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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1899
Page
1
Arizona University attracts mature students from East
Letters from East show many homeseekers will arrive before spring. University of Arizona enrollment this year includes older students unlikely to engage in pillow fighting. The university maintained its high class educational character at little cost. Herald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Arizona
Herald
Dr McNaughton Heads San Jose Normal School
The Gazette notes strong interest in Dr. McNaughton from Phoenix followed by his success in California as head of the San Jose state normal school. He reports an auspicious opening with record enrollment and swift organization despite competition from another normal school. The faculty and students welcomed new and old members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Gazette
McNaughton
Phoenix
California
State Normal School
San Jose
San Francisco Normal School
Post Office Introduces New Domestic Money Order Form
The Post Office Department adopts a smaller blue domestic money order with carbonized advisory copies and a receipt for remitters. The new form includes a back space for bank stamps, a U S M O water mark, and protects against counterfeiting while reducing discrepancies between order and advice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post Office Department
Monney Oder
New Postal Money Order Receipts to Speed Remittances
Federal postal officials announce a new form of money order designed to cut delays and improve accuracy. The reform includes a carbon-reproduced receipt, easier handling, and potential fee reductions around January 1, boosting security and reference efficiency for remitters and postmasters.
Rail fares drop Phoenix to Globe spur travel boost
The Phoenix Globe rail fare drops to 12 dollars from 16.50 improving regional travel. The Southern Pacific time card changes October 1st adjust Maricopa arrivals and departures while M and P plan two daily trains. A county road petition gains board approval and a new route description is filed. Arizona Graphic, a Phoenix weekly, arrives with a creditable appearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Globe
SB. P
Southern Pacific
Maricopa
Herald
Board of Supervisors
Recorder’s Office
Goldfield
Mesa
James Johnnson
Tangled family riddle of in laws and myths
Excerpt presents a convoluted kinship puzzle where marriage links create paradoxes. The speaker describes multiple generations intertwined through spouses and step relationships concluding in a claim of being both grandfather and uncle. The passage plays on logical twists rather than factual events.
Ecuador Volcanic Specimens Sent to Arizona Schools
Dr J Miller superintendent of the asylum for the insane received a box from General A J Sampson United States consul at Quito containing volcanic rock and Ecuadorian bird specimens. The samples were destined for Tempe Normal School Tucson University of Arizona Phoenix High School and Northern Arizona Normal School Flagstaff with some for the Historical Society at no extra cost beyond express charges. The box recalls the 1877 eruption and its massive meltwater floods that affected rivers Rio Fite and Rio San Pedro and caused loss of life.
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J. Miller
Asylum For the Insane
Cotopaxi
General A.J. Sampson
United States
Quito
Ecuador
Hey
Dr. Miller
Arizona
General Sampson
Normal School
Tempe
University of Arizona At
Tucson
Phoenix High School
Northern Arizona Normal School
Flagstaff
Miller
The
Historical Society
Rio Fite
Rio San Pedro
Gentry's Animal Exhibition To Tour Phoenix
Prof Gentry famed trainer brings a company of over 275 dogs and ponies to Phoenix under a tent at Fifth and Washington for performances Saturday Sept 30 at 3 and 8 pm and Sunday Oct 1 at 3 pm. Tickets priced reasonably with transport from Mesa and Tempe schedules outlined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gentry
Phoenix
Fifth
Washington
Getry
Trans
Tempe
Mesa City
Preparations for Weekend Performance Draw Big Crowds
Afternoon show starts at 3 p m on Saturday and Sunday. Organizers plan for a large turnout with special seating reserved for Mesa and Tempe residents under the big tent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mesa
Tempe Peopl
Marriage Traced for Miss Olena Kemp and George W Lewis
Miss Olena Kemp and George W Lewis wed at the bride’s mother’s home in St Johns. The ceremony drew many friends who showered the couple with gifts at a reception at Assembly Hall. They plan a wedding trip to Utah and a visit to the Salt Lake Temple.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St John’s Herald
Herald
Utah
Sill
Salt Lake City
Farmers seek penitentiary labor to harvest crops
Illinois farmers petition the governor to lease convict labor in state penitentiaries to harvest crops as harvest hands are scarce. California school trustees extend vacations to assist cannery labor needs. Across the nation factories run overtime and lag six months or more in orders. Calamity talk claims no prosperity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
California
Oasia
Shilohs Consumption Cure Guarantee Message on Bottles
An 19th century bottle label promises refunds if two thirds of the contents are used and no benefit is seen. The price options are 25 cents, 50 cents, or one dollar, with J. H. Barnett, Druggist, selling the remedy.
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Shiloh
J. H. Barnett
Salt Lake Excursion Ticket Sale Announcement
For a Mormon Conference meeting in Salt Lake City the Phoenix Short Line will sell tickets on October 1 and 2 through California to Salt Lake City and return good for 60 days for $59.70. Tickets are available via our agents or at No 20 N Center Street Phoenix MO Broxnewy GP A
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Salt Lake City
Phoenix
California
N. Center Street
M. O
Broxnewy
G.P. A
Karl's Clover Root Tea Promised Health Benefits
An advertisement claims a beautiful complexion requires good blood and digestion. It asserts Karl's Clover Root Tea acts on the bowels liver and kidneys to keep them healthy, priced 25 and 50 cents, sold by J. hk. Barnett Druggist.
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J. Hk. Barnett Druggist
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