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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1894
Page
1
The new store showcases neat dress goods, hannels, ladies and gents furnishing, hardware and grocery depots stocked with choice goods. Agents for Myers Pumps, Featherbone Buggy Whips, Canton Clipper Plows. Lines are best, prices low, special orders promptly attended.
Pictured is Pomeroy offering tables with market best produce fruit and vegetables in season and ice cold drinks including soda and lemonade for customers seeking seasonal fare and refreshing beverages.
The Atlantic & Pacific Rail Road promotes its Great Middle Route linking to the Santa Fe Route across the American continent. It emphasizes a continental rail network and future activity connecting major lines and cities.
Liberal Management promotes a travel route highlighting the Grand Canyon, Natural Bridge of Arizona, Montezuma Well, Laguna and Acolla ruins, Petrified Forest, Canon Diablo, San Francisco Mountains, and cliff dwellers. Advertises access via Flagstaff, Williams, Peach Springs with agents Gabel, Bissell, Van Styck in Albuquerque.
A San Diego letter in the New York Tribune describes a dramatic encounter where three killer whales attacked a California gray cow whale and her calf in a lagoon. The calf died, the mother was wounded, and the killers fed on the carcass while the mother fled battered but alive.
A woman recounts traveling the Orient Express from Paris to Constantinople noting 60 passengers per train and a two day forty eight hour journey. She describes a short train with dining and sleeping cars pulled by locomotives, traveling about 28 miles per hour across diverse rails and seven frontiers.
P Bicknell returns from the Superstition mountains reporting a cliff dwelling tied to the old Thorne mine. Inside a room a prospector's pick and a small spade with silver patches suggest smelting activity long ago, though no current ore traces or mine ruins are found nearby. The find near Weaver Needle aligns with the doctor Thorne tale but may reflect a temporary prospector camp. The tale ends with the silver flecked spade now on display in Phoenix.
A superstitious reader asks if a spider found in his newspaper is a bad omen. The spider merely crawled along the columns to scout for nonadvertisers and spun its web as it moved past the store doorway unhindered.
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