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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1897
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR reads like a station timetable with scattered names and times. The garbled text mentions Los Angeles and a general manager named A. Navote among other unclear entities. No coherent event or outcome is discernible.
Recap of arrivals and departures from Saint Dax to Bisbee with names like Scott White Hart and Frank Jesrser. Farm goods, lumber movements to the Dragoon mountains, and a Chiricahuas roundup are noted alongside sales ads for tonics and cattle dealings in Pearce Nogales and Willcox. A Bell of cures from Chamberlain’s Pain Balm and Winslow’s soothing syrup appears, with notices of a Tucson teachers institute and increases in cattle shipments to Kansas.
In the Probate court of Cochise County Arizona Territory the estate of Sam Mear deceased is administered by GEO H. FITTS as administrator. Creditors and claimants must exhibit claims with vouchers within four months after first publication to the administrator at his store in Touchstone City Cochise County. First publication November 5 1897.
Notice is given by executor A W Nichols of the Clem A Poole estate to creditors and claimants to exhibit claims with vouchers within four months after first publication. Office in Willcox Arkona Cochise County. Tombstone November 16 1897. Also a separate ad seeks fur and skins with quoted prices and full price list on request.
Yesterday the largest single day shipment of ears of wheat arrived at the Eagle Milling Company's new grain warehouse, highlighting the growth of this home industry in Tacon. Bucklin's Ankaica Salve advertised with claims of universal skin healing and a money back guarantee at Tembione Drug Store.
A reader pleads to keep biscuits light using Schilling Baking Powder and to serve Schilling's Best tea as the perfect pairing. The note warns against using inferior butter and urges preserving the tasty combination.
An old advertisement fragment from Scott and Bowse promotes Chemive with a claim of twenty-five years experience and a two size price point of fifty cents and one dollar, though the text is incomplete.
An inexact notice from The Cotole News in New York invites agents to earn fifty cents on each dollar. The brief asks writers to contact at 5 Barclay Street for details.
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