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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1902
Page
4
A brief notice advertises free eye examinations with Dr. H. A. Schell at Century Lock, located upstairs. The item highlights access to vision checkups without charge.
Mrs Gust Moser of Ovando Montana suffered eight years of female weakness and two failed operations. After three months on Dr Pierce Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Dis, plus Common Sense Medical Adviser, she regained health. The ad touts cures for female weakness and offers the medical adviser free with stamps.
A wandering traveler in Persia asks for three months' pay to buy a wife, citing a fourteen year old dowry and a poor crippled wife at home. A Philadelphia Times note shows an Irish worker misjudging pole-digging dirt disposal, joking about education aiding the negro.
Reporters note the size of the fair's biggest snake was revised from twenty feet to thirty one feet after space constraints forced shortening of yesterday's edition. The exchange cites the Indianapolis News quote about editing due to crowding.
A catastrophic blast at Fulton iron works halted work on the Progresso steamship. About eighty workers were aboard when the first explosion occurred at 9 30. Six missing presumed dead and many injured as the vessel burned to the water line. Fire and gas in oil chambers sparked the blast and caused heavy losses to both the vessel and the plant.
Mrs. Sarah Hedges believes she is chosen to announce Christ second coming. She erected a stable with a manger and altar, covered inside and out with sheet iron, surrounded by a six foot fence also sheet iron. Her husband earns $1.25 daily while she has spent $650 on the lot and building.
A Plymouth postmaster letter from Jas Ioane of King and Pierce counties and Tacoma Seattle states five hundred good looking industrious men seek wives. The writer favors Welsh English or German girls and seeks a neat partner for life in Washington.
The water wheel is described as the oldest method of obtaining mechanical force next to animal power. Water storage by damming streams allows continuous force even in droughts and minimizes loss by evaporation. The Roman water clock is noted as an elaboration of stored force and their primary motor device.
In Brittany on festival days marriageable girls wear red petticoats with white or yellow borders indicating dowry. Each white border equals 20 dollars per year and each yellow border signifies 200 dollars annually from the father. The practice reflects arranged unions and coded financial expectations.
A quotation from Ruskin discusses contentment in ignorance versus the pursuit of knowledge and light. It notes pride can hinder understanding, while knowledge is good but the journey is endless and the treasure inexhaustible, citing Lamps of Architecture and the Oaks of Lambert’s.
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