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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1902
Page
4
Washington column recounts legal quips as Irish defendant Pat Oulaher pleads guilty to spare witness Tim Sullivan. A Lake Erie's wreck tale and a New Jersey lawyer’s joke about Judas Iscariot follow, sketching political humor from Congressmen Southard Loudenslager and others.
The South Bisbee mine plans further development in days. Fen S Hildreth named registrar of the land office and J M W Moore receiver of public money. El Paso businessmen form a rival water-supply company amid protests of the current service. Cave Creek cattle suffer water shortage. Calumet and Arizona expects No 1 shaft ore production by Sept 1. Arizona and New Mexico railroad yard workers strike for shorter hours. train crews likely to join. W P Birchfield sells cattle interests near Safford to Marshall and Webb. Phoenix Water works to add three wells doubling supply. Nearly $100000 of insurance written at Wickenburg. Survey office files show 250 mineral claim applications in Arizona, up from a third two months ago. Treasury ruling allows mixing bonded Mexican ores with domestic ores for bedding. Naco to build an $8000 gymnasium this week. Indian agent at San Carlos to continue rationing Apaches due to water scarcity.
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for curing dyspepsia and stomach ailments. It claims the medicine improves facial expressions and overall health, featuring a Chicago testimonial about regained strength, appetite, sleep, and vitality after using the product and its pellets.
Mrs A M Shields of Chambersburg Pennsylvania credits Dr Kings New Discovery for Consumption with saving her life after six months of severe lung illness. She says the remedy cured her throat and chest diseases and recommends it for coughs colds and bronchial affections. Bottles 50 cents and one dollar trial bottles free at druggists.
The native Samoa dictionary shows biting Irony in words for widow and mean ness, plus a long entry on ta meaning many actions from I to a somersault. It contrasts Bamoan character with humorous phrases about fishing gear, wealth division, and everyday tasks. Century.
A Penn Avenue sculptor kept a paid grave statue on display when the late payment stalled. A passerby identified the figure as the unearthed memorial, prompting revelation that Mary Jane’s likeness had become an unpaid object of art. The tale blends with notes on the Four Corners region where four states meet and a Carrizo Mountains monument stands far from rail access.
An old gentleman recalls returning to his boyhood home and notes his wife has changed, while a Weathered tavern keeper quips about her, and a Forest and Stream excerpt compares sharks to game fish, detailing dusky sharks biting lips and escaping when hooked.
The article details two methods for brewing tea in Kashmir. One method boils tea with cold water for thirty minutes, adds more cold water and boils another half hour, then adds milk. The second method uses tea with a little soda and water, boils thirty minutes, then adds milk salt and butter and boils another half hour. It also discusses lunar gravity effects on a 12 stone man, reducing weight to about two stone on the moon and potential jumping capability.
A Mississippi congressman who spoke against costly congressional funerals shows a constituent letter. The message jokes that when he dies they will not ask Congress to cover the funeral, noting local friends would give him a respectable burial.
A Boston area cobbler known for slow work added a strange charge to a boot repair bill found inside the customer’s patched footwear. The note, addressed to Miss Ann te Briggs, listed a peculiar charge and contained its own odd asides from unrelated items.
A New York Press quote recalls Miss D. carrying luggage with no foreign labels after a six weeks trip abroad. An unkind man notes she goes across so often that everyone knows it, prompting pride from the girl observing her plastered over bags.
Mose Johnson-Dat pleads that the liniment he sold to his wife helped her, but the pharmacist reveals it was horse liniment. Johnson admits the remedy helped his wife yet argues it was not enough for her. The exchange ends with a humorous note on misunderstanding and the speaker’s insistence.
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