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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1892
Page
4
The thermometer range for the 24 hour period ending 3 p m December 28 is reported. The data reflects daytime and nighttime readings including highs and lows observed at local stations. Officials advise using the figures for general planning as exact times vary by location.
Toiletries and patent medicines marketed at Miller's Drug Store and Muex's. Advertisements list John Blewett Gus Heyman at the San Jose and Palace hotels with several registrants at Cochise and Bisbee. A boys safety bicycle offer at the Palace hotel. Christmas grand march at the Methodist church, admission free. Eastern Oysters at Wolcott's. A local dance misprint noted. Hall's Sicilian Hair Renewer advertised. Ayers Sarsaparilia urged as a blood purifier. Dr. Jones of Benson visiting Tombstone. F B Austin visiting from Tempe area. neighbors greeting friends and plans to stay awhile.
King Solomon Lodge F A M held a banquet after installing officers. Covers for 40 were set in the Can Can dining rooms with Grand Master J M Ormsby and Master A I Grow among the guests. Toasts honored The Grand Lodge The Bar The Press Our Sister Societies and Solomon Lodge. Speakers urged health and prosperity of the lodge members. assembly adjourned after 2 a m, noting St John’s Day annual installation.
Gov Murphy writes from Chicago that the financial affairs of the North and South road are satisfactorily arranged and the road is as sure of construction as possible. He states work will start south of Prescott early next year and be pushed to completion. The letter was received yesterday, offering the latest public update. An elegant selection of Bath and Boggy Sponges at Miien's Davo Irons.
The Diamond drill at Fremont and 7th streets has been temporarily dug up after sinking through cement above bedrock. A shaft will be sent to reach solid ground, already 15 feet down, with plans to resume drilling soon. King Solomon Lodge installed officers for the coming year led by Grand Master J. M. Ormaby from Nogales.
Nogales has transformed from a camp to a lively border city with electric lights on both sides of the line. The Mexican side enjoys illuminated plazas and a twenty four member band funded by subscribers. Officials plan to move the reestablished line headquarters to Yuma, while debates over a 50 to 100 foot no-build zone on the border unfold. Local leaders praise Manuel Mascarefias and Carlos Fernandez Pasalagua for progress and anticipate a post office and customs house, plus a military post, within two years.
The Cochise County Board of Supervisors met to approve the prior minutes and instructed the county treasurer to transfer all money from the Fines Fund to the Expense Fund. The board discussed the annual settlement with the license tax collector and adjourned to 10 a.m. December 28, 1892. Presiding officers were GW Boras and WD Moxwesten.
County records list locations including Planet Armada Morish Enigma Dos Cabezas Warren district and miners J D Emerald Unlucky Cow Boy mine and millite. Clerk notes entries for Peter Dorsey and overall district administration.
The new monthly publication Arizona's Resources in the name of new monthly magazine, issued by Converse & Valadier in Tucnon, aims to offer steady support and credible content. Rockwell's Pharmacy advertises prescriptions compounded with care.
A Brantieri Ontario resident Eugene McKay recounts long battle with constipation. After trying various remedies he was persuaded to use Baasprem's Pins and found daily bowel movement regular and no further discomfort. He credits the product with superior relief for slugglabness and biliousness.
The New York Tribune recounts a playful contest where two children roll a newspaper into a club and strike heads, then reveal finger patterns. The game hinges on matching finger combinations as the paper changes hands and play continues.
The president receives a monthly salary of 34104 dollars paid via a treasury warrant. A special messenger brings the warrant to the White House and, after indorsement by the president, is deposited by his private secretary at the Columbia Bank. When out of town the draft is mailed to him. The same method pays the Supreme Court justices.
An advertisement touts Ayer's Cherry Pectoral as essential for households with children, claiming the remedy calms inflammation, frees obstructed air passages, and suppresses coughing for croup and whooping cough. It emphasizes its magical effect in relief.
A Paris laundryman abandons soap and alkali, relying on water and boiled potatoes to cleanse linens, while the Tur Paris street from Neuilly to St Denis, known as Route de la Revoite, is described as housing many criminals in tightly packed tenements.
A reported outbreak of cholera in Helmetta New Jersey caused excitement but investigation found a violent dysentery rather than cholera. Walter Willard, a Jamesburg merchant two miles away, praises Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as highly effective in severe dysentery cases. Sincerely H J Perot.
The Royal Navy notes that constant ship to ship competition in our squadron helped revive a new life of steering and efficiency. Preparations and signaling were carried out with zest as training aimed to keep men capable for towing and line work. The piece extols training value, physic duties, and the need to send men whose futures serve the country.
An aged advertisement touts Winslow’s Soothing Syrup as a longstanding remedy used by millions of mothers for teething pain, gum irritation, wind colic, and diarrhea. It claims quick relief, pleasant taste, and world-wide druggist availability, urging buyers to seek the genuine product and beware of imitators.
A fragment outlines a Styria Austria policy banning indigent marriages without a license, likening it to medieval rule. The note mentions concubinage being illegal, a potential social backlash, and cites Chamberlain's Cough Kerety as a cattle remedy offered by H. J. Pam.
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