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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1898
Page
3
The piece mixes a call to raise 3 000 000 dollars for a battleship with an endorsement for Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. It pitches the remedy as a cheap health answer for stomach liver and bowel issues while urging schoolboys to support the drive.
A brief quotation from an Indiana Journal item contrasts solemn trust in affection with a man not trusting a partner with wages. The exchange features a young man and a man with a dry goods necktie, reflecting social attitudes in a compact urban snippet.
A powder to be shaken in the shoes eases swollen and nervous feet during this season. It relieves smarting feet tight shoes and blisters and corns. Allen 8 Olm sted Le Roy New York offers a 25 cent rial package with over thirty thousand testimonials.
In Ptolemy's era killing a cat carried the death penalty.
A fragmented page advertises Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with a promise of refunds if ineffective. It promotes the Brooklyn Hotel at 208 212 Bush Street San Francisco with room rates from 0.50 to 1.50 per day and meals at 0.25. A dubious claim on Chinese children’s throat health is noted.
An advertisement bundle offers Hall's Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward for a cage of catarrh that cannot be treated. Endorsers from West TruAx and Walding Kinnan Marvin vouch for F J Cheney. Other remedies include Dr Kline's Great Nerve Restorer and Piso's Cure for Consumption with customer testimonials from Wm B McClellan.
A dialogue contrasts riders and a punny chase for a windblown newspaper. The Boston Transcript and London Frn frame a humor moment about daily tasks and wit.
The article notes pleasant weather and warns about lumbago with St Jacob's Oil. It reports that most White River Utes and part of the Uintah Indians have left the reservation and many roam into Colorado. They threaten to hunt on land if government payments for land purchases fail.
A collage of punch lines and brief quips from various papers features barbs about marriage, gender, labor, and manners. Jests involve a brakeman, a stork, hypnotists, a stinging rebuke of manners, and a mix of rural and urban wit reflecting early 20th century humor in short, stage‑like exchanges.
The piece contrasts nineteenth century cats with ancient sacred felines, noting Egyptian reverence and Welsh laws that punished slaughter by tail captivity and wheat compensation. It cites Saxony and Switzerland protecting cats for economic value before concluding that cats are now merely decorative domestic pets.
A busy London street scene ends in a humorous exchange as a man rushing to an appointment steps aside a swell with an umbrella. He then hands back the umbrella and quips that he found it in his eye, told in a suave tone.
A period pain feature extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the leading female regulator. An anecdote from Miss Jennie R. Mixzes of Leon Wisconsin praises relief from menstrual suffering after using the remedy and related products. It invites women to write for free advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
The account recalls Nelson and Jones in a famed close combat where the British frigate superiority, age of the Richard, and the new Serapis shape the fight. Rammers breached by contact, ships nearly touch muzzles, with Doyle-like witness notes and Mahan’s commentary in Scribner's. Also mentions St Jacob's Oil remedy and period chatter on paintings and Crete's olive losses and Jesse Moore Whiskey claims.
An article urges fruit growers to adopt commercial fertilizers tailored to California soils. It cites Prof. E W Hilgard on phosphoric acid needs, notes phosphorus versus potash balance, and highlights West Coast Fertilizer Works offerings aimed at oranges, lemons, peaches, olives, prunes, walnuts, sugar beets, and other crops.
The article highlights the West Coast Fertilizer Works with R. P. Sibley as secretary and treasurer. It notes offices at 237 West First Street and a factory on Railroad Avenue in Los Angeles. The firm has inspected farms and orchards locally and keeps soil treatment records to guide buyers.
Italian papers report manuscripts found in a Venice convent archives dated 1542 by a Cretan diplomat. He asserts Othello’s supposed victim survived and died of natural causes, denying any Moor of Venice tragedy.
An advertisement claims St. Jacob's Oil relieves neuralgia in any case and after any duration, warning that damp cold nights may trigger pain but the remedy works for all.
The text explains rat populations in a city with brown rats on ships and wharfs, black rats in stores, and Alexandrian rats in ship holds from southern ports. Weasels and ferrets are used to reduce numbers. It notes high fecundity: a pair can yield multiple litters yearly, potentially hundreds of thousands in three years without control.
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