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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1902
Page
4
A monument was unveiled at the center of population for the 1900 census in Bartholomew County Indiana. The marker directs travelers to the exact site since the monument is not visible from the highway and a crowd gathered for the unveiling.
In Weatherby Virginia Tom Mitchell 80 plus years old fatally shot Elkins Weatherby heart after threats over Miss Laginia Morris. Mitchell had long sought Morris but she chose Weatherby and he vowed murder if they wed, carrying out the threat the day before the nuptials.
An advertisement extols Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for stomach digestion and blood purification. A testimonial from E I Ransell of Virginia credits the product with curing long standing indigestion and liver kidney pains after medical failure and multiple bottles. The notice also mentions The Common Sense Medical Adviser offered free with purchase.
Weatherby, a merchant, was killed at Mitchell's home during a business visit. Mitchell, described as a wealthy farmer and in poor health, has been placed under arrest. The case centers on the deadly encounter and the involvement of Weatherby’s slaver.
Judge E J Edwards of Solomonville visits Tucson. Rancher William Lawrence from Dripping Springs arrives. Ben Crawford of Clifton spends Sunday in the city. Clifton men Dell Potter George Wills N L Lewis L H Sweeting J H Hampton stopover en route from Florence court. W E Murphy from Phoenix on business. Doc Donovan from the Del Monte. Judge Owen T Rouse back from Florence court. Hon C D Reppy of Florence spends yesterday and today in Tucson. Cap Wilsey back from St Louis to spend winter here.
NEW YORK market notes show lead quiet and unchanged. Copper range 11.40 to 11.60, Mexicans at 3814, silver at 4934. An optician offers free adjustments for glasses fitted in past years. An testimonial claims electric oil cured sore throat in 24 hours.
The Lombard style allied with our Norman favors thick walls that bear the load with large unpierced spaces. Ornament serves the idea, with shallow recesses and paneling highlighting wall surfaces. Beveled window and door openings, arching and circular motifs stress strength and power.
A 50 year old man reports an epic journey covering 12 000 miles. He claims consumption of nine and a half tons of meat fish eggs and vegetables and intake of 7 000 gallons of fluids during the trek.
The article recounts Charles James Fox’s notorious early life as a profligate gamester who squandered large sums, including $250,000 before reaching adulthood, with episodes of late-night gambling and dramatic swings in fortune. It cites Walpole’s glimpse of a Thursday parliamentary debate amid hazard games and late-night revelry. It then shifts to a note on bees, explaining how bees use their long tongues to harvest honey and how beekeepers lengthen tongues and create safer, prepared homes for colonies.
In a Scottish parish a pair of kirk collectors sought donations but found a poor man with nothing to give. He refuses whisky and snuff, but offers the two pence he pays Sandy the barber each Saturday for a home shave, inviting the barber to collect it himself.
An Anecdote recalls a senior class prayer praising a revered professor. The piece then describes flying fishes or exocoetus and a related halfbeak in zoological notes, highlighting a new specimen Hemiexoceetus candimaculatus found in the Academy of Natural Sciences collection linking flying fish and halfbeak lineages. The specimen came from the Gulf of California, Mexico.
An advertisement claims ten thousand demands torment but Dean's Ointment never fails to cure itching piles, presenting a dramatic promise of relief.
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