Tombstone Prospector Published Every Evening
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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1891
Page
2
The notice proclaims a weekly delivery plan for a newspaper titled Tombstone Prospector, issued each evening with a one month term and carrier delivery at 25 cents per week.
City and county official paper reports fresh boach butter from J B White’s Wolcott’s Cast Store in California. Tur Searles case settled for eight million. Fresno temperature drops to 102 as winter begins. General McCook backs removing San Carlos Apaches. Indian schools to face stricter inspections. Pullman stock increased to 30 million for eighth time in twenty years. McCook urges moving San Carlos Indians east due to 110 degree midsummer heat. Peasants starve in Russia amid cold and unrest, towns overwhelmed. Madrid notes after treaty rounds the most favored nation clause ends, U S gains from Spain concessions.
A historical note argues consumption is a germ disease with physicians attributing lung decay to bacilli. The text explains how tiny germs enter the body through food and air, describing coughing phlegm and unseen bacteria affecting the lungs. The fragment outlines early medical thinking about infectious disease origins and transmission.
A London weekly’s random exchange notices feature mismatched trades such as a grandfather clock for thirty shillings, a Beckons three feet high with glass doors, a sponge bath, and a velvet bonnet for thirty five shillings. Multiple quirky offers follow including boots, dress coats, and a reforming young man seeking one pound in value for his attire.
A compact history outlines how neckwear evolved from the ruff and lace neckcloths in Tudor England to cravats, stocks, and broad silk bows. It traces shifts through Queen Anne, early 18th century fashions, and the cravat’s 19th century forms as stocks declined by the late 1800s.
A short illustrated note describes a simple lamp using a glass vial a pea sized phosphorous piece olive oil heated to boiling places oil to one third fill cork sealed. Remove cork expose air light forms in the vial then recork. Warm hands to keep fluid. One drop lasts for winter.
A fragment from Life and Herald extracts shows a witty exchange about marriage favors and suitors. Dorothy asserts husbands as favors while Revivater questions which will to follow. Maud comments on loving more than one, and two young ladies debate attention from men in a Philadelphia page fragment.
The Territory of Arizona summons H E Lea to appear in the first judicial district in Cochise County to answer a complaint by E Lenormand seeking foreclosure of a mortgage on real and personal property to secure $2000 with interest. If not answered, default judgment will be entered. Case dated 26th Sayci Coeleebe 1891 AD.
Notice is given under the Timber Culture Act of June 3 1878 that Antonio Grijalba of Benson Cochise County Arizona filed sworn statement No 133 seeking Lot 2 and SW 3 NE Sec 6 Township 16 Range 20 E for timber land in Arizona He will prove land valuable for timber over agriculture before the Tucson Arizona register and receiver on November 7 1891 with witnesses John D Allen Jenive C McCormick Ramon Pacheco and Rumaklo Torres all of Benson Ariz Informants may file adverse claims by date of hearing
In the District Court of the First Judicial District of the Territory of Arizona in Cochise County, Juan Pepeo Canot plaintiff vs Charles Anshultz defendant. The suit aims to quiet title to a parcel of land within the San Rafael del Valle land grant with service deadlines set at ten to thirty days depending on location. Judgment by default possible if not answered. Seal and date August 29 1891.
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