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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1896
Page
1
Lehi store Chas Wing advertises a full line of groceries and dry goods and serves as agent for the White Marble Lime Quarry lime touted as the best in the market.
The timetable lists northbound departures from Phoenix at 8 30 am and 7 40 am with arrivals at Prescott 2 83 pm and 4 10 pm then Ash Fork at 5 20 pm and 12 01 pm. Southbound departures from Ash Fork at 2 pm and 7 am with Prescott arrivals 7 am and 9 55 then Phoenix arrivals 3 45 pm and 4 pm.
Trains run between Mesa and Phoenix with morning and afternoon departures. Leave Mesa at 7.30, arrive Phoenix 8.30. Leave Phoenix 9.00, arrive Mesa 10.00. Leave Mesa 2.00, arrive Phoenix 4.00. Leave Phoenix 5.00, arrive Mesa 6.00.
A reflective account extols the Natural Bridge and its gorge, praising the immense arch and underground caverns. It argues against crude materialist views, positing a divine architect guiding matter, life, and continual creation across ages.
The United States Senate is criticized for lack of popularity and is likened to the English House of Lords. The public grows weary of the upper chamber and questions whether Senators are worth their cost to the country.
The text states the Bay of Bengal is the greatest bay on earth with an area about 430000 square miles in a straight line between the enclosing peninsulas, nearly twice the size of Texas. It emphasizes its vast extent and geographic prominence.
A Hyattsville couple hosts a minister and quips erupt over dinner as the husband mispronounces fish. The wife and daughter nudge him through a string of bungled river fish phrases while the minister dines, keeping a tense but humorous mood.
A private letter to J O Kerrigan from Circle City Alaska details winter temps from 50 to 70 degrees below zero and continuous daylight in summer. It notes wages of 10 dollars a day with 50 dollars monthly board, freight costs to mines, and gold dust as currency at 17 dollars per ounce.
A note records a coffee plant being moved from Africa to Persia in the year 875. The verse uses a sunbeam metaphor to link inner light with outward expression.
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