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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1895
Page
1
We are agents for Myers Pumps Featherbone Buggy Whips and the Manton Clipper Plows. Our lines are the best and our prices the lowest. Special orders receive prompt attention.
A dated ad promoting The Mesa Restaurant with Gordon and Sultan as proprietors. It touts tables supplied with market fresh fruit and vegetables in season, meals at 25 cents, lunches at all hours, ice cold drinks, and private rooms for ladies.
Lehi shop run by Chas Wing offers a full line of groceries and dry goods. The store also acts as agent for White Marble Lime Quarry lime described as the best in the market.
Medical commentary touts pomelo as quinine substitute for malaria and pineapple for sore throat while tomatoes, watercress, lemons, grapes and lettuce are claimed to cure or prevent various ailments. Separate items discuss silver demonetization narratives and iron trade boom with notes on regional furnace capacity and railroad demand.
The Agricultural Department warns against treating young orchards as fields for mixed crops, urging dedicated fertilization and rotation only after fruiting begins. Separately, the Industrial Journal argues newspapers reflect community character and require business cooperation to advance local interests and individual enterprises.
Two visitors to the Courier extol the Salt River valley in animated terms. They describe vast alfalfa fields in bloom with honey and thriving crops, oranges figs and strawberries on trees. The editors, hungry and impressed, note residents as eager immigration agents for the region.
The silver men demand a definite declaration from any man they are asked to support. They urge opponents of free silver coinage to insist on equal frankness and resist vague rhetoric about sound money and parity of value.
The article recalls Napoleon pausing battle to autograph for a child at Austerlitz and joking about his larger future name. It notes his humor about Waterloo and a quip on Skaggs versus Boneparte. It also covers California stone quarry prospects near Williams, alfalfa origins, Palestine’s dairy era, and Arkansas editors’ silver stance after visiting Colorado.
The Sentinel reports S P will abandon the current track between Gila Bend and Tucson and build a new line via Mesa City and Florence to connect the two points. The move signals a major reconstruction project and shifted rail routing.
Colorado offers a $20 per ton bounty for beets turned into sugar, urging other states with suitable soil and climate to follow. The plan aims to boost production, claim it could yield $150 million in value, and ease agricultural depression by prioritizing American grown beets.
The Citizen cites Mr OC Hof stating in Los Angeles that Banta Fe interests plan to spend several millions in the Salt River and Gila valleys, pushing the North and South road within ten months. He says surveyors were active between Mesa City and Florence and that the project has earned the company about 50 000 from Phoenix to May 30.
The Ithaca Journal argues that thank you cards for neighbors in distress are in poor taste. It says personal acknowledgment is preferable to broad public notices which offer little real value without accompanying action.
The financial report notes shipments of silver bullion from London to China since January 1 have increased by 1,545,000 compared with the same period last year, a gain near 40 percent as England dominates the bullion flow while the US is urged to rethink its policy.
A suit in the United States district court of Wyoming seeks to compel a Laramie County ranchman to remove a wire fence enclosing 3800 acres of government land. The case is pitched as a test that could affect over 1.6 million acres of Wyoming public lands now fenced by large cattle companies and smaller ranchers. The excerpt also notes town boom strategy with harmony and business advertising.
The Tulare Register argues that the dominant aim of thought is to make a tool do human work, predicting a future world filled with devices and no people. It warns that advancing automation will supplant human labor across society.
Costa Rica sharpens military posture amid escalating disputes with Nicaragua. Officials signal readiness for potential conflict while pursuing diplomatic channels and regional mediation to avert hostilities.
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