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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1898
Page
3
Holtt's School for Boys at Burline San Mateo County is described as a thorough home style school. Accredited by the State and Stanford University. Offers thorough business preparation. Principal Ira G. Horrr Ph D. resumes August 8. Catalogue available.
Isaac Bromley meets a highly skilled amateur at a billiard room. The player introduces himself as Scott but Ike asserts the name should be spelled with a g, claiming a man who plays billiards that well must spell his name that way.
A historical note argues that an American English alliance would deter enemies and praises Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for strengthening the body and defending against disease. The ad-like piece claims the remedy enriches blood builds muscle steadies nerves and increases appetite.
A brief Chicago News item recalls Mrs Smitherleigh facing a difficult decision as her daughter moves east for a new life, with the speaker noting a desire to spend summers in the east.
An 8 line ad touts a powder that relieves swollen hot tired feet and tight shoes. It claims cures for sweating blisters and bunions with ten thousand testimonials. Sold in drug and shoe stores for 25c and by mail for 1 25c. Trial pack available. Address given in Le Roy New York.
Gentle dialogue about colors Black and blue referenced in a Be ginneras Cycle club chatter. Vintage ad fillers promote Schilling’s Best tea mercury warning and various patent medicines with testimonials. Mentions Dr Kline nerve restorer and Hale’s Catarrh Cure, reflecting era advertising flavor.
An English clergyman in a small town preached a borrowed sermon he claimed as his own. He warned the town of divine punishment for moral vice and claimed the plague was in his homily, prompting the magistrate to ask where the plague lay. The preacher replied that the plague was in his sermon, not in the town.
A collection of humorous exchanges and cartoon captions from a bygone era. Jests poke at marriage roles, work life, and social vanity with quips about wives, husbands, and common foibles across light vignettes and punchy one liners.
An advertisement claims a purified blood remedy by Hood cures hives and related afflictions. It promotes plain or with cutter versions and markets the needle as the best available, sold through Moise stores or by Will & Finch Co at 820 Market Street in San Francisco.
A sequence of humorous quips from newspapers notes a long running joke about refusal and improvement. A Detroit Free Press line jokes about Blakem being unworthy until proven better, while Atlanta Journal and Baltimore Sun snippets contrast differences and longevity in men's thought.
A historical survey recalls 1668 Pepys noting Knipp and the woman's day at the playhouse and later popular benefits for Mrs. Barry, Quin, and Grimaldi. Crowds blocked action at Covent Garden, Drury Lane hosted Grimaldi in 1828 with a shattered memory, as £1700 was raised and set as a record.
Professor Max Muller recalls Kingsley and Froude as favorites in memoirs. Kingsley refuses to pray for rain, citing a story of a frontier clergyman whose rain caused lambs to die, leading to damages for the sheep farmers and the parishioners. The anecdote contrasts practical management with ritual prayer.
A Cincinnati anecdote recalls two engineers camped on ground in Arizona where a rattler caused a late night scare. One man warned there was a rattler, then discovered the snake in the other’s coat pocket, prompting a joking exchange before they slept again.
Mrs Younglove questions her husband about hidden thoughts. John admits some thoughts are best not spoken, revealing they come to him during shaving as the couple quarrel over honesty and privacy.
A letter from Mrs Florence R Hoffmann of Canton Ohio praises Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for curing her months of abdominal pain dizziness and insomnia. The note touts Mrs Pinkham and her correspondence work treating up to a hundred thousand women yearly.
The Atlanta Constitution notes a humorous exchange revealing confusion over measurements used in a Georgia case. The witness explains distance as about an acre and a half from the road, illustrating the vagueness of land area terms and yardage in legal testimony.
A Detroit Free Press quip notes that while self made men are often spoken of, self made women are less common, with a tongue in cheek line: Larkin women prefer tailor made.
A collage of humorous exchanges mocks social pretensions and self important talk. Quotations from Cleveland Plain Dealer and Detroit Free Press highlight clever retorts about family trees, forefathers, diagnoses, and the allure of wealth versus fame.
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