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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1899
Page
3
From South Africa, the Klondike and Australia gold is shipped in quantities this year’s output nearly doubles any previous twelve months. The sale of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is rising rapidly, claimed to cure dyspepsia indigestion constipation nervousness and weakness.
A mock dialogue via an Optician and a Customer pokes at blindness fears while urging acceptance of a new line of artificial eyes. The page also promotes Jesse Moore Whiskey as a physician-endorsed household necessity.
A collage of mid 19th century excerpts including a German fire brigade quip about ladders reaching only to the second floor, an 26c laxative tablet pitch, a facial tongue map description, a distant money-back claim on savings, Gillements' family supplies in California, a London Standard remark on Scottish race clannishness, and Brooklyn Hotel San Francisco lodging rates with meals and a free coach.
Notice announces Fliegende Hoitt's School for Boys will relocate from Burlingame to Meulo Park and reopen January 16 1898. It lists Ira G Heitt Ph D as contact at Menlo Park Newfoundland and notes a coalfield of 20 by 10 miles with potential output 250000 tons per year. A patent medicine advertisement promotes Allen’s Foot-Ease with price 25 cents and free trial.
A caller asks about the poem's lack of poetic fire and the editor suggests stoking it in the stove. An ad promotes FITS Permanently Cured by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer offering a free trial and treatise from Dr. R H King Ltd in Philadelphia.
An advertisement asserts deafness from inflamed Eustachian tubes can be cured only by constitutional remedies and catarrh. It offers 100 dollars for cures Hall's Catarrh Cure and promotes Dr. Cheney & Co. products. A testimonial endorses Piso's Cure for consumption.
The London Gazette announces Mme. Patti as a naturalized British subject. Born in Spain to Italian parents and raised in the United States by an American stepfather, she married twice in England to French subjects and has lived in Wales for years, making her nationality a legal puzzle.
A mosaic of light verse and banter from punch lines and city columns. Jests touch unrelated scenes from dog buyers to art museum visitors and diners trading barbs with shopkeepers and clerks.
The article notes Chinese fiction burdened with numerous poems to display literary finish. It describes poetry as delivered via billets doux, overheard songs, and poetic contests, often paired with wine drinking. It argues that heroes must improvise poetry as a defining trait.
A short Pearson's Weekly dialogue features a wife demanding a husband’s whereabouts and a husband replying that a sensible woman would not marry. The exchange ends with the wife realizing her own folly as she leaves. The tone mocks marital norms with sharp wit.
Mrs T A Walden of Gibson Georgia writes that after starting a vegetable compound she found relief from chronic pain and misery during her monthly period. She also used Liver Pills and Sanative Wash and reports being greatly helped and offers her letter for others.
Florence A Wolfe of 515 Mulberry Street Lancaster Ohio writes that after two years of monthly suffering from what doctors called womb inflammation she found relief and is now perfectly well by following Mrs Pinx Hall's advice.
A Lansfield Louisiana woman writes of relief from painful menstruation leucorrhea and lower bowel soreness after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports a striking improvement and credits the remedy with transforming her appearance and health.
Daniel O Connell recalls a formal lady with a poker like coldness. An older joke about two Irish servants jokes that the young lady was fed boiled pokers as a baby, feeding banter about stiff manners.
A Cleveland Leader reader notes an omission in the account of Captain Biddleby’s death, criticizing the absence of the line that the news of his death came to his friends with a shock. The exchange highlights scrutiny of reported details in the article.
The Philadelphia weather bureau chief notes a paper describing how small leaks add up. One drop per second equals five gallons daily, a figure relevant to central stations with metered water. The report warns leaks waste water coal and electricity, underscoring broader losses from steam and other systems.
For years Hood's Sarsaparilla has been curing dyspepsia and continues to do so when given a fair chance. If you suffer from this disease take Hood's Sarsaparilla and tell friends to try America's Greatest Medicine for Dyspepsia.
A retired French naval officer recounts the Cavite battle from a Manila-area home. He notes seven American ships breaking Spanish lines, the fleet’s precision, and the Cavite battery’s quick destruction. He criticizes Spanish pride and praises Philippine potential and native suffering.
A limited liability company is formed in Halle to supply hostesses matching guests. Prospectus lists charges for dancing men in evening dress 2 to 50 marks, good talkers 2 to 80, monocled 3 to 10, cotillion specialists 3 to 75, old gentlemen 3 to 75, retired majors as chaperones 3 to 75, and a nobleman to take a hostess to supper for 20 marks.
Discussion of Greek boy rearing stressing private moral education under a trusted pedagogue who oversees boys from sixth to sixteenth year. Contrasts with modern parenting and emphasizes prevention of vice, with public schooling limited to moral aims. Also notes Mason reports on American fruit inspections and Tempe Arizona orange harvests.
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