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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1899
Page
3
The Secret Service uncovers another group of counterfeiters and seizes bogus currency. Advertisements tout Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters and Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets, with guaranteed cures and money-back offers. Hall’s Catarrh Cure and other remedies are promoted with testimonials and publisher claims.
The General Court of Massachusetts granted the first American patent in 1648 as a fourteen year monopoly. Joseph Jenkes of Hammersmith England, later Lyon, built the first water driven engine and died in 1682 83. He also made dies for pine tree coin and mentored mill development with descendants in Rhode Island.
An odd compilation notes that age thirty seven marks peak fatality among great figures from Aristotle to Purcell and Byron. It cites historical records, then adds short items on a spider experiment, Nicaragua demographics, and a pigeon laying two eggs with the first egg predicting a male hatchling.
The piece notes that politeness in Thibet involves raised hands and a protruding tongue. It then speculates humorously that Lot's wife may have traced her genealogy by looking backward.
A Southern California exchange notes five acres of peatland in Westminster were sold to Mr. Smeltzer the celery king for 3000. The land once fetched less than 10 percent of this price, implying land suitable for citrus is not the only gilt edged property in Southern California.
An advertisement extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as a highly concentrated blood purifier and tonic. It claims unique formulation, dramatic cures, and health benefits with testimonials like Mary A. Burke praising rosy cheeks and reduced doctor bills. It also mentions Hood's Pills as a non-irritating liver cathartic to be taken with the remedy.
A fragment from the Chicago Record notes a old lesson about a fortune built on twenty five cents. A dialogue shows a preacher and a burglar alert as a minister’s wife wakes and asks for help.
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