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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1902
Page
6
Spring fever signals torpid liver and inactive bowels. If ignored, illness may follow. DeWitt’s Little Early Risers stimulate the liver open the bowels and cleanse the system of impurities. Safe Pills. Bell’s Pharmacy.
The United States subtreasury will exchange worn bills for new ones of any denomination. In practice clerks often replace folded or slightly worn notes with fresh currency, provided sufficient supply. The process costs nothing to the exchanger and applies even to large redemptions.
A New England doctor near Randolph Massachusetts lives with a cemetery behind his house. The graveyard runs along the road for an eighth of a mile and is said to terrify locals at night. When asked if he fears the dead he replies they owe him money, a skeptical quip echoed from the era.
A New York Press tale recalls a girl who forgets to wash before dinner. She promises to try but returns with clean hands that reveal no washing, as she admits she washed only after breakfast. The mother scolds gently, noting the implied forgetfulness and behavior blame.
The article claims pimples arise from blood impurities and can be prevented by applying arnica to the skin at the first sign of swelling. It argues a few hours of warning precedes a pimple and suggests about a dozen applications in a day to drive it back.
An Indian sepoy tries to send a message to central India but resists corrections claiming he knows English. He warns of reporting the Superintendent Mandalay if the message is not sent, while threatening consequences and prompting a hurried transmission.
A fragment from London Answers notes a genteel carver sits while carving yet concedes moments of longing to place both feet on the table and onto the bird during the struggle with the fowl. The Atchison telegraph reproduces similar quips about correctness and error and the longer dent left by being right.
The Philadelphia Record notes gamblers carry portable mascots in pockets to avoid game refusal. Items range from lead parts to coins and hairpins, each with a backstory. A broker's gold hairpin, recovered after a theater fall, sparked an informal romance. A Wissalickon lawyer keeps a murderer's coin as mascots.
A magazine-style reminiscence recounts a Kaiser and Duke of Cambridge joking over magpie omens about birth and twins. It then revisits Adelina Patti’s self-assessment of her stage qualities and ends with a Chicago Tribune anecdote on a family failing to maintain gas lamps until a fitter restores brightness for fifty cents.
In Germantown a distinguished foreign novelist overstayed courtesy. As the host prepared to depart, he gently said the guest could not stay longer. She responded with a bold demand to stay, prompting a swift, public reproof and her return to the house.
Early explorers found large red patches in Arctic snow diagnosed by scientists as unicellular algae. The organism stains snow red while the protoplasm color varies, sometimes forming acres of snow coated by these tiny plants overnight.
A testimonial from H. C. Hardy of Yankeetown Indiana praises DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve for curing a leg sore after thirty years. The ad claims the product heals burns cuts and skin diseases and warns against counterfeits with sales at Bell's Pharmacy.
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