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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1892
Page
1
Recipes collected from old home periodicals describe Lamb chops breaded and fried with parsley, veal molded with its boiled water, beef tongue cured with heavy salts in a two week pickle, hambena steaks fried with gravy, and chicken Texmarts in a rich cream sauce with sherry, yielding old time home cooking guidance.
A nine wide array of items from far flung notes include a blacksnake slain near Allen's Mill, a school alarmed by snakes in Montville Connecticut, a two and a half ton asphalt block from La Peters California, a long probate inventory in Norwich, Connecticut, and a Newburyport savings deposit seeking interest after loss. Also listed are youthful stone throwers in Kansas City, a rapid speech Grapstone, a luxurious Chinese minister, Queen Victoria's autograph to actors land fair, Isaac Newton morning routines, and Jon Pansext claimed as a wealthy peach grower in Ireland.
The passage notes a gigantic Louisiana farm of 1,500,000 acres measured 100 by 25 miles, fenced at $50,000, claiming the world's size and cost. It also mentions various historical election ballots, peach stones burning as coal, a $15 per ton heat, and a massive horse owned by T E Ridgway of Fort Worth who stood 22 hands high and weighed 1,200 pounds.
Special correspondence from Guatemala City describes the capital of Guatemala as a growing hub with 70,000 people. The piece notes foreign investment, land booms, rising property values, strong coffee exports, lax customs, and reforms under General Joa Barrios aimed at stability and reduced military spending.
An advertisement promotes Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy at 25 and 50 cents per bottle for bowel complaints. It lists distributors in Cochise, Sonora, Bisbee, San Francisco, and Tres Alamos, claims quick relief, and warns against imitations of Attcock's Plasters and Pokovs.
Rev F W Downs leads evening service at 8 p m with no morning service. Sunday school at 6 30 p m. Rev C R Nugent follows with 945 a m Sunday school and service. Evening topic begins three part series on Confirmations of Christianity by Physical Science. The Life Cell highlighted. All invited.
An old advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a long trusted remedy for teething babies. It claims to soothe gums, ease pain, cure wind colic, and treat diarrhea, selling for twenty five cents a bottle through patent doctors.
Mexico faces a shift under President Diaz with reduced tariffs to boost trade and revenue, while cutting nonessential expenses. The plan emphasizes lower duties on raw materials, caution over silver depreciation, and limited reciprocity as reform aims to strengthen import demand and state finances.
In Cochise County Arizona a notice to creditors for the Thomas F Walsh estate requires all claims with vouchers be presented at administrator William H Brophy residence in Bisbee on or before May 8 1893. The administrator with the will annexed dated July 1852.
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