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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1902
Page
8
Notice describing summer mail delivery option for The Citizen. Readers can have the newspaper mailed to their address at the same carrier price, with address changes handled at The Citizen business office on Stone avenue and Broadway or by calling Main 171.
A tale warns of street flowers sold by vendors who claim freshness. The flowers are stabilized by a gum inserted into each calyx, preserving appearance while masking rapid deterioration. The gum dries quickly, becomes invisible, and fools buyers despite the bloom’s fragility.
A commentary notes a man with six idle horses walks two miles out of town for business while a poorer man with no horses hires a team for the same distance. The author suggests this shows human perversity and a lifelong habit of preferring ownership over need.
A lithographed engrossment of the Emancipation Proclamation, by W H Pratt of Davenport Indiana, features lettering shaded to form a portrait of Abraham Lincoln at its center. The piece, once widely produced, is now exceedingly rare and considered a unique specimen of pen work.
The oldest timber in use by man occurs in Egyptian temple stonework dated at least 4,000 years old. A timber tie connects adjacent stone blocks, with a shallow excavation in each block where a tie shaped like an hourglass is driven, making stone movement difficult.
Miss Keedick and Miss Tenspot discuss their fathers. Each says her father is harsh to young men who call on them. The men borrow money from a person named Asem, revealing tensions in social courtship.
A comic dialogue shows Lily accusing Fred of broken faith while Minnie laments being a freak and vows not to speak to him, with a sharp, bitter tone captured in the Boston transcript. A separate algebra joke ponders a man repaying a debt of four cents in diminishing fractions, implying an endless half-cent progression.
St James Gazette recalls George Downing of Massachusetts who became England’s ambassador at The Hague. His fortunes bridged Cromwell, the Merry Monarch, and Charles II as he acquired Westminster land and founded Downing Street, a name enduring in the British empire.
Alpine hotelkeepers report losing patrons as glaciers retreat from borders. The Rhone glaciers have shrunk about 3,000 feet in twenty years and many others have similar reductions, signaling the slow, steady disappearance of these advancing ice features.
The author's wife rebukes a man of genius as she recounts his fit over household chores. She lists tasks he refused to perform and accuses him of losing his temper, illustrating domestic tension in a humorous vignette from the Atlanta Constitution.
A historical tale explains how Mexican hunters in early California used a crude pendulum trap. A bear attracted by meat on a limb would push a swinging stone, receive blows, grow angry, and eventually be driven from the tree to fall onto rocks below where hunters could secure it.
The Kuro Siwo or Japan current carries vast driftwood to Alaska. logs from camphor, mango, and mahogany wash ashore from Asia, some 150 feet long and eight feet wide, piling up to twenty feet. Beach sands cover and fossilize timber, extending shorelines over ages, with Siberian wood reaching Greenland and Spitzbergen.
Druggist G W Roberts of Elizabeth West Virginia touts a cured cancer case. An elderly man deemed incurable by doctors reportedly recovered after using Electric Bitters and Bucklen’s Amice Salve, claimed to expel poisons and heal blood diseases skin ulcers and sores.
A reflective quotation describes life as a building that rises slowly each day as lessons, influences, books, conversations, and daily acts add blocks to an invisible inner edifice. The message emphasizes gradual personal growth through experience.
Miss Miami Brown jokes that nature never produces nothing in vain while Mr. Erastus Pinkney notes it may seem like a crowd of animals could be as Nasal asms. The dialogue contrasts idle thoughts with the reality of employment in whimsical chatter.
The Tucson Ice and Cold Storage company introduces six fine new wagons designed and built in town by Fred Ronstadt. Local business men are having wagons built at the new shop, signaling growth in home industry.
Rings crafted to order for weddings and births were offered by E G Capes the Jeweler located at 83 West Congress Street.
An old advertisement describes spring fever as a torpid liver and inactive bowels and warns of illness if untreated. It promotes DeWitt's Little Early Risers as a safe remedy to stimulate the liver open the bowels and cleanse the system with Bell's Pharmacy named as the supplier.
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