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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1896
Page
1
The Mesa Restaurant, now under new management, promises the best meals in the city. Tables offered with premium market fare and the proprietress in direct charge. Located at the Pomeroy Block in Mesa City, Arizona.
The South West needs a government backed water program to support irrigation and mining. A Koolgardie style scheme in Australia shows large scale water development can lower living costs, boost gold output, and enable settlement. Advocates urge territorial and state authorities to store and develop water, funding public works and bonds to unlock desert districts for mining and ranching.
A scattered slice of late era notices and anecdotes. A Boston wedding scene sparks a parson asides on divorce and trust. An English rail engineer proposes a single rail system for speeds to 150 mph with a rail on a V trestle and a 12 wheeled car. The piece also riffs on editorial we usage and a San Francisco tale of a Brit asked how he is. A Minneapolis clerk dies just before a telegram arrives about a fortune. Dr Lewis Swift reports comets near the sun.
An eastern city hosted a bread contest where milling firms offered prizes from five to one hundred dollars. Winners received a hundred dollar prize for a three loaf loaf with ingredients including water milk lard sugar salt yeast and flour. another loaf earned seventy five dollars for an unusual recipe with milk and compressed yeast. The report also notes other items and a selection on moral judgment, banker William S Whihem’s leadership of twenty one Georgia banks, and a quip about toothache and chewing gum expenditures in 1865.
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