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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1914
Page
2
Tombstone Epitaph published every Sunday by Giragi Brothers. One year six months subscription offered with a single copy available for purchase.
The Pearce area reports the new school house turned over to trustees by Contractor M Sparks of Douglas. Four classrooms and a teachers’ retiring room form the building. A barbecue and dance precede the school start with public invitations. Various candidates are invited to attend christening exercises. Several locals travel for business, including CM Renaud, J M Sparks, B A Taylor, and Dr Stroud. Mining activity resumes with workers returning to Copper Belle and Tejon. The school house serves as the upcoming polling place. The article lists numerous visits, transfers, and property moves among residents, merchants, and professionals, plus ongoing rains boosting farmer spirits and local travel between Pearce, Tombstone, and nearby towns.
A vintage ad offers one hundred dollars reward for an incurable catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure cut price seven eight cents per bottle. It shows company names I J Durxey Co and Kirwan Manvin and promises blood based treatment. Also lists Want Ads paying two dollars for live creatures and offers snake prices from 25 to 75 cents. Address Tombercoe PO Box 397.
Crime reports include a brakeman shooting spree near Estrelis and a later arrest of three Mexicans in Tucson. Other items note penitentiary sentences for four men, a Chinese political visit to Turkey, a Willcox accident, a rich ore discovery near Douglas, a Douglas confectionery robbery, busy Bowie contractors, a Phoenix plaster inventor hearing patents, Sonora wheat shortages, a large Santa Cruz cattle shipment, and Forest Homestead law progress with Arizona New Mexico settlers.
Historical precinct vote list shows multiple offices with party affiliations. Names include Reese Ling and D Mark Smith for US Senate, Hood and Haghee for Governor, Oxboro for Secretary of State, various justices and state officials, with Democratic and Republican candidates across the ticket.
Heavy rains boost grazing and hay yields in the Sulphur Springs Valley as farmers and ranchers prepare for winter stock. Returns for six Douglas precincts and Pirtleville were not reported for Osborn, Miller, Zander, Lockwood, James, and Hughes, affecting precinct totals.
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