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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1894
Page
1
A new Mesa store presents neat dress goods flannels ladies and gents furnishing goods and a well stocked hardware and grocery department. They advertise Myers Pumps Featherbone Buggy Whips and Canton Clipper Plows as agents.
The Atlantic and Pacific line promotes a transcontinental route in connection with the Santa Fe Route railways. This presentation highlights the merged network and its cross continental connectivity for travelers and commerce.
The notice highlights travel by a line through Flagstaff Williams and Peach Springs to the Grand Canyon of Colorado to view natural wonders. It promotes visits to the Natural Bridge of Arizona Montezuma's Well La Cuna Acolla the Petrified Forest and Canyon Diablo. It mentions San Francisco Mountains ruins and a cantilever bridge over the Colorado River under general superintendents and agents in Albuquerque.
A lengthy account describes a drunk dragged to the City Prison where he is awakened and pressed for details of a murder he does not recall. Reporters swarm as he relives fear and guilt, later cleaving to self defense before attending a fictitious wife’s funeral. The piece blends sensational reformation rhetoric with unrelated notices on silver demonetization and public finance.
At a scientific meeting Sir Robert Ball proposed that solar heat would soon power industry directly. He demonstrated a device capable of driving a small printing press. He noted a spoon in hot water prevents glass from breaking by absorbing much heat.
A Chicago exchange argues profit should guide commerce not the rush to sell, noting cut prices breed unstable customers. Dr. C A Vaughn reports nuclein to treat tuberculosis in animals, with limited human results. Michigan prison costs per inmate fall under reforms, praised by Gov Hughes. pardons and commutations recommended for several inmates.
The Court of Private Land Claims ends a term with 779000 acres confirmed and 3814000 rejected for Spanish and Mexican grants. In Arizona no confirmations and 199000 acres rejected. U S Attorney Matt G Reynolds of St Louis receives credit for the favorable showing. Next session begins January 25 with several million acres of claims to be heard.
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