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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1898
Page
3
An advice piece on bruises from contusions noting black and blue marks warn of possible nerve or muscle injury. It promotes St Jacobs Oil as the quick cure, arguing that hard knocks in sport or labor leave bruises that need proper care after events.
The Chicago Record notes Jones faced a sentence of sixty days after insulting the judge. Details show a swift judicial response and a brief confinement outcome.
The ad promotes TgkA Garden Drips Toboggan Maple Syrup and Pelican LoomsiAna Molasses sold in cans. It promises money refunds if customers are not satisfied and warns against imitation products. The lithographed branding emphasizes authenticity on the Pacific Coast Syrup Co. label.
The article warns that true economy means proper seed management not buying cheaper seed. It advocates buying reliable seeds from a trusted house and cites D. M. Ferry & Co. of Detroit. Ferrys Illustrated Seed Annual for 1898 is promised free to applicants.
A collage of wry anecdotes and quips from various papers. Jokes touch on military flattery, mistaken identity, love, money, and social pretenses with names and places such as Indianapolis Journal Puck Harlem Life and Cleveland Plain Dealer appearing in snippets. The humor explores misunderstandings, relationships, and everyday absurdities through brief captions and dialogues.
The piece notes diplomatic tension with Spain over Cuba affecting stocks but predicts no serious complications. It then suggests biliousness may worsen unless treated, recommending Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as an effective remedy for dyspepsia malaria kidney trouble constipation and nervousness.
Two speakers in the Boston Courier quick exchange remark on strange happenings in the world. The terse dialogue hints at curious stories or rumors shaping public conversation in the city.
Warren Pennsylvania publisher pledges forfeiture of $1000 if any published testimonials prove not genuine. Company based in Warren pledges strict honesty in customer endorsements and offers remedy if authenticity questioned.
Ohio Toledo notices include a sworn pledge by Frank J. Cheney of F. J. Cheney & Co. offering one hundred dollars for each catarrah case cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The ad promotes internal use and blood action and cites testimonials. It also mentions Los Angeles population data, Depew's arrival to inspect the Randsburg Railway, and Soldiers' Home expulsions for usury and mutinous conduct.
Samuel Pitcher, M D asserts exclusive rights to Castoria and Pitcher's Castoria in court. He credits Hyannis Massachusetts originator and notes the wrapper bears the signature of Chas H Fletcher. The Centaur Company, led by H Fletcher, holds authority to use his name. March 8, 1897.
An advertisement urges readers to obtain a stamp for what it calls King Solomon's Treasure, claiming it renews manly strength. The Mason Chemical Company lists P O Box 747 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as the contact.
The United States Circuit Court of the Southern District of New York granted a preliminary injunction and accounting to the Hostetter Company in a suit against Isaac Sommers and Louis Toatph for infringing its trade mark. The judge affirmed protection against unfair methods and affirmed that equity may restrain imitation aimed at deceiving the public. The piece also notes California Jockey Club events at Ingleside race course running January 24 to February 5, inviting interior visitors.
The narrative recalls a 1862 Civil War battlefield scene at Malvern Hill on July 1, a 17 year old Confederate staff officer mortally wounded. A rider returns to tend him, bands his wound, and shares a final vigil as dawn breaks. The account blends war’s chaos with personal courage amid thunder and rain.
In southern Arizona jail and prison officials face a rush to curb smuggling of a potent mischievous marijuana described as a loco weed stronger than opium. Smuggled inside prisons it fetches about four dollars an ounce while outside buyers pay around fifty cents.
A look at five unusual trees. The whistling Acacia fistula in Nubia and Sudan makes flute like sounds from wind-driven holes. The cow tree in Venezuela yields edible milk from incisions. The cloth tree of Otaheite produces long bark fibers for fabric. The stinging tree of Queensland harms through touch with no visible wound, causing long lasting pain. The angry tree lives in Nevada California and Arizona and releases a foul odor when disturbed.
In the article he is hailed as a rare poetic genius and beloved by the south for singing the lost cause. He is called the poet of the lost cause, whose work embodies the sorrow and pride of a people. The piece praises his intrinsic literary value and distinctive place among American poets of his era.
The London World cites Jus tice Darling illustrating sharp wit in Parliament. It recounts Mr Gladstone leaving for dinner as Sir William Harcourt led the house, and Darling provoking Harcourt by noting the opposite side's “greater light to rule the day and a lesser light to rule the night.”
In Chicago a caller jokes that a wife canceled a concert due to a baby threatening croup, only for the baby to be fine. The exchange ends with the wife hopping mad at the mistaken concern.
Mrs Lucy Peaster of Derby Center Vermont describes relief from morphine craving and chronic pains after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports renewed energy, restored periods, no headaches or heart palpitations, and recommends the medicine after five bottles.
An English paper quotes Boswell’s 1769 anecdote about a new machine that moved without horses. Johnson replies that the device gives the user a choice to move himself alone or with the machine, noting the perpetual novelty of human invention.
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