Side Lights of the Old Pueblo on cheating at fare
Arizona experts recount long history of cheating at faro with devices like pin hole decks and high layout boxes. The article details the pin hole method in eight cards, the high layout box with a pullout card, a needle box called the snake tongue box, and a mirror trick, noting profits and dealer discoveries across Prescott and other western towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bat Masterson
Arizona Club
Citizen
Arizona
West
Prescott
Denver
Favorite Prescription Promises Relief for Womanly Ailments
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a cure for female weakness and related conditions. It cites a testimonial from Mrs. Oscar Brown and urges readers to purchase the medicine, along with other products, and to obtain The People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser by sending stamps to Dr. Pierce in Buffalo, New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oscar Brown
Oxford
Granville Co.n.c
People’s Common Sense
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
Arizona Boom Times Spur Growth in Naco Cananea and Bisbee
Arizona towns Naco and Cananea report rapid population growth and housing strain. Phoenix Indian School physician Dr. Dodsworth conducts heart and lung exams. Tombstone’s third boiler for the Consolidated mine installed recently. Pride of the West works boosts local prospecting. Bisbee merchants form a Chamber of Commerce. Territorial Board of Medical Examiners met in Phoenix. Douglas Lacey company reports gas flow and oil at 275 feet near Mineral Point, Yavapai County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dodsworth
Phoenix Indian School
Douglas Lacey Company
Mineral Point
Yavapai County
Gold strike in New Mexico tops regional mining news
Reports say alfalfa yields are down and oil crops underperform. Golden, New Mexico, claims the richest gold strike yet with ore running as high as 75000 per ton at ten feet depth. Territorial penitentiary librarian Charles W. Pugh appointed. Bisbee drillers McNichols and Ross stay in town to work at Copper Queen mine as Modern Copper imports arrive for rapid installation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Mexico
Golden
McNichols & Ross
Bisbee
Copper Queen
Akron man loses memory after fall on farm
James R. Simpson of Akron relates a singular lapse of memory after a two month wandering from a fall near Akron. He recalls banking $250, then traveling aimlessly toward Mexico City, riding trains and calling at random towns while driven by a compulsion to move. He was briefly jailed in Kansas City but released and later recovered his sanity in Mexico City before deciding to return home.
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EL Paso
Tex
James R. Simpson
Akron
Ohio
Mexico
Mr. Simpson
Mexico City
Simpson
Kansas City
Electric Bitters Promised Cure All Ailments
An advert touts Electric Bitters as a universal remedy for stomach, kidney, and liver troubles. It claims to tone the stomach, regulate kidneys and bowels, stimulate the liver, and purify the blood, promising relief from nervousness insomnia rheumatism neuralgia malaria and more.
Harness sale advertises pacer raffle at club stables
The notice promotes a great pacer with a 1.95 half mile record in Phoenix, new buggy and harness, chances from 1 cent to 4.36 dollars, and invites contact with K D Woodell at Club Stables or F J Villaescusa on 110 South Meyer to inspect reduced stock before moving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
K. D. Woodell
Club
F. J. Villaescusa
South Meyer
Directory notice for Charles T Connell copies available
Directory offers copies of Tucson City and Southern Arizona Directory via Charles T Connell at 137 West Pennington Street. Dr Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry claims to cure summer complaint dysentery diarrhoea bloody flux abdominal pain and has always worked as advertised for forty years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tucson City
Southern
Creek Nation may seek annexation to Oklahoma
Tulsa July 14 bus iness men of the Creek nation plan a Sapulpa meeting to act on annexation to Oklahoma under the 1889 organic act. If signed by the Creek council this could attach the tribe to Oklahoma easing long standing Territory issues. Also an unrelated ad notes leather goods at E G Capes and a cold cure claim with Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tulsa
Tot
Sapulpa
Oklahoma
Creek Council
Act of Congress
Indian Territory
E. W. Grove
Arnica Salve Proves Best and Cheapest at 25¢
Thirty years of cures for bites burns boils corns felons ulcers scolds and eruptions prove Buellen's Arnica Salve best and cheapest at 25 cents in all druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buellen
Ronstadt Territory Wagon Sale Promise
In a bold sales pitch, Ronstadt proclaims every wagon and buggy in stock with a personal guarantee and claims the Territory hosts the largest and most varied collection at very low prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape’s
K. Ronstadt
Local Tailor and Haberdasher Weather Drive Sales
F. J. Villaescusa on 110 South Meyer Street offers stock at almost cost as he moves and clears inventory. If the weather persists you may need to hunt for your last spring suit and have it cleaned or buy anew from Smith, the leading tailor in town.
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F. J. Villaescusa
Meyer Street
Smith
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E. D. Staplet
E Little Fellow
Arcadian Pharmacy
Cook & CO
Curson
Congress Street
Old Pueblo
Tusbee
Naco
Douglas
Cananea
Tombstone Consolidated
Pride
Chamber of Commerce
Territorial Board of Medical Examiners
The
el Paso Elks
Charles W. Pugh
Territorial Penitentiary
Yuma
Modern Copper Company
Cochise County
Brady-Schneider Commission CO
Stone Avenue
NS Eerence
Yuma County
John D. Burgess
P. O. Box
Tucson, Ariz
Tucson
Steve Ochoa
Prop
Wheeler & Perry Sell “Force
G. Fi. Doe
E.G. Woodard
DOE & Woodard
Congress St
P.O
Telephone
New England
Tom King
Oldadsbe
Yuma Bakery
W. 1. Shorey, Prep
Hoitt’s School
Hoitt's School
Menlo Park
San Mateo County
Cal
Ika G. Hoitr
Matilija
Ventura County, California
Yoo Acres
Santa Inez
Ventura County
Matildja Hot Springs
Ventura County, Cal
Nordhoff
Yost
United Typewriter and Supplies Co
W. Second St
Los Angeles, Cal
Brownsberger
SES Arts
DSS
Tth Street
Los Angeles
Catamena
F. Brownsberger
Nadeaw
Alden
HOTEL
Sturbide
Josephine
Coronado Beach
Karl Lamb
Jennings & Watson
Havana
Geo. W. Childs
Duke
North Stone Avenue
Opera House Cigar Store
State Mutual Building
Goan Fiss’n
California
Willis P. Haynes
Broadway
Frank King
Pennington
Avenue A
Orfila
Lincoln
Corner Hill
2Nd Street
L. M. Ballon
E. A. James
William Mason
Lebert & Stark
Studio
Corncil St. Tucgon, Ariz
Spencer
R. F. White
Cenratty
West Third Street
Hill
Central Park Floral Company
Spring Street
Bell’s Pharmacy
Hone
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