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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1902
Page
7
A rural district congressman and his wife discover city life in Washington with frequent visitors and surprise at social expectations. They recall dinners and the constant stream of callers, noting that they have eaten out twice in a week.
A Norwegian man, limited in English, visits a drugstore in Frankfort Kansas and tries to pay 50 cents to the wife in charge. He leaves with a receipt and returns with a friend who clarifies the request as 50 cents worth of iodoform. The episode highlights language struggles in daily life.
The bay of Naples hosts large medusae or jellyfish up to two feet across and fifty to sixty pounds in weight. Some emit a greenish glow at night called noctiluca by locals. They migrate in dense shoals that hinder navigation and can lift timbers as if stuck in mud. Their irregular migrations defy explanation and seasonal pattern.
Mrs. Gabb panics as her husband returns home with a box of tools. The conversation escalates with shouts about furniture and possible whisky, revealing a humorous domestic misunderstanding and a lively household scene.
The 18th century poem Gray's Elegy made its debut in a sixpence pamphlet after a race for priority. Gray finished it in 1750 but allowed publication via Owen of the Magazine of Magazines. Walpole then arranged Dodsley to print it without the name. Editions appeared within hours of each other in early 1751. Original Gray manuscripts show revisions including Cromwell and Milton, with Mason said to have suggested the title from Stanzas.
In Outing, T S Van Dyke muses on deer sighting in forests. He notes the challenge of recognizing deer shapes in scenery and describes how a hunter often finds only fragments like ears shoulders or a hoof. He contrasts elusive real deer with idealized artistic depictions.
The article traces a historic St Nicholas Day custom of electing a boy bishop with robes and a miter. Earlier statutes at Paul’s School required boys to hear the child bishop’s sermon and contribute a penny. In 1554 London churches were ordered to elect boy bishops for city processions, a practice later suppressed by Protestant reform, with Eton Montem continuing in another form. The piece notes the boy preacher existed in England before arriving from America.
A reflective note from the Atchison Globe on charity and gossip. The author argues people rarely pay heed to rumors about others and urges charitable silence, noting everyone has faults and ugliness. The piece emphasizes humility and restraint in judgment.
An Atchison Globe quote notes that people recall correct judgments far longer than incorrect ones, reflecting on memory of truth. The aphorism underscores the lasting impact of being right versus the fading influence of error.
The London Globe outlines how early English naval practice blended merchant ships with fighting ships. In wartime traders became warships and vice versa, a system spanning to Elizabeth I. Henry III initiated state ships, leasing them for peace and even piracy, with profits and risks shared until the Armada repulse clarified the separation of fighting ships from traders.
Arizona Territory filings reveal six organizers including William Phelps and G S Manzo forming the Tucson Improvement Company. Capital stock set at 1000 shares of $10 each, 25 year term, six directors, officers to be elected annually. notary and county recorder entries dated September 5, 1902.
Wartime soldiers praise Ecklen's Arnica Salve for scratches cuts bruises and sore feet. It treats burns ulcers and skin eruptions with a money back guarantee. Only 25c at all druggists.
The term stove has shifted from a heated room heater to a general appliance. Early English usage included a house or hothouse, and Bacon used it as a verb to keep warm. Pepys noted stove in nautical heat to pliable rope. Disuse began after Franklin’s discoveries.
A theatergoer boarding a tram narrowly guarded her purse from light fingered thieves. She felt a pinprick and released the bag only to have another hand strike, taking the purse in moments before she could react.
Bobby pleads for mercy as his mother plans to tell his father of misdeeds. He asks for a better dinner to soften the forthcoming punishment, a humorous exchange captured by the Pittsburg Dispatch.
A London Polyclinic lecturer claimed leprosy progress can be arrested by total fish abstinence. He cited a case where a blind patient with long standing muscular atrophy improved after eighteen months of abstinence plus small arsenic doses, with leprosy patches disappearing from hands and feet.
An advertisement asserts rheumatism varies in severity and is caused by uric acid in the blood. It promotes S S S as a vegetarian treatment that reaches the blood, neutralizes acids, cleanses the circulation, and promises a thorough cure, with a free book offer from The Swift Specific Co. Atlanta Ga.
D S Valencia changes his carriage stand from West Congress Street to the corner of Congress and Stone Avenue at Alex Rossi's saloon. He can be reached at phone number 661 1 mo. Miss Kate Hendricks, a Cincinnati Conservatory graduate, teaches piano mandolin and guitar at 105 S Sixth Avenue.
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