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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1902
Page
2
A brief notice from the Associated Press notes distribution as second class matter at the Tucson Arizona post office under federal law. The filing confirms standard press service processing for mailings and archival access.
Editorial notice offers readers a summer mailing option for The Citizen at carrier price. Change of address can be arranged by leaving details at the business office on corner Stone Avenue and Broadway or by calling Main 171.
A national editorial denounces Judge Jackson over a West Virginia injunction that bans meetings and speech. It argues Congress cannot prohibit talk and urges impeachment to curb federal overreach, warning of precedent and constitutional erosion.
Washington dispatches report unrest in the Caribbean with Haiti in revolt and American warships needed to protect citizens and interests. Navy presence is advised for Venezuela coastlines Nicaragua ports and Panama upheavals as U S forces police the region.
A debate rises over railroad rules banning farewell kissing rice and old shoes at stations. Some suggest time limits or separate waiting rooms, others warn of crowd disturbances. The piece notes a fake origin and envisions campaigns for quiet, orderly travel. A Canadian claims a bricklaying machine is invented.
A new bricklaying machine offers the work of six or seven skilled masons at a cost of $500. Typical bricklaying rates range from 1,200 to 2,000 bricks per day depending on wall type. The machine handles plain work and can lay 1,000 to 12,000 bricks daily with two men and a boy operating it. Its only flaw noted is an inability to shout Mort.
The measure is not destined for immediate passage but acts as a weapon to pressure trusts into funding the candidacy of the turbulent rider.
A Chicago Tribune report says a northern Illinois evangelist offers “forty dollars a week and fifty conversions guaranteed or money refunded.” Critics call the stunt blasphemous and harmful to religion, urging accountability and moral action from churches and ministers. Jake Smith disappoints San Francisco by not roaring.
The passage compares the giant squid to a sea serpent, noting its massive size and fearsome appearance. It states a full grown specimen weighs about 10,000 pounds with a fifty foot body, two 100 foot arms, and eight smaller tentacles, underscoring its legendary status among marine creatures.
A spectator after an unusually villainous Hamlet performance urged solving the Shakespeare Bacon dispute by exhuming both their graves to see who reversed the truth. The remark framed a claim about authorship and sparked debate on the play’s origins.
The Pittsburg Times argues that yearly graduations produce a surplus of educated workers across fields such as law medicine theology and sales. It contends that surplus workers quickly settle into society remain part of the established order and keep an equilibrium despite initial doubts about oversupply.
A survey of physical facts covers light diffusion in Holophane glass, sound speeds in air water and iron, diaphragm vibration in telephones, carbonic acid levels in air, planetary densities, and the heat output of Arcturus measured by a radiometer.
An amused narrator recalls a hotel chef error when Chauncey Depew visited. A printed menu misspelled or misnamed a dish as puree de marrons à Depew, illustrating how one small lapse trips up an otherwise refined dinner.
The notice states Sunday morning service is at Vai not ten minutes later, welcomes young men to week night service, front seats are sound and safe, joining in singing is legitimate, and the choir intends to encourage the congregation.
A fragile wife, bedridden for illness, confronts her stern husband who refuses her a light at night. He rises, places a candle at her bed, and coldly declares she must die in darkness, highlighting dire cruelty in a familiar Scottish setting.
A lawyer notes many aspects to probe in the case with emphasis on the pocketbook as the initial focus, while the client agrees with firm certainty in court.
Dialogue from Town and Country about a bun named Sky Kea and its impact on meals. The remark frames a humorous social moment around food and naming.
A judge notes the patient has abrasion of the cuticle and swelling with bruising and bleeding in the tissue around the left eye. The doctor confirms a black eye result.
In a brief exchange the doctor’s wife asks what troubled Mrs Scadds. The doctor replies it is a cold. She presses is it serious. he says it is very bad yet a simple illness that usually needs no more than two visits.
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