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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1901
Page
2
The fragment mentions an enlightened work on happiness for a former president and a call to address race issues. It notes a Washington fashion expert debunks tight waists. It claims young Vanderbilts pay taxes on a small share of wealth, and reports new Roman ruins with disputed provenance from an antiquities dealer.
A Pennsylvania man and woman who have been engaged for fifty seven years have decided to marry. The partner expresses hope the groom will have the means to support a family.
A speaker urges a powerful author with the genius of Mrs. Stowe to write a novel that would do for lynching what Uncle Tom's Cabin did for slavery. The call emphasizes exposing racial terror and inspiring broad public action against mob violence.
Senator Hear describes Davis as a colleague whose wit never burned a friend, delivering a quiet epigram that honors their friendship and endures as a tribute.
Alvord, the bank embezzler, received a thirteen year sentence with possible reduction for good conduct to about ten. His theft totaled nearly $700,000, averaging about $70,000 a year during the term. The punishment is criticized as insufficient to deter similar crimes.
A rough-cast man rises at a Reform Club meeting and declares he will not shirk blame. He vows to own his mistakes publicly by saying I, Bill Pike, did that, serving as both example and rebuke to others in high and low places.
The passage argues reforms depend on self-interest in a democratic system. It asserts popular government advances come from dissatisfaction with current conditions and a desire for more than hierarchical rule allows. It contends U.S. people will seek remedies when they feel they are losing in a transaction with trusts.
After a recent contest it emerged some athletes relied on arsenic, strychnine, and nitroglycerine to endure. The winner may triumph due to a trainer's judicious use of tonic drugs, but many favor the old plea for strength and skill unaided by stimulants. The idea of losing by a mere trace of strychnine haunts earlier athletes.
A fragmented late 19th century style summary notes gaps in news transmission from 1837 comparing the St James pocket ship delay to rapid modern bulletins. It also reports West Point cadets pledging to end hazing after public indignation, asserting the people fund cadets’ education.
The passage argues the people must control academy governance, condemning opaque management. It envisions cadets steering change, pledges honesty from leaders, and praises P. D. Armour’s ideal of a virtuous mother guiding daughters to domestic happiness.
Rural free delivery becomes established as a permanent postal expansion. House figures debated a 200000 appropriation to start the experiment, later moving to a 3500000 allocation with support from Mr Sperry of Connecticut, a former New Haven postmaster, who argues expansion is already inevitable and beneficial for farm communities nationwide.
Albert Edward ascends the English throne at a moment demanding firm intellect and strong body. He enjoys popular support, praised for democratic manners and charity work, while concealing private bereavement as he faces ceremonial duties. His youth featured roguish impulses, now tempered to define his kingly manhood.
The article outlines typical birth weight around seven pounds and notes normal infants lose a pound in the first days before gradual weight gain. It tracks expected weights at key ages 8 weeks, 20 weeks, 7 months, 1 year, and 2 years, ending with a 27 pound milestone. It humorously mentions a man's confusion when sisters react to newborns.
February river circulation reached 2007 at Riverside library. Escondido ranchers plant large wine grape acreages. California legislature leases China Basin to Santa Fe RR. Placentia anticipates cabbage price gains. Lordsburg College to close due to finances. Anaheim votes 12500 for high school, seeks site. Long Beach eyes White House visit for McKinley. Southern Pacific to open hospital at Anaheim using Del Campo. Stephen M. White memorial surpasses 11000 in subscriptions. S Pacific Asylum ROW granted through California asylum grounds. Col G G Green Contemplates Altadena hotel. Union Water Co of Anaheim audits books. E E Crandall of Los Angeles arrested for assault. Casa Loma Hotel expands property holdings. Market activity steadies despite lower prices. Riverside to showcase at Pan American Exposition Buffalo. Morris Peyton lettuce head sets county weight record. Coronado Beach Co opens blue rock traps near Hotel Del Coronado.
Two Hawaiian Chinese laborers aboard the Japan ese mail steamship America Maru in port claim United States citizenship under the 1898 annexation act. Collector Stratton detains them on the vessel awaiting credentials and guidance from the U S Attorney General on their right to land.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee intends to depart within a week or two for a two month trip visiting California Arizona Mexico and Oregon. His family remains in Arizona where Mrs. Lee sought relief from bronchial trouble and is improving but will stay there for a month or more.
The Redwood Wand and Investment Company conveyed 5470 acres known as Grizzly Gulch to S. M. Stephenson of Menominee and Isaac Stephenson with Henry Swart of Marinette. The grantees gain one third of the timber, a premier tract appraised by G. W. Holmes and J. E. Barnard. The purchasers are prominent Michigan and Wisconsin lumbermen.
Estimates valued the tract at over 100000 feet to the acre. Mr Swart and associates have purchased 10000 acres of the finest timber land in Humboldt county through the Redwood Land and Investment Company. Land price ranged from 9 to 40 dollars per acre.
In Berlin at Gratewell Hall a unique masked ball was held for deaf and mute guests. About five hundred couples danced to a baton signal by a deaf mute, performing familiar dances in complete silence with hand signs adding to the eerie spectacle.
The Webb Vanderbilt party is expected to take the first run over the Southern Pacific coast division on a schedule soon. The hasterners will travel to San Francisco via the coast line, then Dr. Webb plans to continue to New York via Central and Union Pacific, Rock Island, and Vanderbilt routes. The trip aims to set a record with few stops as the visitors enjoy Montecito and purchase blooded horses including some from Baroness Hamsch’s stables. Dr. Webb may join the Country Club and spend next winter in the area.
The probate court weighs which Wildman died first in the Consul General Rounsenvelle Wildman and wife Letitia Aldrich-Wildman estates. Ed win Wildman seeks proofs of who died first to determine rightful heirs, with administrative petitions by Mrs Louis Aldrich and the public administrator. The case hinges on who survived whom and how community property would be divided. The hearing focuses on sequence of deaths as witnesses describe the Rio disaster.
The Chicago Great Western railroad in Dubuque issues a sweeping order prohibiting all employees in responsible positions from drinking intoxicants and visiting saloons at any time, on or off duty. Violations trigger immediate discharge, with a further mandate to settle honest debts or face dismissal unless a reasonable excuse exists.
The USGS report by Geo. F. Kuntz shows total precious stones output valued at 2320000 in 1900, up from 1857700 in 1899. Turquoise led with 82000, sapphires 75000, rhodolite 20000, Beyrs 11000, quartz crystal 10000, while diamonds totaled only 150.
Captain James Mackay, a government transport master, reports Havana sources say Cubans demanded the removal of all American troops within thirty days. He notes an angry mood and Cuban flags prominent, American flag absent, during a Tuesday visit by a large Cuban delegation to Gen. Wood.
Rural happiness and activity report says large potatoes are best for seed while celery growers in Orange County consider organization. Warm weather may hurt deciduous interests but no major alarm. Dry days harden soils. another rain would aid grain. California Cured Fruit Assoc votes 200000 for pruning promotion. 70 million pounds stored. Bee keepers cheer for honey crops with abundant wildflowers and blooms.
A long advisory piece notes that large seed potatoes produce bigger plants and higher yields, with Chicago Farmers' Journal guidance on seed quantities. It also explains butter cultures and bacteria in cream for better butter flavor, then cites Elwood Cooper urging federal handling of water resources for California amid drought.
A proposed celery growers organization aims to emulate the Southern California Fruit Exchange. The celery group plans reorganization on cooperative lines and will affiliate with the pioneer organization led by president A. R. Sprague who is slated to address the meeting on cooperative marketing benefits.
A teacher asks a Sunday school infant class to define a skeleton. The children give puzzled looks until the youngest child jokes that a skeleton is a man without any meat on it.
A health ad warns readers that red pimples and boils signal a torpid liver and poisoned blood. It promotes Candy Cathartle as a remedy with drugs priced at 10c 25c and 50c.
Potts predicts Carrie Nation influence will endure beyond expectations with vaudeville jokes and decades of memory. The clipping notes endorsements of Piso's Cure for throat and lung issues and mentions a Van Buren Indiana sender dated February 10, 1900, with casual chatter about fashion and a Brooklyn Life quote.
An old newspaper fragment markets Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets as a cure for a cold with a 25 cent price. The teaser includes a quoted remark about marriage and helping a struggling young man to wealth, attributed to Brooklyn Life.
Stomach liver and bowels are reported to be effectively cured by the original Herb Field Tea. The medicine is claimed to restore normal action of the digestive organs.
A brief dialogue excerpt notes a man's rapid, attentive response to his wife, suggesting a practiced attentiveness in daily interaction as observed by the Cleveland Plaindealer.
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An archival note touts Garfield Tea as a cure all reducing grip danger by cleansing the system improving digestion and blood purification with strong claims from a historic herbal remedy tradition.
Treatment claims for consumption and throat diseases offered by the Koch Institute located at 43114 S. Spring St Los Angeles Cal. Prospective patients are invited to call or write for literature and a report of cases describing their methods and results.
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