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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1902
Page
8
The event features young Tucson performers in an upbeat program. Tickets can be exchanged at Kimball's. Ads promote Bake DeWitt's Little Early Risers and Bell's Pharmacy while Troy Laundry Co advertises its services and a local quotation on knowledge and washing.
The Seattle Star reports the musical farce A Wise Member presented by the original New York cast at AT Tucson Theater with prices 100 75 and 50 cents. Seats go on sale Friday November 28 at Kimball Francis. The review praises it as uproarious and full of first class specialties.
A neighbor farmer visits Abraham Lincoln in 1857 and, after detailing a pads of hay, asks about crops. Lincoln replies with humor about measured output as men stack outdoors and store in the barn, illustrating his plain talk and farming life.
At Venice assizes a condemned man bows and says Remember the baker. Three centuries ago a baker was executed for a crime not proven. The judges funded a lamp in the doges palace from the interest, the lamp of expiation, as a warning to future judges before the death penalty.
The article recounts William II's fatal arrow incident in the New Forest and burial at Winchester, noting decades of tomb disturbances. It also recounts General Wade Hampton's vast slave holdings, claiming 4,000 enslaved people and the paradox of slaves not knowing him by sight.
Dialog from Glasgow Times about golf banter between a first caddie and a second caddie. They discuss a ministerial figure carrying for the minister and a player who jokes when missing a ball, with the second caddie dismissing him by saying tut tut.
Consolidated National Bank of Tucson Arizona presents its November 25 1902 financials with resources totaling 1 014 594 82 and deposits 920 500 80. Cash reserves notes and bonds are detailed alongside loans discounts and due from other banks. The report is sworn by cashier H B Tenney and witnessed by notary H D Morrison and directors Freeman Hughes Gravea and others.
A salt roofed lake near Obdorsk in Siberia remains visible year round not frozen. The lake spans nine miles by seventeen and is among the saltiest lakes as salt springs add to its crust while islands brace the arched crust. Since 1878 an underground Obi river outlet lowered the water but the crust holds its level, growing six inches thicker each year.
A Detroit Free Press spoof lists odd hotel rules including meals, self rising flour at lunch, 25 cent horse hire, hammer and nails for driving, and waking tips with a fire escape. It notes a self supporting house and contains quirky line items about jumping beds and nightmares.
A mother scolds her daughter for whispering about the devil and punishes her for using the word. The child reveals the minister’s sermon, recalling it as about our Lord going up the mountain and being tempted by the gentleman who keeps hell.
Excerpts discuss the One Indian’s abstinence from alcohol highlighting manliness and endurance, then a Talmage anecdote about black or white sheep and fleecing, followed by Cruikshank’s discovery of Fagin’s face by self-portraiture in a mirror.
An eastern senator rides a F streetcar to the capitol when a deaf lady beside him asks questions about Washington. She apologizes for being deaf and he suggests trying electricity. She retorts that lightning struck her last summer but she did not benefit.
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