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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1900
Page
2
A string of quips touches on trusts in piano and starch industries, public offices as public trusts, and reform debates. References to Carnegie, burglars, the Czar, and danger from gas and electric lights mix with whimsy about eight lives and nine gons in a dated voice.
As a rule, do not rely on appearances to escape being played. Pianos and people reveal truth in time. Some are not so bad as they seem, while others exceed the mischief painted by amateur photographers.
A Nebraska schoolteacher who single handedly whipped an entire class of boys risks becoming famous or infamous as the story years later defies precedent and stirs debate about discipline and memory.
An editor notes a man who had to rise at 5 a m with some sympathy. The piece suggests his task would seem harsher if required in the evening.
A Chicago man killed himself recently due to fear of hydrophobia after a dog bite. The piece notes that perceived rabies in people is largely imagined and that tens of thousands are bitten by dogs yearly without serious effects.
Thousands mourn the passing of R. D. Blackmore author of Lorna Doone a romance that captivated readers across ages. The noted writer left a lasting mark on literature and is likely to remain famous for generations.
A preacher resigns seeking the freedom to dance at will and to greet friends with a back slap. The speaker jokes that his parents should have known he was born to drive a coal wagon, not the ministry.
Jay Gould died leaving his sons and daughters a fortune of 70 million. One daughter married Count Boni de Castellane and hosted a grand wedding that soured. the other chose a practical life, shaping Helen Gould into a beloved national figure admired by working women and many servicemen. Which path proved wiser?
A widow with three children moved to New York ten years ago to seek work. The eldest, a fifteen year old boy, boasted of knots he could tie and inspired his mother to create a ropework screen that turned into a paying craft. The family prospered. one daughter studies art in Paris, another graduates from Cornell, and the boy becomes a skilled civil engineer in government service.
The article notes conflicting opinions on when the twentieth century begins with many authorities agreeing on January 1, 1901 as the accepted turning point. The discussion reflects the era's uncertainty about a new century.
The piece muses on when the nineteenth century ends and the twentieth begins, then rafts a critique of civilized war. It argues that modern conflict hides brutal intent behind polite rhetoric and legal constraints, calling for all means of war to be used against an invader.
The Contemporary notes a prelingual form of speech based on vowel sounds only. It describes vowel streams forming sentences and emotions, with breath length determining line length, and argues modern language overloads concrete words while preserving pure vowel exclamations.
A social diplomat quips about tracing a baby's resemblance to anything under the sun but another baby. He says the likeness is to whichever parent asks, noting that not all masters of diplomacy are in public life. Detroit Journal article fragment.
A hypothetical debate in Jewelers' Weekly discusses a New York wholesale firm filing a claim against a jeweler. The dispute involves an attachment tied to the jeweler and his wife's sister, with a stenographer proposing wording changes.
A proverb-like quote notes that many men might have better wives if they were better husbands. The line echoes traditional marriage expectations and personal accountability in domestic life.
A compendium of brief items: British vote to add 120000 men to the army by 208 to 13. US press disputes about a Venezuelan revolution. Kentucky impasse settled by courts. editor Henry Dux Traill dies in London aged 74. beet sugar lobby seeks 25 percent duty on Hawaiian sugar. freight rates rise as San Francisco ships scarce. bark Alliance chartered to England. two French scientists promise update on anti ethanol serum. five plague cases in Honolulu. Churchill intrigue with Pretoria girls alleged. US Brazil coffee duty talks for reciprocal US goods. Captain Abercrombie arrives in Seattle. Alaska telegraph line plans and roads. deadly locomotive boiler explosion in Topeka. Monterey Mexican steel plant with 1 million capital to employ 4000, rail steel production, sand stock from US capitalists.
Berkeley Feb 21 Cornell University athletic officials telegraph a plan for a triple meet involving the University of California Columbia University and Cornell to be held in New York May 21.
Austin reports the Texas Legislature ended a thirty day session at midnight without passing the tax adjustment law for which it was convened. The session faced a historic lobby battle as lawmakers attempted to address the proposed tax changes.
Arthur Grissom editor and poet in New York City accepted thirty thousand dollars as settlement for the loss of his wife and child. He dismissed his $110,000 suit against his father in law Dr W S Woods president of the National Bank of Commerce. The suit claimed alienation of affection and breach of contract.
Terrific fighting raged at Berg Drift in the Orange Free State from Sunday into Tuesday February 20 as Avdit fell after a day of intense clashes, with reports describing the ferocity and endurance of troops and local forces.
After a brutal day of fighting both sides exhausted and ready to rest. The dead and wounded were collected as soldiers slept where they fought. The battle was a fiercely contested action with Cronje pressed to surrender as some Boers sought peace that night.
A severe Feb storm reached peak in Ohio with near zero temperatures and a northwest gale. Snow fell most of the day as street cars struggled. In Youngstown the mercury stood 14 degrees below zero. A 72 year old farmer, Matthew Lattimer, froze to death while walking to his Elyria area home.
General Wood proclaimed a holiday yesterday to honor the revolution start. Observance was strict with most businesses closed except for a few American houses. Cubans see the day as a national celebration akin to the American Fourth of July.
New York Feb 25 attending physicians report Mrs Nellie Grant Sartoris is convalescing from an operation and will be about in a few days The doctors deny cancer as her illness noting that after the operation an examination showed cancer never existed.
B E Cook aged 97 longtime father of Captain Frank A Cook who commanded the cruiser Brooklyn during the late war died today in Northampton Massachusetts He had escorted General Lafayette on the Hudson river in 1824 as a captain of New York militia.
Automobile notes report rapid grading of the Pasadena cycleway with the track found well suited to cars. The Pacific Coast is deemed especially favorable to new vehicles and multiple power modes. Kern Automobile Transportation Co plans at least one carriage within sixty days as Mr. Shaffer surveys Stockton, Oakland, and San Francisco for equipment options and opts against electricity due to heavy batteries.
The article extols Madame Gadski’s poise and kindness, praising her social grace and dedication. It notes her flexible approach to roles, excluding Elsa as a favorite, and recalls her resilience with over seventy scheduled performances last year without a single miss.
Santa Cruz adopts a new town clock and lights it at night. Berkeley agrees to send its athletic team to Stanford for the annual field trials. Sacramento supports preservation of the Calaveras grove. Selma plans free eucalyptus trees for streets. Salmon runs revive as 15 boats depart and return with good catches. Selma, Visalia, Hanford, Seattle and San Francisco updates cover farms institutes, oysters, exams, trusts and rail topics.
Seattle reports received from Cape Nome via Lawson state that many miners plan winter prospecting near the low water line to seek richer sands. They expect the ice to freeze solid and aim to solve the origin of gold in beach sands.
Mrs. Phoebe Hearst announces the new university will take twenty years to complete at about 15 million dollars. The president's house will start in two to three months, followed by the mining building and then administration building auditor ium library and gymnasium. Plans show about twenty five two story buildings with average costs near four hundred thousand dollars each.
The Lighthouse Board will establish multiple fog signal and light stations along the Alaskan coast this season. A Senate bill provides 300000 dollars for the effort and House action is anticipated. A station is to be set up immediately at Scotch Cape near the Unimak Pass in the Aleutians.
Captain Abercrombie recently returned from Washington announces that Henry Villard and associates back a plan to build a Valdez to Yukon River railroad. He praises the project as key to Alaska development and Copper River Valley agriculture and mineral prospects.
The census director aims to publish the main reports by July 1, 1902, or two years after enumeration ends. Some preparatory work is proceeding now under lawful discretion to speed final releases.
Brown University and the University of California were admitted to membership at a meeting of the American Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes in New York. In Ann Arbor Charles E. Dvorak of Chicago set a new world indoor pole vault record with 10 feet 10 inches at the Michigan gym.
A San Bernardino Times-Index report details a new Sunset Daggett land trap in San Bernardino county. A letter from the site spurred an investigation as a circular to a North Dakota man extols Southern California beauty and hints the desert land is offered at bargain prices.
The Santa Barbara Press notes a black pelican owned by a citizen has reliably signaled rain by returning home shortly before storms. The bird just returned from a month’s outing and locals expect wet weather, trusting the forecast.
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