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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1900
Page
2
Arizona editorials mock moral platitudes and social fads in a humorous roundup. The piece notes Kansas papers outnumber Austria Germany and Italy, laments gossip about rich young husbands, and parodies public figures from ministers to chorus girls with a sharp, tongue in cheek tone.
A gold statue titled The American Girl exhibited at the Paris Exposition is valued at 187000 dollars, a figure critics say undercuts the real American girl and undermines the exhibit's significance.
The Ameer of Afghanistan is described as the only honest potentate, valued for his royal frankness and dubbed the prince of Iars, a title the narrator says deserves recognition.
New York lawyer James B. Dill earns a million-dollar fee for settling the Carnegie Frick dispute, marking a strong start to his legal career.
The passage condemns a mob enforcing its own justice as insolent and urges the heaviest possible punishment for those who violate the law. It emphasizes holding lawbreakers accountable and restoring order.
A thief tried to rob an American girl visiting Naples. She grabbed him by the throat and nearly strangled him. He fled. The assailant later erred by not posing as a policeman to feign legitimacy.
The article notes a coal famine in Europe due to labor troubles in France Germany Saxony and Austria. Mining stoppages boost imports from America while the London Statist highlights Americas vast coal area and its rising status as a leading export nation.
Timothy Bennet, a Hampton Wick shoemaker, resisted in 1750 an attempt by the crown to close Bushey Park to the public, funding the defense at his own expense. His victory established a long standing precedent protecting popular rights to lands held by the realm. A monument to Bennet’s memory is planned.
The aging economy shows a rising demand for a half-cent coin as retailers and customers adjust to new pricing. Department stores in big cities already use a five-mill coin, and Washington officials are drafting a bill to authorize minting. If enacted, the smaller coin would enter general circulation as a standard cash item.
The tenement house committee of the good government clubs outlines gains from sanitary housing in New York. New low poverty blocks yield 12 to 15 percent, while derelict, unhealthy buildings bring 5 to 6 percent. One example notes rooms averaging 85 cents a week with a window and running water per tenant.
Steam heat free baths and laundry privileges in the basement are cited as a perk for a building. The text notes the property never paid less than 10 percent while adjacent dilapidated houses pay only 7 percent, urging landlords to reconsider.
The New Hampshire Labor Commissioner calls summer boarders an industry with statistics and notes it as the chief revenue source for 204 of the state's 235 towns. The sector holds about 174,280 boarders yearly, with $10,442,352 invested and growing by roughly $1 million annually. Boarders spend about $4,947,935 on entertainment and $725,000 on travel each summer, yet most stay under a week.
A medical journal urges stricter sanitary and hygienic practices in sleeping car management. It notes rigorous rules for transporting deceased in baggage cars but calls for protections for living travelers from infection. It critiques bedding cleaning and warns state health boards may need to act to ensure passenger safety.
Willis L. Moore head of the weather service orders all personnel on duty not to smoke cigarettes during office hours while allowing pipes or cigars. He cites investigations linking cigarette use to laziness and neglect of duty, says the rule applies to the entire bureau, and compares it to railroads forbidding alcohol on duty. Those who refuse may resign.
A Charlotte police court case featured a woman defendant whom the counsel, confident in alibi witnesses, presented many credible witnesses. After the examination the attorney claimed the witnesses proved enough to render jury address unnecessary. The judge replied that the client had appeared before him before and that believing the witnesses would lead to a different result.
A reflection on how children often appear smarter when paired with a perceptive mother. The idea questions whether mothers are credited with the clever sayings attributed to their kids and suggests a reevaluation of parental influence on child wit.
San Francisco highwayman still menaces the city while Sacramento reports an $8000 general fund shortfall. Portland forms a crematory company as Stockton uses X ray in surgery again. Chinaman faces drunkenness case in Stockton. ordinance on pools goes to print in SF. Nome Bonanza coalitions and Santa Barbara cattle moves surface with library plans in Oakland.
A collage of items reports five injured in a Chicago two story house collapse. major financial transfers to Europe. tea crop prospects uncertain in Calcutta. weather damage to crops. Sabine Pass work halted in Texas due to exhausted funds. royal congratulations after an escape. various trials, fires, and legal cases across cities and nations.
Union Pacific Railroad sues Montana Union Railway to recover 600,000 alleged due under a lease. The Montana Union Company had leased a right of way from the Utah and Northern Railway in 1886, later absorbed by Union Pacific. Default on payments triggered the suit.
A Berlin cable reports that Prince Von Hohenlee forbids the North German Lloyd Steamship Company under article 26 of the subvention contract to import or land in German Dutch or Belgian ports fresh meats butter dairy products or cereals, alleging direct competition with German agriculture.
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