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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1918
Page
4
A condensed Tombstone Daily roundup reports visits by Dr Gleeson and Attorney McFarland, travel to Phoenix and Douglas, local health notes on influenza and pneumonia, rescue and relief efforts, and early 20th century civic duties. It records military inductions, public notices, and community updates across Tombstone, Bisbee, Gleeson, and surrounding towns.
The local draft board said it expects orders from the War Department for a large call of men for class 1 and partial service, drawing mainly from the September 12 draft. About 800 men were examined last week and another 800 are planned next week, with total examinations reaching 1,500. Aiming to recruit 100 physically fit men for the next major call from Washington, the board expands clerical staff and may enlist high school helpers after the school year ends.
Word arrived yesterday of the death of Mrs Ella Denn wife of Maurice Denn a Bisbee mining figure connected with Shatrieb tone and Dena Arize. She died Wednesday night after a three day illness from pneumonia and influenza survived by husband five children and many friends in southern Arizona originally from Austria she lived in Bisbee about 15 years and was highly beloved in local mining circles.
Mrs Harry Wheeler wife of a 5 Army officer and former sheriff of Clive County was seriously injured when the car they rode in overturned on the Turson Nogales road. She was pinned beneath the vehicle and feared to have internal injuries. confined to her room at the Bowman hotel. The captain escaped injury.
Arizona registers 92,255 men aged 18 to 46 against New Mexico's 78,962, hinting at a larger population in Arizona. Corporal Charles M. Dewey of the 158th Arizona infantry is reported KIA after previously working in Jerome and Bisbee mines, with a France postcard noting his marriage. Rodger Saunders, John Giacoma, Bruce Wagner, and Harry Macia plan a Bisbee visit to see friends, while Attorney W G Gilmore handles Bisbee business and Mrs Ed Nevin and mother plan their future home.
James Hagan declares his candidacy for county recorder on the Independent ticket in the general election on November 5, 1918. A native of Wisconsin, he arrived in Tombstone in 1881, and makes the Catholic Church his meeting point.
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