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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1902
Page
2
The editorial lists candidates for public office: J. F. Wilson of Yavapai County for Delegate to Congress and Levi H. Manning of Pima County for Joint Councilman. The notice emphasizes party slate and local governance.
The San Francisco Call endorses Roosevelt's trust approach, urging scientific treatment over brute force. It defends publicity as a remedy, argues trusts breach common law, and warns government overreach by plutocratic control, predicting a future of popular sovereignty.
A gold Democrat has been nominated for the state senate from Charleston, South Carolina, indicating limited impact of money issues in Tillman era politics.
Professor Oscar L. Triggs of the University of Chicago, known for provocative claims about Rockefeller and Shakespeare, has released another sensational remark provoking sharp public derision and calls for scrutiny by authorities. He argues he has reasoned to a pessimistic conclusion about humanity.
The writer hopes the President revises his plans to stop in Pennsylvania's anthracite regions on the way home from the south to deliver speeches. J Ogden Armour predicts steel prices will keep rising until a new era of prosperity arrives, while a fish story from Catalina is noted as a potential worry if it falters.
Large shipments of cattle are being sent to Great Britain amid postwar trade, suggesting Britain has a surplus from wartime budgets to afford fresh meat supplied by American producers.
A Louisville boxing match between two pros sparks debate as Col Henry Watterson of the Louisville Courier Journal resists Connecticut reformers effort to curb prize fighting. He argues local authorities should enforce laws if they exist and mocks reformers for meddling in distant affairs. The piece highlights regional tensions over sport, law, and states’ rights.
The article notes a public taste for a gore filled fight between masters of fistic art while contrasting views from Old Kentucky and Connecticut. It cites Eastern money moving west for grain and millinery and critiques Senator Fairbanks on compulsory arbitration versus voluntary arbitration with courts as a reference.
The London Globe notes that in early English naval history there was little division between merchantmen and warships. During peace ships traded as armed vessels and during war traders became warships, a practice lasting until after the Spanish Armada when the fighting ship became distinct from the trader.
The term stove once named a heated room or hothouse for plants and even a verb meaning to warm or store plants. Early English poets and scholars used it for warming houses while Bacon and Woodward gave related senses. Depys noted nautical heating for pliability. those senses faded after Franklin’s discoveries. The French etuve parallels the old sense of a heated chamber.
A theatergoer on a tram car felt a pinprick and released her purse but another hand snatched it away in moments. The incident illustrates skillful pocket picking by a crowd with a wristwatch thief nicknamed Heathen Chanee.
A mother warns Bobby that he will be punished after dinner if his misbehavior is told to his father. Bobby asks for mercy and requests a better dinner as a way to soften the consequences.
A Washington Star quote feature shows Farmer Corntessel remarking that politeness in town can cost a stranger from $1 to $75, reflecting skepticism about polite strangers. The exchange highlights distrust and the risky impression of courteous strangers in urban settings.
An elderly traveler in Chicago recounts how Henry Clay defended a man accused of murder in his prime. Clay drew the jury with a fierce look and a single line, claiming even a gaze could justify self defense. He spent days practicing the look before delivering the decisive moment.
The London Chronicle notes a Latin Bible in the Cottonian collection used in coronations about 1000 years ago. A 217 leaf quarto of the four Gospels, likely from the late ninth century, narrowly survived the 1731 Ashburnham House fire. It may have belonged to Athelstan the Glorious and been given to Dover church.
In Longman's Magazine description, dusk in Guiana brings bats emerging from hiding and vampires roaming for meals. Domestic animals endure attacks unless protected by lattice pens, and travelers may wake to blood wounds. Vampires are uncommon but can be excluded with care.
Two young women in a Chestnut street trolley discuss desires and life choices. They debate having endless money to ride in a cab daily and possess ten years of silk dresses, reflecting playful urban whimsy on a Philadelphia Times moment.
Dialog from the Boston Tran script notes a humorous exchange where Mrs Houseleigh questions Bridget McShane about her origin and language. The applicant claims French roots with a cockney mispronunciation, illustrating an accent joke. The piece ends with a statistic noting nearly 1,000 vessels lost annually.
A Baltimore Sun excerpt questions heredity as an explanation for genius noting Napoleons and Shakespearean prodigies and asking what causes extraordinary achievement. A Philadelphia Times item recalls a Princeton alumnus recounting an encounter with Dr McCosh where misrecognition led to a comical chase in a university corridor.
A Berlin incident recounted by the London Express tells of a bowlegged recruit who keeps a coin between his knees to avoid dropping it. A sergeant uses a one mark piece to test him, but the recruit swaps for a larger two mark coin and the sergeant praises the apparent effort.
The text describes a method used by Mexican natives to train shepherd dogs. A pup is separated from its mother early and fed only around dawn and dusk to align with the flock schedule. The dog accompanies the herd daily, learns to drive at a year old, and remains faithful despite distractions.
The author notes a peculiar Russian weather pattern where mild late October or early November days give way to a sudden blizzard within a day. The abrupt cold can freeze travelers and farmers guarding flocks, with bodies buried by snow until spring. The contrast with Dakota blizzards is described as tardy next to the Russian surge.
A brief exchange centers on a recurring predicament as a doorknob and a doorkey discuss being in a hole again. The quirky dialogue hints at a recurring metaphorical trap.
Napoleon wrote a rare English letter to Count Las Cases during his imprisonment at St Helena. He describes six weeks of learning with limited progress and estimates learning forty two days’ work could yield about two thousand two hundred words. He notes a dictionary of over forty thousand terms and reflects on the labor of mastering a language in youth.
C E Borchgrevink recalls killing a large penguin aboard the Southern Cross with a spike through its head, only to find the bird alive and upright an hour later, seemingly unfazed by the wound. The anecdote underscores the penguin's remarkable vitality and resilience.
While reciting Horace Louis XVIII paused for snuff and, discovering his box missing, took a pinch from the chamberlain’s box. He then granted the niece the right to open a toy store in the Tuileries, a venture that persisted until her death in 1859 and later became state property, now rented for about 400 francs yearly.
The bachelor asserts there can be no joint rule in a family and explains the scepter moves from husband to wife to baby. He notes the husband holds it first, then the wife keeps it, and finally the baby gets it.
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