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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1899
Page
2
A playful column notes the air trust with a $10,000,000 capital stock forming in Delaware. It plans to operate on liquid air initially, while other quips satirize trusts, poets, and explorers, reflecting Metro-area wit in a 1900s style.
The passage notes Spain paid 330 million for the Cuban insurrection and remarks that with Cuba no longer under Spanish control these should be favorable times for the landowners.
Lieutenant Hobson tells a friend he enjoys Manila and hopes to stay a year or two. A radical proposal by Reverend William White Wilson suggests stopping deification of heroes but notes one should have a hero before worshipping.
A note argues that replacing the "hello" girl with a machine will deny the subscriber the joy of having his profanity understood. The reflection on the total depravity of inanimate things becomes his sole consolation.
A writer warns about an unorganized independent pie industry and an alleged pie trust named The American Pastry and Manufacturing Company. The piece reflects concern over potential consequences for competition and race, imagining a powerful, sprawling influence.
Dr. Sabouraud, a French physician, asserts baldness is contagious and caused by a specific microbe. It is spread via barber's implements, so the remedy may be to cut your own hair or let it grow uncut.
Cases of girls whose minds have been nearly destroyed by overstudy or driven to insanity by study disappointments are increasing. The piece condemns mental death by self created strain as lamentable and without excuse.
A British officer suggests that soldiers should speak only briefly in public, delivering a few remarks on parade to an audience whose listening is compulsory. The remark frames public speaking as limited to concise on parade announcements.
The author argues Russia is an oligarchy rather than an autocracy. A ruling nobility uses the army for pleasure and profit, conscripting young men as well-paid officers while the old leaders pursue plunder. The oligarchy will not relinquish the army while they rule.
The author argues young men should enter politics to benefit themselves and the country. They deserve office if capable, and elders often need refreshing reform. Youthful indiscretion can challenge old norms, with iconoclasm driving new conventions and better governance.
Elders repeatedly urge, while the younger generation can do as much as older folks and should strive to try. This sentiment emphasizes capability across ages and calls for active participation.
The piece compares Britain and Spain in colonial rule, praising Britain's liberal approach. It notes Britain allows native rulers, promotes religious liberty and free trade, and cites Lord Andrew Clarke in the Straits Settlements. The National Civil Service Commission lauds Britain’s civil service as a model for the United States.
The provisional accord between Ambassador Choate and the Marquis of Salisbury covers only part of the boundary near the Chilkoot and White Passes and the Dalton trail. It aims to calm settler and trader dissatisfaction while final demarcation is postponed two years, maintaining U S control of most claimed lands.
The narrator reflects on the Nile as a silent mystery and the camel’s eyes as beautiful yet provoking. The camel’s gaze stirs sympathy and self reproach, likening maternal knowing looks in church to a personal reckoning with life choices.
A dated note recalls a gentleman bowing to a lady in Ye Olden Time scraping his foot on the ground as a sign of deference. The remark highlights old-fashioned manners and courtly ritual.
The speaker expresses ambivalence about gratitude toward allies who intervene on their behalf, noting the outcome may still end in defeat. The remark implies tension between intervention and responsibility.
Northern California endured another earthquake last Saturday. Oxnard plans a new bank with $50,000 paid-up capital opening on the 15th. A ten-tackle umbrella fish from Catalina is in the aquarium. Riverside irrigation costs 20 cents per inch daily. Sacramento pear shipments seized for codlin moth infection. San Francisco tax receipts for July total $613,015. Fresno’s Carton estate eyes $14 per ton for sweet wine grapes. Health authorities condemned cattle from multiple counties. most carcasses destroyed. Garden Grove oil plant to expand for rising demand. Tulare fruit crop described as enormous. 169 cars of green fruit shipped so far. Visalia canning plant employs 480. Portland reports third wheat carload. market little changed. Needles schoolhouse destroyed, $25,000 value. insurance $7,000. lightning suspected. Tacoma’s Northern Pacific Victoria arrives with vast cargo for the Philippines. Mining figure James C Doyle freed after Iowa-based injunction issue. San Francisco opium factory raid targets Man Sing. Chinese opium production prohibited. 75 five-tael tins found in a wall panel.
The British ship MacDuff with one million grain bags bound for Oregon and Washington was sighted off Astoria, signaling a drop in bag prices and undercutting speculators who expected a bag shortage. A Santa Rosa Republic item mentions a man stealing ten sacks of barley and other items in one night.
The text lists growing corn and numerous articles including a spear a rag carpet a wagon sheet and water bucket. Dan Coughlin of Chicago is headed this way with a $500 reward. The item resembles a Chicago San Francisco score prompting local sleuths to monitor southbound trains.
Emil C. Hirsch justice of the peace at Santa Clara brings the first California case under Penal Code section 259 the Signature Law in Superior Court against the San Francisco Examiner. Hirsch alleges the Examiner article about his petty criminal work while on Justice Rosenthal’s San Jose bench defamed him. Senator Morehouse acts as his attorney.
A cablegram from Fiume reports a boat used to transport soldiers to a warship near Buda Pesth capsized Wednesday evening, resulting in five sailors drowning. The item ties to broader wartime and foreign affairs matters including insurrection in Tavoga and Italian fleet plans.
Admiral Dewey has spent the past week at Naples and left Trieste on the Ist. He is slated to proceed to Gibraltar from Naples. The Olympia is expected to reach New York around September 17. After a brief stay, he will go to Washington and then to Chicago for the corner stone ceremony of the federal building.
In Independence Kansas a 27 year old man using the name R C Young confessed to killing A C Bush and John Cooley, both prominent Shiota Indian reservation farmers, with an axe after riding with them toward Arkansas. Bodies found roadside near Fort Gibson on July 20. He was arrested while driving and says he secured about $30.
Reports cover cycling health effects, Boston illness, a theater treasurer’s suicide attempt, an Atlantic race preliminaries forecast, a large miners strike on Texado island, a $300000 back taxes suit against the starch trust in Covington, Kentucky, and New York tailors winning a strike with weekly wages for operators basters and finishers. Other notes include President’s pardon denial for Henry Gardes, a Funston letter stating continued service, Havana gambling crackdown, and Dewey parade logistics and Cuban currency handling concerns. The piece ends with reflections on American financial prudence and Cuban gratuity distribution.
Three federal prisoners escaped while digging a grave at Fort Leavenworth. Jack Holly from Paris Texas plus L Priest and Will Beebe from Indian Territory overpowered guard Knell, stripped him, and fled. Holly reportedly cut in two by a Santa Fe train while attempting to board. Guard's injuries not life threatening. funeral party helped recover guard and corpse.
Brussels to this city the U S representative from Massachusetts was jostled at Ostend station by two men. He arrived here to find his pocketbook missing with 13 000 dollars in papers and notes for 85 pounds. Police were notified and the matter is under investigation.
In a letter published in Independencia, a Havana based Cuban general asserts some army commanders have exploited the three million dollar gratuity to take money from soldiers, and are granting...
San Francisco reports Third Officer Hoppe and Third Engineer Blanford of the Relief Corps were seized by Filipinos off Manila while sailing a small boat. They were becalmed and held. An exchange offer failed as insurgents refused. A Filipino priest visited the enemy camp and later said the men were alive and well.
New York United States Consul William W Canada stationed at Vera Cruz Mexico arrived on the Vigillancia. He said yellow fever was abating there with 78 deaths in the last week of June and 17 in the last week of July. One patient escaped Vera Cruz quarantine and boarded a schooner bound for New Orleans.
Ore bodies grow with depth as the O K mine reaches 230 feet in the Virginia Dale district where milling ore improves. The Butte Lode Mining Co in Los Angeles consolidates Rand district holdings with directors from Bakersfield and others, planning large scale development. The Wedge mine mills a further 50 tons of its low grade ore.
Reports show Wedge Mining at Red Dog mill milling fifty tons last week while Atlas Mining resumes next week. Albion colliery in Stellarton reports Canada’s deepest vertical shaft at 2500 feet. Old Charles Nelson quartz mine near Henry's Diggings undergoes development. Cripple Creek districts questioned by experts for gold prospects. Bonanza pocket mine Sonora records over two million in production with large individual pockets. Local mining further notes include Mount Pleasant, Grizzly Flat shaft depths, and Telluride telluride associations.
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