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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1902
Page
4
William K. Van derbilt Jr. was sentenced to two days imprisonment and fined ten francs for fast automobile driving in Paris. The penalties are suspended until his return to France, with a possible appeal to the supreme court to remit the fine.
A Missoula special reports a sensational Plains robbery in western Montana. Flathead Indian Matchell, visiting Plains, was robbed of 22000 in cash during a nighttime intrusion by a woman dressed as a Squaw who spoke with Mrs. Matchell.
In Memphis Tenn on November 6 1906 tension rises ahead of President Roosevelt's November 20 visit for General Luke W Wright's Philippines return. The Evening Scimitar condemns a banquet with Booker T Washington linked guests. Some locals refuse to attend. plans for welcoming the President stir contention.
Mrs John Shaw, Sioux Indian woman, presented $10 to George Bear in Sioux Falls jail. She said the money was to buy a suit of clothes for his execution, after Bear was sentenced by Judge Carland to hang December 5 for killing her husband and a white employee at the Rosebud agency.
In Kalamazoo Michigan on November 6 a church society event at the Academy featured 16 young women appearing on stage in boys clothes. The audience reacted with gasps and the spectacle prompted talk of at least one broken engagement.
A church society hosted a Cosmorama of the World performance featuring Amazons in banners from local firms. The show included songs like It's nice to Be a Boy Sometimes, drawing applause while a fiancee Mamie Delano appeared among the stage “boys.” Charles Schuetwein, upset by the sight, vowed to oppose trousers in the household as friends seek a peace settlement. The Chicago organizer blamed the performers for their own costume choices, risking church harmony.
A man identified as William Drake died at Bellevue Hospital today from the Madison Square Garden fireworks explosion on election day. The death toll rose to thirteen, with several others injured in the incident.
George Pugh Vest, youngest son and private secretary to Senator Vest of Missouri, died suddenly in Washington at about age 45 from acute gastritis. A lawyer by training, he had worked in Missouri and Indian Territory before serving as his father’s secretary. he was married to a California woman, with a son and daughter surviving.
The article describes sleeping sickness a fatal tropical disease and ainhum the gradual toe amputation condition seen in tropical patients. It also notes verrugas a deadly skin wart disease in Peru's Cerro de Pasco valleys affecting unacclimatized whites.
The landlady asks Mr. Barnstorme how he likes his eggs and the tragedian replies with joy that he prefers ward boiled. The joke reveals how people had mistaken his taste until that moment.
A Philadelphia Bulletin quip notes a poor suitor’s plight as the heiress pleads for union while the father objects not to labor but to being the one forced to pay. The line underscores class tension and social expectations in marriage.
A Tucson miner testifies Doan’s Kidney Pills cured his back pain from kidney trouble after a January 1902 cold. He bought at Martin’s Drug Store, used the treatment, and his pain disappeared promptly. The ad notes dealers sell them for 50 cents with Foster Milburn Co. as U S agents.
The Troy Laundry Co. advertises first class work with wages described as fair for good employees. It invites wagons to call and provides a contact number 1071 for service inquiries.
Great city real estate offer features a six room modern brick residence with lawn trees vines and every convenience located on North Sixth avenue near Third street fronting east lot 66 by 184. Apply to Plumer and Steward 29 North Stone avenue. Also Miss Louise Brink opens ladies tailoring and dressmaking at 46 North Stone avenue next to Dr Fenner's office with up to date styles and reasonable prices.
Kodol advertised to cure indigestion and stomach troubles by cleansing and sweetening the stomach glands. Sells Pharmacy promotes the product as a remedy after heavy meals.
A local ad column announces a washing service at Troy Laundry Co with a humorous verse. The Congregational church women will host an election dinner from 11 to 2 near the post office. Exhibition of artificial flowers and designs for the carnival parade runs at 156 Congress Street. The parade features a carnival queen on a grand float and the queen’s dress funded by the Eagles.
William Spirey of Walton Furnace Vermont traveled thirteen miles to obtain Bucklen's Arnica Salve a box that completely cured a severe fever sore on his leg when nothing else would. The salve also claims to heal bruises felons ulcers eruptions boils burns corns and piles at 25 cents and guaranteed by all druggists.
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