27 May 1898
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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1898
Page
1
Local notice from Morton and Siewman regarding advertising rates and application details published in the Mesa Free Press. The fragment indicates pricing information and call for readers to inquire for more specifics.
Lord Chamberlain's Birmingham address prompts calls for closer Anglo American unity. He argues diplomacy can pair with firm national honor and urges alliance with the United States, while noting isolation since the Mexican American War may end. Paragraphs cover U.S. Army actions, public notices, and regional events.
A twenty foot flag will be raised at 4 PM in Mesa amid cheers from the entire valley. Cavalry and infantry units will provide salutes as the crowd welcomes the new flag unfurling from the pole. The town notes visits from printing house rep Hunt, family news including Hy Peterson’s new daughter, camping trips by the Peterson and Standage families, illness of Mrs Marks, a frost in Tonto Basin forcing replanting, and a $65,000 water system contract for Flagstaff. Major Carter is now Lieutenant Colonel, and Mesa officials Porter and Kendall visited recently. Capt Sabin’s home guard drills on Saturdays continue. Markets report figs and apricots. L Hall has left for Denver.
The Pastelotype Co of 23 Duane Street, New York, offers free engravings of Dewey Sampser Schley Sigsbee and Fitzhugh Lee to readers who forward ten names of patriotic ladies and six two cent stamps. For a full set of five engravings a list of twenty names and twenty two cent stamps is required.
The poem proclaims a united people ready to avenge the Maine and punish Spain. It calls for Uncle William and a large force, four hundred thousand then one hundred thousand, with massed seafaring and naval imagery and a tribute to bleeding Cuba and martyrs.
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