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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1902
Page
2
The Citizen notes mail subscriptions for summer readers and mocks Congress for not enacting anti trust reform. It blames trusts and Hanna for party power while critiquing Bailey and Dewey opinions and lampoons a puritanical streak in Bailey. The piece also critiques Cannon for ignoring Whitewash bills in government expense summaries.
The author critiques the Roosevelt administration and the Republican majority in Congress for blocking anti trust measures. It argues that without decisive trust reform, tariff debates will dominate and relief from trust exaction remains unlikely. The piece accuses the GOP of subservience to trusts and imperial aims, predicting little public welfare progress in the next session.
The piece argues President Roosevelt's speeches receive intense nationwide attention not for passion but for his lack of balance and self control. It cites uncertainty over his Philippine policy, trusts handling, and actions in Cuba, suggesting public rhetoric reveal deeper personal and policy conflicts.
The speaker describes Roosevelt as erratic and unsteady, saying the people watch him closely and may remove the wheel if needed. The piece connects national turmoil to his uncertain course, noting economic and climate references and recalling Henry Watterson’s past campaign predictions.
A humorous editorial rails at French scientists Fere and Fleury who claim love is caused by a microbe. It laments science invading romance, envisions inoculated courtships, and mocks politics while praising Boss Hanna’s Panama scheme as a vehicle for opportunism.
A Chambers Journal excerpt explains hermit crabs Pagurus bernhardus occupying borrowed shells. It describes their belligerent mating for shelter, the dramatic battles on a plate with water and empty shells, and the eviction process as crabs contest homes. The scene highlights their aggressive, humorous struggles to secure a dwelling.
An out of service maidservant from a women’s college was returning late with her lover when Professor Nettleship’s large yellow dog leapt from the garden wall to attack a cat in the road and knocked her down. The maid fled home in terror claiming the devil jumped on her.
A schoolmaster emphasizes courage in adversity and the value of living rightly. He urges perseverance, patience, and gratitude, noting true wealth lies not in wealth or power but in making the most of one’s chances to grow as a person and enlarge life’s circle.
Two Youngsters discuss orphanages near a playground fence. One prefers Little Wanderers Home for being near parents, while the Roxbury facility is praised by the other as better, highlighting child perceptions of shelter options.
Sir Roger de Coverley was a member of the imaginary club of twelve behind Addison's Spectator. He is described as an old school bluff good hearted and simple English gentleman. The dance named after him is an English contra dance similar to the Virginia reel.
Faded James tells a weary farmer’s wife he has known better days but she shuts the door and leaves him to weather the morning. The exchange unfolds as a terse domestic vignette from the Philadelphia Bulletin.
A collage of lines from period papers mocks fear of taking right actions and celebrates individuality. It also presents a comic courtship dilemma where a bride candidate’s practical skills threaten a suitor’s view of male superiority.
Ainslee's notes the Mississippi carries an immense load of solid matter enough to form a 300 foot high by one mile square block of earth annually. The river spreads dirt along the valley while fertilizing lands behind extensive levees and sometimes eats away banks, shifting channels and creating new crossings that dump surplus earth. The piece paints the river as a moving river of land rather than water, driven by erosion from the Rockies to the Alleghenies.
A London Answers item notes a man who watches a canary that weighs 247 grains eats more than its own weight monthly. He argues the canary, always eating, should be called a little pig, contrasting it with a gluttonous pig that does not daily consume its weight.
A clever granddaughter vanishes into a kitchen joke. She tells her smiling grandfather that something ran across the floor without legs. He asks what, and she answers water, a small humor from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch excerpt.
The Washington Star quotes Senator Sorghum in a wry exchange about whether arguments should impress others with punctilious principles. He suggests he does not want anyone contemplating a sale to fear proposing positions, signaling cautious political maneuvering.
A brief Chicago News caption notes Miss Giggles laughed at me last evening and Miss Cutting comments that one should not notice. The item conveys social chatter with light humor and casual rivalry.
A playful exchange has a Jetter challenging an envelope about competing with it. The envelope responds coolly, noting it cannot contain the Jetter’s excitement. The lighthearted moment highlights a humorous verbal duel between mundane objects.
Philadelphia Record quotes a juror recounting a week on jury duty as tedious and trying, reflecting on the experience. The exchange highlights the dull and strenuous aspects of serving on a jury.
The Philadelphia Press quotes Bluffman claiming his clerical force went on strike yesterday. A caustic man replies with a sharp question about the grievance. A separate scientific note explains that water can shatter ice if temperature differences are extreme.
The incident centers on Oxar Paul’s sacred snuffbox. Kaploff grabs the box from a table by the czar’s bed and sniffs the powder. The czar protests but allows Kaploff to keep the snuffbox for himself, noting it is not large enough for both.
The Washington capitol dome is billed as the world’s largest iron hollow sphere weighing 8,000,300 pounds. It tops with the America statue weighing 13,985 pounds and exerts 14,477 pounds per square foot on supports, while 755,286 pounds per square foot would crush them. The dome’s cost nears 1,000,000 dollars.
A chapter from Macmillan’s Magazine discusses the odds of finding incomplete books and a humorous theory that the devil steals pages for quotations. The piece notes that even well cared for volumes from monasteries and libraries often lose a page, leaving readers wary of perfect books and urging thorough collation before purchase.
Observations by physiologists challenge the belief of uniform aging. Different organs age at distinct times, with the brain peaking in size in the second decade, kidneys in the third, muscles skeleton and intestines in the fifth, and heart and lungs in the eighth decade, so overall body size changes do not reflect uniform growth or decline.
The passage lists numerous eighteenth century hairdressing styles such as the cascade of St. Cloud the windmill the sheep and lambs the hen and chickens and the dog and hare name set like a taxonomy of powdered coiffures. It notes that a mass of curls powder could reveal where a lady’s head had been previously.
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