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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1901
Page
2
Eastern poet claims angels are blondes
A satirical note that angels are blondes in the eyes of an Eastern poet. It remarks that most blondes resemble angels and adds a joking diagnosis of the fashionably named “petticoat wrist” ailment cured by rainy day skirts. It also mentions Menelek of Abyssinia as a czar who bans tobacco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Negus Menelek
Abyssinia
Theosophist Reader to Visit United Kingdom
An English theosophist who claims to see things in places others deem empty is coming to this country and is urged to try the gold cure. Emperor William further confines subjects for love and loyalty, as he seeks public affection by any means, including imprisonment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William
Majesty
Count Boni de Castellane Provokes Uproar Over American Wealth
The French socialite criticizes rich Americans calling them pig merchants with money aimed at French aristocrats. The remark, seen as insulting many American girls seeking titles, is noted as excessive but it has helped curb the craze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Count Boni de Castellane
Pittsburg Firm Lands $5 Million South African Rail Car Order
In a race with European makers a Pittsburgh concern secured a $5,000,000 rolling stock contract for South African railways. The American bid one third lower than rivals and beat the leading European bidder by eight months in delivery. This trend of American wins galls British manufacturers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Need for Daily Geography to Track Rapid Global Changes
A facetious author argues that rapid world changes would require daily geography to stay current. He notes daily geography, daily history, or daily natural philosophy texts could become necessary as information quickly becomes outdated. For now daily geography lessons will chiefly concern rising generations.
Philippine education drive seeks teachers for three year terms
The Superintendent of Schools calls on major institutions to send teachers to the Philippines with a $900 annual salary plus all travel costs paid by the Government. Recruits must commit to a three year service. The effort aims to Americanize education replacing a weak Spanish system. Co education not immediate. girls eager to learn while boys show slower progress. The field offers adventure for willing teachers despite modest appeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philippines
Wealth and happiness clash in a rich heiress’s confession
The daughter of a leading American financier tells a London newspaper she is unhappy despite vast wealth and upcoming marriage. She says happiness is an inward grace not bought with money, and wealth can dull spiritual resources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
London
Desertion Crisis Highlighted by Quarter Sessions Caseload
The piece notes widespread wife and child desertion, citing 225 desertion cases at a Philadelphia court one day. It laments ease of evading law by crossing state lines and mentions Ohio’s 1890 truancy fathers act as a punitive measure for non support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leah
Mariana
Philadelphia
Ohio
Laws on desertion and child support urged across states
The article notes Ohio imposing hard labor or bonds to support families, citing Cincinnati’s Humane Society collecting 14000 from recalcitrant husbands. It argues for similar state laws since federal action requires a constitutional amendment and urges legislators to act to uphold justice for deserted wives and children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Humane Society of Cincinnati
Cincinnati
Covington
Kentucky
Ohio
Seven Universities Form Subcommittee on College Sports Rules
A 1910s conference of faculty athletics committees led to a seven-university subcommittee. It published twenty rules to regulate intercollegiate contests, limiting eligibility, banning special students, tying teams to degree courses, and reducing gate money to curb excess and uphold academics.
White House Proposal Sparks Debate on Mansion Use
In a Ladies' Home Journal piece Col Theodore A Bingham argues against converting the President’s mansion into offices. He notes the building’s fragility and wear from office use, warning remodeling would be costly and unpopular while the historic mansion should remain as is.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White House
Theodore A. Bingham
Paris cabman jokes tourist with tomb of Washington
The Cabman explained a Paris cab ride joke. A tourist asks to be driven to the tomb of George Washington and the driver cons a tour around a square monument. Upon seeing the inscription mentioning Christopher Columbus, the driver explains they were twin brothers who died in each other’s arms to save the crown of England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
George Washington
Christopher Columbus
England
In the Darkest South lynching remark from Puck
A stranger protests lack of evidence in a lynching claim while a citizen counters that prejudice defined the act, noting the man’s color as a defining factor. The exchange highlights racial danger and public complicity in mob violence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Puck
Selections and Happenings Echoing 19th Century Interests
Columns pulse with varied notices from art to industry. Marysville to boost woolen output by spring, oil fields declared lasting, a Kern County trolley link, and a buoyant bets on local enterprise. Also reports of a gold bed discovery, a San Francisco hotel guest attempting to crush a wine glass, and an Orpheum week in Los Angeles with acts and a Christmas matinee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arroyo Grande
Marysville
California
Bakersfield
Kern City
Presidio
George Harnage
H. V. J. Swain
Sacramento
New York
Vuu
Howard Bulkley
Henry Kline
Siskiyou County
J. G. Humphreys
San Francisco
Robertus and
Wilferdo
May de Souza
Patrice
Confessed Double Murder Shocks California Ranch Scene
Ed V Higgins admits killing his mother Mrs Patrick Higgins and sheep herder Billy Shehan at the Higgins ranch Coldwater Canyon five miles north of Sherman on December 4. He says an ax ended their lives and he buried them in a nearby old potato pit. Sheriff Hammel verified possible remains and coroner Holland will conduct an inquest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed V. Higgins
Los Angeles
Patrick Higgins
Billy Shehan
Higgins
Higgins Ranch
Coldwater Canyon
Sherman
Hammel
Holland
California To Be Honored In Naval Ship Naming
Senator Perkins has received petitions from Los Angeles and San Francisco urging the president to name a battleship California and a cruiser Los Angeles. Secretary Long recommended christening a battleship California but advised against naming the cruiser Los Angeles. Perkins believes honoring California with a battleship suffices while noting no groups are proposing cruiser names at this time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senator Perkins
California
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Perkins
Secretary Long
of California
Boards of
Rev Dixon guilty in divorce ruling over adultery
Judge Fessenden granted a divorce to Annie Dixon from Rev. Dr. Joseph K. Dixon, former Warren Avenue Baptist pastor, on adultery grounds. The cruelty libel was dismissed. Co respondent named was Ella M. Ammerman widow of the late Congressman Ammerman. The ruling affects a $55,000 Ammerman will share contested on alleged undue influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Fessenden
Joseph K. Dixon
Warren Avenue Baptist Church
Annie
Dixon
Ella M. Ammerman
Ammerman
Pennsylvania
Child Wears Scales
California Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children holds Angel Fleero, a wanderer found on the water front, described as a white mite of humanity with a brown face and sorrowful eyes, in San Francisco on December 21.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
California Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Children
Angel Fleero
Angel
Mexican Boy Claims God Cast Him For Skin Condition
Inspector McMurray learns a Mexican boy named Angel from Chihuahua, who arrived a month and a half ago, bears overlapping dark brown scalelike skin from ears to heel except face hands and feet. Angel says he was born this way and that his condition is due to castigation by God.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inspector McMurray
California
Chihuahua
Mex
Angel
Railway Earnings Show Rise in 1900 Net Income
Preliminary Interstate Commerce Commission figures cover 190,406 miles of track. Gross earnings reached 1 480 673 054 with freight 396 860 760, while net earnings totaled 523 858 912, up 93 110.4 percent from 1899, aided by investment income of 60 611 700 to total 584 534 612.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Interstate Commerce Commission
Conference of church groups backs anti-canteen push in Senate
Washington reports a union of church and temperance groups in a conference endorsing the anti-canteen provision of the army bill as passed by the house. Delegates from the Presbyterian, Disciples of Christ, Universalist, Friends, and temperance organizations argued for no compromise and opposed beer sales in canteens while supporting post exchanges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
K. C. Dinwiddie
Anti-Saloon League
Senate of Military Affairs
House
Were
Lynching Feud Follows Gulfport Marshal Death
In Gulfport Mississippi a mob lynched one Negro and pursued three others after Town Marshal W E Richardson was killed. Alvin Lewis and two nephews fled toward Wolf River. bloodhounds captured Lewis and he is jailed. Deputies later shot another captured suspect en route to Gulfport as the posse hunted the Lewis kin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Gulfport
Miss
W. E. Richardson
Alvin Lewis
Marshal Richardson
Lewis
Henry Lewis
Wold River
Mississippi City
Woman Dies After Drinking Nitric Acid Mistake
Stockton, Dec 21. Mrs. James Steilly of 226 South Montroe Street drank nitric acid mistaking it for medicine and died minutes later in agony. Her son, a bank employee, had just replenished some electric batteries and left the acid bottle on the table. Besides a husband and son, a daughter survives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockton
James Steilly
South Montroe Street
Oil Field Drilling Advances Across Multiple Companies
The Pioneer White Oil Company nears 1000 feet with water trouble as Nelson and Freeman prepare No. 38 drilling next week. New Century Oil reports progress on its second well with water shut off. Black Geyser at Ballona Harbor expects oil before 300 feet. hole is 200 feet with oil traces in sand pumpings. Capistrano Oil wins wartime permit to erect 32 wharves offshore to support drilling 560 wells at Capistrano apex anticlinal, 8000 feet offshore in 18 feet water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pioneer White Oil Company
Nelson
Freeman
New Century Oil Company
Black Geyser Oil Company
Ballona Harbor
Capistrano
Navy Chief to Leave Post as South Atlantic Commander
Washington reports Rear-Admiral W. S. Schrey will be detached from command of the South Atlantic station in the spring ahead of his retirement next October at age 62. Representative Lacey introduces Cliff Dwellers National Park bill to protect New Mexico caves and relics. Arizona admission bill gains Senate committee support citing rising population and wealth for a conditional government setup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Herald
Washington
W. S. Schrey
South Atlantic
Lacey
Iowa
National Park
New Mexico
Senate Committee On Territories Toaay
Murphy
Wilson
Territory
Arizona
Moroseco Presents Sousa Opera at Burbank Theatre
Jules Grau's new company stages a grand scenic production of Sousa's El Capitan at Moroseco's Burbank Theatre in Los Angeles during the week beginning December 23.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moroseco
Burbank Theatre
Los Angeles
Jules Grau
New Opera Company
Sousa
el Capitan
Return of 398 War Department Dead on Grant and Sherman
The War Office announces the transport Grant will reach San Francisco around January 1 with 398 officers soldiers and civilians who died in Hawaii China or the Philippines. The Sherman due January 12 carries twelve remains including the young Barber McKinley’s new nephew who died in the Orient.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Office
Grant
San Francisco
War Department
Hawaii
China
Philippines
Sherman
Young Babrer
McKinley
Phew
Orient
Government Ownership of Railroads Resolution Introduced
Washington Representative Suther land of Nebraska introduced a resolution to appoint a seven member special committee to investigate railroads in Europe and the United States with a view to future legislation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sutherland
Nebraska
Europe
Negro Labor For Hawaiian Islands
About two hundred Negro workers will depart Nashville on a special train to Honolulu via San Francisco to take positions on sugar plantations. A larger expedition is planned later as plantation owners seek ten thousand Southern Negro families, with expenses paid and employment promised from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., plus three years tax exemption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Tenn
Honolulu
San Francisco
Supreme Court Upholds Hayes Heirs Sale of Spiegel Grove
The supreme court affirms lower court judgment in Rutherford Platt Hayes et al v James Hunt administrator. Spiegel Grove, the home of former President Hayes in Fremont Ohio, must be sold to satisfy an annuity for an insane uncle that ceased after Hayes died. The administrator of the uncle sues the Hayes heirs and wins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Supreme Court
Rutherford Platt Hayes
Scott R. Hayes
James Hunt
Spiegel Grove
Hayes
Fremont
Germans Shoot Sixty Chinese Troops at Lung Ching
A London Morning Post dispatch from Peking reports German troops killed sixty imperial troops and thirty others at Lung Ching while suppressing Boxers. Two hundred prisoners were released on magistrate approval after paying 20 000 taels. Looting and harsh actions drew criticism of German conduct amid fragile foreign relations in China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Morning Post
Peking
Lung Ching
Count von Waldersee
Reuter Telegram Company
Sar Chow Fu
Mei
Chi Li-Shan Tung
Admiral Philip Memorial Fund Raised Near 17000 In New York
Contributions to the Admiral Philip Memorial Fund in New York total nearly 17 000 dollars. Donors include local residents and philanthropists supporting the tribute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Philip
Memorial Fund Named for Naval Leader Seeks Fifty Thousand
A memorial fund honoring the famed commander of the Texas and later Brooklyn navy yard aims to reach at least 50 thousand dollars. The income will go to Mrs. Philip for life, then support the naval branch of the Y M C A in Brooklyn, a cause Admiral Philip championed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Philip
Naval Branch
Brooklyn
Pipe prank injures youth in Sacramento
In Sacramento a member of a larger group gave a colored boy named George King a pipe packed with powder and a thin tobacco layer. When King lit the pipe the powder exploded burning his face singeing eyebrows and injuring his eyes requiring hospital treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento
George King
King
Ohio Trusts Win Victory In Supreme Court Dismissals
The Ohio Supreme Court, on motion by Attorney General Sheets, dismissed antitrust cases brought by ex-Attorney General Monett against Solar Refining Company, Oil Company, Buckeye Pipe Line Company, Standard Oil Company of Ohio, and the Continental Tobacco Company. Dismissals are without record and at the cost of the State.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus, O
Supreme Court of Ohio
Sheets
Monett
Ohio
Solar Refining Company
Vu.u. Oil Company
Buckeye Pipe Line Company
Standard Oil Company of Ohio
Continental Tobacco Company
Glasgow Shipyards Lose Orders and Jobs Amid Steel Slump
Clyde shipbuilders recently ordered 150000 tons of plates in the United States at a saving of £50000. A low mood grips Scotch steel and malleable iron trades. Fourteen furnaces will be damped by year end and steel works contemplate indefinite closures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glasgow
Clyde Shipbuilders
United States
Scotch Steel
Honey Laden Elihu Thompson Arrives From Honolulu
The steamer Elihu Thompson under Captain Whitney arrived here today from Honolulu with a fifteen ton cargo of honey and merchandise. She departed Honolulu on December 7 and reports a very stormy voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Wash
Elihu Thompson
Whitney
Honolulu
Spain Ups Navy Budget Clause Secures Minister of Marine
Madrid December 21 deputies approve the naval budget clause enabling fleet expansion if needed. The move ends the cabinet crisis and keeps the minister of marine in his post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spain
Madrid
Chamber of Deputies
Senate approves Hay-Pauncefote treaty in amended form
In Washington the Senate passed the Hay-Pauncefote treaty as amended by a 55 to 18 vote. The House began consideration of the Indian appropriation bill, which carries 839,286 more than this year. The river and harbor bill was cut to about 60,000,000. The currency controller orders national bank condition reports due December 13, 1900. A church temperance conference backed the anti cantene army bill. The State Department seeks a warship to Venezuela to support Minister Lewis over the asphalt concession dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church
State Department
Venezuela
Lewis
His Theory of Thunder Showers Explained by Nova Scotian
A Nova Scotia resident proposes a simple homegrown explanation for thunder showers. He suggests clean air descends in summer, becomes foul from smoke and grease, rises as heat drives it up, and then explodes when pressed by surrounding clouds, while noting others may have different ideas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nova Scotia
Her Celestial Credentials
An obituary writer records a woman’s age of 42 and remarks on her speech, holding that she is at rest with Abraham. The old man jokes that Lazarus would vacate his resting place if she returns, noting Lazarus has waited too long already.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abraham
Lazarus
Atlanta Constitution
The Angry Man and the Photographer
An angry man shoves a photograph toward a photographer and asks how it portrays him. The photographer replies that it makes him look ready to throw a fit, noting the current tense mood of the confrontation.
Shakespearean Authority Prompted Rhetoric Class Debate
In a Chicago Tribune picked scene, Miss De Muir defends a line about air being sick, while the rhetoric teacher labels the metaphor faulty. The exchange centers on a phrase about an ill wind and the challenge of personifying the atmosphere.
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Rev. Dixon
Negro Labor For
Hawaiian Islands
Admiral Philip’s
Ohio Trusts
Senate
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