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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1893
Page
4
At 1 07 pm the timetable lists mixed trains at stations including West Mount and Benwin with eastbound arrivals at 2 15 pm and westbound at 6 39 am. Pacific time runs one hour slower than Tomb zone. The 24 hour thermometer ends May 3 with a maximum of 82 and a minimum recorded.
Local notes list residents in Phoenix, Tucson, Los Angeles and Nogales, with updates on travels, court matters, appointments, and local commerce. Items include J. Braun at the coach, Scott White rounding jurors, A. English and Col. Herring return from Tucson, Me. Sunday School picnic at Crane’s ranch, Florez and others bound for grand jury, and a Tucson district court mandamus case involving J. P. McAllister.
Reports describe safe drill operations with positive results at the mine. The longest hole reached indicates good progress, though water flow hampers optimal direction. Supt Staunton plans a drift to access rich ore, shipments continue, and other company properties show strong production. A separate note mentions Judge Kibbey’s resistance to turnover to Judge Rouse.
The meeting of King Solomon Lodge No 5 calls a special session for the third degree with Sojourning brethren invited. A Bisbee appeal suit lands in district court with CW Blackburn as plaintiff and Frank Dubacher as administrator defendant. An undertaker verdict is appealed by Mr Dubbscher. Judges Perrin and Tucker sit. A Kansas cholera remedy tale follows, praising Chamberlains Cholera and Cough Remedy. Portland item and Los Angeles stock firm form with John L Van Every and Simon Levy among directors. University tax dispute prompts supreme court remittance, totaling over 700 dollars in tax and fees.
An advertisement touts Syrup of Figs as a trusted laxative benefiting kidneys, liver, and bowels. It stresses pleasant taste, universal acceptance, and medical approval, sold by druggists at $1 per bottle from the California Fig Syrup Co, with a warning against substitutes.
The text records figures on a couple celebrating a diamond wedding at age 100, insurance statistics, and various demographic and economic data. It notes more beehives in the United States than any other country, a grower tax issue, and port commerce in New York for 1691, plus estimates of Americans traveling to Europe and their expected expenditures.
In a garbled report the text discusses rail projects across Britain and Ireland, noting state use of 4.208 miles of track from a 7.00 mile total, and anticipated reforms by authorities. It mentions costs, schedules, and upgrades amid shifting transportation plans without clear sequence or outcome.
An aged advertisement extols Winslow’s Soothing Syrup as a universal remedy used for fifty years by mothers for teething pain and diarrhea. It claims soothing the gums, easing crying, and calming stomach distress, with noted worldwide sale and a price of twenty five cents per bottle.
A Silver Leaguers convention is ordered in Ansonaz Ke ts with delegates from Silver Leagues and clubs to meet in Phowx Angoa on Thursday May 18 1893. The aim is to perfect an exchange and support the free image of silver through coordinated action and financial reform, with speakers from abroad anticipated led by A Buck and L J Woop.
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