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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1900
Page
2
A Mesa Free Press snippet notes 25 million dollars from frozen Klondike, contrasts rich idleness with lack of work, and mentions current events in New York including a fire proof building that would not burn and a magistrate ruling women have equal rights to gamble on horse races.
A brief reflection on limits of surgery and a note that the Laing's Nek tunnel has been restored. The speaker muses on humanity's reach beyond medicine and notes a completed tunnel project.
The passage notes that graduates scoff at practical work and show conceit and ignorance of the workaday world. It argues they are largely innocent, airily poetic, and sheltered from harsh competition, but will quickly toughen under real-world struggles and demands.
A New York multi millionaire seeks the ministry, illustrating that heirs like the Vanderbilts, Goulds, Astors and Morgans can retire from spendthrift life. The piece notes a rising trend against divorce, with California's Judge Becher limiting remarriage within a year of decree to curb scandal and encourage stable unions. It also cites that 75 percent of American divorces are for immediate remarriage to new partners.
Judge Grosscup urged alumni that the era of the all around lawyer is returning and specialists will falter. Dr George H Combs echoed this, condemning excessive mental narrowing and urging universities to reform. He warned that focusing on one faculty trains the mind to servitude and neglects broader growth.
The piece argues for a broad liberal culture over narrow study and lauds American shoe industry growth and export success. It contrasts American private endowments of universities and libraries with European state-led support, naming major American donors and institutions as proof of the American model.
A Philadelphia Record correspondent describes Jamaican speech known as Quashie English. The coal-black porter in a white suit offers to move a trunk and two handbags to the customs house for “quattie” per small item and “tanner” for the trunk, meaning a quarter and a sixpence in English money.
A dialog on optimism and human nature with a wry memory of a carnival booth. The speaker recalls letting others throw baseballs at him for five cents, illustrating how appearances can mislead. The piece ends with a quip about summer girls and baseball players being only seasonally engaged.
San Francisco merchants aid semi centennial efforts while crop troubles hit San Joaquin county. Moorpark apricot trees suffer dry rot. a Red Bluff monument plan forms for Belle McKenzie. A San Francisco theater season features James Neill and Nat Goodman. various packing and labor details accompany regional notes. A San Francisco Bulletin streetcar incident ends with a deadly shootout and mob scene surrounding a suspect.
A lengthy gunfight in New Orleans ends with Robert Charles killed after killing Captain Day, Patrolman Lamb, and others. Police and citizens besiege a residence in the city’s residence district as officers pursue the suspected killer who had previously wounded several officers, including Sgt G Porteous and Corp John S Lally.
Two masked men entered the Clayton K. Smith drug store at Eighth and Peralta in Oakland just before 11 PM last Friday. They leveled revolvers at clerk Patious, demanded the till, took about 20 dollars and postage stamps, then fled after the clerk complied.
Lord Roberts to the war office dated Balmoral July 25 says British forces attacked south of Balmoral on July 24 with Anderson's mounted infantry and French and Hutton flanking. Boers retreated as French and Hutton crossed to threaten their left. Casualties light with one wounded. Hunter's command heavy fighting near Bethlehem with 50 British casualties and the Boers entrenched.
The California Consolidated Petroleum Company promises full cash or installment refunds within thirty days of payment. It asserts a future stock rise from 50 cents to one dollar per share, backed by strong revenues and assets including 10,000 acres in California oil fields, royalties on 5,000 acres, and 2,500,000 shares in fifty companies. It touts hydraulic rotary drilling with a 1200 foot 30 hour record.
The text contrasts investment strategies showing the rich diversify across many oil firms to hedge against any single failure while the poor invest in one company and bear the full risk of success or loss.
An advertisement touts the California Consolidated Petroleum Company promising vast oil wealth through a single share in fifty companies and 10 000 acres of land with royalties on 5000 acres. It claims safety for small investors, non assessable stock, and rapid price growth to $1 then $5. details key officers and supporting investors, urging immediate purchase with a fifty cent share price and a 10 share minimum.
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