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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1918
Page
7
A fragmented column reflects wartime themes from spring expectations to conservation and daily life. It flips between government costs, fashion notes, and home front odds and ends. The piece hints at rationing, stamps, and the oddity of ordinary tasks during conflict.
A Birmingham Age Herald quip contrasts speaking deeds with intellect, noting tongues reveal brains while a light jab reflects on wit. The piece shifts to a child’s churchyard humor, with Bobby showing interest in a sermon about modern flying machines and biblical references, teasing Esau and Jacob.
A vintage ad claims lemon juice mixed with three ounces of orchard white can bleach darkened skin remove freckles sallowness and tan and soften rough hands for a cheap beauty boost. It urges using two lemons and three ounces of orchard white from a drug store. The rest of the excerpt includes a joke about Miss Wrink and a remark about Peru adding aviation instruction to its public schools.
An OCR fragment mentions Boschee's German Syrup marketed to quiet coughs and sore throats and notes a baker's remark about turnovers. The text includes stray phrases about turnover in commerce and a line about men marrying to gain listeners for troubles.
Western Union News Service reports metal market values led by lead at 7.62 dollars per unit and copper at 23.12, with bar silver at 0.86. Colorado and Arizona notes cover copper production, dividends, patents on flotation, potash prospects, and mine operations including Cripple Creek output and Roy group development plans.
Montana’s Anaconda Copper Company resumes zinc ore production at the Alice mine after a shutdown since May. Initial daily output 390 tons with planned increases. Butte Copper and Zinc reports contracts to sell 5,000 tons of manganese ore to United States Steel Corp for 2,500 tons, with the remainder going to an independent steel company.
Examinations ongoing at the Enterprise mine near Cooney with plans to open the property. Mogollon plants see main building erection and framing underway as Oaks Company adds a compressor at Deep Down mine, while development focuses on the third level. The Mogotion Company reports a 900 foot shaft opened, exposing ore valued at 903000 dollars, and Platte Wyoming Company drills near Goemeey. Eleven rigs operate in Fossil field. Wyatt Oil and Refining Company advances in Brenzing basin to a 300 to 400 foot producer. Producers and Refiners Corporation acquires 860 meres in Castle Creek and sinks two wells, linking with French interests.
The page lists varied market prices for livestock and poultry, including fat steers, lambs, and hogs, with buying prices per hundredweight. It reports butter, cheese, and dairy product quotes, plus miscellaneous items such as hides, wool pelts, and calf details. Regional cities like New York and Milwaukee show sugar, butter, and dairy rates, with monthly or dated price references and commodity notes.
A historical overview traces Easter’s roots from Passover to Christian festival, linking the date changes to calendars reformed by Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory. It notes how Easter shifted various year starts across Europe, with pagan spring rites entwined in customs, and explains the etymology of Easter from Eas ter or Ostara and the sun deity myth related to Ostermannoth.
The article surveys Easter customs across northern Germany, noting bonfires on Easter Eve as a spectacle once tied to the sun’s renewal. It recounts beliefs of the sun’s three leaps at dawn, and references English physician Sir Thomas Browne on inherited superstition, plus practices of sun dances and Easter tales within church and dramatic shows.
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