by training she runs the farming operation despite skepticism from neighbors and peers.
Dr. W F Prather in Farm Field and Fireside offers a set of bicycle inspired maxims. Each metaphor links human conduct to cycling parts like handlebars chains and bearings. The piece contrasts diligence with ease and suggests collective effort makes the wheel turn.
A collection of quotations on home duty fate and virtue from poets and writers. It presents themes of responsibility self improvement and moral choice through brief aphorisms and reflections from Ingelow Kingsley Hawes Varle Holmes and Bagleton.
The text offers a string of domestic tips such as removing stains with eggs, sage tea for hair, vaseline for dry nails, and oilcloth to curb sleepwalking. It also interjects quips about parrots, vanity, and a jab at a restaurant pickle castor, ending with a jab at counterfeit intellect and a crude remark.
Mrs Isabella Dean Irack, a philanthropist in search of funds, plans a National Dog Burial Company to honor pets with grave markers. She, staying in Brooklyn, appeals to bankers and women in Philadelphia and New York to join a venture to bury and memorialize dogs, citing love for animals and lack of children as motivation.
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