20 Sep 1895
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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1895
Page
1
Fitz Mack cites Arizona at the threshold of a new era of development with falling interest rates and rising franchise competition. He notes a surge in homeseekers and capitalists, signaling an industrial awakening amid optimistic leadership, while observers cite broad economic improvement and political reform across the West.
The Civic Review argues demonetizing silver favored European bondholders and doubled gold dollar wealth, warning that sound money with gold only lowers prices and empowers creditors. It contrasts rhetoric about honest money with economic reality and laments the loss of silver. Diamonds pricing is briefly touched as an involved subject with a quadratic-value rule.
In Mexico the language of flowers flourishes as orchids and other blooms symbolize rites. No infant baptism, wedding, or funeral proceeds without the sentimental use of these flowers. The orchidaceae seem to arc across the cultural alphabet.
In a tangled family riddle from Pall Mall Budget, Dr King of Adelaide marries Miss Norris. His son marries the doctor's wife's sister, while a brother of the doctor's wife weds the doctor's daughter. Picareon asks what relations the children of the contracting parties have to each other.
A renowned Hindoo holy man has died in India after years of extreme asceticism. Years earlier he visited Trevandrum and sat under a banyan tree, fasting to the point of eating nothing for three years. Worshiped as a god by followers, his burial included a rite in which a hundred coconuts were broken on his skull to release the soul.
An editor famed for plain columns never told stories of travel or hearsay. He claimed a route-told storekeeper stayed busy without advertising, carried salt rheum, wore a Waterbury watch, and spent time winding it between scratches.
The Arizona press again tops the topic of statehood with predictions that Arizona will be admitted in the next Congress term. While many Arizonans desire admission, editors note little chance of realization in the closing days of the present Congress.
A compilation of last words attributed to famous figures across eras. The quotes reflect resolve faith and emotion as they faced death with varied sentiments from devotion to duty to personal solace. Dialogues cover figures such as Grotius Washington Goethe Haller Lawrence Raleigh Franklin Beaufort Mirabeau Mozart Moore and more.
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