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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1894
Page
1
The new Mesa establishment features fashionable dress goods flannels and furnishing items. It carries Myers Pumps Fatherbone Buggy Whips Canton Clipper Plows and other quality goods.
The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad presents its Great Middle Route across the American Continent linking with the Santa Fe Route railways to form a broad transcontinental connection.
Promoting trips along a liberal management line, the notice extols the Grand Canyon of Colorado as sublime and reachable via Flagstaff Williams or Peach Springs. It highlights Natural Bridge of Arizona Montezuma Well and La Cuna Acolla sites, Petrified Forest, Canon Diablo, San Francisco Mountains, cliff dwellers ruins, and the Colorado River cantilever bridge. Officials Gabel Bissell advertise Albuquerque offices.
Senator Sweet proposes a broad land grant to western states and territories with stipulations on boundaries and timing. The act reallocates U S lands including water rights, preserves Indian lands, limits per person allotments to 160 acres, and reserves one million acres per state for arid land reclamation with conditions on use and recovery. The piece also endorses desert land law reclamation and discusses the Yuma penitentiary’s reforming environment and positive inmate outcomes.
The editorial lauds growing support for silver coinage in the United States and abroad, arguing unlimited silver and gold coinage would avert financial unrest. It cites England and Germany’s demonetization as warnings and notes potential prosperity with ample money, while referencing upcoming postal money order changes after July 1.
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