Educate Your Bowels With Cascarets Candy Train
An ad promotes Cascarets candy as a cathartic to train bowels like muscles and brain. Labeled prices show 10c 25c and 50c options.
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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1899
Page
3
An ad promotes Cascarets candy as a cathartic to train bowels like muscles and brain. Labeled prices show 10c 25c and 50c options.
Cartoonish exchange features Hungry Higgins and Weary Watkins debating a newspaper ad urging readers to save old tags. Weary argues the advice rings hollow without a barb wire fence and guarding dog as real obstacles. From Indianapolis Journal.
A verse and cartoon snippet from the New York Journal features a Lenore youth who goes off to war and endures illness. The column references old Jesse Moore and a joke about a deadly weapon. Bronxborough dialogue jokes about biscuits and cats.
Allen’s Foot-Ease powder assists painful swollen feet and bunions and relieves sting from tight shoes. It claims to cure ingrowing nails, sweating callouses, and exhausted feet with over 30,000 testimonials. Sold by druggists and shoe stores, 25 cents by mail. free samples offered.
In a Newfoundland dialect paper Dr Patterson notes a church janitor who felt insulted after being forced to use antichrist coal. The remark highlights regional speech and social offense tied to religious language in labor terms.
Hoitt's School of Menlo Park announces reopening in a new building. The institution emphasizes climate, and mental moral and physical training for boys. Ira G. Hoitt Ph D remains principal in its ninth year, with accreditation by universities.
For years Yaqui Indians in the Mexican gold country sold ore to traders but the true extent of the deposits remains undetermined. The report notes curiosity about how rich the fields may be and highlights ongoing uncertainty.
Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer promises permanent cure with no fits or nervousness after the first day. Free trial bottle valued at $2 and a treatise are offered. Address Dr R H King Ltd 980 Arch St Philadelphia PA.
Franks J Cheney declares as partner of F J Cheney Co Toledo that the firm will pay one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh not cured by Esja s Catarrh Cure. Includes sworn statement dated February 6 and testimonials for Hall s Catarrh Cure and Hall s Family Pills. Also contains unrelated clippings about a mothers meeting and theater seating quirks.
A collage of witticisms and light exchanges from city papers features quips about ears and hours, sleepwalking spouses, speeches praised, and playful banter among couples and crowds. Jokes cover dinners, misunderstandings, and social scenes with a mix of vendors, soldiers, and neighbors.
An Excellent Combination describes CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO s Syrup of Figs as a pleasant yielding laxative that cleanses the system and aids kidneys liver and bowels while curing colds headaches fevers and habitual constipation. It notes figs supply taste while senna and other plants provide medicinal power. Sold by druggists at 50 cents per bottle with the full company name on the package.
A junior clerk witnesses an elderly official smash a chair to fix a caster problem. The chair breaks a leg and is discarded as public expense for a government office. A colleague explains the move as a cost-saving measure by “my lords” who neglect basic replacements.
An old ad copy touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as the sole remedy to purge blood humors and impurities. It promises renewed health and strength once the tonic is used, claiming it is the only specific for complete cleansing.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer quotes an authority blaming primary schooling for faulty American speech. It argues that taught vowels and consonants shape rhythm and tone, urging teachers to focus on tongue use rather than throat to mellow language. a witty exchange follows on education and folly.
An observer recalls a rural saying lick the name used in Georgia as a boast to win a fight over a horse trade. In a court day brawl two Taylors clash, coats shed, and Ceph Taylor loses to Bill Taylor, then others fail to prove the claim. The tale ends with injuries and a warning about attempting to lick a widely borne name.
The text describes elephants used to draw guns in India, resting and bathing in barracks and troughs. Attendants scrub the elephants with a stone, and the elephants retrieve the slipping stone with their trunks. After washing they shower themselves, spraying water to reach all body parts.
A Chicago department store keeps a female hairdresser working on a dummy head with flowing golden tresses while crowds watch. One passerby notes blond hair is beautiful, prompting indignant reactions from several women who hear the remark.
In a Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph excerpt, medical students attend a Pathological Society meeting with post mortems and specimens. A large 112 pound tumor is weighed, a patient is not saved but the tumor is, a three quarter mile tapeworm is described, and a quip about quarrel with Squiddig and McSwilligen is noted.
Mrs. Mathilde Richter of Doniphan Nebraska credits Pe r u n a with improving health after long catarrh and urges others to try it. Col Hamilton of Columbus Ohio also recommends Pe r u n a for women. A free Health and Beauty booklet by Dr Hartman is offered from Columbus Ohio.
An advertisement proclaims cholera morbus and related bowels ailments as catarrh and credits Dr. Hartman with a forty year success record using Peruna. It offers a free copy of Summer Catarrh for those seeking details and lists Dr. Hartman’s address for correspondence.
A passage from Scribner's quotes The Gospel of Relaxation by Professor William James. It contrasts partial muscular tension and shallow breathing with complete calm, arguing that inner panting and expectancy arise from allowing the body to remain partially contracted.
Letters from Mrs. Jonny Williams of Englishtown New Jersey and Mrs. Joseph Peterson of Warren Pennsylvania describe long term womb trouble back pain dizziness and heart distress. They credit Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sonative Wash with complete improvement and recovery after extended use.
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