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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1896
Page
1
WM PASSEY offers imported coffins and caskets on hand and made to order on short notice. Undertaker services with furniture repair and job work at live and let live prices.
The Persian Shah Nasr Ed-din dies as described by the St. Louis Globe Democrat, ending a reign marked by cruelty. His regime reportedly saw peasants plundered and officials tortured, including the governor Abdullah Kulah boiled alive for embezzlement. Travelers spoke of roadside tombs with air holes in Hamadan, illustrating ongoing brutal tax-driven deaths.
The San Francisco mint restarts silver coinage after a slow year, with Superintendent Daggett predicting at least 600000 dollars in silver coined this month and plans to continue aggressively. He notes 11000000 ounces of fine silver in bars and expects rapid conversion to coin as orders come in.
The Egg Reporter explains a salt water test for egg age. Fresh eggs sink immediately, one day old sink but not bottom, three days old float, and over three days old rise higher with age. A two week old egg may float with little shell submerged.
Moscow correspondent reports Kusmin born 1757 who worked as a coachman until age 68 before Siberia exile, later pilgrim to Kiev, returning aged 139. In good health, he has never tasted whiskey until now at 139, prompting abstinence advocates to celebrate.
A joke reveals a math trick to reveal a woman's age and birth month. The article then cites Gen. Campos condemning continued Cuba war, arguing it costs 20,000 lives and $100,000,000 yearly and would need 400,000 troops and $1,000,000,000 for five years of occupation, noting rising army deaths from sickness.
At the convention the statistician cited rapid growth in the sector. Twenty years ago no electric light station existed, now 2,500 companies and 200 municipal plants invest about 300 million dollars. There are 7,500 isolated plants valued two thirds as much plus 20 million incandescent and 1 million arc lamps. Electric railways total 1,000 with 12,000 miles of track, 25,000 cars and 750 million dollars invested. Overall capital totals 1.5 billion dollars.
A Babylonish wedding ceremony involved a priest tying threads from the bride and groom’s garments into a knot and giving it to the bride, likely originating the modern saying about tying the knot in marriage.
A traveler recounts a night encounter near a log house in Signor county Michigan where the owner and his wife defer questions to the old woman. The storm arrives as children play and the visitor departs after noting the couple’s reliance on the elder woman. A fisherman adds remarks on fish reproduction and ocean overpopulation risks.
Historical figures show gold output climbing from $118,848,700 in 1890 to $180,626,100 in 1894 with 1895 and 1896 estimated at $203,000,000 and at least $220,000,000. The United States is projected to grow from $47,000,000 in 1895 to $50,000,000 in 1896.
The ram Katahdin, designated for use by the United States Navy, will be painted olive green under orders signed by Assistant Secretary McAdoo on St Patrick's Day. The green color aims to help deceive enemies by blending with natural conditions. The department plans to color all torpedo boats similarly to aid concealment. Paper indestructible by fire has been invented in Paris and survived 148 hours in a potter's furnace with its glaze nearly intact.
The 74 year old Franz Csonka, a famed robber in Rekonger forests, was executed near Essegg Slavonia for murder after a life of crime with Rosza Sandor. He had been released from a twenty year sentence a year earlier and killed again, while Sandor died in prison ten years prior.
An enthusiast urges moving west, praising fertile land, milder climate, and steadier profits. He asserts fewer climate extremes, longer seasons for work and recreation, cheap land, and wide options for labor and production.
W. T. Foster of St. Joseph Missouri challenges the weather bureau to a forecasting contest. He claims the bureau has spent about 15 million dollars in 26 years without satisfactory results and offers to forecast 35 days ahead while the bureau forecasts seven days ahead for the same periods.
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