18 Jan 1890
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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1890
Page
1
Classified ad from Tombstone Epitaph printed by Meek and Madero on Fourth Street between Fremont and Allen. Rates show six months subscription and city delivery at 34 cents per month. Details are incomplete with scattered OCR remnants.
Paris Letter reports Captain E L Zalinski predicts a coming European war though not immediate. He cites two years to armies with smokeless powder and rifles, argues new weapons delay but cannot stop war, notes German maneuvers at Hanover, and questions smokeless powder and high explosive cartridges in rifles. He says modern weapons add horrors and that wounded soldiers complicate war effort.
The listing notes territorial and United States officials including Auditor Hugoes, Attorney General Clark Churchill, Surveyor General John A Hise, Superintendent of Public Instruction G W Chysiy, and delegates to Congress. It details Supreme Court justices James H Weber W W Porter W Barnes First Judicial District W H Barnes Second J H Kinney Third J H Wercer plus U S Officers Marshal WK Mason and Attorney Owen J Rouse. Local Tucson offices list J B Hambleton Tombstone V L Wilson Nogales J M Wilson and county officers led by Chairman B S Corraan.
Society notices invite visiting brothers in good standing to attend the third Saturday meetings each month at Masonic Hall. Special meetings occur when the flag is hoisted. Giro, W. Cherney, W. A. L. Grow, Sec.
A condensed notice announces stated meetings on the third Wednesday of each month. Special meetings may be called, with Sojourning Com pd and Hi P F L Moons serving as secretary, inviting cordial attendance.
A local detective notes burglars equip themselves with customized tools, including tempered drills and secret devices. a notorious thief named Spike Hennessy was linked to a famed New York safe heist. The piece also cites Protestant Spain’s churches, and Emile Zola saying he avoids politics to pursue literature.
A snapshot of Sardinian life shows religious festas shaping town life with chapels, shared meals, and pilgrim gatherings. A sample ordination feast counts 2500 attendees consuming vast quantities of meat, grain, eggs, wine, and confectionery, illustrating the scale of Sardinian tradition.
From Buenos Aires to daily life, domestic help is scarce and unruly. Cooks fetch $15 to $25, housemaids $12 to $18, and laundries are outsourced to river washwomen who do not iron. No single servant is responsible for return of clothes, worsening frustration for families relying on retinue.
The piece describes so called free lunch factories where saloon patrons are served inexpensive edibles. it notes large dealers supplying lunches, including leftovers from hotels. It also recounts a Georgia inebriate asylum claim and a tale of Indian Spring’s liquor cure, plus a humorous Broadway hat sketch and a line about Oberlin College offerings.
Des Moines Register chronicles an 208-worker cotton mill process converting cotton from southern bales into finished sheetings. It details mixing, dust removal, carding, drawing, speeders, spinning, warping, the slasher sizing, loom weaving across 132 looms, and final finishing, weighing, and bailing before sale.
A compilation of astonishing gluttony claims from various cultures and explorers. Notable examples include Hottentots and Bushmen reportedly devouring large quantities in short times, Esquimans and Yakuts consuming ox hindquarters, fat, and bread in a day, with Arctic conditions cited. Also mentions English working-men feats and Darwin's reputed gluttony, followed by literary quips about social manners and Fauntleroy’s influence on children’s grace.
Anthony Phillips, a Little Rock citizen described as the blackest negro in Arkansas, tries to cash a life insurance policy for a dead wife. In a comically tragic exchange, the manager learns the claim is for a drowned wife buried near Oak Bluff after a dispute with the coroner. The tale, told in Arkansas Traveler style, ends with Phillips avoiding further dealings with “strange folks.”
A humorous tale from the Arkansaw Traveler features Silas Henks facing a debt issue after marrying Miz Hempsy and later encountering jealousy over property. The lawyer advises paying what is owed, while Henks quips about turning the law on the lawyer. The piece transitions to a Treasury clerk recalling Vermont small-town antics with dogs and muzzles in a separate anecdote.
An advance agent for a touring company recounts a disastrous Southern run marked by drunken promotions and bad luck. A manager known for ambitious schemes splurged on a fish gag and posters. A town near Mobile threatened lynching, then tar and feathering after discovering Confederate tombstones defaced with showgirl posters. The tour collapsed with losses, the group sent home to New York.
England introduces an electric fog signaling device that automatically sounds the steam whistle and records each signal on a paper register. On underway or at anchor settings, the system operates the bell or whistle via a single bridge switch, with a clock driven paper register acting as documentary evidence in collisions. Two Frenchmen deliver a strange wage puzzle about a dish made from old white gloves that confounded a renowned epicure.
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