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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1900
Page
3
A posse pursues Gibson accused of killing his two year old stepdaughter by forcing a red hot poker down her throat. Posters say the fugitive was two hours ahead in a remote country area, with capture expected.
An ageless health and beauty ad urges cleansing the system with Cascarets Candy Cathartic priced at 10 25 and 50 cents. The Indianapolis Journal features a Tommmy Paw joke exchanged with Mr Figg about birds and fowls.
An old advertisement touts Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets to cure a cold in one day with a money back guarantee. E W Grove signs each box. A brief joke exchange from New York Life follows about engagements with an elderly man, implying wit rather than product facts.
An old advertisement page promotes Allen's Foot-Ease for swollen feet and foot pain with a 25 cent price and trial offer from Le Roy New York. It also touts Piso’s Cure for throat and lung ailments with a testimonial from Indiana and a Harts Catarrh Cure investment claim in Ohio Toledo by Cheney Co. Notary public attestation and product mentions including Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething.
A Portland notice seeks men and women of good character to represent an established house. Salary offered. Apply via P. O. Box 587 Portland Oregon.
A squad of twenty mounted police from Fort Defiance escorted over two hundred Navajo and Apache Indians back to the Arizona reservation from the Gila forest reserve. The group had been slaughtering game and starting fires, causing alarm among settlers who feared further depredations.
A Detroit businesswoman Mrs. C. W. Mansfield advocates Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People as a remedy for ailments peculiar to women. She says the pills improved her sleep and vitality after other treatments failed and that local druggists would confirm their popularity among young women. The advertisement promotes pills as boosting the nervous system and general health for women and girls, available at 50 cents per box or six for $2.50.
Railroad engineers recount encounters with wild animals in western Ohio and Indiana. Coyotes foxes wolves bears and a skunk are seen or killed on Baltimore and Ohio Fort Wayne and Lake Shore lines. A man crossing a long trestle narrowly escapes a fast train on Nickel Plate.
A wedding note suggests a cake saw as a practical gift, often a silver bride’s loaf knife to be handed down. The piece calls the Sandwich Islands Flowery Kingdom, with blooms year round, and jokes that a groom must be boarded by the bride’s father about half the time when love enters.
The passage presents humors as rulers of the body causing skin eruptions weakness and debility. It asserts health and pleasure depend on expelling these humors and cites thousands of grateful testimonials for a remedy that follows.
An advertisement asserts Hood's Sarsaparilla radically purges sickness and builds up the entire system, promising lasting health improvements and vitality for readers seeking tonic relief.
Ex Governor Merriam, now Director of the Census, plans a popular article for The South's Companion. He will base his predictions on expert deductions from the twelfth census just taken, outlining the probable trend and extent of national growth.
An advertisement touts Grove s taste less ChillTonic as a chill returning malaria remedy. It claims quinine in a tasteless form with no cure no pay and a price of 50 cents.
The Maharajah of Kapurthala, playing through Liane de Pougy's magic hand, broke the bank at Monte Carlo and split the gains. She was escorted back to the Riviera by two friends, who she vowed to remove if she won again to avoid further temptation.
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets claim to cure a cold in one day with no cure, no pay. A 25 cent price is listed, suggesting a sales promotion.
Spokane jurors find in favor of Washington Water Power Company in the suit by Emmet H. Holmes after he was refused food in a company restaurant due to his color. Holmes sought 5000 dollars damages and claimed the ruling allows excluding colored men from restaurants or saloons.
Persistent claims tout Swanson's 5 Drops as a universal germ killer and absolute Rheumatism cure. A testimonial from Elizabeth C Finn of Springfield Missouri praises rapid relief after two years of pain, with offers for trial bottles and agent recruitment from Chicago.
Jim Blaine a Papago medicine man pleads for rescue from religious frenzy sparked by a mysterious woman from the Salt River valley near Phoenix. She prophesies dreams and a coming apocalypse, promising the Indians a distant afterlife in the Happy Hunting Grounds and urging bow and arrow use. The teachings have driven some toward despair and abandonment of daily tasks as they await visions.
The ad argues that sores become chronic when blood is impure and promises S S S as a vegetable blood purifier that cleanses and strengthens the blood to heal ulcers. It cites a testimonial from J. B. Talbert of Mississippi and urges readers to request a free book and consult the company physicians in Atlanta, Georgia.
An old friend notes the changing spelling of Vanderbilt from van der bilt to Vanderbilt. The Commodore’s signature shows Van Der bilt with a space after n while his son wrote Vander bilt as one word. The New York Press cites current usage as one word.
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