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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1902
Page
7
A woman cites Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as help during the change of life. She reports relief from dizziness hot flashes and kidney pains after six bottles and urges others to seek the remedy. The testimonial mentions a reader from Montclair Avenue Indiana Mass.
The Chicago Record-Herald notes strict protections for springs and wells in Palestine. Water rights are viewed as ancient, hereditary, and inviolate, with large proprietors investing in basins and reservoirs while neighbors retain access for family and flocks. Damaging wells is an unpardonable crime.
The Times of India pieces together a tale from Yemen where a man known for wire cutting is bailed by a sheik. When rebuked for further breaches, the wife executes a deadly act to free him and avert the black sheet omen, then returns the head to the sheik as proof of his punishment. The London Telegraph notes this grim vignette of Arab custom alongside a joke about dental charges from the San Francisco Chronicle.
A Philadelphia Record account surveys inmates at the eastern penitentiary crafting elaborately fringed lambrequins, blue lambrequin from old trousers, gilt brackets with a rat stuffed toy, and a wall densely painted with reeds and 200 birds. They also produce numerous checker boards and chess sets of intricate inlay and carving.
A Philadelphian druggist notes pseudo physostigmine trades at $1 a grain and $4,387.50 per ounce, with seeds grown in India Brazil and South Africa used in heart disease prescriptions. The text also credits Dame Juliana Berners as the true ancestor of English sporting literature for a rhymed 15th century work and related hawking and fishing treatises.
A farmer complained after an English soldier shot his pet crow in Virginia. The colonel sentenced the soldier to eat the crow, then left the farmer alone with him. After eating part of the bird, the soldier threatened the farmer to eat the rest or be shot, giving rise to the phrase eating crow.
The University of Athens follows the German model with many professors trained in German universities and German widely spoken on campus. The institution possesses substantial property and several chairs have been endowed by private donors.
The Savannah News recounts cases of women who disguised themselves as men to serve in wars. It highlights Christian Cavenagh of England who fought to be near her husband, Dr. James Barry the surgeon, Mrs. Lindley of Ohio who saw action at major battles, and Christina of Sweden who dressed as a boy and ruled briefly.
A restaurant chat frames a writer’s revision tale where an authority pushes trimming and omitting words in a critique session. The piece includes a New York Herald note about excessive editing and discarded drafts ending in the wastebasket.
The shah asked courtiers who was greater himself or his father. After fear restrained them, a clever elder replied that the father was greater because he had a greater son than you.
The captain proclaims the vessel is on the rocks while an idiotic passenger jokes that being on the rocks means they cannot sink. The exchange appears in a contemporary Ohio paper reflecting nautical humor and perilous voyage mood.
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