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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1902
Page
2
The editorial attacks saloon proliferation and calls for strict high license to curb crime linked to liquor dens. It rails against Barrio Libre funding to defeat the ordinance and criticizes Roosevelt and Platt era political alliances shaping Republican strategy.
The Los Angeles Herald claims recent evidence shows the President and Senator Platt on excellent terms and meeting for consultation. It chides those who predicted a row between them, accusing reform admirers of insisting the President would rise above Plattism and Quayism to serve the people.
City councilmen in Tuxson weigh the high license proposal amid claims that present dives account for one percent of local crime. The era also sees John W. Gates shift to air ventures after Morgan’s dominance of sea and land.
A historical note on using telephone sermons to reach more worshippers across Indiana and Ohio. The piece debates practicality and engagement, weighing reach against disciplined listening and the preacher’s motivation. It considers seasonal effects and the challenge of monitoring active listeners.
In the heat a cool room, negilgee, julep, and a parson's sermon offer relief for men whose wives keep church habits. Some insist such services won’t reach heaven, yet they enjoy quiet power of a private speech. A separate note asks who will defeat Barrio Libre’s fund plan and ponders a lynching in Louisiana.
In a recent speech Senator Hanna states he needs rest. He notes President Roosevelt and several Republicans such as Platt and Quay would likely assist in providing that rest.
A reader asks which makes the best stepmother for a widower with children: a widow or an unmarried woman. The Citizen argues widows’ experience often aids remarriage, cites Abigail and Ruth as examples, and notes adults’ motives center on children’s welfare.
The discussion weighs whether a widow or maiden makes the better partner for a widower and lampoons a claim that it is logical to marry a widow. It also notes outrage over a proposed meat corporation in the United States, warning that its backers play with fire.
Barrio Libre officials say the fund will support community projects and local services. They detail potential allocations for housing aid, neighborhood programs, and small-business grants to uplift residents.
The article notes opponents of the high license measure plan to raise funds and urge a precise accounting. It calls for a timely published report detailing how money is spent, emphasizing transparency in the campaign.
The article notes that snails are popular beyond Paris, with 90,000 pounds daily shipped to Paris from Poitou Burgundy Champagne and Provence. Prices vary from 2 francs 50 centimes to 3 francs 60 centimes per hundred, while hedged snails fetch 2 to 2 francs 50 centimes. Snail fattening and export occur in Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Italy, and some U S regions. Snails appear in Algerian markets, Cairo streets, and Rome door to door hawking.
The article cites Cologne Cathedral 682 years 1248 to 1880, Milan Cathedral 1386 to 1865, Rostermel Castle ninety years, the Isle of Bute palace twenty plus years, and Atholl palace ongoing since 1830, noting rich vs taxpayer funding affects perspectives on such delays.
The regimen allows eggs cream buttermilk and all cheeses with diet. Tart fruits peaches and strawberries with cream without sugar. Forbidden sweet fruits pears plums grapes apples bananas. Accept Koumiss coffee with cream no sugar cereal coffee tea excluded wines liquor none. Vegetables with sugar or starch forbidden leaving select greens cauliflower lettuce beans spinach cucumbers onions etc. Olives allowed. Moderate meat diet favored especially fatty parts and all fish permitted.
An oculist notes two individuals with monochromatic vision where all colors read as gray shades. The article explains how such perception alters viewing landscapes and gardens, illustrating the striking effect color loss can have on daily scenes.
A Manchester Union critique distinguishes between having facts and knowing where to find them. It lampoons the "tank of facts" who hoards information, humiliates ignorance, and wastes life compiling universal knowledge instead of using ready reservoirs when needed.
In a heated campus debate two students sparred over oratorical flair. One taunts the other for relying on exclamation marks and italics, prompting a swift retort that italics in religious texts mark not original inspiration but noninspired passages.
The famed author wrote standing at a high desk and filled sheets rapidly. He worked from dawn, rising around six, dedicating six to eight hours daily, with few corrections as ideas formed in his mind before writing. He also composed while riding atop omnibuses in Paris during major efforts.
Ismail showed good natured patronage to adventurers and swindlers near his Cairo court. He preferred a rogue to a fool and once forgave a flagrant offender who climbed in by a window after being barred from the door. The episode amused the viceroy and the man was restored to favor.
The largest living carnivorous animal, the Kadiak bear, resides only on Kadiak Island off Alaska. A specimen reportedly measured fifteen feet long and six feet high at the shoulders, standing taller than twenty feet when on hind legs, per the Philadelphia Inquirer account.
During a crowded Royal theater performance in Sydney Nova Scotia a drunken sailor fell on stairs. His companion cried Man overboard and jumped after him. The first man sustained a broken leg while the second escaped unharmed.
A playful dialogue features a valet and a doctor discussing a master’s health and weight. The valet notes the master is growing thin while the doctor argues slimming will improve health. The valet worries about fitting into the master’s clothes as a humorous consequence.
A Cincinnati Commercial Tribune quip notes judgment should consider gifts not the giver's nature. The Philosopher remarks that a man may receive Elgars from others, not earn them himself.
A tale from Chambers Journal recalls a forced sale in a London shop on Great Portland Street where a portrait by Frith was offered. The shopkeeper explains its value as the artist’s own depiction after Frith died, and the painter buys the canvas for £20, noting the irony of the artist’s death from drink and the picture’s sudden found history.
The swan is the longest lived among birds with extreme ages up to 200 years. Falcons reach about 162 years, and an eagle died in 1815 after being captured 104 years earlier. Parrots exceed a century, water birds outlive many humans, and ravens surpass a hundred years. In captivity magpies reach 25 years, hens 15 to 20, doves 10 and singing birds 8 to 17. Nightingale life is about 10 years, the shortest among those noted.
A traveler recalls meat in Mexico being cheap but the best cuts are very tough. In Durango he orders a tenderloin, cannot cut it, and after urging the waiter and hotel owner, the platter is laid on the table, with the house insisting it is the best though it is bent.
A Scottish tale captures a candid aunt reflecting on marriage through three phrases. She recalls youth was full of questions about whom to marry, then who to get, and finally a lingering longer than expected.
Quote recounts a debate on moral grounds for opposing Mormonism and polygamy. The speaker adds a wry personal twist about returning late from the club to explain to ten or fifteen wives, highlighting satire on polygamy themes.
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