Harlow's Duel Challenge Declined in Guaymas
Colonel W P Harlow recounts a duel challenge by General Charles P Egan over Sonora coal land. Harlow says he chose shotguns with twenty feet between them, but Egan refused to proceed. The episode followed Egan ejecting Harlow's workers and Crocker resigning as consul to act as Harlow's second.
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New York
W. P. Harlow
Charles P. Egan
United States Army
Guaymas
Mexico
Eagan
Sonora
Harlow
Pacific Coast Coal Company
Colonel Harlow
General Fagan
General Eagan
Crocker
United States
Mr. Crocker
Notable Visitors and Leisure in Oracle area
Residents and visitors enjoy mountain air and vacations around Oracle Arizona. The Bayless, Shields, Clark, Es til, Estill, Boyer, and Stewart families vacation at ranches and camps near Mount Lemon and the Mountain View hotel while others travel from Tucson, Cincinnati, Columbus, and Pennsylvania for camping trips and sightseeing.
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Oracle
Ariz
Steward Bayless
Miss Shields
Bayless Ranch
William V. Meyer
Tucson
Mount Lemon
Ella Clark
Sigourney
Iowa
Alice L. Estill
Josie Neal
Howard W. Estill
Herbert Boyer
Palmer
The
Indian School
Miss Perry
Emma Bailey
E. S. Passell
Cincinnati
C. J. Carding
Columbus
Ohio
Mr. Schicht
Pennsylvania
Mountain View Hotel
Fred Steward Ad Son
Mrs. Flower
L. Steward
C. J. Flower
Joseph Bowron
Camp Bonita
Howard J. Hall
Castro Ranch
A. W. Lantz
Pekin
Llinois
R. S. Elifrit
Arcadia Ranch
Las Vegas
New Mexico
Stratton
Jones
Clark
Dr. Preston
BE. H. Cole
San Francisco
California
Arizona
Moss Ranch
Metal and Money Market Report from New York
The New York market notes Mexican dollars at 41% and c silver at 52 7%. Copper quotes show 11.8744 and 12 12 14 with various bid and ask levels.
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New York
Ten Thousand Dollars For A Dog In A Paper Tale
A newspaper article reports a dog sold for ten thousand dollars while a couple debates the sum. The dialogue centers on value and the idea of high prices for animals, with Maria calmly sewing as James expresses disbelief at the amount. The scene contrasts extravagance with everyday domestic life.
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Maria
James
Pantheism in the Rig Veda Destruction of Purusha as Creator
The Rig Veda dated around 1000 B C presents Purusha as a magnified man whose becoming of the cosmos yields a pantheistic view. All gods animals and castes are parts of him with cosmic organs named after celestial bodies. The seed idea ties desire to mind and creative power, tracing to de sire in later hymns.
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India
Purusha
Morris Jastrow, Jr
Harper's Magazine
Tramps Gatepost Signs Across a Gentle Moral Tale
A poem in Good Housekeeping reflects on rural gatepost graffiti used by tramps to seek meals. The author contrasts crude drawings of a gun dog and cross saw with a welcoming gate that promises a motherly home and a hot meal for weary wanderers seeking kindness and a message to a missing boy.
Mississippi Congressman Recieves Funeral Expense Letter
A Mississippi congressman who opposed costly congressman funerals reports a constituent letter offering to fund a modest burial. The note suggests supporters in the state would provide a respectable funeral as the congressman dies, with an offer to cover expenses in his name.
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Mississippi
Joba
Congress
John
Father and son trust fund tale of debt and marriage
A young father explains placing a large deposit in a savings bank for his baby boy to be handed at twenty one with the original amount and compound interest. The old gentleman refuses to pay saying his son withdrew the money and married using it, leaving him to support eight are children.
The Unique Bill of the Massachusetts Cobbler
An elderly Massachusetts cobbler, famed for skill, adds a new charge for simply knowing how. A returning customer finds her patched boot carried to her porch wrapped in a newspaper with a strange bill header to Mise Ann and a cryptic note about a task and a Youth's Companion.
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Massachusetts
New Discovery Claims Cure for Lung Trouble
Mrs Lois Cragg of Dorchester Massachusetts credits Dr King s New Discovery with saving her life after years of severe lung trouble and obstinate cough. She says doctors and remedies failed until the remedy cured her completely. The ad promotes the remedy with guarantees and trial bottles free. It also mentions Tiffany stores and Electric Oil claims from other customers.
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Lois Cragg
Dorchester Mass
Poisoning the System and Early Risers
Poisons build up when constipation occurs, says this ad. DeWitt's Little Early Risers stimulate the liver and prompt bowel action to cleanse the system. Claimed safe with no griping. Bell's Pharmacy distributes the remedy.
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DeWitt
Bell's
Health note from Iona patron on Kodol relief
A customer from Iona Missouri reports his mother improved after using Kodol for digestion. He says two years ago she began taking it and now eats anything without bad effects, noting she keeps a bottle on hand at Bell's Pharmacy.
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L. W. Spaulding
Iona
Mature
Bell’s
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W.A. Julian CO
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Metal and Money Market
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Eand
Russell & Sheldon
Ian
Citizen Business
Stone Avenue
Broadway
Pease Novelty Co
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Tucson Cleaning Works
H. Briggs
J. Briggs
Helvetia Coppe Co
Pennington and S. Meyer Sts
Richard Starr
John I. Reilly, F. D
Robert Hennessy
REILLY @ HENNESSY
Chicago College of Embalming
Haeger
Southern Pacific
Yuma
San Xavier
Bowie Railroad
Bowie Station
Allients
Kansas City
L. J. F. Saeger Proprietor
Johnson
and Johnson
Geo. Marti
Church and Congress
Goldbaum
B. G. Capo
Gist
Hawesville
Kentucky
Uncle Sam
Crescent Cigar Coq
Wari
Gilead
Zeigler
HEATH
Milligan
Gardiner, Worthen & Goss Co
Fleishman
DRVG
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