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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1901
Page
3
A distracted Tombstone scene covers quarantine talk in Los Angeles, a painter in the Grand Canyon offers nine canvases for theatre curtains, and a cautionary note skewers Mexican prospectors. The Courier details travel schemes, coyotes, and scams, warning readers against risky advances and ill-advised investments.
A garbled news note mentions Herman Wilson an old time saloon keeper from Charleston moving toward Phornix with a claim of better feeding in Phoenix country and a mistaken reference to Berman. Pete Huck also travels via Fairbank toward Sonora and mines near Cobre Grande, while a vague illness and long ties to Tombstone appear amid unclear names and places.
An item lists letters remaining in the government delivery service at the Tezitetene post office for the month ending Getler 31. It includes names such as Blair Carrie Crown Atles M Campbell Tex Bundas J D Fettman Ch Fer J B Gauthier El Groves and others. Callers are instructed to say advertised date when requesting these letters.
Antiquarian research traces a peaceful agrarian culture in the Southwest with irrigation canals and storage domes. They built beyond known accounts, suggesting a high civilization destroyed by a conquering power. Their ruins indicate advanced engineering reflected in reservoirs and storages that echo modern monumental schemes.
A Washington dispatch reports Governor Murphy of Arizina advocating retirement of large Tuchen reservations with possible Navajo exception and government water storage projects. He proposes Indian labor for farming, relocation of agencies, and end to tribal rations dependent zones to boost civilization. He cites census injustices in Phoenix and argues territory population exceeds official figures, urging summer enumeration and revised counts.
The article extols a statesman’s life habit: chewing each bite 30 times to aid digestion. It contrasts common eating habits with the result of better stomach health. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is praised as a proven remedy with fifty years of reliability for stomach liver and bowel disorders.
A dramatic planetary alignment captures early evening observers as Venus overtakes Jupiter and Saturn. The trio forms a striking cluster, visible for about two hours after sunset, with Venus closest at about 74 million miles, Jupiter at 540 million, and Saturn roughly 1.09 billion miles away. Jupiter and Saturn are nearest on the 27th, distance under the Moon’s diameter.
A fragmented editorial discusses county seat removal and potential court house location in Bisbee Copper Camp. It notes local business interests oppose incorporation as costly, warns taxation burden on Bisbee taxpayers, and argues voters may reject any proposal without informed debate.
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