City and County Official Paper Report on Territory Statehood
Harqua Hala would be a good place if it was a white man's camp. Manx Sarre spoke to the committee on territories for statehood. J H Powell the cattle buyer was arrested in Phoenix for shipping cattle without inspection. Yost recorded 1.85 inches of rain last week. The piece notes irritable weather, miners wages up ten percent at Clifton, and discussions of a Tombstone newspaper war. City council declined to intervene on irrigation cooperation and refused extra funds for Frank Ryan's water works. Cattle moved to high country with winter storms easing and spring grass starting to appear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prospector
Frank Ryan
German Syrup and Germ Disease Beliefs Among Physicians
A historical note argues that consumption is a germ disease, stating phlegm comes from destroyed lung tissue and bacilli are invisible yet alive. The text describes how these germs enter the body and spread to the lungs, growing by feeding on tissues.
Caring for Pearls and the Ash Tree Remedy
A writer recalls the Egmont pearls once owned by Count Egmont and later by the duchess of Richelieu. Tradition claimed wrapping a root ash insert in the jewelry box kept pearls fresh and lustrous for centuries, though Buffon called the tale nonsense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holeland
Kate Vield
Washington
Egmont
Richelien
Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Count Egmont
Buffon
Old Ships Still Sail On Blazing Seas Despite Ages
A table of board of trade casualty data shows many vessels aged fifty to sixty and older with six over a century. The Juno of Beaumaris at 106 and the Endeavor of Plymouth reflect aging craft on coastal routes and even steamships exceed eighty and ninety years, often rebuilt from sailing frames yet retaining identity.
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Jane
Neaumarts
Board of Trade
Juno
Beaumaris
Plymouth
Dunkirk
Atlantic
Not So Very Awful Wife In Congress Gossip
In the Washington Post style tableau two refined ladies in the house gallery discuss Kansas congressman Jerry Simpson and his wife. A vociferous young spectator asks about Simpson, while others comment on his appearance and rumors, amid lively gallery chatter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mre
Jerry Simpson
Mr. Simpson
Unclear text about razors and strops
Fragmentary article notes men discovering barber strops for razors and discusses effects of stropping. Mentions gasors and tying a barb to a bir and that more stropping shortens the edge, but many phrases are garbled and unclear.
Sagacious Horse at New York Show
A Kentucky foal in an open paddock repeatedly bites free a wooden hasp then is recaptured. The owner tests the horse by moving the hasp, and the animal responds by deliberately eating it, displaying noteworthy cunning in the stunt at a horsemen gathering.
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New York
L Nan Horsish
Mirth, Medicine and a Glass Eye Tale from St Louis
In a St Louis Republic piece, reflections on spending for pleasure contrast with a tale from Vienna about two women with duplicate glass eyes. The article mentions Salvisti’s factory, gifts and kindness, and a historic anecdote of a German officer’s spider weather predictor influencing Dutch and French forces during winter.
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New York City
Vienna
Salvisti Glass Factory
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Tombstone Prospecto
Bagg
Manx Sarre
Committee On Territories
J. H. Powell
Phenix
Yost
Yuma
Clifton
Tombstone
Prosracron
Brrrain
Miles
Prosrecrok
Bulletin
Reminsvess
Davorr
Rosida Lnd
Disjonval
Utrecht
Erty
Holland
Eopider
St Louis Republic
RIE Rtal CO
Buffalo MV
Arizona Mail & Stage CO
US. Mail and Wells, Fargo & Co’s Express
Fairbank
Nogales
Bisbee
Person
Treegeegg
City
Free Rge
J. B. Hamtros
du. Ge, Goopretson
Cochise
County
Arizona
Edward Holbrook, Steward
ST. Louis
ST Louis Beer Hall
Anheuser Busch Brewing
Asso Cussor
OP AE
Louis
Martin Costello
Bank of Tombstone
Geo. Basear
Geo
H Cammen
K. W. Woop
Presiden
J.P. McAccister
John P. Shaughnessy
Cary
J. W. Vickers
Fremont
Laomrt
Green
Cotten
A. Cohn & Bros
Allen Street
Fifth
Virginia Hotel
Benson
Culinary Department
Kettle
California
Tribolet
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