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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1897
Page
3
The ad claims Hostetter's Stomach Bitters strengthens the body by steadying the bowels liver and stomach and preventing violent fits. It asserts malaria lagrippe dyspepsia and kidney inactivity are conquered by the Bitters and that a habit of body forms through its use.
Miss Giebel-Its asking which city area the lot is in and states the matter depends on the location.
Readers are urged to request a free sample bottle and information booklet for Dr. Killmer’s Swamp-Root, claimed to cure kidney and bladder disorders. The offer asks for address submission to Dr. Killmer in Binghamton New York and notes bottle sizes and prices for the product.
An old advert promises to cure deafness caused by catarrh with Hall's Catarrh Cure. It claims nine of ten cases arise from inflammation of mucous surfaces and offers one hundred dollars for an incurable case, urging readers to request circulars from the Toledo company and to buy from local druggists.
The Ingleside Trace course enjoyed a successful first two weeks of racing under secretary F H Green. The next two weeks run from November 29 to December life with top American horses expected to compete. Visitors are urged to attend and enjoy the grounds. Also advertised are King Solomon's Treasure aphrodisiac tonic at $5 a box and Piso's Cure for Consumption as a long-used family remedy.
A humorous note from the Indianapolis Journal recounts Charles Uncle Ulysses urging a taste of limburger imported from Germany. Uncle Josh_Gosh questions the wrapping and handling, joking about boiler iron and grocery routines.
The Engineering note reviews Lt. Vla dimiroff’s tests for rubber goods based on physical criteria. Criteria include no surface cracks after 125 C for five hours, thickness 6 cm pieces, 50 percent oxide content limits, sevenfold elongation for pure caoutchouc, rupture extension under 12 percent, and ash content indicating softness. Substitutes with oil and reclaimed rubber lack elasticity and fail elongation and heat tests.
A London stationer sold a fifteenth century tarocchi di Montegna deck for 600 dollars. A parallel Paris sale offered another pack nearly 400 dollars with engraver’s art on every card and histories on the figures including Queen Anne of England and other European notables. The jacks honor prominent diplomats amid broader notes on Mrs Lincoln’s Grave in Spencer county Indiana and a monument to Nancy Hanks Lincoln.
A Philadelphia North American snippet notes a famous detective figure is replaced by a father of triplets who allegedly never sleeps. The piece references snuff origins asking what makes a person tireless while hinting at ordinary life.
A collage of jokes and humorous exchanges across continents and venues. Barbs about marriage laws, social customs, boxing undertakers, and clever wordplay appear from journals in Somerville Chicago Indianapolis and Detroit with playful banter about love, weddings, and modern life.
Nehr Korn a Braunschweig lawyer owns the second largest birds eggs collection after the British Museum. He plans to publish a catalogue soon featuring fifty colored plates illustrating many specimens for which no other samples are known to exist.
A note describes ants using a poison bag that releases a sulfurous fluid to deter enemies. It adds humor that a husband and wife can work together but should avoid hair pulling as a line crossed.
The passage describes how medieval physicians conduct a patient evaluation with careful inquiry and collective examination. Doctors of high rank lead questioning, then debate privately to deduce the diagnosis, sometimes appearing as if they contend openly to bystanders.
George Ethelbert Walsh notes in Lippincott's that fruit culture shifts toward eliminating undesirable organs. Thorns on citrus and prickles on gooseberries, blackberries, and raspberries hinder ripening and harvesting, prompting systematic thornless stock development through selection and grafting.
Dr J D Porter of Kansas City killed himself after a dispute with his wife over bicycle riding. He used morphine strychnine and hydrate of chloral and inhaled gas, dying after a protracted, horrific self destruction alone for twelve hours or more.
The orator Wendell Phillips, interrupted by an unfriendly audience, stooped to speak softly to reporters. When urged to speak louder, he stood and declared that through the reporters he addressed forty thousand people.
A town girl staying with country cousins realizes her ignorance of farm life. At breakfast she sees a dish of honey and theatrically claims, I see you keep a bee, hoping to demonstrate her knowledge and save face.
A juvenile student answers a question about his studies with the history of France noting only Adam and Eve as learned. The exchange is framed as a witty, historical dialogue attributed to Polichinelle, illustrating a humorous schoolroom moment.
A brief dialogue shows Bobby crying after catching his finger in a pantry door. Mrs. Haskell consoles him while he laments not getting the jam he sought this time.
A Kansas woman describes two years of womb illness and weakness. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound following Mrs Pinkham's advice, the heavy flow ceased and she reports regained strength, better health, and improved flesh after ten years.
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