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Olden newspaper stories
#1
Just bored.
Browsing through simpler times in Arizona 1800's newspapers.
Lots of sawmill amputations, horse fall deaths, chinamen, colored people, etc headlines. http://library.nau.edu/speccoll/indexes/Sun/1887_framed.html
Looked mostly at Accidents and Crimes


Few random examples
teamster shoots at coyote and explodes some giant powder he was sniffing De/8 1888


desperate fight at Holbrook between four Mexicans and twenty-five cowboys Ap/16 1887


"Shorty" George Houghton has toes amputated after freezing them in drunken wanderings Ap/28 1888


Helm, Needles, steps on nail and dies two days later Ag/2 1894


"Madam" Wiles, owner of house of i11 repute known as "The House of Joy", arrested Ap/30 1894


fight between a Mexican and a Chinaman in Pinal County Fe/19 1897


two hard cases fined $20 and $125 for shooting up the town in Holbrook No/26 1887
#2
Did you see this one?

Carl Hayden, Tempe boy, has been blown to pieces by a powder cap Mr/26 2/3


Hayden Mill on mill ave...
#3
Nice find.