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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1898
Page
2
A row of satirical comments from a New York paper mocks sensational reports and forecasts about Klondike fortunes, right of search by Spain, a rubber Paris oyster, and Santa Claus gifts. The column keeps a wry, skeptical tone about public credulity and mischief in commerce.
A historical reflection notes that in any contest the underdog or less favored participant often achieves less acclaim, while the strong performer tends to dominate and his success is widely acknowledged.
An estimated 60 000 French farmers rely on Roquefort cheese production. The cheese’s strength underpins rural livelihoods amid a relatively small farming sector.
The St James Gazette laments the absence of a sizable leisure class to devote time to public matters. It questions the health of the politician class and its engagement with civic duties.
The remedy for lynching lies more in public opinion and in the criminal courts than in law. Prompt punishment of brutal crimes and enlightened public sentiment support efficient courts to end lynching.
A Bridgeport Connecticut bride underwent major surgery to remove a grain of rice lodged in her ear to relieve a painful malady. The article notes rice throwing at weddings is gaining unpopularity and urges sticking to old shoes as a safer tradition.
The author notes the wild pigeon population is extinct after decades of abundance. The sky was once black with millions of birds, a sight now remembered, and the whereabouts of any remaining birds remain a mystery to researchers.
Sensational newspapers have misled the public about great fortunes. The real estate of a deceased person usually shows far less than what was claimed in life, and the inventory often falls short of prior representations.
The United States saw rich men donate over 121 million dollars from 1893 to 1896 to found and endow colleges libraries museums and hospitals. The New York Times provides the figures highlighting generosity amid hard times.
The visit of several New England cotton manufacturers to the South signals their search for mill sites. The Yankee is portrayed as recognizing business opportunities, viewing the South as ideal for cotton production and ready to claim its share of advantages offered there.
The testimony claims the Arctic zone is free from disease germs and microbes cannot survive there. It calls the region a health resort but warns that freezing to death remains a danger.
In a special election New Jersey voters approved an amendment by a wide margin of about seven hundred in a total of 140000 to forbid lotteries pool selling book making or gambling of any kind. The move follows past gambling influence at race tracks and a push by moral sentiment to end the scandal.
An esteemed contemporary complains at foreign press fascination with the New York election. He decries the notion that American journalism must regulate foreign affairs. In a period of stagnation at home he calls attention to domestic events like a duke's birth or the death of a British victim as mere boons to journalism.
A London press case shows English law against lotteries can apply to adverts that look innocent. A newspaper was fined for publishing a medicine ad framed as a missing word contest to win a prize shared by six guessers.
The essay contrasts the old frigate Constitution with modern armored ships visiting Boston to mark its centennial and hopes for worthy successors in the U S Navy. It also advocates a professional bill drafter in legislatures and reports on rural free delivery experiments across 29 states and 44 routes with broad logistical observations.
The Kansas Pacific sale delayed to February 15. cold grips the Northwest from Manitoba to Denver. Pittsburgh seeks 1900 G A R encampment. Lieut Peary and spouse return to the U S on the St Paul. Carl Schurz lauded by National Civil Service Reform League. A Chicago gas explosion wounds many. a massive New York Post Office money order season. Philadelphia’s Chestnut Street Bank collapses, pulling a large trust company down. St Louis endures six inches of snow. Gen Campbell commits suicide in Chicago. Mrs Maud Booth ill with nervous prostration and pneumonia threat. A Cuban purchase scheme from Cincinnati stirs financiers. AFL at Nashville supports postal savings banks minus national bank clause. Travelers Insurance cancels Kansas business over alleged McNall issues. Mrs Flitch of Denver tours with an ostrich driven by a whip.
A roundup of mining news notes including new platinum at Pine Ridge Fresno County and deep Franklin gold mine in Cherokee County Georgia. California ore values at Spanish Mine Nevada County and Wedge mine Randsburg. San Gabriel Canyon new twenty five foot free milling ledge assays 13.80. A 24½ ounce gold nugget near Goler Kern County displayed in Montgomery Bros window. Garlock mill to add thirty stamps Yellow Aster twenty five stamps McKernan leases plan ten stamps. E M Hamilton locates gold claims near Rosemont Antelope Valley near Soledad mills with $22 average gold. Copper tonnage world totals 853,000,000 pounds with US 54 percent. Montana Michigan Arizona Colorado shares noted. Redlands Panamint mill about to be bought by Ashford Mining, ten stamps planned, to be located at Squaw Springs near Randsburg.
A Yonkers Statesman remark suggests a man who counts on his fingers is less likely to be disappointed than one who counts on friends. The note frames practical judgment over social reliance in a concise aphorism.
A new mining district named Corn Springs has been opened in Southern California within the past year. It lies in the Chuckawalla Mountains in Riverside County about forty miles northeast of Salton and an equal distance west of the Colorado River, with a good wagon road connecting Salton to the district.
One of the richest mining strikes ever made on the desert has come to light in recent days. Samuel Temple, a well known figure in San Bernardino, was the lucky discoverer.
The land around Twenty-Nine Palms had long been known for richness but most miners went farther to the new El Dorado, Virginia Dale. The recent strike lies about two and a half miles from the mill at Twenty-Nine Palms.
The report says a first class reduction plant at Barstow is certain and will make profitable ore costing as little as eight dollars per ton. This could greatly boost Southern California mineral output since abundant ore assays three times that value yet is uneconomical to mill at present due to milling costs.
The Los Angeles Times reports California will celebrate a golden jubilee in San Francisco on the 24th of next month for the State’s fiftieth anniversary of gold discovery. It notes earlier finds by Francisco Lopez near San Francisquito, ten miles northwest of Newhall, predating Marshall’s Coloma discovery and prompting early mining and a shipment of gold to Philadelphia. Lopez is largely forgotten while Marshall is honored with a statue.
The survey recounts multiple international items: Chilean cabinet resignations, Daudet's Paris death, Irish leader Redmond's U S visit, Cuban politics and harbor plans, Yedda Ford clash reports, Germany Jamaica Haiti tension, Samoa Hawaii ambitions, Alaska trade access, Hawaiian sugar output near flat, Guatemala decree restoring order, British use of US writing paper, German East Asia troop movements, Hawaii annexation prospects, Chinese imperial edicts against New Year and pest gods.
New York plans a famous electric show at Madison Square Garden in May 1898. Mathieson Alkali opens Niagara Falls works to make caustic soda and bleaching powder by electricity. An electric two seat buggy worth 3000 dollars, 1320 pounds, emerges from a bicycle firm. St Pauls Cathedral gains a celestial electric organ alcove. Electric train Aladdin operates Buffalo to Chicago with dynamo lighting and two berth lamps. Niagara County farms use Troy-line freight to ship produce. Toronto observatory moves due to nearby trolley line. Ottawa may host the reestablished station. Piccadilly Circus in London debuts an electric clock with synced time service and decorative electric hands and stars.
John Ralston of Slippery Rock Pennsylvania has patented a device to restrain sheep during shearing. The apparatus features a base plate with a central post enclosed by a tubular column and a yver attached to secure the animal as it is shaved.
A detailed description of a table with a curved upper rack and a central ratchet plate held by spring pawl allow axial rotation and adjustable inclination. End base plates hold sheep legs with padded slots and adjustable fastening arms secured by linch pins for locking and position control.
Compliments enrich daily life by recognizing friends and good traits. While some moralists condemn praise as flattery, praise offers encouragement in a practical world. Open admiration brings a warm glow and enhances human connections.
The grocer asks if anyone is in and the new boy says Mr Brown was in and left his measure. He left a gallon measure to be filled with molasses, a lighthearted misinterpretation from the Indianapolis Journal.
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