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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1900
Page
3
The passage describes a sudden, silent weakening of the mucous membrane triggering disease in any organ including the lungs head throat stomach or bowels. It states the cause is common to all such outbreaks and warns of unpredictable onset.
Advert claims catarrh inflames the delicate nasal lining in winter leading to pneumonia grip colds and fevers and asserts Peruna is the sole remedy that cures by reaching the right place. It warns against other diagnoses and urges a true cure with Peruna.
The Tribune reports bids for troop transport from Fort Sheridan to San Francisco. Chicago and Northwestern offered $7 per capita from Fort Sheridan to Ogden, the lowest bid ever for troop transport. Southern Pacific handles Ogden to the Coast.
Late advices say a single shipment of $1,000,000 in treasure will leave Dawson for Seattle, arriving in about ten days. D. C. Jackson of the Alaska Express oversees the move, with the treasure consigned to the local assay office from the Canadian Bank of Commerce of Dawson. A prior $1,000,000 left Dawson July 20 and should reach Seattle on the next boat. $850,000 of that amount belonged to the same bank.
The article discusses skin diseases caused by acids and poisons in the blood and argues that only pure healthy blood leads to clear skin. It condemns arsenic potash face powders and lotions as temporary fixes and urges eternal vigilance for a beautiful complexion.
Frederick Townsend Ward, born in Massachusetts, reorganized Chinese forces in Shanghai era 1860s. He led multi national troops to seize Sungkiang, then defended Shanghai and became a high ranking mandarin and admiral general. Ward died from a battlefield wound and was honored in Ningpo Confucian Cemetery. His successor was Major Charles G. Gordon Chinese Gordon.
The piece suggests early sun dials began with a simple spear planted by desert nomads to track noonday shadows. It links the method to measured shadows, how they vary with season, and posits obelisks in Egyptian temples as enduring solar symbols and early instruments guiding astronomy.
An elderly local expert argues facial asymmetry hinders full-face portraits, noting most people are nonidentical on both sides. He cites Bismarck and Gladstone as examples and suggests turning the head reveals distinct types. The piece also muses on putrefaction as a life process linked to transformation and microbial activity.
Colorado sells sixty acres near Devil's Head Mountain home to 30,000 gray squirrels living there for years. Woodcutters will remove the animals under public sentiment. Coburg Gotha uses 5455 children under fourteen to make buttons dolls and toys at home four to six hours daily. After fifty a man is second handed like a used wagon. A night latch is a tombstone for a late husband.
Phoenix residents report strong lobbying by Texas leaders and national figures to commute the Halderman brothers sentence from death to life imprisonment. Governor Murphy considers clemency with bipartisan support. A White House inquiry and possible presidential reprieve are mentioned as likely developments.
California brief items report Santa Barbara experimenting with night street sprinkling while Coronado campers dub the town Contented City. Pomona Times notes Belgian hares roaming. Pomona’s assessed value rises to 1 835 599. most naturalization papers in San Bernardino court since January 1 go to Britain. Apricot kernels being pit extracted at Visalia. pitters to move to Vacaville. Bakersfield targets opium fiends amid a large local problem.
Sunset reports the Navajo's first well about a mile and a half south of Jewett and Blodgett's sites has disclosed oil, though the amount remains undetermined.
The passage notes rapid shifts as nature improves from candle to electricity and from horse to automobile. It promotes Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a proven remedy sold for over fifty years for stomach and liver trouble and urges readers to try it. A Denver News quote about eternal love follows a liquor exchange.
Vintage drugadvert shows Cascarets as family laxative once placed to ease medicine for children. It claims children now cry for the medicine and lists price points at druggists 10c 25c 50c.
A Chicago Post scene shows a political canvasser pressing a man at the door who refuses to share views, prompting the canvasser to pivot by asking to interview the man’s wife instead. The exchange highlights the friction of political outreach in civic life.
Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot-Ease offers instant relief for tight shoes, bunions, blisters, and ingrowing nails with over 30,000 testimonials. Sold by druggists for 5 cents with trial packs by mail. Also cited are San Francisco health department expenses for the year ending June 30, 1900, totaling $65,313.64 with salaries $49,286.76 and incidental expenses $16,026.88.
Menlo Park in San Mateo County boasts new buildings laboratories and surroundings as a leading coastal school for boys and young men. Dr. Ira G. Hoitt leads the institution which is university accredited. The tenth year begins August 6 1900 and a catalogue is available.
An advertisement promises a one hundred dollar reward for any case of catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It declares the remedy is taken internally and targets blood and mucous surfaces. The text lists endorsements from Toledo druggists West & Troax Valpine Kinnan Marvin and notes price 75c per bottle with testimonials available.
In hot weather the ad promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as a tonic that improves appetite, strengthens nerves, stops fatigue, and helps resist heat and illness. It also touts Hood's Pills as a constipation cure, priced at 25 cents.
A serialized literary autobiography of William Dean Howells titled My Acquaintance Among Authors previews American literature. Elizabeth Robbins and Maurice Hewlett are advancing new works, while Annie Kendrick Walker notes Miss Mary Johnston writing To Have and To Hold. The piece covers Carlyle and Mill manuscript fires and Cunninghame Graham’s Thirteen Stories rewrite after Ballantyne fire.
Captain Larsen a retired seaman who rescued Miss Lillie McKenzie’s body after her drowning at La Jolla on May 9 and saved several others from a crushing breaker received a magnificent medal from Miss McKenzie’s brothers in San Diego.
William A. Taylor chief pomologist for the USDA at the Paris Exposition reports to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce that California wins the first prize for citrus fruit collection including oranges lemons and pomelos. Preparations begin to forward this year's crop to Paris for exhibition in August September and October of peaches plums pears almonds and English walnuts.
A federal case in Los Angeles accuses former first lieutenant E F Wilcox of negligence over a horse loss at Ft Lewis in 1889. The United States seeks $200 plus 6 percent interest, arguing the horse's death was caused by his negligence. Wilcox, now a captain, is stationed in Yosemite. A derrick is erected by Central Oil for No 27 in Whittier field.
Two reader letters praise Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for ovarian and womb issues. One woman recovering from abdominal swelling after five weeks in bed cites medical doubt until the remedy. The other reports two years of illness with falling womb and bladder inflammation ending after six bottles.
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