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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1894
Page
1
The Finest Line Ever Opened in Mess offers neat and fashionable dress goods flannels ladies and gents furnishing goods and standard inventory. Hardware and Grocery departments stock choice items. Agents for Myers Pumps Featherbone Buggy Whips Canton Clipper Plows. Prices kept low and special orders handled promptly.
The description outlines a grand transit corridor linking the nation via the Santa Fe Route railways. It emphasizes a continental connection across the United States, highlighting the railway network and its strategic reach for commerce and travel. The piece frames intercity links and economic potential.
A historic notice identifies Van S Jycx as general agent stationed in Albuquerque New Mexico. The fragment notes the office role and location without additional context.
Local undertaker offers imported coffins and caskets, with immediate stock and coffins made to order. Furniture repair and job work provided at competitive prices.
A group of reporters played poker using their own writing as cash. A two member committee judged the submitted pieces for print worthiness, then players anteed with column length stakes, producing a spectacle of stories traded as gambling chips.
A wedding in a well known church shows a mulatto couple imitating the ceremony of a fashionable pair. Lacking funds for fees they believed a second hand marriage would suffice, while a jurist decries couples starting life with borrowed elegance and a costly home.
McClures Magazine warns of the deadly gas and collapses in mines as workers face floods, squeezes, and perils while earning three dollars a day. The note reflects on dangers, labor conditions, and a humane view toward prisoners at Yuma.
The text states malaria is caused by a vegetable micro organism living in the blood of humans and some lower animals. It presents a historical view of the disease’s origin and nature as understood at the time.
The article explains a February birthday puzzle tied to leap years and the 1800 and 1900 non leap year rule. It notes the oddity belongs to someone born on February 29 and recounts how many readers will face a long stretch with no birthday, while detailing the Copper Queen Company’s Bisbee operations and ongoing ore processing and converter construction.
Mr Freeman of Tucson a committeeman on the North and South road extension met with Frank Murphy president of the road. Murphy said the company aims to have all preliminary work finished so graders arriving at Phoenix from the north by January could start work at once on the Phoenix Nogales segment. The route would run through Phoenix Tempe Mesa near Goldfield Mammoth Florence Tucson Calabasas to Nogales.
A description explains gold types by karat level. Twenty four karat is pure gold. Twenty two karat adds silver and copper in fixed ratios. Eighteen karat combines gold with silver and copper. Twelve karat mixes gold with silver and copper in specified parts.
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