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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1892
Page
4
Mixed trains carrying freight arrive at Benson from the east in the evening and the westbound service runs at 6 30 pm Pacific time. The thermometer range for the 24 hours ending at 6 pm shows December 17 with a maximum and minimum noted.
Local notes list new perfumes at Millers Drug Store. Talks of a two story brick hotel. The phonograph man runs a food business at Yaples. New crop raisins and dried fruit at Wolcotts. D Scribner expected home about Dec 30. Powell at Bee Hive store in Phoenix. Whitney of San Francisco listed on Cochise register. T P Shelton of Boston registered at San Jose. Carlingtron Heaters offered at Millers Drug Store. Herrera and McClure ship cattle to California. Big price cuts on Dressing Cases at Yaples. Antelope plentiful in Huachuca foothills. Col H A Bigelow, Arizona pioneer, dies at Prescott aged 59. Prescriptions at Rockwells Pharmacy. Wind shifts to south. storm forecast. Schreiber and Ross from Bisbee registered at Palace. Meaigagich and Medigovich form partnership at Bisbee as Medigovich & Co.
Full line of acids and assayers materials at Hockwell e Pharmacy 407 Allen Street.
A Bisbee column from December 16 reports on Morenci arrivals, land grant notices, a Bowie to Globe railroad claim, copper mine patent arrivals, and community notices. It mixes local chatter with editorials on education certification and public discourse, noting Father Granton’s Nogales trip and school reader confusion.
Geasler's Headache Waters at Mittyk's Dave Stoxe. County axes become delinquent on Monday the 19th. Pay to avoid extra penalty. The pump at Lucky Case doing well. The annual billedue for Prospector and Britain to be sent next week. A Chinaman condemned to death for murder died by his own hand in Los Angeles yesterday. Mrs. H G Howe leaves for the east for months. E B Gage reports snow and cold on crossing the continent. Premature baldness claim for Hall's Sicilian Hair Rejuvenator. Chiricana Cattle Co meeting postponed to Monday due to stockholder delay.
Louis Prow sustained a fractured skull when he was thrown from a horse at Ft Bowie and lies unconscious. The accident left him in a dire medical condition, with local authorities assessing the circumstances.
The Stockman notes cattle shipments from Willcox for the week ending December 17. Two train loads totaling 1080 head moved from Soldier Holes to Miller & Lux in Fairfield California. One train load of 500 head left Soldier Holes bound for J Sibbold in California. Two trains from Whitewater were sent to Miller & Lux in Nevada. Five more trains are contracted for and will go next week.
The Tombstone general delivery lists letters remaining for week ending December 17 1892 including W B Taylor Geo Roberts D Taltat P Kran John C Elijah Harrie Jr and others. Callers must say advertised and give date. W A Hanwoop Postmaster.
A wood chopper on the Tur quoin road filed the Golden Cash claim today. Located by E W Clark and P M Likes, it sits about three miles from Bauer's ranch. The report includes local church lectures by W A Harwood and Bishop Kendrick's conflicting travel plans, plus a Utah gold prospecting trek by 63 year old Clark with two burros.
The M E Church led by Rev F W Downs offers Sunday school at 12 15 pm with no morning service. Evening topic is Common Sense Religion and invitees are urged to attend. Rev C R Nugent presides with Sunday school at 9 45 am and services at 11 am and 7 80 pm featuring The Viper in the Fire and The Scarlet Rope. Christian Endeavor meets an hour before evening services. You are cordially invited.
Branch's nursery at the corner of 2nd and Fulton streets offers for sale trees rose bushes and plants. June 1.
The item discusses Agee's Cathartic Pills as a health remedy amid stomach and liver disorders, with letters from Phoenix. It notes schedule changes on the S P railroad at Benson, including westbound 8:30 p.m. and eastbound 4:00 a.m. times, plus no change for N M G&A. George Metcalf will attend the Phoenix Institute to discuss textbooks and school advancement representing Cochise County.
News of square ivory handies attached to tea and coffee pots and new silver service bowls shaped like tin pans with gilt interiors and raised lobsters and crustaceans. Describes gilt fruit knives with dagger shapes, American enamel handles with cherub and Dresden designs, Irish Belleek floral pieces, tiny gold saltpans, and bouillon cups with colored sets. Table knife handles now china to match plates and poultry hatchers feature small chicks and ducks as knife heads.
A retired physician promotes a worldwide cure for consumption bronchitis asthma and throat and lung ailments. The advertisement touts radical relief for nervous debility and nervous complaints with instructions available in German French or English and requests readers to seek directions for sending for the remedy.
The Board of Railroad Commissioners of the Territory of Arizona will meet in Tombstone on Monday December 19 1892. The board invites any citizen with suggestions pertaining to railroads in the Territory. R W Woon President.
W. E. Payne & Co announces reliable help from 910 Union Avenue Kansas City Missouri for any nationality, male or female, in any quantity. Correspondence solicited. Free of charge to the union.
A reported outbreak in Helmetta New Jersey caused excitement before investigations showed the illness was violent dysentery, nearly as dangerous as cholera. Local merchant Walter Willard praises Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for severe dysentery cases and notes it is for sale by H. J. Peto.
The garbled text references a mare that may repeat chapters of a book, a shooter in Redding California, a Georgia preacher, and an odd tale of animal discipline. Details are unclear, names are uncertain, and the passage appears as stray OCR fragments without coherent narrative.
An old line claims Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup has soothed millions of children for over fifty years. It supposedly eases teething pain, cures wind colic, and is pleasant to taste. Sold worldwide by druggists. beware of imitations.
A novel asbestos porcelain process presented to the Academie des Sciences in Paris by M. Garton. He granulates asbestos to a fine powder, purifies it, forms a paste, molds the material, and fires it at 120 degrees. The product is described as very translucent and promising.
A regional ad claims chronic bronchitis and colds linger in fall and winter but a fifty cent bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy will cure a cold. It is marketed as a reliable, affordable remedy available through H. J Peto.
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