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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1902
Page
2
City boosters urge swift action to clear the wedge obstructing progress. They call for council action to advance hotel, sanitarium plans, transit development, and new construction while dismissing stubborn opposition as medieval and obstructive to growth.
A Phoenix Enterprise Washington dispatch denounces Ren Daniels' nomination as Arizona U S marshal. It questions character claims and cites a Wyoming penitentiary record, arguing preachers cannot define public opinion and warning that Daniels would mislead the President. It condemns Dean or others who alleged preacher opposition as deceitful.
The letters of Edward Biddle, an outlaw, burglar and murderer, to Mrs. Sof fel, wife of the jail warden, have been found and published. They offer a sad commentary on human nature and warn against courting danger.
The public supports immediate action to remove the wedge sighting a great urban improvement. City officials tabled the special assessors report while objections are withdrawn, and objections by two property owners should not block progress. Tucson advances with water, sewer, and soon electric lighting upgrades.
In this debate driven piece, Taft and Senate discussions are cited to argue the Philippines have become a burdensome disgrace for the United States. The article notes past optimistic prophecies by McKinley Roosevelt Beveridge and Wilson failed, with millions spent and little return, urging focus on restoring national honor rather than reclaiming money.
The California press laments beet sugar industry disruption while defending tariff cuts. Data show beets paid $4.47 per ton in California and $4.39 nationally in 1901. manufacturing costs claimed at $2-$3 per ton, implying high profit margins. The piece cites Oxnard’s 1899 figures and outlines expected factory savings with larger plants.
The text argues that even with the tariff gone the beet sugar industry would earn 265 cents per pound above material and manufacture costs, or about 8 12 percent. It contends calls for tariff cuts are ludicrous and urges California newspapers to show sanity.
A Lincolnshire man sent a swan to the Athenaeum club that proved too old to eat. Cook tried thirteen hours to cut through it and failed. The bird, claimed by the donor to be 280 years old and tied to Charles I, was preserved as a curiosity.
The Ladies' Home Journal lists a breadth of literary figures from Shakespeare to Whitman and many more including Walter Raleigh Scott Wordsworth Irving Thackeray Longfellow Whittier Bryant Emerson Holmes and Whitman. It adds names such as Cowper Watts Beecher Webster Curtis Howe Cable Howells Warner Gilder and Woolson among others.
A renowned traveler recalls staying in many hotels including Greece and England. He criticizes English landlords for multiple hidden charges and poor quality, arguing prices equal or exceed better hotels in Springfield Massachusetts or Swiss and German towns. He says Baedeker rarely recommends English hotels.
The term silhouette derives from Etienne de Silhouette, a 18th century French minister who popularized frugal fashions. Silhouettes are created by tracing a shadow's profile and reducing it to the desired size, using methods from direct tracing to camera obscura.
A Troy Times item recalls a boy named Georgie who, after meeting a newborn nephew, asks God to send him a little brother. He is seen in the yard later, looking skyward with a hopeful, earnest expression.
In some areas Schilling's Best baking powder outsells all others combined by a three to one margin. Good Digestion products occupy the same markets alongside the dominant brand.
A humorous exchange shows a cook explaining she departed another household because of quarrels between the master and mistress. The cook notes the constant arguing over how she cooked the dinner.
An optician in Century Block promises immediate relief from headaches and eyestrain with properly fitted glasses. Dr H A Schel offers satisfaction guarantees and advertises his optical services in a period tone.
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