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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1896
Page
3
The Mesa City notice announces a restaurant in Pomeroy Block Mesa Arizona now under new proprietress with premier meals and market quality table service.
An article argues for government led water storage and development in the South West to supply irrigation and mining needs. It compares Australian practice, cites Darling range projects, and urges territorial and municipal action to fund public works, create jobs, lower living costs, and attract investment. It notes wheat prices, diet shifts, and a hypnotist incident as side items.
A young groom answers the minister with humor about not divorcing his wife, while the bride hesitates to commit to better or worse. Friends reportedly suggested the piano music might echo a Boston wedding, as the couple exits to the organ’s hymn.
An electrical engineer displays in London a proposed single rail electric line for speeds up to 150 mph. The design features a V shaped trestle supporting the rail fixed within the car body, twelve bearing wheels, and a 135 passenger capacity with baggage space. The article notes the car runs astride the rail and aims to reduce lateral drift to a cone.
E a J Mattison a hotel clerk in Minneapolis dies minutes after a telegram arrives claiming his New York uncle left him and his sister a fortune over 1.5 million dollars. Dr Lewis Swift of Mount Lowe Observatory in Pasadena reports two new comets found close together near the sun.
An eastern city held a bread contest with prizes from five to one hundred dollars. Winners used recipes including three loaves from a mixture of water milk lard sugar salt yeast and flour. A separate entrant used a two thirds milk dough and a chopping method before final baking. A strong moral interlude laments social fall from virtue and extols familial loyalty.
William Whitman of Atlanta presides over 21 Georgia country banks with total capital of 700000. Last year these banks earned about 3.5 percent on average. No Georgia country bank failed since Lee's surrender. Also noted is a joke about toothache and a gum spending statistic from 1865 totaling 20 million dollars.
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