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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1902
Page
6
Tugson Lodge No. 385 B P O Elks will hold regular meetings on the first and third Monday evenings each month at seven forty. Visiting Elks are invited to attend. Kirt I Hart ER W8 Clack Secretary.
Witty clippings and snippets include misprints regarding Aldrich, comic exchanges about warden seeds and hens, a grim note on Louis XIV, and light verse from newspapers. The collage shows humor, poetry slips, and odd phrases typical of historical gray-lace columns.
The great pacer, with a 1.05 half mile record at Phoenix, is offered with new rubber tired buggy and harness. Chances cost 1 cent to 4.25 dollars. For details contact BRD. WOODELL at Club Stables.
The Atlantic is cited as deeming statistics a dull pastime with librarians finding little demand for statistical literature. The text notes Sir John Lubbock’s silence on figures in his top books and argues that blue books offer little practical help. It condemns statistics as dry and warns against the hidden refinements of methods like weighted averages and index numbers.
A hunter of wild animals recalls a fox outwitting a pursuing dog at a riverbank, then watchers a distant Peru Amazonia palm and Guaranes communities. The piece notes a club room storytelling contest, decay rates of woods, Eskimo death superstitions, and mourning customs with fasting and hair cutting after spouses die.
The Wide World Magazine describes outdoor dog washing along the Seine from Pont d Iena to Pont Neuf. Dogs are scrubbed by a washer while a mistress observes, using towels, robes, ribbons, and heat for grooming. The process ends with a splash into the river and a proud return to the carriage.
Satirical ad urges readers to cleanse the system with Dr. King's New Life Pills. Claims lively liver function, active bowels and good digestion, touts 25 cents at druggists.
The text covers pruning, watering with cold water harming plants, Madeira sine as a climbing plant, reasons for repotting to manage soil fertility and root filling, ink plant of New Granada usable as red-to-black ink, primrose watering avoid crown overwatering, and aphid control using tobacco steep tea or whale oil soap.
Charles Lamb's quip on ignorance between Christians and Jews contrasts with fear of acquaintance. A separate note warns eye wearers about fogged spectacles and prescribes washing with soft potash soap to leave a film that repels moisture.
A dialogue reveals Nakhbot would not refuse the suitor but demanded a severe price. He stated the suitor must first be "banged" before any marriage. The exchange highlights a coercive and extreme prerequisite.
The text notes that Paturns ligest moons were mies in diameter, smaller than their own size. It also states Jupiter is one and a half times larger than all other planets combined.
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