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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1899
Page
3
A warning notes U S soldiers in Hawaii may contract leprosy and bring it home. The article also touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a cure for stomach disorders, blood diseases, malaria, fever and ague, sold at all drug stores.
A brief ad style exchange recalls a man recounting why a friend looks sad. The tale hints a past proposal, then reveals the friend’s wife was the one who proposed, not rejected him. The snippet touts Jesse Moore Whiskey as a household staple and a physician recommended stimulant.
A Fliegende Blatter remark notes an uncle offering to pay debts if his nephew passes college examinations. The dialogue questions whether the offer is to compel work for creditors, reflecting financial pressures and familial leverage.
A local exchange reports Mrs. Greene noting Sarah Janson will divorce her husband. Mrs. Brown confirms, calling the husband a monster after a golf stick incident, reflecting neighborhood gossip in Boston.
The ad promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to relieve swollen nervous feet, tight shoes, blisters, corns, bunions, chilblains, and sweating. It claims widespread testimonials and offers 25 cents per box with a free trial, sold by stes and shoe stores. Address Allen S. Olmsted Le Roy New York.
A Boston Courier fragment shows Fox claiming Badger will hunt his family remains safe during shooting. Knox questions Badger's skill while Fox denies the need for game, saying his wife mocks him whether he shoots or not.
An advertisement promises a $100 reward if it cannot prove saving money on purchases. It touts Gil bert Clements' Sons at 218 California St San Francisco as wholesale and retail family supplies dealers. It also promotes the Brooklyn Hotel at 208 212 Bush Street offering American or European plans with rooms and meals at set daily rates.
The term Scot Free traces to the Anglo Saxon sceat meaning tax and once meant freedom from payments. Modern usage now signifies freedom from any constraint. A advertised remedy promises permanent cure with a free trial bottle from Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer.
Local applications cannot reach the diseased ear portion. Deafness stems from an inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. Inflammation causes rumbling sounds and hearing loss. restoring the tube to normal condition prevents permanent deafness. Claims include Hall's Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward for cure from catarrh.
The Country Gentleman notes New York farmers are becoming expert gardeners as they bring fine melons Hubbard squashes and pumpkins to market. They grow berries peaches pears tomatoes beans corn cauliflower celery and more, with some already using hotbeds and others adopting greenhouses soon. A Rome cablegram says Archbishop Byrne of Nashville met the Pope.
A veteran Methodist elder Rev. Frank A. Hardin recounted at a conference his boyhood ride at sixteen on a clay bank mare through Sugar Flats to keep a night appointment. A panther pounced from a tree but the mare leapt clear, saving both. The tale also notes a later bigamy case at Harlesden magistrates with a mother as key witness and conflicting testimony from the second husband.
The article notes that four out of five candidates who fail British Army eye tests are rejected for defective vision. The test requires counting small black dots on a card from ten feet with both eyes together and separately.
A collage of light verses and humorous exchanges from multiple periodicals. Jests touch on romance money misprints and social faux pas featuring figures like Puck Truth Indianapolis Journal and Cleveland Plain Dealer with banter about poets wives beggars and a wary politician.
A digest of case notes covers street car authority limits in Walker v. Little Rock Traction, residence status for Mc Murtry v. Phillips Investment Co, assignment of wages in Dolan v. Hughes, street encroachments in Hibbard, B. & Co. v. Chicago, forged-note promises in Barry v. Kirkland, municipal prosecutions in ex parte Fagg, and infant service claims in Southern Railroad Co. v. Covenia with conclusions on liability, license, estoppel, quasi criminal prosecutions, and judicial cognizance of child capabilities.
A mix of curiosities notes military carrier pigeons in German use, a six to seven ounce herring with about thirty thousand eggs, a rapid fire gun from England, gypsy origins, ancient emperor coins in China, tree destruction by acid, railway expansion gaps, and a Manheim postmaster with a Holland apple tree from the seventeenth century still fruiting.
A mother makes her son turn all clothes inside out to cure a bad temper. The boy resists yet learns to wear temper right side out, promising better mornings. A Tacoma eating house owner faces charges for selling game out of season with a wife’s cooking claimed to imitate venison.
A Berlin observer notes that prime spots like the zoological gardens and Unter den Linden command high rents and hefty profits. Even first ventures quickly gain wealth, with 1,000,000 marks goodwill sales and waiters earning large tips.
A device resembling a thermometer with a mercury track marks time as it flows through a narrow glass tube. A smaller inner tube acts like an hourglass. turning the frame resets the mercury for the next interval, offering accurate seconds and hours but requiring periodic frame rotation.
Lord Crewe told an amusing Liverpool educational meeting story about a friend's little son who refused to say his lesson to his governess. He knew it well but said that saying it would lead to learning something else, a quip that may be heard of again.
The Plumbago mine in southern Sierra county is hailed as the banner mine by the Downieville Enterprise. An electric plant has been installed and the town will be illuminated. A ten-stamp mill crushes ore and plans to run all machinery by compressed air are under way.
A terse report states Jack-Retribution overcomes M s Chatterton who is described as talkative. The exchange hints at a recent marriage to a pugilist, with a quip about desires and a barbed remark.
Mrs Mayer Bascock of Grand Rapids Michigan says Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her ovarian pains and insomnia. She reports improved health color and energy and recommends others write for advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
A New York Journal quip portrays Samoa as a unique realm where rulers and chief justices share in laundry duties and solicit testimonials to prove their service. The passage contrasts official duties with social hospitality in a humorous vignette from London Punch.
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