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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1899
Page
2
A satirical note from the Mesa Free Press remarks on a czar pressing ahead with Chinese railroad expansion despite peace talks. It jokes that patent leather and perfume trusts may raise prices to offset fertilizer odors from the octopus.
The saying suggests age reversal may rely on medical injections rather than a mythical source. The idea frames youth as a medical outcome tied to modern science and therapeutic practices rather than folklore.
A Arkansas woman claims to have jilted Funston for another man, while Funston carries on, and a French debate on Hamlet’s lean or fat ending echoes the Bacon controversy.
The passage notes that many people offer aid to Mr. Carnegie to avoid the disgrace of dying wealthy, implying social pressure and scrutiny around his fortune. It reflects public perception of wealth and philanthropy during the era.
A playful item notes a woman recently purchased a husband for 75 dollars and remarks she does not share the sentiment of the song I Don t Want No Cheap Man.
Collis P. Huntington’s maxim suggests restraint in talk, a trait useful for barbers and book agents who must listen closely to client needs and close deals efficiently. By minimizing chatter, they build trust, focus on service, and avoid costly miscommunications.
Mrs Willie Vanderbilt handles all marketing while Willie must chop wood and feed the cat to keep pace with his better half. The lighthearted note contrasts domestic chores with business duties in a playful household snapshot.
A discovery shows English sparrows destroy dandelion seeds making them useful. Many people would still prefer dandelions to sparrows despite the benefit, highlighting mixed opinions on the birds’ role in weed control.
Forty inmates at a state penitentiary struck recently seeking shorter hours. The missive notes the phrase should have been "years" to reflect the time for relief, implying a longer dispute or protest context.
A French doctor asserts he can grow hair to thirty feet on a bald scalp. The claim is obviously fantastical, and the joke asks who would not prefer a bald head over such an extreme mane.
A parent offering a reward with no questions asked to recover his own kidnapped child risks encouraging further abductions of other children by creating incentives for kidnapers. The policy debate centers on safety, deterrence, and unintended harms.
The United States consumed about 71 million pounds of tea costing 10 million dollars last year. The Secretary of Agriculture backs a new push to produce tea domestically. Previous attempts to cultivate tea in the Southern States have occurred.
A New York man filed a bankruptcy petition claiming his $30,000 annual income from his grandfather's estate is not enough to cover debts. He says he needs a steady job to stay busy about eleven hours a day, implying a need for greater earning work.
A Chinese naval officer, after three years studying in Germany on government funds, was asked if he would serve China in a war or defect. He replied, “Wait and see which comes out best,” highlighting perceived patriotism shortfall in official circles.
The article argues that New York and Massachusetts have adopted electrical methods, seen as more humane and less theatrical than the gallows. It emphasizes deterrence and law enforcement, and notes the term electrocution is misapplied, preferring execution by electricity as the accurate description.
An ancient settlement footprint reveals Ha-Long city’s prolonged urban development, with archaeological findings indicating sustained habitation and civic activity across successive eras culminating in a robust modern civilization.
The piece notes Hawaii’s early foundations by missionaries and developed legal institutions before California gold rush era lawlessness. It observes Americans arriving to develop a new country find themselves late, as Hawaii already had a constitution, courts, schools, and church life for decades.
The czar moves to end transportation for political crimes, arguing the Siberian penal colony harms reform. History shown by Australia and Virginia suggests prosperous settlement follows end of convict transport. Siberia’s development could boost agriculture and mining while reducing crime. Policy and humanity bolster the shift.
The piece argues time and leisure matter more than wealth as the world’s measure of merit. It notes endless work harms body and spirit, citing Socrates and Stevenson as advocates for leisure. It warns society’s pace risks defining people as machines and foresees a future shift to new standards.
A Boston maiden asks a suitor to declare his beliefs on duty to the English sparrow before answering marriage. The suitor equates his stance to Thoreau’s, and she yields when she recalls nothing Thoreau wrote about the bird.
An English tea merchant offers to every married woman who buys a pound of its fifty-cent tea for five weeks a pension of 2.50 dollars per week if her husband dies while in good health at the start. The pension continues as long as she remains a widow.
Growing crowds at the Presidio and San Francisco waterfront celebrate the arrival of returning volunteers. Cannon, bells, and ship noises echo as soldiers approach. The scene contrasts with earlier camp criticism and notes Mrs. Jane Stanford’s donation to the Union League Club.
San Francisco fetes the Oregon volunteers and the California Signal Corps on July 14 as crowds line the streets. Steam whistles cannons and bells add to the parade atmosphere while veterans, some gaunt or wounded, recount the arduous fourteen months since leaving the Philippines. The procession marks their landfall before final muster out and travel to Oregon.
The Southern Pacific issued notices to California shippers that from August 1 freight rates on carloads of canned goods from the coast to points west of Colorado rise from 75 cents to $1 per hundred pounds. This 33 1 3 percent short haul advance affects western routes.
London delegates report the House of Lords approved the bill requiring shopkeepers to provide seats for assistants by 73 to 2 with the Marquis of Salisbury voting against. Washington reports no state department representations on American citizens potentially becoming British to avoid Boer impressment. Yokohama quarantine notes three ships and plague in Hongkong with twenty six daily deaths in Asiatic quarters.
A slight quake on the 14th collapsed a gallery in Reckinghausen mine near Herne entombing sixty miners. Several rescued badly injured, others missing. Walls toppled windows broken in Herne, shock felt as far as Munster and even Laibach Austria.
British Medical News reports that alum in food and baking powders may cause nervous prostration by absorbing into the blood. Experiments on animals show delayed symptoms starting with appetite loss and digestive issues, followed by systemic nervous weakness.
A Chicago and Alton train wreck near Glendale Missouri killed three tramps and injured five others on Thursday. The dead include Perry Curtis of Atlanta with five others identified. several injured were taken to hospital. The group had been riding an empty stock car when the derailment occurred on a sharp curve. a woman in male disguise escaped unharmed.
A terse verse urges readiness with firearm and ammunition as a reply to a recurring question about heat. It frames obligation to be prepared and to dismiss trivial inquiries with decisive action.
The round up of short items covers England’s post office savings bank, French politics with Dreyfus, a new US paymaster general, jail guard shoot-to-kill orders, a comet omen, naval enlistments, Havana customs receipts, Shamrock cup hype, a Kansas railroad ticket law, Newport nuptials, a Williams rescue, Spanish capital flight, Pullman tax battles, Tin Plate wage deal, Southern Pacific earnings, and a Philippines policy view urging US authority and island mobilization against Aguinaldo.
New York reports eleven deaths in thirty hours as lockjaw cases surge. Most incidents linked to Fourth of July accidents. two from vaccination with premature bandage removal. Serum and brain serum use continues. seven cases show good results, while earlier failures dampen faith. Health officials still back treatment amid hopeful signs of a peak passing.
Cincinnati bishop J M Thoburn veteran missionary to India visits Manila and observes the Manila uprising. He states the clash between Americans and Filipinos appears to have been planned by Filipino leaders.
In Honolulu on the Fourth of July Carl Klemme of the Orpheum Hotel raised the American flag with the German flag beneath it and later lent his flag to a friend. J H West, angered by prior disputes, gathered soldiers from the Sheridan, ordered the German flag removed and replaced with red white and blue bunting. West paid a $100 fine for malicious mischief and the German consul-general plans a government report.
The Rothschilds of London are reported negotiating to buy a copper mine near Fronteras Sonora Mexico for about 2.2 million dollars. In the U S copper output for 1898 reached a record 526 875 591 pounds with Arizona and the lake district showing gains while Montana fell back and new strikes occur in Utah and New Mexico.
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