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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1902
Page
2
Editorial department outlines Democratic ticket candidates for arenas to Congress J F Wilson of Yavapai County for Congress and Levi H Manning of Pima County for Joint Councilman, listing their counties.
The piece discusses Arizona Republican strife over a Delegate to Congress with William F. Cooper cited as reluctant candidate. It notes desertion risks, Tucson versus Phoenix factions, and hints at drafting N. O. Murphy to contest the seat amid broader national debates on trust policy and arbitration.
Governor Stone claims a special session will cost little beyond current military setup used to control strikers. Citizens statewide hold mass meetings backing compulsory arbitration as attempts at voluntary settlement fail. President Baer resists submitting the restiee to arbitration amid coal and mining interests.
The Citizen editorializes on Tom L. Johnsons Ohio Democratic State Convention speech. He denounces monopoly defending sweeping monopolies from law, criticizes publicity for trusts, and links money questions to Wall Street and self government while recalling the 16 to 1 free silver stance as a protest against privileged classes. He notes a Kentucky fight between pugilists and asserts the genuine article with 44 caliber continues undisturbed.
Cholera cases climb in the Philippines raising the likelihood of a U S policy move as the administration presses to dispatch General Miles to the region to assess and respond.
A Binghamton New York man claiming a convenient invention compresses whisky into tablets. If true, drinkers could carry corn juice in a vest pocket and induce a substantial jag. The piece argues the invention would worsen a wicked world and delay any millennium.
A critic laments tabloid whisky pitched as medical aid warning that portable alcohol could tempt misuse. The piece notes risks of self prescription, potential rise of serialized cocktails in pockets, and social harms from easy access to compressed spirits.
The article examines the theory that losing control of the House in an off year helps the party in the next presidential election. It cites past cycles where Democrats and Republicans gained or lost power and presidency after off-year results, concluding there is no consistent link. It ends with a satirical note on a North Carolina Republican clash and a St. Louis minister’s sermon gimmicks.
Vanadium resists melting below 2000 degrees Fahrenheit and acid corrosion while increasing copper ductility, making it valuable for electrical appliances though priced at about 600 dollars per pound. Typhoid fever mortality ranges from three to forty nine percent.
After a week of travel we watched a man attempt a shower bath under a 1700 foot waterfall. A shifting wind hurled spray and debris. the fall swept him into a perilous slide. He crawled back, injured but alive, and begged to return to New England.
A survey of natural history details notes ostriches reaching about sixty years, mandarin ducks as beautiful aquatic birds, and cods that voraciously swallow moving objects. It also mentions Abeel with two heartbeats, ladybirds traveling 20 billion times their length in an hour, and sloths moving fifty times their length in the same span.
In 1796 a fifty six pound stone in London was linked to a December Yorkshire fall, with Sir Joseph Banks noting likeness to a Siena stone. Years later reports of a Benares stone matched chemically, linking all three and shifting disbelief about meteoric origin.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt describes a Swedish maid learning language and cultural notes from a young mistress. The lesson on bread terms reveals humor when the maid later remarks that the husband is “more stale” than the wife, highlighting cross cultural miscommunication.
Preliminary scene reports a policeman peering into a clash as Irishmen argue loudly. One man denies trouble, while another warns a fight is starting within a minute if order isn’t kept. The tense moment captures a volatile street incident in Chicago.
In a Philadelphia Press excerpt Moody pleads for love, threatens, and faces rejection from Miss Cooley who replies she cannot live with him. The scene ends with a stark note on self preservation and tragedy.
A Washington party at John Morrissey’s Saratoga clubhouse hosts an attache of the French embassy who repeatedly bets $100 on ten black at roulette. The dealer says limits are exceeded, but Morrissey approves and the attache wins repeatedly, amassing $17,500 before friends carry him away. The night still yields a bank profit.
Mile. Sayle, a leading eighteenth century balleteuse at the French Opera, wished to compose. Rameau told her to prick holes in a lined sheet. he converted the punctures to notes, shaping a now famous dance piece Les Sauvages Dans les Indes Galantes.
Straits Budget reports that four sacred white elephants sit in separate gilded houses within the royal palace open to visitors after paying a small baksheesh. The animals look poorly kept, chained to gilded posts, and once used to punish noble offenders by grass cutting before the practice was abolished.
The London Lancet notes mushrooms offer no greater food value than ordinary vegetables and are inferior to meat milk and eggs in nutrition. Yet fresh mushrooms digest easily and provide carbohydrates and notable potassium salts, with an appealing flavor that makes them a good dietary adjunct.
The piece laments human history as a brief moment within the long geologic day. It contrasts human forgetfulness with deep time and notes how the lazy often rest on laurels while ages unfold beyond.
The text discusses a rare solid hoofed hog and its relation to Darwinian ideas. It explains that while most modern hogs have a cloven hoof, occasional individuals resemble the primitive solid hoof of the ancestral elotherium, illustrating reversion to an earlier form through adaptation and natural selection.
The article recounts Alexandre Dumas rising to wealth building a grand Monte Christo chateau where he entertained generously, then losing fortune and facing ingratitude. He left Paris in fall 1870 as German forces besieged France, preserving a jaunty spirit and recalling a lone napoleon then two in his pocket, joking about being a spendthrift.
The Birmingham Age-Herald recounts a tale about General Wade Hampton asking a slave who his master was. The answer shows Hampton’s immense slave holdings, claimed at 4,000 slaves, making him the largest slave owner in the south and in modern times.
A black stone set in a ring has long passed within the Hohenzollern line for four centuries. Frederick the Great is said to have found the talisman in a package with preservation instructions by Frederick I. Legend cites a giant toad carrying the stone into the royal presence, but the setting’s origin remains uncertain.
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