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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1900
Page
2
The excerpt shows the Mesa Free Press masthead with city Mesa Arizona and publisher A. P. Shewman. It presents header text typical of a 19th or early 20th century local newspaper page. The readable elements identify publication location and publisher name.
The writer critiques public initiative and civic duty, noting many failures stem from lack of labeled opportunities and unity. It praises the busy working class as essential to community progress, while warning against ignorance of power and aim.
Commentary mocks Hague peace talks as England and officials consider arming schoolchildren. Plan would train about four million youths from age 11 for three years with dummy guns, forming cadet groups after graduation. Also debated timing of marriage and Edward Bok's age advice.
Connecticut Supreme Court judge Simeon E. Baldwin argued that a hopelessly ill person should be allowed to die without prolonging life and that doctors should not extend life in incurable cases. A Yale constitutional law lecturer, Baldwin presented the controversial view to the American Social Science Association, urging careful consideration by physicians.
The text argues that those once deemed hopelessly ill have recovered, asserting life is a natural right and worth all costs. It contends doctors are not infallible and that denying care to extend life contradicts humanity, countering Judge Baldwin’s position.
A bantam weight prize fighter in a spring overcoat boards a city street car. The conductor disregards him for lacking posters, and a quarrel over a 20 cent fare ends with the conductor being removed. The little man then congratulates himself and warns others conductors may get hurt.
The Davenport Democrat notes Frank O Lowden a Burlington teacher turned Chicago attorney and Pullman official. It praises his rise from Iowa farmer boy to a leading lawyer and businessman and urges Iowa farm boys to take heart from his success.
The article describes native laborers on Boer farms living thirty to forty miles from villages facing poor feeding and housing. Workers are kept through forced agreements for fixed terms and can be beaten and jailed if they try to leave. Daily fare is coarse mealies porridge with rare mutton upside for hard labor.
The article notes multiple high ranking families with many children including the queen as mother to nine and the Princess of Wales six. It lists Lord Abergavenny ten, Duke of Argyll twelve, Dowager Countess of Dudley seven, Earl of Ellesmere eleven, Earl of Inchiquin fourteen, and Earl of Leicester eighteen. It ends with a quip about a woman in a new dress and dye.
A roundup notes the Alameda charter election on August 31, new school accreditations at the University of California, a Stockton cannery labor surge, and efforts by Santa Clara and Santa Cruz groups to protect forests and fish. It mentions church consecration in Bostonia, a new rural mail route, and various civic improvements including waste boxes and crema tory bids in Sacramento.
In Phoenix the Pima and Papago tribes face worsening distress as the growing season yields only a fifth of normal crop. Officials cite a $33,000 Interior relief but urge a Gila River reservoir to irrigate 75,000 acres and employ Indians in dam work. About 300 children stay at the Indian school to aid struggling families. Water is nearly gone from the Gila from Florence to Riverside. cattle rely on scarce water holes.
The Democratic convention in Kansas City nominated William Jennings Bryan for President and Adlai E. Stevenson for Vice President. The Chicago platform was reaffirmed with a 16 to 1 plank. David B. Hill was urged for Vice President but declined. Silver Republicans backed Bryan and referred Stevenson to the National Committee.
Evelyn Baldwin cites Capt. Oscar Andre writing that European teams led by Baron von Toll W have organized Arctic searches from Norway to Cape Chelynski and Siberia to reach Bering Straits. German and Italian parties to Franz Josef Land, Spitzbergen, and East Greenland join Swedish Danish and English crews under Watthoff Amsdrup Robertson. Inquiries note mining dividends to May 31 1900 total 35 744 899 dollars.
A prospectus promises full refund on demand for cash paid stock and installments within thirty days from key dates. It pledges a gold redemption policy and forecasts stock rising from 50 cents to one dollar per share, backed by 10,000 acres of oil fields between Oakland and San Diego and royalties on 5,000 leased acres. The firm claims 2,500,000 shares in fifty companies and cites hydraulic rotary drills with a 1200 foot, 30 hour record.
The rich man buys stock in many oil companies to protect himself from loss in any one that may fail. The poor man buys the stock of one company and takes his chances of success or failure.
Promoters claim a single share represents interests in fifty companies and 10 000 acres of oil lands with royalties on 5000 acres. They tout non assessable stock, safety for small investors, and rapid stock increases from 50 cents to 1 or 5 dollars. Local agents and prominent backers are cited to urge quick purchase before prices rise.
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