19 Mar 1897
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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1897
Page
1
Advertisement announces the Santa Fe routes to Prescott and Phoenix as the shortest and quickest railway connection. It touts speed and efficiency, urging travelers to choose the railroad for fast service and reliable schedules.
The piece argues liquor trade as a destroyer of home and society, declaring it the enemy of peace and family life. It cites a milk bath luxury plan in New York as evidence of decadence and ridicules a Senate stance on an arbitration treaty with England.
Wm A Eddy, a New York merchant and Bayonne resident, is hailed by Leslie’s Weekly as perhaps the greatest kite flyer. He has invented new kite designs and achieved unprecedented aloft heights, experimenting with kite borne cameras that may one day aid war scouts by capturing enemy positions and defenses. Eddy rejects tails, and some kites require a windlass to manage their size and power.
Mr Julius Hartman plans to establish beet sugar production in South Gar 1 after returning from Germany. He intends to bring over 500 Saxon families within two years and has secured 18,000 acres in South Carolina to create farms of 25 50 and 100 acres with an average beet sugar farm size around 50 acres.
A severely undernourished vagrant was discovered inside a lumber box car opened at Plainfield New Jersey. He had boarded the car in Ottawa Canada a week earlier to steal a ride and survived seven days without food or drink standing in one position. The article notes Siberian railway construction saving around a thousand miles and plans for through trains within two years.
A satirical meditation on gender roles cites biblical Eve, fig leaves, and women’s dress, imagining a female perspective and railing against flirtation and endless talk. The piece extends to mock statistics on global newspaper circulation and a compare with natural wonders, finishing with whimsical hyperbole.
The figure nine entered the calendar on January 1, 1889 and will stay there for 111 years until December 31, 1999. No other digit has had such a lengthy continuous presence and the nine has only previously appeared in a century-spanning run once before this enduring period.
The Philadelphia Ledger questions why a New Jersey murder trial took six hours from start to finish. It argues a murder is a single moment and urges witnesses to establish facts quickly. The piece asserts substantial justice was achieved with a swift conviction and sentence.
A physician warns that chloride of potassium is highly poisonous with no antidote and urges avoiding potassium lozenges without orders. Laudanum is deemed unsafe to keep, while cocoa wines and nerve stimulants require physician oversight. An old man laments a son who refuses work or study and may be a doomed 'long haired genius' fated to starve.
A US Geological Survey member involved in the Butte Montana copper beft examination says the copper washed away in mine water remains an open question. The expert notes the possible value of recovered copper could equal the district's total mine output if saved.
A man driving to Jerome broke down in the Verde valley and asked a nearby rancher for a monkey wrench. The farmer, misunderstanding, replied that this was a chicken ranch not a monkey ranch.
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