Arizona News Briefs Highlight Rail Moves and Mining Finds
Reports from Arizona note improving cattle ranges after recent rains. Greek laborers shift from Bradshaw railway to Southern Pacific work crews, while a new gold ledge is reported near Mortuna. An accident at Tombstone Consolidated Mines harms no one, and El Paso Southwestern plans a Tombstone rail line upgrade. Copper Queen and Calumet and Arizona Copper expand smelter capacity, and a climate service transfer reshuffles personnel. Desert fossils surface in lime formations and Sheriff Turner captures stage robber Whipple near Patagonia.
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Arizona
Copper Queen
Local Ads and Notices Include Rentals Jewelry and Health Aid
An assortment of notices and ads including Pease Novelty Co offering freight savings on typewriters and machines at 42 Court Street Tucson. E G Capo's Jewelers offers wedding and birth rings at 8% West Congress Street. C A Stevens returns to operate the People’s Store Express. Burdock Blood Bitters promoted for digestion and vigor.
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Pease Novelty Co
Court Street
Tucson
Ariz
Capo’s
Congresa Street
DeWitt's Little Early Risers Endure as Liver Tonic
An advertisement from Bell's pharmacy touts DeWitt's Little Early Risers as an effective liver medicine. It claims the pills cleanse poisons and putrid matter gently, acting as a tonic for the liver and delivering pleasant effects.
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DeWitt
Bell’s Pharmacy
Carriage Stand Relocated to Congress and Stone Corner
D S Valencia has moved his carriage stand from West Congress Street to the corner of Congress and Stone Avenues at Alex Rossi's saloon. He can be reached at all hours by phone 661.
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C. A. Stevens
Reliabe
People
D. S. Valencia
Weat
Congress Street
Congress and
Stone Avenue
Alex Rossi
Stock Reduction Sale At Congress Street Move
Owing to preparations for relocation, F. J. Villaescusa at 1108 Meyer Street announces big price reductions on harnesses saddles buggies and wagons through September.
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Congress Street
F. J. Villaescusa
Meyer Street
Parson Praises Electric Bitters in Public Letter
Reverend C. J. Budlong of Ashway Rhode Island writes that Electric Bitters cured his long standing jaundice and liver troubles. He calls them a genuine all round cure excelling anything he has seen. Sold by druggists for 50 cents with satisfaction guaranteed.
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Rev
C. J. Budlong
Ashway, R. I
Browning’s Gentle Deeds Remembered by Servant
A Century Magazine tale recounts Browning insistently helping his servant Giuseppina with a heavy fruit basket and lessons on generosity. He refuses to let pride stand in kindness and later recalls a small coin saved as change before giving a larger gift.
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Browning
Giuseppina
Signore
Century Magazine
Palm Oil Chop Incident and Putnam Spy Note
Europeans at a festive Obojo feast suffer illness from a dish named palm oil chop then witness a skull rolling from a vessel. The chief assures guests it is not a man but a monkey. The linked letter postscript recalls General Israel Putnam confirming Edward Palmer as a spy and ordering his execution.
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Opobo
Chambers’ Journal
Israel Putnam
Palmer
Sir Henry Clinton
Peekskill
Hudson
Verplanck’s Point
Putnam
Clinton
Edward Palmer
P. S
Absentminded Professor Aims to Make Boy an Engineer
The Norwegian Weekly Tyribans jokes about a professor who abruptly decides his nonexistent son should become an engineer. He corrects himself, admits there is no boy, then sits back, forgetting the plan. The humor hinges on his forgetfulness and sudden authority.
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Tyribans
A Quick Cure For Bee Stings
A household remedy from the Ladies' Home Journal describes removing the sting then applying crushed vervain leaves to the wound to prevent swelling and ease pain. Dried vervain can be used by steeping in hot water. The article notes vervain is gathered in September by southern nurses and dried for winter use.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
When a Man Weighs Less and Barometer
A man weighs less when the barometer is high. Atmospheric pressure on an average man is about fifteen tons. Rising mercury from twenty nine to thirty one inches adds about one ton to the load carried.
Miss Uppersee sings encore as crowd demands repeat
A Boston Transcript passage recalls Miss Uppersee's performance prompting the audience to request multiple encores while Mrs Oldtimer reflects on past school days with repeated lessons.
Palpitation Joke Foretold in Chicago News Clip
A brief Chicago News snippet records a humorous exchange with a waiter who jokes about palpitations and offers a sample. The quip highlights a playful, everyday moment captured in a city newspaper clip.
Morbid Thought and Health Dangers Highlight Mental Discipline
The piece warns that dwelling on morbid subjects can mentally and physically harm a healthy person. It argues most people harbor dread about disease or ruin, and that cheerful thoughts act as a cheap, effective antidote. It notes fear can trigger tumors and cancer, and urges inoculation with optimism.
Poultry Pointers From a Farm Journal
The article notes that eggs come from a meat diet and warns against forced growth and tight confinement. It advises discarding deformed or weak fowls from breeding, not keeping the same cock beyond one season, and that molting or fat hens reduce laying. It suggests litter made of leaves and hay chaff and placing fowls away from barns. It urges lime sources from oyster shells, bones, plaster, and meat scraps for shells.
A Persian Dinner Described by a Traveler
A traveler from Chicago News recalls a Persian household meal with fowl boiled to rags and rice, hard boiled eggs, fried onions, almonds, and raisins, plus Shiraz wine. Desserts feature a nougat like manna studded with walnuts and almonds, eaten in private to avoid speechlessness, and a gum from a tree tied to a worm origin.
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Persia
Chicago News
Cuban Agriculture Yields Large Cabbage and Rapid Crops
The article notes cabbage in Cuba can reach twenty pounds and general vegetable crops thrive. Radishes mature in fourteen to eighteen days, lettuce in five weeks, and corn yields three crops yearly. Sweet potatoes are perpetual with vines regrowing after harvesting. Various fruits and greenhouse plants are also grown.
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Cuba
Dampening His Ardor in a Paradoxical Exchange
A comical dialogue pits a desperate suitor and a wary parent in a Cot cage News style skit. The pieces mix with a cheeky remark about a bulldog and a Swiss coal note, delivering a quirky, era-tinged column vibe.
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Reilly & Edwards Undertaking CO
S. Church St
W. A. Julian CO
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Catine
Bradshaw
Yavapai
Southern Pacific
S. F
Mortuna
Jedge
Tombstone Consolidated Mines Company
Te el Paso
Southwestern
Tombstone Road
Samuel A. Barron
Federal
el Paso
Clobe
Sloan
Axel W. Hallenberg
New York
Cabre Grande Wining Company
Et Presscott
Old Dominion
Globe
Calumet and Arizona Copper Company
Douglas
Allis-Chambers Company
William G. Burns
Arizona Climate and Crop Service
Phoenix
Burns
Mantello E. Beystone
Springfield Illinois
Washington, D. C
State of Illinois
Springfield
Bist
Janson Cit
Bisbee
Tom Turner
Santa Cruz County
Whipple
Patagonia
Washington Camp
Brown’s
Pacific Coast
Grocker Building
San Francisco
Cal
Cotcage
Pelle
Belle
Detroit
Switzerland
Drs. Whomes
Pennington
Tucson, Ariz
S. Spring St
Los Angeles
Dodge Block
Church Street
H. B. Dodge
la Cananea, Son
Gardiner, Worthen & Goss Co
Ziegler’s
Confectione
Vicente Portonondo
United States
Crescent Cigar CO
West Congress St
Steve Ochoa
Prop
Sts
Fleishman’s
Elie
Dia
George Martin
AEGER
Yuma
San Xavier
Bowie Railroad
Bowie Station
Nogales
Kansas City
L. J. F.aeger Proprietor
E. A. James
William Mason Touch
Lebert & Stark
Council
Tuceon
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