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Sunday, Feb. 13 On this date in 1896, fifty armed men gathered at Bowie, Arizona, to prevent the entry of prizefighters from Texas after a federal law was passed banning prizefights. Monday, Feb.

A collection of the interesting — and sometimes unusual — events that happened this week in Arizona history.Feb. 13On this date in 1896, 50 armed men gathered at Bowie, Arizona, to prevent the entry of prizefighters from Texas after a federal law was passed banning prizefights.Feb. 14On this date in 1830, Anson P.K. Safford, the third territorial governor and founder of

IN a corner of Cockerton stands a curious tree which has just revealed its true colours – although its real history can only, at this stage, be…

NORTHALLERTON was a “pocket borough”. It needed cleaning up. A new broom was required to sweep away centuries of rottenness and open the town up…

How was it done? A splendid, 190-year-old silver tureen, one of the great treasures of the town, tells the story. The inscription on the tureen, which is topped by a hand clasping a key, says it was presented to Captain John George Boss by the friends of “reform and liberty of conscience”. The inscriptions says it was presented to him “as a token of esteem for his unwearied exertions in an arduous contest of six months, making every sacrifice even when visited with deep domestic affliction for the liberation of that borough which had been held in thraldom upwards of 60 years and...