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Newspaper

Mesa Free Press

Location

Mesa, Arizona, United States of America

Date

Sep 21, 1894

Page

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The Finest Line Ever Opened in Mesa

The establishment offers new neat and fashionable dress goods flannels and furnishing goods for ladies and gents. Hardware and Grocery departments stock choice goods. Agents for Myers Pumps Featherbone Buggy Whips and Canton Clipper Plows. Lines are among the best with prices as low as the lowest and special orders promptly attended.

Myers

The Great Middle Route Across The American Continent

The Atlantic and Pacific line promotes a connecting rail corridor across the United States linking major cities via the Santa Fe Route. The campaign highlights broader commerce, travel speed, and economic benefits of a unified transcontinental rail system.

Undertaker William Passey Offers Coffins and Repair

WM. PASSEY UNDERTAKER provides imported coffins and caskets ready on hand and made to order on short notice. Furniture repair and job work completed at live and let live prices.

Scenic Grand Canyon Route Promises Vast Natural Wonders

The pamphlet highlights the Grand Canyon of Colorado as a sublime natural work reachable via Flagstaff Williams or Peach Springs. It promotes trips to Natural Bridge of Arizona Montezuma's Well Laeuna Acolla Petrified Forest Canon Diablo San Francisco Mountains and cliff dwellers ruins with a cantilever bridge over the Colorado River.

Colorado Flagstaff Williams Peach Springs Arizona Montezuma Laeuna Acolla City of the Sky Petrified Forest Carrizo Canon Diablo San Francisco Mountains America Colorado River T. R. Gabel W.A. Bissell Albuquerque San Francico

Water plentiful enough to irrigate vast Arizona land

The Saturday Review argues irrigation plans will supply 1.7 million acre feet for 1.5 million acres below the Gila and Salt rivers. It details Tonto and Horseshoe reservoirs, Cave Creek and Agua Fria works, Hassayampa, and river flows on Gila and Salt. The piece extols Box Canyon and argues water scarcity myths are false, urging rapid damming and canal projects.

Saturday Review Salt River Gila Salt Arizona Tonto Box Canyon Tonto Creek Phoenix Fort McDowell Verde River Rio S Verde Company Pennsylvania Company Cave Creek Agua Fria Hassayampa Yuma Colorado River Gila River Butte Canyon Florence A. J. Chandler Consolidated Canal Company Arizona Dam Buckeye Canal Alter Ash

Hot Sermon Sparks Protest in Kentucky Mountain Church

A preacher in a Kentucky mountain church delivers a fiery orthodox sermon on eternal punishment. The audience is moved to silence until a tall young man shouts that the depicted torments are unbearable, challenging the preacher’s vivid picture.

Kentucky Detroit Free Press

California Fruit Transportation Company sails fruit to England

The California Fruit Transportation Company of Sacramento ships fresh fruit to England at 750 dollars per car, covering all Sacramento to London costs with a five percent seller commission in London. Special trains to New York connect to steamer departures, with ten car loads per voyage, aiming for favorable English market prices.

California Fruit Transportation Company of Sacramento England London Seiler New York California Fruit Transportation Company

Quartz mill near Clifton to be water powered

A quartz mill is being erected near Clifton with water power. stamps rotate rapidly and the design hails from South Africa and Australia. The prospector claims gold ore a mile away can be mined and milled for 250 dollars per ton.

Clifton South Africa Australia

Attilla moniker and cedar shortage noted in Alabama

The note cites Attilla as the Scourge of God from his own phrase Where my horse has trodden no grass will ever grow Alabama reports its red cedar supply exhausted signaling looming wood shortages and market impact.

Attilla God Alabama

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