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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1918
Page
3
A mother of a brave son speaks in a lyrical wartime plea about sacrificing personal comfort for her child's honor. She reflects on strict upbringing, education, and the cost of perfection, ending with a heartfelt, patriotic resolve. References to Benton Duan in New York Timex appear as publication detail.
Denver mayor Robert Welter Speer died in New York on Tuesday afternoon of pneumonia at his home 300 Humboldt street as bells tolled from St John and Immaculate Conception cathedrals. In his final hours he spoke of city needs and national war work, sharing plans he had formed to aid Denver and the war effort.
Scraps of meat or fish, stale bread, and skim milk are praised as valuable leftovers. The piece urges careful storage and creative use to cut waste, noting fat from meat, sour milk, and other byproducts can bolster meals. It cites waste reduction by households and garbage plants as evidence of savings.
The article reports on Invar a nickel steel alloy with about 26 percent nickel and small amounts of carbon and manganese praised for extremely low thermal expansion. It notes variations in expansion across temperatures from 40 to 200 degrees with a range of measured changes from under a millionth to negative expansion in some samples and compares it to Bessemer steel.
A quirky column reflects on excuses for supporting Germany and the value of communication with loved ones. It ribbingly notes men may be vain about affection yet forget to call, and suggests empathy by imagining the other side. The piece uses playful wordplay about mixery and bearing blame.
Cards defined for the blind show raised letters in top and bottom corners revealing their identity. By covering letters, a blind reader can identify each card nearly as fast as sighted players. Dates encoded by letters like Two D meaning Two of Diamonds and J H meaning Jack of Hearts. Initially readers stumble but soon gain proficiency.
The text describes a vast animal cemetery in the former imperial summer palace at Pekin where over a thousand pets of Chinese emperors lie in coffins of polished wood. The site is noted as perhaps the largest such cemetery in the world and remains connected to the ruined palace.
An article from the United States Department of Agriculture discusses how city families can keep backyard hens to supply the household with eggs. It covers space needs, coop size, and care considerations for small and larger flocks, stressing ventilation, drainage, and safe, well-lit conditions.
Denver mourns mayor Speer who died at 63 after weeks at his desk and illness. He led city government with energy and aimed for war work coordination. W F Mills becomes acting mayor, to carry on Speer’s policies and city improvements pending a mausoleum tribute plan.
A Christian Herald statement extols industry’s efficiency, noting mills burn sawdust, scraps fuel furniture, silk from scraps, and clothing waste enters shoddy. munition by-products become fabrics and fertilizers. leather scraps yield fiber board, while only loose ends from life are lost.
Noted New York publisher James Gordon Bennett proprietor of the New York Herald died in France on May 14 after two days of unconsciousness. Mrs. Bennett was with him at his death. The younger Bennett inherited a vast newspaper fortune at about age 30. Washington reports the first million tons of ships completed and delivered to the U.S. government under the Shipping Board. A total of 159 vessels amounting to 1,108,621 tons had been completed by May 11 with over half delivered since January 1 and monthly totals rising.
An advertisement promotes EATONIC for stomach relief after meals. It claims the tablet aids digestion, reduces gas and sour stomach, and allows eating freely. A money back guarantee promises refund if it fails to provide relief. The copy touts benefits and urges regular use after each meal.
An advertisement extols Freezone as a painless remedy for hard and soft corns and callouses. It claims instant relief from pain, then frees the corn with finger lift. It promotes a tiny bottle sold by druggists and offers free samples of Cuticura soap and ointment, with address in Boston.
The writer notes that life resembles a rail journey with Amy coaches and Puli mans passengers disembarking at the same stations, implying equal outcomes for different travelers.
The piece notes that self-interest earns little goodwill, pride differs from self-respect by insistent display, and a wife’s dress loses nothing in her eyes. It suggests imagination can aid cheerfulness, and two dollars seems small yet satisfying when won in an all-night poker game.
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