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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1898
Page
3
The passage urges readers to beware springtime forgetfulness that invites rheumatism and promotes using St Jacobs Oil as a trusted remedy, claiming it has long been considered a sure cure based on widespread testimonials.
In a humorous column from Chicago News a patient confesses to doctor about fearful headaches while the physician remarks on the read words and fears, delivering a lighthearted medical banter.
In large U S cities the metropolitan poor gain from wealthy benevolence. Sanitary reforms are proposed and carried out with earnestness and intelligence. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is noted as aiding dyspeptic stomach, disordered liver, bowels or nervous system.
Sherlock Holmes observes a theater audience as a woman laughs constantly after the curtain rises. Dr Cubebs questions how he can tell while not seeing her face. The scene reflects a playful crime fiction flavor in Chicago journalism.
Allen's Foot-Ease powder promises instant relief for painful swollen feet and bunions and makes tight shoes feel easy. The advertisement cites over 10,000 testimonials and offers trial packets, selling for 26 cents, from Allen E. Olmsted in Roy, New York.
A Cincinnati Enquirer excerpt discusses a sarcastic debate over marriage and knowledge of women. It warns against cheap imitations of durable wall materials and urges buying Alabastine only in properly labeled packages.
A historical note recalls Ralph Waldo Emerson telling of a friend who carried a horse chestnut for rheumatism protection. Emerson claimed the man never suffered rheumatism after starting the practice and suggested a retrospective cure.
Advertises Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh a constitutional disease taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces. Promises up to one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure and offers testimonials. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills.
An old advertisement extols high quality Tea Garden Drips, TopoccAN Maple Syrup, and Pelican Moasses, sold in cans by first class grocers with money refunds for unsatisfactory goods. The Pacific Coast Syrup Co is named, plus testimonials including Amos Kelner of Cherry Valley Illinois and cure claims for Piso’s Cure for Consumption and Dr Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer with a free trial offer from Dr R H Kline Ltd of Philadelphia.
Dr Samuel Pitcher of Hyannis Massachusetts asserts exclusive use of the word CASTORIA and PITCHER'S CASTORIA as his trade mark. He states he originated PITCHER'S CASTORIA and that the wrapper bears the facsimile signature of Charles H Fletcher. He warns that no one has authority to use his name except The Centaur Company, with Charles H Fletcher as president, in a notice dated March 8 1897.
A woman first tried Schilling's Best tea and disliked it then brewed a second time per directions. She now uses it exclusively as her tea choice.
Pumps are being installed along the Santa Ynez river and wells sunk across the Lompoc valley to aid irrigation. The ditch system is not near completion to provide relief this season, but the pumping programs are expected to irrigate about two thousand acres.
Joseph Ladue praises Royal Baking Powder for harsh Alaska climate and Alaska Commercial ties. In St Nicholas F R Spearman notes the Missouri river leaks 20000 second feet downstream yet Dakota farmers tap groundwater and irrigate, claiming a hidden river under Montana feeds dry fields and questions why the river wanders underground.
A married woman alone in a St Louis hotel heard a terrifying midnight crash from the wardrobe. Years later at a San Francisco seance, a stranger medium claimed the spirit of her mother tried to reach her via the wardrobe six months earlier. The woman dismissed the message.
The text notes 96,000 births annually in New York City, about 250 per day or one every six minutes. If lined up, the baby carriages would reach from the Hudson to Albany, about 160 miles.
Private soldier Pat McGinnis, upset by recurring shirt button failures from his laundress, fabricates a metal buttonhole fix using a tin ing box lid. The laundress adapts by sewing a makeshift buttonhole to fit the altered neck.
An advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a spring blood purifier for impure winter blood. Mrs. E Cheesman of Jamul California reports tiredness and sores from scratches, stating she improved after using Hood's Sarsaparilla and gained weight and strength.
Gloves for the season are suede or soft finished leather with pique stitching for street wear. The best have a single button matching the gown color. contrasting shades are out of fashion. Evening gloves lengthen as days shorten, some reaching one yard and a half, worn wrinkled, lace trimmed or embroidered, mostly plain machine stitching in silk matching the glove color.
A publisher’s reader recalls John Morley advising Macmillan against publishing Mr Isaacs saying it would be creditable but not saleable. The anecdote, though amusing now, shows even Morley can be fallible as events unfolded.
The Hercules Gas Engine Works of San Francisco promotes its 214 H. P. special irrigation pumping plant as the best and most economical choice for crops. The circulars offer information on the plant and claim hundreds sold this year, with a cheeky note about avoiding swindlers and urging requests for particulars from Mason Chemical Co. Philadelphia.
A writer recalls an elderly relative’s anecdotes on women’s progress from perceived delicacy to self reliance. She contrasts past fashions and winter frock risks with bright wit, noting elopements for love and a push for licensing to curb imprudent underage marriages.
A historical note traces gloves from pre tenth century long sleeve trends and the first thumb only mitten style to their role as status symbols among clergy and nobility. By the sixteenth century gloves become common wear alongside farthings and corsets, reflecting changes in utility and display.
A historical note on Esnandes near La Rochelle where an Irishman Walton devised a mud-boat system to cultivate mussels after nets for fowling led to a thriving mussel culture. Posts, spat, and transplanted mussels created a self-sown industry with tidal growth and no rent, unlike Whitstable beds.
The passage argues that twenty dollars monthly alimony proves more valuable to a wife than many husbands. It reflects on how men in war risks, and those who marry, may be lost to the unpredictable strains of marriage amid conflict.
A testimonial from Miss Marie I. Jounsom of Centralia Pa describes irregular menstruation and fatigue. After using Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills, she reports improved health and regained well being. The ad emphasizes regularity as key to preventing disease.
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