Closing Woman's Club session and local notices
The Women's Club closes its year after studying colleges in Holland with Miss Pomroy presenting findings and C J Sroufe summing the Holland topic. Other items note telegraph, tuberculosis, and congress plans, plus a city death, court cases, and improvements by the Electric Light Co. Clergymen arrive for the prebytery session at the Baptist church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's Club
Pomroy
Colleges and Univers of
Holland
C. J. Sroufe
Comseason
Personal Mention items from the Day of
Janville Gacr arrives from Bayless ranch Oracle. R N Hilngworth minister editor The Standard Morenci attends Presbytery session. Miss Carrie Reyman and Miss Mary B Allen return from Bisbee lodging Degree of Honor. W Savers returns from Great Sulphide Copper camp to Oxnard. R D George and Edwin S Baker return to Nogales by burro. A M Conard arrives from Nogales to claim Mollie Conard body. Charles Donlon cattleman from California visits for spring purchases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Janville Gacr
Bayless
Oracle
R. N. Hilngworth
Standard
Morenci
Carrie Reyman
Mary B. Allen
Bisbee
Savers
Oxnard
R. D. George
Edwin S. Baker
Nogales
A. M. Conard
Mollie Conard
Charles Donlon
California
Narrowly Averted Murder in Tucson Barroom Tragedy
In Tucson a man named Felix Diaz entered Maria Torres's room on Gay Alley and attacked her with a Mexican dagger. Bartender Jose Castro intervened, Diaz turned on him, but Castro subdued him and the knife was seized. Diaz is jailed and to face Judge Meyer on a murder attempt charge. grand jury action looms.
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Tucson Tenderloin
Felix Diaz
Maria Torres
Gay Alley
Diaz
Jose Castro
Fortuna
Bravo
Meyer
Territorial
Runaway Accident Wounds S P Conductor and Family
Mrs Whitehead and her daughter Pearl were badly bruised when a frightened horse toppled a new buggy they were driving. Conductor Whitehead, arriving in the city, was injured when a harness buckle struck his eye. He faces possible loss of sight while Mrs Whitehead and Pearl have only minor bruises and will recover in a few days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. W. Whitehead
Whitehead
Pearl
Stone Avenue
Summer Millinery Display At Tucson Millinery Co
Al Fine Dissentment of Summer Millinery arrives at Tucson Millinery Co. Mrs. Addie Griffith manager. Goods on display with reasonable prices.
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Gorham Mfg. Co
Rogers Bros
Tucson Millinery Co
Addie Griffith
Mgr
Strange Being At Large In Ohio
In Rockport Beaver Dam area near Columbus a reported half man half beast prowler has frightened farmers. He attempts door and window access and escapes quickly. Local residents fear the intruder may be an insane man at large wearing scanty male attire. A search party may be organized to capture him.
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Columbus
Grove
Unio
Rockport
Beaver Dam
Frank Conkleman
Not a Practical Philanthropist
A winter scene on Walnut Street shows a richly dressed woman scolding an ice wagon driver over blanket use. She offers a coat as a retort, but the driver jokes about exchanging coats for the near horse, leaving her silent and amused.
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Walnut Street
Fifteenth
Fceman
Philadelphia Record
Mary Twain and the clever compositor
A Harper's Weekly writer recalls Mark Twain's quarrel with a conscientious compositor. Twain received proofs of a funny story, found the humor erased, and praised the editor for turning a week’s work into two weeks of making sense of nonsense.
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Mary Twain
Harper's Weekly
Skirmish and Newlywed Exchange from New York Times
A quoted dialogue between Kitty and a unnamed speaker explores crediting opinions in a first skirmish after a cloud passes. Kitty muses on whether one opinion should count, and the other replies that alignment boosts weight while disagreement favors the speaker.
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Kitty
New York Times
Quote on speech and continuity from Chicago Post
A man recalls a past speech as another notes the speaker claimed his flow of words was continuous without continuity. The exchange captures a critique of oration style in a Chicago Post perspective.
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Chicago Post
Secondhand Smokes in Naples Cigar Stub Trade
The Chicago Herald notes a widespread Naples market for cigar stubs. Vendors line docks and factories with makeshift stalls while workers and sailors, unable to afford cigars, buy crumbled stubs for a centissimo. Stubs are recycled into cigarettes and pipe tobacco.
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Naples
Navy Yard
Chicago Herald
Value of Time Card Lesson from English Volume
A large firm appoints a manager and waits for noon for terms. The applicant arrives at 12:05 to find twelve directors and the chairman with a watch. They say they cannot engage someone who wastes an hour, but each director had wasted five minutes, totaling an hour.
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England
Dickens Said She Was a Woman
The excerpt notes Charles Dickens as a sharp critic who, after reading Scenes of Clerical Life, claimed that George Eliot's talent showed distinct womanly sympathy and concluded that the author must be a woman despite the name.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dickens
George Eliot
Charles Dickens
Idol and needle clash in a fateful parable exchange
A missionary speaks to a wealthy man about spiritual salvation while a mandarin interjects, noting the difficulty of rejecting an idol. The scene unfolds with a terse moral undertone set in a Philadelphia setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Gecoru
Auction At Residence Of Royal A Johnson
Auctioneer Richard Starr offers household furniture carpets oil paintings sideboard china closet two refrigerators and more at the residence of Royal A Johnson Court and Council streets Thursday at 10 oclock sale includes encyclopedia Britannica Bancroft history and hundreds of books and a large safe grandfather clock and shaving cases
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal A. Johnson
Iincyclopedia Britannica
Bancorft
Richard Starr
How They Manage Doctors Wives End Coffee's Sleepless Nights
A Washington physician's wife notes insomnia linked to coffee. She switches him to Postum, observes better sleep and health within weeks, and the doctor begins prescribing Postum to patients. Name given: Postum Co., Battle Creek, Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Postum Co
Baatle Creek
Mich
Do You Wish the Finest Bread and Cake
Royal Baking Powder Co. of New York at 100 William Street promotes baking quality and cake making via its product line and brand messaging. The brief ad emphasizes premium results for bread and cake recipes with the powder as a key ingredient.
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Royal Baking Powder CO
William ST
New York
The Three Meal Habit and its Toll on Work Capacity
The piece argues that three meals tax working capacity and temptations to overeating. It says digestion diverts half the system's energy and after dinner work harms productivity. It links this to pessimism and a loss of daily rewards, attributed to digestion-focused habits.
Tobacco smoke and alcohol intensify poisonous effects
The London Lancet notes that evil effects from smoking tobacco are intensified by alcohol. It explains pyridine, the chief poisonous tobacco constituent, is less water soluble than in alcohol, and pyridine bases can be traced in an immoderate smoker’s mouth, with alcohol swiftly washing out the oil into the stomach.
Strenuous Father Tommy Call Off Effort
A San Francisco Bulletin quips about canceling a joint effort between a strenuous father and his son after a clash over shared faults. No explicit names or dates are given in the fragment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tommy
Pop
San Francisco Bulletin
Hunting. Ascum Downes Exchange Shifts Tone
A fragment from the Philadelphia Press captures a terse exchange about hunting and trouble. The dialogue references a black ere and a gun kick, illustrating a terse skirmish over hunting conduct and a misheard provocation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ascum
Downes
Philadelphia Press
Fuel supply proposals sought for numerous forts
Sealed proposals in triplicate will be received here and at post quartermasters until 11 a.m. May 12, 1902 for furnishing fuel to Forts Apache Grant Huachuca and others in Arizona New Mexico Utah Wyoming and Colorado during the 1903 fiscal year. Rights to accept or reject any proposal. Information from post offices. Mark envelopes Proposals for Fuel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Colo
Forts Apache
Grant
Huachuca
A. T
Forts Board and Wingate
N. M
Douglas and DuChesne
Utah
D. A. Russell
Mackenzie and Washakie
Wyo
Fort Logan
J. W. Pope
Q. M
Doon's Ointment Praised For Quick Lasting Cure
In a testimonial from Co. F. Cornwell of Valley Street Sam berties New York he describes severe itching hemorrhoids and says Doon's Ointment cured him quickly and permanently after doctors failed the product is presented as a proven remedy.
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Peerless Flour
Eagle Milling CO
Tucson, Ariz
Mark A. Rodgers
Murphy
Fen
Igress
Sons of Veterans
Captain Francis
Nited Moderns
Xi Fellows Hall
Ted
Vic
EB. M. Elliot
Goldtree
Orndorff
T. F
Tt Brothers
Jesus Garcia
Awd
Ent Street
Cath
Wil
Hawke
Cana
Ngrovita Garcia
Irl
Electric Light Company
Inoas
Sys
South Stone Avenue
Prsbytery
Baptist Church
E.G
CAPO
the Model Shop
Cc. Bennett
S. P
Ohio
Twain
Alcohol and Tobacco
Fifth Ave
Vao
Ail Furniture
Absolute Safety Pioneer Transfer Co
Stone Ave
H. W. Fenner
Minney
Pioneer Transfer Co
Madam LA Moss
West Broadway
Bell’s Pharmacy
Cali
Pireman’s Fund
Willis P. Haynes
Cor
Broadway
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