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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1896
Page
1
The article notes electricity as the future farming force with Edward M. Beasley’s electric plow, a system using a central power house, trolley wire, and automatic reversal to traverse fields. It also describes German trains offering writing boards in first class compartments to counter motion, plus local university enrollments and Apache pursuit reports in the region.
The Laredo News notes many Mexicans living near the Rio Grande are taking advantage of Mexican government terms and plan to return in large numbers. The exodists long for their homeland as the Israelites sought the promised land. An Oregon inventor built a potato digging sorting and bagging machine. It uses four horses and two men to match the work of sixty hands and will travel from farm to farm, charging per bushel or per acre, making it unaffordable for individual farmers.
Reliable reports say construction on the Gile Valley Globe and Northern railroad will resume soon and reach San Carlos this fall. President Garland and Secretary Laird are in Los Angeles as offices are erected and plans for early construction proceed. Helena Gould expands her palm collection with Ravenala madagar vien, about 33 feet tall and thought to be three times as old, reportedly costing around 35000. Otto Mergenthaler, inventor of the linotype, camps west of Prescott seeking health. Connecticut experts claim over half the coffee crop in the nation is a sham.
A discussion emphasizes that farms prosper when farmers apply labor as capital and use modern methods rather than clinging to old practices. It notes profits depend on efficient labor use, with high returns from well-managed, smaller farms and large farms not always yielding better percentages. Reports from July agricultural estimates point to a record crop year in 1896, with corn and wheat showing strong futures and tobacco, potatoes, oats, and rye faring well.
U S Surveyor General Rask ruge calls his deputies to bid on surveying the line separating Pinal county coal fields from the San Carlos Indian reservation. The move signals railroad construction, job creation for hundreds, and a significant rise in taxable wealth for the county. The Tribune notes a bright territorial outlook for Pinal.
A Ohio man named Jenkins, noted for a striking Lincoln likeness, is said to receive rail free passes and favors due to his resemblance. The piece contrasts his many jail terms and brawls with the perceived leniency he enjoys because of his likeness to the former president. Also mentioned is Babou Dourga Chorrene Roquitte, a Bengali French knight of the Legion of Honor who grew rich in Calcutta and held a massive ball and supper for 20,000 buggy urs on the Mooga river banks.
Rudiman Johnston and the Royal Geographical Society plan a London terrestrial globe with a diameter of 80 feet showing the earth's surface at eight miles to the inch. Features named include all cities with 500+ inhabitants. visitors will view it from a spiral gallery as the globe slowly revolves.
The excerpt catalogs a diverse mix of archetypes in every town including a loafer crowd, a bragging bragger, a giggling girl, a weather prophet, feuds and tattlers, know-it-alls, and a street in need of improvement. It mentions a Lincoln Republican and a Jackson Democrat among ordinary townspeople.
From Otoville California reports say between forty and fifty orsea and mules have died from excessive heat in the past ten days around Gridley while being worked on combined harvesters. One man saw his mules die in a single day on his machine. Two days the harvesters were forced to stop work due to the heat.
With political and commercial pressures pressing farmers from all sides they are urged to unite and pull together. They must investigate study and analyse for themselves everything related to their welfare. Stockman.
English scientist Professor Charles Sewart claims to have counted the 334000 hairs on the human body. The report notes his unusual method and the speculative nature of the tally.
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