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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1894
Page
1
The store presents new neat fashionable dress goods and flame ladies and gents furnishing goods. It stocks choicest goods and offers a well furnished assortment.
A Vermont teachers institute offers a Webster’s dictionary prize for reading a curved list of words aloud with perfect pronunciation. A long sensational tale follows with a rash, tragic conclusion. The Mohave ore shipment and per capita mortgage data contrast with a Japanese house servant anecdote ending in a pun about a widow hen.
An industrious statistician claims that with families of five the world’s 1.4 billion people could be housed in Texas. Each family would receive a 5-acre lot, and 50,000,000 lots would be set aside for parks and similar uses.
The piece argues agriculture is less crowded than other vocations, notes per capita food shortfalls, and predicts more producers with fewer middlemen. It foresees an urban to rural exodus as times grow harder and agriculture advances with strong future prospects.
The piece notes a sharp pneumonia rise from 1891 to 1893 in New York City with 4000, 5841 and 6476 deaths respectively. It warns of contagion concerns and urges avoidance of infected areas and vigilance against cold to reduce risk.
Andrew Millar sends compensation for the final sheet to Samuel Johnson with relief that the task is finished. Johnson responds by praising Millar and noting Millar should thank God for the outcome. Mining and Scientific Press reports renewed search for the lost Pegleg mine with fresh Los Angeles backed expedition and new evidence.
An 1893 National Review article outlines British policy on the silver question. It cites falling wheat prices from 1891 to 1893 due to money contraction, condemns currency action, and claims harm to British landed interests and global trade. It notes U.S. export struggles, European debt risk, and calls for legislative redress while summarizing Senate coinage debates and arid land reclamation proposals.
An association of Liverpool ladies forms to urge shopkeepers to provide seating for their employed women when not on duty. The group reports gratifying progress, echoing an earlier U S effort with varied success. Coconino county boasts the largest pine timber area in the territory.
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