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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1895
Page
1
Fragmentary notice seeks a full line of fruit boxes and shipping materials on a base set. The text is garbled with references to product sets and breakage, offering unclear details about the shipment.
An agent promotes Myers Pumps, Featherbone Buggy Whips, and Canton Clipper Plows in a vintage trade notice. The ad touts renowned farm tools and equipment with repeated claims of superior quality and long-standing reputation.
The Mesa Restaurant offers tables with seasonal fruit and vegetables, meals for 25c, lunches available at all hours, and private rooms for ladies. Beverages and light snacks advertised alongside ample dining options.
Fall groceries and dry goods offered by Wing, property owner in Lehi. Agent for White Marble Lime Quarry advertises lime as the best in the market.
Lincoln argues for silver as money on par with gold and urges miners to develop western mineral wealth. The report notes Bradstreet bank clearances rising across major cities and US prosperity, with Willcox stockmen buying and selling cattle for escalating prices.
The Prospector argues that issuing two bonds in a year under a gold standard during peacetime with abundant crops shows the policy harms laborers. He claims cheap wheat and cotton pressures leave many in want, cities crowding in rags, and fear of reducing sixty million people to servile conditions worse than slavery.
A reflective note on people contemplating suicide, noting young quitters are near the edge yet have little real experience, while seasoned veterans show remarkable tenacity in clinging to life.
The Atlanta Constitution reports official records for 1893 and 1894 showing an overall rise of 811,110,559 in New York Pennsylvania New Jersey Massachusetts New Hampshire Vermont and Maine with declines of more than 500,000,000 in other states. The net decreases are 111,655,252 in the Middle States 90,284,580 in the South and 210,671,152 in the West. Seventy percent of the gain occurs in New York and seventy percent of the rest in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.
Prominence of a gold district near Tombstone grows as rich ore deposits attract capitalists to buy several mines. The expected extensive development could spur a booming town, leading to the locating and christening of a new townsite named Fittsburg.
The Ontario Record notes a new marmalade factory started in Los Angeles to process cull oranges. It highlights California orchard waste that could feed a European fruit growing family, and mentions hopes for penny saving economy.
The record notes a 200000 strong cavalry under Sultan Caliman that swept against the Christian forces at Nice during the first crusade, cited as the era’s greatest single cavalry charge.
The remark suggests many dreary people believe true enjoyment must come with hardship, challenging the notion that happiness requires sacrifice. It questions the social expectation that pleasure equals suffering.
A Tucson minister in a public address denounces the old pueblo as wicked and worthy of being wiped off the face of the earth. The tone matches local reformers’ harsh moral judgments and mirrors heated church rhetoric on vice.
The South Carolina governor proclaims that whites will govern the state with or without the constitution or laws, warning against leaders who mobilize Black opposition, referencing 1876 as a past reckoning, as the state marks its postwar reconstruction stance. In Arizona, reports claim rich gold strikes attract prospectors daily, with a booming sense of unprospected territory.
Reports from Carlisle mining camp confirm strikes equal to any in Arizona. Bonded properties attract large cash investments in development by Childs and Soberg who employ 82 men on five claims and show increasing richness on every inch of work. Graham County Bulletin.
The California state normal schools adopt strict admission rules requiring a satisfactory health examination and physical soundness. Consumptives are barred, with officials noting schools train teachers for public schools and should not admit invalids. The China Champion praises the measure. Michigan enhances anti treating laws to ban gifts between candidates and voters and extends the prohibition to all persons.
An observed sociological note claims that among 100 widowers who remarry in London, twelve choose their former housekeepers as wives. The statement reflects social dynamics and class relations of the period.
The Phoenix Gazette reports Reavis facing a contested defense by five lawyers with Brown of the Southern Pacific among them, aiming to appeal in Santa Fe late June. The Supreme Court debate on Chinese exclusion hints at extending to laborers, slow but decisive. Herald notes miners prospecting lodges after a shutdown, and Nogales officials deny Mazatlan fever rumors.
Scanlon of White til and William Carey of Hackberry describe splendid properties in Lost Basin with mines cheaply worked. Colorado River at that point provides power to operate all mines in Mohave County.
The destruction of crops east and north triggers a market panic as wheat prices surge. In one day New York buys and sells thirty million bushels, and within days Chicago trades climb to a million and a quarter bushels amid volatile conditions.
A $50 million public loan in Brazil drew $64 million in subscriptions from local buyers. The bonds carry interest payable domestically, providing a potential model for U S finance policy.
Hon David Southwick begins extracting one hundred tons of ore from his gold mine at Music Mountain. The ore will be processed at the Music Mountain Go mill. Southwick is reputed to own one of the richest mines on the Pacific coast and is seen as a likely millionaire.
In Cochise county the Goodman brothers have struck an artesian well, the fourth flowing in the area. Several other wells are planned by ranch owners in the same vicinity.
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