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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1895
Page
2
A Charleston era item notes visitors to the Atlantic Exposition face extortionate overcharges. San Francisco hosts a bloomers themed restaurant, the Arizona Populist campaigns with vigor, and local officials see leadership changes. A Nogales editor is freed after libel charges are ignored. An Indianapolis bicycle theft case reveals the value gap between cost and price. The piece ends urging readers to settle old subscriptions at $2.25 per year.
The Free Press offers a year plus a year of the Cincinnati Enquirer for advance payment of $2.25. The Enquirer is praised as a leading western paper with world news. Also noted are church efforts, rising crime, and war preparations, plus an ad for sewing machine heads and cheap farmland rental.
The Phoenix Tempe and Mesa Railway Company is granted a fifty year right of way and franchise in Mesa City to construct operate and maintain a steam or electric railway along specified streets. Conditions require timely roadbed completion daily service, proper crossings culverts and street conformance with continuous maintenance.
The Common Council grants a franchise to a railway company for street use in Mesa City. It sets construction rules, required bonds, and safety standards, and reserves Village rights to grade pave and repair streets while minimizing disruption. The ordinance becomes effective after publication and payment for dissemination.
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