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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1899
Page
2
A Mesa city paper rails against a suspected watered milk stock while other items note Spain's air-bag idea for state ships and a long editorial on The Fruits of Victory. The column jokes about Patti and Doonan and mentions Patti's ex-husbands.
The column mocks editor assurances against witches and muses on a range of oddities from cast-off wraps ads to Parish commissioners, Legion of Honor expulsions, debt conversions, shoplifting alarms, airship physics, and Keely’s 4,000 page manuscript, lampooning sensational claims.
A witty column reflects on love as a microbe and the fate of unfittest suitors. The piece riffs on Ys philosophy and social norms, poking at bachelors and courtship with sardonic humor.
The remark notes Dewey earns just over five thousand dollars, a sum he could make in days by writing a magazine article, illustrating the power of the pen compared to the sword.
Russia offers a significant bonus to Krupp for founding a shipyard to construct Czarist warships. The note implies the Czar hopes to engage in a joint debate over the peace plan and arms program.
Public men do not enjoy being caricatured in the newspapers but their wives gain advantage from it. Mrs Roosevelt is fortified with a scrapbook that will hold the Governor in check during his administration.
The article notes anarchists as sworn foes of society and asserts it is society’s duty to treat them harshly when caught plotting or committing murder against established authority. The text frames extreme measures as justified for such cases.
The thumb is said to reveal the strength or weakness of character. Schoolboys, famed for thumbed books, are noted as the strongest characters in this regard, except for those especially favored with unusually strong fingers.
Siberia lacks timber for the Manchuria line. The wood is sourced in Oregon and shipped across the Pacific to Vladivostock. It is then moved by rail to a tributary of the Amur and by water to the railroad corridor.
An accident report shows bicycles as third in causes of mishaps with $65,000 paid for losses. Horses caused $167,000 in damage, while guns topped the list at $236,500 in costs to the company.
Analyzing a new rail financing trend, several corporations issue low interest gold bonds for extraordinarily long terms. One mortgage covers 50 million dollars for 475 years, another 172 million for 100 years, with other issues from 40 to 175 million at 3.5 to 4 percent. Total bonds exceed 1.4 billion dollars. They retire higher interest debt.
Merchants in several Middle West towns organize outdoor street fairs with booths displaying their best wares to attract passersby. Invitations are issued to entice crowds, and the fairs prosper as shoppers respond to the lively street market setup.
The piece traces the origin of street fairs to ancient religious festivals in Babylon and Nineveh, noting their evolution into European and American fairs. It argues fairs enhance commerce, provide easy access to displays without added costs, and add a new holiday without replacing agricultural fairs or other institutions.
John W. Keely, famed for the Keely motor, has died leaving the promise of perpetual motion unfulfilled. Scientific scrutiny found no practical findings, though debate and interest in the subject may persist as later discoveries unfold. Pacific Coast News.
A collage of late 19th century items covers shipping of 2.5 million in English sovereigns aboard the Mariposa, the Yorktown coal stop at Honolulu, and a Manila route. California road funds totals, bigamy case in San Francisco, forest reserve expansion near Trabuco Canyon, Nicaragua Canal Association delegate H. P. Wood, and a San Jose Mercury plea for mining wealth publicity.
A Washington Star quote argues modern white flour strips wheat of phosphates that strengthen teeth. The dentist says mills prioritize appearance over nutrition, discarding bone-building nutrients to keep prices low, leaving families with wear and decay and dentists taking a large share of family earnings for dental care.
The piece notes that in 1821 about twenty thousand of thirty thousand settlers in New South Wales were convicts. An American liner anecdote recalls a boast by an Australian that settlers were sensible, with a retort that they were sent out by the best judges.
The admiralty has ordered two 14 000 ton battleships at a cost of £1 000 000 each from Thames Iron Works and Shipbuilding Co Ltd The report covers other world events including Turkish insurgent movements in Yemen and Sasbeh Manila refugees warning of war if American troops land at Iloilo Aguinaldo’s forces surround Manila and proclaim independence or death Zola is fined for accusing Judet in a forged documents dispute with damages sought Liberte cites a court source on Dreyfus inquiry and a Vatican denial of a Philippines nuncio The Admiralty Court blames La Bourgogne for a fatal collision near Sable Island and Lima dispatches report a victorious Ecuadorian army at Ibarra and pursuit of Alfaro The Viceroy Liou Koun Yi’s military reforms draw censure in Peking and British placer miner act advances in province Barrett urges a Far Eastern policy with wider co operation among major powers and large trade rights in China.
A Havana dispatch notes appointments of police captains and inspectors, mostly Cuban with some Spanish officials. Many patrolmen will include soldiers from the Cuban army. General Alejandro Rodriguez arrived with communications from insurgent General Gomez who seeks paid troops and rural police under American control. Gomez urges publicity for a Caibarien speech urging unity of Cubans and Spaniards to shorten American occupation. His appeal pleases Spaniards and alarms violent insurgents threatening reprisals.
A survey of brief items reports on nominations to Russia and Austria Hungary, a Free Harbor Jubilee plan, Hobson’s Honolulu welcome, reindeer herd losses en route to Circle City, Carnegie funding for a Washington library, and various comments on the Philippines, Cuba, and naval build rates.
A Boston Journal excerpt recalls John Phoenix poem Sandyago set in Havana at Christmastide. The speaker notes diverse locals and a nightly pistol shot near a village, with the victim's screech described in stark detail. The piece blends travel muse with dark undercurrents.
The Berlin correspondent of the London Standard reports Prof. Blumentritt says Aguinaldo’s envoy notes Americans drink prone, less likely to fight in tropics than sober Spaniards. Guerrilla war could last six to eight years with war between powers aiding Filipino independence.
The article notes that Zante currants are not true currants but a small grape from Corinth Greece. To avoid confusion the author suggests renaming the fruit the Zante grape or Corinth grape and urges the revenue service to adopt the title.
C P Taft of Orange spoke on Passiflora edulis and Passiflora quadrangularis at a California Pomological Society meeting. He noted the hardy edulis type, the larger fragrant quadrangularis, their ornamental vines and year round bearing potential, as well as the fruit’s hard skin and good ship quality.
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