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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1900
Page
3
AMERICAN MINIONN TYSON Hull reports the government will devote 25 000 dollars to experiments with flying machines for potential army use. Other details compare the spending to that on dyspepsia cures and note various wartime curiosities and advertisements from the era.
An old promotional line extols Cascarets Candy Cathartic for children noting they taste good help health and are sold by druggists for 10c and 25c. A humorous Uncle Eben quip about men with restless energy follows.
An advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Ease claiming instant relief for tight shoes and various foot issues with over 30 000 testimonials and a 5 cent price plus free trial. A separate notice reports Miss Anita M Schumann of San Francisco suing Dr Teubner for 25000 damages over facial scars from pimples. A testimonial from John F Boyer endorses Piso cures for coughs and colds dated February 15 1900. Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup is recommended for teething children by mothers.
One hundred dollars reward offer for catarrh cure difficulty. Endorsements from West & Trouax and Walpine Kinnan Marvin affirm F. J. Cheney & Co. as honorable and capable. Hall's Catarrh Cure described as internally acting on blood and mucous surfaces. price 75 cents per bottle. sold by druggists. testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills also promoted.
Rev C O Brown once stirred San Francisco with a sensational church trial. His Chicago divorce from Mary Brown was granted on grounds of cruelty, later amended to adultery, and he married Mary Malloy on August 6. He stopped preaching and is in Toledo with Mrs Brown No 2 during a Third Ohio cavalry reunion at the Jefferson Hotel.
A collage of short jokes and quips from a bygone era features playful exchanges about temper, pets, schooling, fashion, and daily life. Narratives include a Navajo rug remark, a dog deceit, a father who wrote a child’s composition, and light domestic misadventures.
An advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a tonic to purify and enrich the blood, strengthen the stomach, calm nerves, regulate kidneys, and energize the system. It highlights Hood's Pills as a liver remedy, noting products prepared by C. I. Hood & Co. of Lowell, Massachusetts.
Report from Australia states the ship Canada, laden with coal for U S warships, left Norfolk on August 27, 1899. Awater spout damaged the mizzenmast during calms near the Leeuwins. The vessel refitted in Melbourne in May, coal fire forced flooding, then sailed May 23 and reached Freemantle on June 26 in a partially dismasted, dilapidated state.
W B McCurdy assistant engineer at the San Diego electric light plant was found dead in the power house after a 7500 volt shock. His hat lay by the dynamo and his body lay twenty feet away with a burn on his hand. The accident disrupted the gearing and burned out the dynamo leaving the city without street lights. He was 26 and survived by a widow.
A report from Phoenix describes the murder of W. S. Moffatt at Habsburg last Saturday. Santiago Ortiz killed him with a steel drill and severed his head. Ortiz was captured Sunday near Harrisburg after a long chase. five hundred fifty dollars in cash and checks were found on him. The sheriff heads to Yuma with the prisoner amid remote Arizona country with limited communications.
A collection of wry, observational quips on life, kin, work, manners, and gender. The piece blends humor and social commentary, with lines about duty, ambition, affection, and daily routines, framed as aphoristic reflections. The tone mimics a thoughtful, slightly gleeful editorial voice.
McClure's recounts Commodore Schley's Arctic rescue of Lieut Greely in 1884 and a 1871 action on the Salee River in Korea. It notes his fearlessness and leadership, his role aboard the Baltimore during a Chilean mob attack at Valparaiso in October 1891, and his lasting esteem in American memory. It also mentions Charles Dana's list of ten great poems and Riley's favored short verse.
Anecdotes include a diver mistaking a fellow diver for a sea monster and sharing a wary handshake. A Maltese-English gap story ends with four fools contrasted by a Swiss guide diploma exam listing dangerous ascents.
A column extols Mrs Pinkham for two decades of experience giving women advice on illnesses and other subjects. It highlights her large case load, free counsel, and a free bottle of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. A Seattle recital incident is noted where a pianist critiques Liszt crossing hands at a climactic passage.
L J Woodruff editor and proprietor of the San Miguel Messenger and San Lucas Herald claims a new cylinder press prints 400 to 500 copies per hour. His wife and child reportedly run the weekly San Miguel Messenger on the first rudimentary machine partly made of wood.
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