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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1899
Page
3
A local inventor touts a writing device that promises employment for many, but the claim omits the impact on workers with weak stomachs. The report notes concerns about sedentary labor and health.
Dialogue reveals a family dispute over residence as McSwatters asks about ownership and admits living with his mother after losing a house. The Syracuse Herald fragment shows tension and shifting living arrangements within a household.
Advertises Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets promising a one day cold cure. States druggists refund money if it fails and notes E W Grove’s signature on each box. Priced at 25 cents.
A humorous exchange between Willie and Tommy about his dad falling over an express wagon. The page also advertises Mrs Winslows Boothing Syrup for teething, Halls Catarrh Cure, and various remedies including Java and Mocha coffee, Speighs Cure for Coughs, and a Denver obituary notice.
A farm family and two boys take a buggy ride as a spirited horse balks and rears, pulling the vehicle into a country road mishap. The father grapples the animal’s power while the party escapes unharmed, ending with the horse returning home under supervision.
The Queen of Siam owns a gold lotus bud shaped thimble given by her royal husband. It is studded with diamonds arranged to spell their names and mark the date of their marriage.
The Chicago Record describes Alto Crucero with year round freezing nights and temperatures dropping to 6 8 and 10 degrees below zero. No artificial heat exists and residents rely on ponchos and wraps while midday sun scorches due to altitude. Water freezes in shade yet sunlit areas stay warm. Natives endure cold barelegged on ice and stone while women trek mountains for weeks with minimal shelter and food except parched corn dried meat and coca leaves used as nerve stimulants.
A Cincinnati Enquirer passage argues that park animals pace their cages not from happiness but from daily need for exercise. It compares captive animals to wild predators that roam miles seeking food and notes the surge of energy as mealtime approaches.
Electricity is applied to glass manufacture with a pot of batch melting in fifteen minutes versus eighty hours. The note contrasts this with consumer fashion, saying false shirt fronts are the poor man’s bosom friends.
A collage of humorous exchanges and brief cartoons from various papers. Snippets feature a New York Journal dialogue about alimony and heroism, a Columbus Journal crowd remark, Puck street-car play, and jests about Dewey and Mammy Imogen in light domestic scenes.
A reflective line notes a wish for a peaceful life if Satan, representing mischief, never wandered from his own hearth and home. The remark hints at a cynical view of worldly trouble and a longing for quiet domestic bliss.
The Philadelphia Times quotes Robert G. Ingersoll sending regrets for a Clover club dinner in 1888. He extols the word clover meaning industry and contentment and muses on happiness, youth, and peace, noting wordplay by dropping letters and finishing with a proverb about hay and goodness.
At the Jardin des Plantes in Paris a jealous elephant, rivaling a newly arrived camel for public attention, drenched a girl caressing the camel with water. The scene follows daily jealousy as the elephant seeks to regain favor.
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