Holiday Candy and Crockery Sale Ad
During the Holidays we offer choice candy at 45c per pound and Arbuckle Coffee at 25c per pound. Our entire line is proportionately cheap with the finest Crockery and Glassware in the city for the money.
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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1894
Page
1
During the Holidays we offer choice candy at 45c per pound and Arbuckle Coffee at 25c per pound. Our entire line is proportionately cheap with the finest Crockery and Glassware in the city for the money.
The piece notes critics deriding the term infant industry as overused, citing the growing divorce business in Fargo Dakota as an example and arguing the label is misplaced and inappropriate.
A Sheridan Ohio correspondent asks if the government stamp affects the value of silver or gold dollars. The piece explains coinage law history, the silver and gold content, and how minting and domestic versus foreign bullion influence monetary value. It discusses Foster’s proposals on gold payments and free coinage for home silver, plus practical considerations and potential policies.
It is reported that C. P. Huntington has bought a great iron mountain in Durango and will establish extensive iron and steel works there. The mountain is described as the largest known body of iron in the world. The purchase price is placed at $1,000,000. The Mexican International railroad, owned by Huntington, runs through Durango.
The engineers and firemen protest paying grand officers from 10 000 to 20 000 dollars yearly plus local dues without benefit. They accuse grand officers of siding with the company and pushing discharge of men tied to ARU without hearing defense. An attorney is retained to protect members interests, noting dues far exceed the cost of reform.
F A Healy of the S F P and P coordinates with Grand Lodge A O U W officers to bring 150 to 200 members and friends through Prescott for the Colorado New Mexico and Arizona Grand Lodge session in Phoenix next February. They will stay most of arrival day with a proper Prescott reception arranged. Also notes reports of a gold rush in Argentina with prospects near the Andes at the source of the Rio Negro.
A Prospector notes stage robberies between Bowie and Solomonville have grown so common that travelers now rob themselves at secluded spots and then telegraph for the sheriff. The remark highlights rising risk on the route and the sheriff’s challenge in preventing attacks.
The Cincinnati Enquirer welcomes the Administration's focus on currency despite reservations about the Baltimore plan. It notes tariff removal shifts debate toward free and unlimited coinage of silver, predicting failure of the Treasury plan and other nostrums.
The Prescott Courier notes a wave of potential new newspapers in Prescott Jerome Ash Fork Chaparral Gulch Congress and Seligman. It suggests printers threaten start ups while many payrolls remain unpaid. It opposes turning power to national banks in banking schemes, urging public resistance.
An Oklahoma Guthrie school teacher was arrested after allegedly breaking four ribs of a pupil with his boot heel. The report compares the punishment style to the Cook gang and notes that even local teachers in the territory used such harsh methods.
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