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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1921
Page
4
The weekly Tombstone Daily Prospector edition from the Gi Rag i Brothers lists subscription prices in advance. It notes time periods and Cochise County delivery details and indicates entry at the Tombstone Post Office as second class mail matter.
A Tucson audience scrutinizes Arizona Automobile Club funding and influence. The letter argues against supporting the Phoenix group in Santa Cruz Yuma Cochise and warns that backing would divert traffic from the Old Spanish Trails and Bankhead highways. It cites S J Ross and questions the club’s claims about routes and guidance books.
An editorial urges every household to buy copper articles monthly to boost demand, reopen Western mines, and reemploy tens of thousands. It notes postwar oversupply ended copper lines, substitutes used during war, and weak foreign orders due to money issues, keeping mines idle.
A town honors a fallen soldier with a flag-draped funeral as marines and soldiers march in the procession. The Rev Dr Bradelift delivers the eulogy citing the soldier’s letters and wartime acts. Bergdoll faces public memory and the cruel thought he endured a better fate.
Fort Worth printer Charley Harris vented on a doctor’s bid request by drafting a mock bid for an appendectomy. The spoof imagines prices for incisions and post op care, mocking the phrase with gallows humor tied to medical and copper-industry news of the time.
Readers are urged to celebrate Old Home Town Paper Week and share updates on long-time residents. The piece argues towns shape city leaders and notes the editor’s role in serving loyal locals while balancing sensational items. It emphasizes community bonds and the appeal of hometown nostalgia.
The El Paso Automobile Club criticizes road conditions in Arizona reporting a bridge out near Benson and noting the Bankhead Old Spanish Trails route between Lordsburg and Phoenix as poor. The letter questions the club writer and mocks outdated views while highlighting better roads in other parts of Arizona.
The article weighs goosebone signals and meteorological reasoning for a cold, lengthy winter. It notes squirrel hoarding, birds, moss, and feathers as folk signs, but cautions such beliefs may be misinterpreted. Meteorologists cite unusually warm temperatures and cycles of cold and warm years suggesting a sour arctic period ahead. It closes with a quip about a lazy man dying from indigestion.
A Prescott observer questions why murder convictions and executions are rare in Arizona. The piece cites Mississippi and other states to argue that legal loopholes and appeals hinder justice, noting lynching history, capital punishment debates, and how juries and judges handle prohibition and violent crime cases.
Cochise County and Governorship rumors indicate three Democrats may enter the primary with Judge Fred Sutter and Hon. M. Rob and J. I. of Bisbee among figures. J. S. Douglas urged by many Democrats as a desirable governor candidate, backed by calls for retrenchment and economy in Arizona’s state government. The piece notes political tension and voter calls amid bootlegger charges and fiscal critiques from the Douglas Daily International.
The final Chandler Arizonan carries a bold notice about Jacks Auto Club being left off a bank route map. The article hints the club must resolve internal matters promptly to regain investor and community confidence. Local readers see tensions rising as routing questions loom.
Clifton Mathews of Rice and Mathews will argue Truax vs Corrigan in the U S Supreme Court. The long case began in Cochise County in 1916, testing the anti injunction statute of Arizona and propounding whether injunctions can be issued to curb boycotting by striking workers. The matter, once heard in 1920, is being reargued under a new chief justice.
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