02 Jul 1897
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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1897
Page
1
Wm Passey undertaker offers coffins and caskets, standard and custom orders, with timely delivery and on request made to order. Furniture repair and general job work advertised with low, competitive prices. Located near Mesa City Bank.
A concise note lists routes from Dewar to Kansas City Chicago and St Louis highlighting rapid transport links and regional connections. It indicates brief travel segments between the four points and suggests a schedule or service pattern for these legs.
A Chicago Record column recalls how three veteran senators in the Fifty-fourth Congress faced ruinous choices over retirement after Daniel W. Voorhees’s death. One contemplates a private sector offer while others fear loss of practice, garden labor, or pension gaps as the “millionaires’ club” faces financial pressures. Prospecting notes describe ore prospects and mill plans with 54 workers, steam power, and expansion aims.
The Pearce Mine shows ore extracted 390 feet along the vein and 300 feet deep with 16 to 60 feet mined thickness. No sorting or waste dumps observed. Low grade ore reserved for a mill under construction. Six months of shipments average about 2000 tons monthly.
An old English reflection divides women into seven types including obstinate patient curious vulgar captious extravagant and the ideal angelic figure. The piece notes some insolence may be forgiven due to the truth found in the final archetype.
The passage notes that while travelers in Europe call many dignitaries excellencies, only the Governor of Massachusetts qualifies among about seventy million Americans. It cites a constitutional provision and historic convention as the basis, claiming no president holds that title.
The soda water business in the country has about 50 million dollars invested. John Manners of New York originated in 1832 the practice of charging water with carbonic gas. The name of the supposed female benefactor who first suggested dropping ice cream into soda water remains historically unclear.
President Garland and Gipt L A Cutter have held days of talks with the Indians on tribal relations and compensation. The company has sent an agent and an interpreter to explain the road position to lodians not visited by officers. A settlement on the right of way is expected within days and work on the extension will begin immediately.
A San Diego man divorced from his wit returns home to find his ex and proposes a settlement. She offers to stay as house keeper for twenty dollars a month with meals, and they agree. They say quarrels have ceased and they now live contentedly together, the bargain lasting as long as they both stay.
The Mexican government establishes a custom house and port of entry at Alggdques to support Devore’s soon to be opened sulphur mines. Mr Navarro of Hermosillo is sent to oversee the site, promising easier access for Americans and reducing past arrests and explanations in Ensenada. The Adams Sentinel notes rapid snowmelt in the Adirondacks where cleared land drains water to swell streams, while unlogged areas retain eighteen inches of snow that will melt with warmer weather.
A fragment notes the oyster as a strong creature and mentions a forge required to open one, claiming it taxed more than nine hundred times its weight. The wording is unclear but implies immense force needed for opening.
A group of four young men visited a Paris restaurant where a dispute arose over payment for meals and champagne. They threatened the proprietor with force if money was not forthcoming, and the owner offered to settle the matter with a private arrangement under duress.
The account describes Mexican youth showing respect to elders and ladies, exchanging courteous gestures, and upholding gentility in public spaces. It notes adults yield seats to women, and the community values good manners, schooling, and orderly behavior as a social standard.
A translated account describes Spain’s river Tinta whose yellow topazlike waters petrify sand and even stones in the riverbed within a year. Plants along its banks allegedly adopt the same yellow hue, and Noish are said to live in its waters.
J N Sarg Phoenix correspondent writes in the Williams News about two unnamed zoological specimens in the Saltiver valley. One inhabits an alcoholic habitat while the other’s height displaces the atmosphere and creates a vacuum with vapors of a week mind.
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