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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1902
Page
8
Readers may keep The Citizen mailed to summer addresses at the same carrier rate. Leave new address at The Citizen business office corner Stone avenue and Broadway or telephone Main 17L.
A Scribner's excerpt describes how small white football shaped snow pellets drift in the Adirondacks. They form vertical walls on road cuts, overhang as lips ten feet wide three feet deep, then break as weight grows. The piece marvels at how such shapes arise from storming snow.
The article notes rose symbolism in Islam and Christianity from Saladin’s Jerusalem to Constantinople’s Saint Sophia, citing cleansing with rosewater and a legend of the prophet’s blood. It shifts to a Philadelphia tobacconist selling Turkish cigarettes at $4.50 a pound, priced for connoisseurs and sometimes blended with Virginia leaf.
Fragmentary dialogue hints at playful banter and literary framing. Characters named Charlie Eve and Dick exchange remarks on perception and memory, with a meta reference to Stray Stories as a title or theme.
A study notes how Sicilian belief holds that donne di fuora visit on Thursdays, entering through keyholes, turning toads, and blessing or cursing households. It compares to European fairy myth and cites the Friday toad as sacred. It also explains chimney swifts abandoning hollow trees for chimneys after settlers built fires, coining the term chimney swift.
A parson jokes about a young woman seeking a husband a lawyer about a middle aged woman seeking a divorce and a physician about a spinster who does not know what she wants. The comment from the Chicago News captures social tensions around marriage and independence.
In a clipped exchange a sister teases Mr Stalate about pocket money while Tommy jokes about paying the price with yawns when visitors linger late. The light exchange reveals domestic humor and family power dynamics in a quiet home scene.
A Boston Transcript cartoon notes a drug clerk praising available substitutes after a customer criticizes paying $3 for a doctor’s prescription. The exchange highlights concerns about prescription costs and access to medicines.
A quirky collage of phrases and jokes notes a baby and condensed milk quip, then wanders through playful lines about sitting in a cab versus walking. The piece mixes Meggendorfers Blatter style whimsy with comic musings on pleasure and movement.
The St Louis Republic recalls a forty niner described by Mark Twain as the finest gentleman. He never embraced society yet aided a widow and two daughters, saving their home and funding their lives with his last pennies before dying in a San Francisco charity hospital.
The piece extols bowel cleansing through purgatives and praises DeWitt's Little Early Risers for liver stimulation and bowel movement, claiming safety and lack of griping. It warns that constipation poisons the system and sudden illnesses like cholera infantum and dysentery may follow delays, recommending Dr. Fowlers extract of Wild Strawberry as a ready remedy.
A Washington Times feature describes the bird cage inside the post office building as the largest in the nation, 110 by 220 feet on the ground and 130 feet high, with sparrows filling the glass enclosure. Birds enter via ventilating slats and roost on palms in a flat glass roof area above the mailroom.
A historical Chicago Record-Perald item notes a witty remark about preferring love and loss to marriage for someone paid about 50 dollars a month, reflecting social mores of the era.
Dialogue shows Willie and Cicuco Post debating eating preserves. Willie fears illness while Cicuco asks not to whip a sick boy, planning to eat enough to “ime wick.”
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