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LEFT: Mary Jane Oswald Allen. Call #1700.0220.0000. Right: Charles D. Poston, Territorial Arizona’s first delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives and political rival of Richard McCormick, is considered by many as the “Father of Arizona.” He died June 24, 1902. (Sharlot Hall Museum Research Center/Courtesy)

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In 1906, the Arizona Daily Star reported that a poultice of equal parts gunpowder and mustard mixed in to a paste with the white of an egg would cure rabies if applied to the bite wound.

June 19, 2021