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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1900
Page
3
An advertisement extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the trusted help for women entering and navigating menopause. It claims countless grateful testimonials and offers free advice from Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn Massachusetts, inviting readers to write for guidance.
Civil service examinations will be held in Los Angeles on July 10 for meat inspector with salary 1200 to 1400 per year and on July 24 for assistant ethnologist with salary 50 per month and July 24 and 25 for assistant ethnologic librarian at 50 per month. Applicants should apply directly to the Civil Service Commission in Washington DC for papers.
A collection of wry reflections on love, work, and social pretensions. It notes how people misread effort, kin images in parks, and the quirks of men and women in daily life with humorous, if pointed, social commentary. The piece compresses common habits into witty observations.
A humorous Tid-Bits excerpt lists the varied effects of a baby on family life and surroundings. It notes the baby wears out shoes, keeps a father busy with nurse ads, fills a large bed, provokes boarding-house rudeness, and unsettles a liege of adults. The piece ends with the baby waking as parents depart for the theater.
The annual butterfly migration across the Isthmus of Panama is a mysterious spectacle. Early summer sightings begin in late June with a few specimens, increasing through July until the sky sometimes darkens with vast swarms of delicate insects.
A collage of jokes and humorous exchanges from various newspapers. Subjects range from luck and fate to fashion, travel, money, and manners. Many gags involve everyday characters and light satire, with quick setups and punchlines reflecting early 20th century wit.
The column notes uncertainty over China's future amid foreign power divisions and mentions health concerns like dyspepsia and stomach diseases. It highlights Hanford starting pressed brick manufacture with high quality clay and urges trying Adams Sarsaparilla pills for constipation and poor digestion. A freight conductor, John J. Larcey, was killed at Shorb last week in a fall from railroad cars.
A note urges ten cents relief after overeating or overdrinking to ease morning headaches. A pocket box is marketed by druggists in 10c 25c and 50c sizes. Meanwhile Los Angeles officials and staff refuse poll tax payments, and the assessor has garnisheed the City Treasurer for the owed sums.
An advertisement promotes Allen's Foot Ease powder to ease tired swollen feet with claims of curing nails corns blisters and bunions and offering a free trial. It lists sales through druggists and shoe stores at 25 cents and 30 000 testimonials. Also notes John G Wooley of Collinsville Ohio and Henry B Metcalf of Rhode Island as Prohibition party presidential and vice presidential nominees at a Chicago convention.
The Menlo Park campus in San Mateo County showcases new buildings furnished labs and a coastal environment, led by Dr. Ira G. Hoitt and accredited at universities. Tenth year begins August 6, 1900. Mothers are directed to Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething. President Dole now serves as Hawaii governor after a quiet inauguration on the 15th last month. Piso's Cure for Consumption is touted as an infallible remedy for coughs and colds. Catarrh is described as constitutional and Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney Co of Toledo O is offered with a 100 dollar guarantee. Premiums and drug ads conclude.
About sixty acres of cucumber patches near Inglewood this season follow a year with similar acreage. An eight acre patch last year yielded eighty four tons, selling at graded prices of one fifty, one and fifty cents per cwt. Pest damage from white maggots now forces replanting in early growth. Senator W A Clark of Montana vows one million toward the Democratic National Campaign fund.
The Paris exposition national commissioners with California officials and guests, about 100 people including families, were hosted by Mr and Mrs Michael H de Young of San Francisco. They traveled by special train to a tree top restaurant eight miles from Paris for luncheon and dancing before returning to the city in the evening.
Special agent Howard M. Kutchin says Alaska now hosts at least thirty five fox ranches on named islands. The blue fox dominates breedings as the silver gray is abandoned and fur men consider possible sable breeding. In Los Angeles a vandal splashed red paint on floors and walls of the high school disrupting closing exercises. investigators seek culprits and promise punishment.
The passage argues that equality is a rhetorical ideal not borne out by reality. It claims physical moral and intellectual disparities exist among people and nations, asserting nature's dislike of uniformity and citing divergent destinies as inherent.
A dialogue mocks legal schemes and a disputed fee, highlighting alleged deception. Softleigh questions a professional mind reader while Miss Cutting protests a charged fee as a potential case of obtaining money under false pretenses.
Marie insists she can guard secrets while another girl reveals what she knows. The Chicago Record frames a social dilemma about discretion and disclosure among peers. The piece reads as a conversational vignette on trust and gossip.
In a letter from Oxford Mississippi United States Senator W V Sullivan praises Peruna as the best catarrh cure he has tried and credits it with improving his own incipient catarrh. He urges readers to insist on Peruna with no substitutes and offers a free catarrh book from the Peruna Medicine Co Columbus Ohio.
A Rev. H. Frank of Independent in New York City argues that the enslaved status of Africans in America provided moral discipline, suggesting this as the most fortunate development in four millennia of negro history.
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