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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1894
Page
1
A Mesa advertisement touts a new store with neat dress goods flannels and furnishing items. It notes agents for Myers Pumps Featherbone Buggy Whips and Canton Clipper Plows with top quality lines and low prices and promises prompt special orders.
The Los Angeles Times highlights Arizona’s growing irrigation, orchards, and fruit shipments as it nears statehood. It compares the territory’s transformation to California’s past, noting water-based advances promise a garden-like future and greater population in the coming decade. The piece also comments on popular music’s influence and New York’s charity efforts, with a satirical nod to urban reform groups.
The piece notes Col. Henry Laurens, born Charleston 1724, died December 8, 1792 on his plantation, whose will called for his body to be burned with 12 yards of toweleth. His request was carried out, marking the start of cremation in America. The article then includes assorted anecdotes from a social event, a belief about human tails, a long-winded tribute to an ideal man, a mining strike at Golden Cross, and a prison gravel chute collapse with temporary evacuation.
The article ponders intelligent life on Jupiter and estimates a Jovian child would stand about sixty feet tall, capable of peering into tall buildings and dwarfs legendary warriors. It compares scale to Earth, exploring how cosmic inhabitants might resemble humans yet differ vastly in size.
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