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Newspaper
Mexia Evening Ledger
Location
Mexia, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1899
Page
2
A note indicates the post office in Mexia processed a transportation matter on the second day in sequence. The brief entry references postal handling and a procedural matter without detailing parties or outcomes.
A long letter from Gilder H. Fields at the Presidio San Francisco recounts a five night journey from San Antonio to Frisco on the Sunset railroad. He describes scenery across Texas New Mexico Arizona and California, tunnel treks on steep grades, a perilous high bridge, and a restless companion, then notes upcoming transport to Manila and a brief update on other national events including Diaz and Admiral Dewey.
The Dallas Fair opens September 28 and runs to October 22. Special rates from QCentral include round trips from September 26 to October 22 for 3.38 dollars. September 27 to October 23 with a following day limit. September 27 and 28 and the 29th morning with limited dates. fares of 1.00 dollar on Saturdays and Sundays morning. These rates aim to attract crowds from Mexia on the specified days.
Bright sorghum hay and finest straw baled available in any quantity at six dollars per ton. Bonner and Wortham advertise the sale of hay and straw.
Cloudcroft in the newly organized county of Ciere New Mexico sits high on the Sacramento Mountains at 9000 feet near E Pago Texas. It overlooks snow capped White Mountain and the White Sands of the Tularosa Valley with spruce and pine forests to the east and south. Officials tout the climate as superb and free of impurities, citing a government study selecting Fort Stanton for a Marine Sanitarium and inviting readers to contact T and P R Co for rates and schedules.
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