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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1895
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR notes mention railroad time tables and a faint reference to schedules. The legible bits point to hourly timing details and a clerk or correspondent annotating station hours and possible train arrivals. The text hints at maplike timetable layout with hour markers and destination names that are largely unreadable.
Local notes report Silver at 65g for JV. Vickers travels to Kansas on cattle business. Various residents travel, shipments of oranges move through Benson, and cattle shipments to Kansans are planned. The reform school at Flagstaff is taking shape. a new twenty stamp mill operates at Minas Prietas. Smallpox reports decrease, a funeral follows the Oldington burial, and railroads push spring shipments.
The World's Fair Tests showed no baking powder as pure or as great in leavening power as the Royal. A mortgage for 300000 is filed in Prov cent for record from United Verde Pacific Railway Co to State Trust Co of New York to secure bonds. The column also notes whooping cough remedy claims safety for babies. A local artesian well in Mac is hailed as a boon to the surrounding country. A quip about an Arizona divorce appears, and Tombstone businessman SM Barrow is featured for market-friendly, cash-based sales.
An article fragment promotes Syrup of Figs as a superior medicinal laxative and describes a new passenger train schedule on the Gila Valley Globe and Northern railroad from Bowie to Thomas. It notes a rising county assessment, upcoming grand lodge elections in Williams, and a Prescott meeting, with officials and dates.
A fragmented page itemized recorder filings and local notices from Tombstone. It mentions names such as Fred Stari, Geo Room, M J Soto, H M Gerty, E R Lancond, and A B Barnett, plus ads for salves, a salve guarantee, and local merchants like Tom's Tone Drug Store and WD Monmonier. It references free coinage of silver and local hardware/piping interests, with varied notes on clothing, artesian water, and known figures Pa. Loffgreen and his brother, along with Dr Price’s Cream Baking Powder and Strap of Figs laxative claims.
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