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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1898
Page
3
The Hercules Gas Engine Works of San Francisco markets a range of irrigation plants from 1 to 200 HP. They offer a 244 HP engine and pumping plant with circulars for details. Hundreds sold this year, promising prompt efficient and economical irrigation to save crops.
A historical look at early arithmetic teaching in colonial Massachusetts notes Wingate and Hodder texts used by the Winslow family era. It traces arithmetic manuals from 1620s editions to Pike’s 868 rules, contrasting manuscript sun books and rigid memorization with simple penmanship drills. It also mentions papal rings bearing a fish motif and destroyed upon a pope’s death to prevent forgery.
A collage of humor and social quips from various papers. Jokes range from domestic life and courtship to travel, professions, and manners. Snappy exchanges feature miscommunications, aphorisms, and light satire about spouses, chaperones, and social scenes.
A housewife keeps exact daily expense records after buying a $10 season ice ticket. She divides the cost across months and tracks daily ice use, filling page after page. Her husband asks for an answer, but she frets she cannot tell if the result is days or ice or money.
A vintage advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to ease swollen nervous hot feet and discomfort from tight shoes. It claims relief from blistering calluses bunions and sweating with over ten thousand testimonials and offers trial free or 25 cents by mail or at drug and shoe stores.
A caution to clergy about warming baptismal water as cold water touching a child's head can risk shock or illness when resistance is low. The note emphasizes affusion rather than immersion and urges care in sacramental practice.
The article questions whether French and German dishes improve American restaurant menus and notes critics claim prior American cooking was coarse. It ends by suggesting Hosetter's Stomach Bitters as a cure for dyspepsia and related ailments.
Ohio lawyer advertises Hall and Cheney products claiming cure for catarrh with a $100 reward for uncurable cases. Also promotes Dr Kline nerve restorer and Piso’s Cure for Consumption with testimonials from customers in Florida and Pennsylvania. An 1895 Toledo ad cites notary A W Gleason.
Samuel Pitcher M D asserts in court the exclusive right to the words Castoria and Pitchers Castoria. He notes Dr Samuel Pitcher originated Pitchers Castoria and its wrappers bear the facsimile signature of Chas H Fletcher. The Centaur Company, led by Fletcher, is named as the only authorized entity to use his name, in a March 8 1897 dated statement.
The Greek Orthodox population in Russia includes many dissenting sects such as Lutherans Rationalists Sabbatarians Baptists and Anabaptists. Free Bible interpretation flourishes village teachers spread unconstrained ideas challenging the official church. A strong religious movement emerges and may soon challenge foreign influence and Kropotkin in outlook.
Overview of how war impacts rights of natives and aliens, contracts, and property. It covers treaties, confiscation limits, admiralty norms, and the treatment of belligerent citizens abroad, noting that noncombatants’ assets face protection and that declarations of loyalty must be genuine, not retroactive.
In Washington a vast store of unclaimed diamonds and precious stones sits in the Treasury bond vault. Many were given to President Van Buren by the Imaam of Muscat in 1839 but could not be accepted or returned due to constitutional rules. The collection grows as officials send gifts they cannot keep. Congress must act to resolve their fate.
A Cossack hired by the tormented fountamer Peron to clean cages in Moscow misreads gestures and language barriers. The Tartar starts work with bucket sponge and broom but enters the wrong cage of wild beasts, revealing a Babel of miscommunication.
A splendorous tiger lies asleep as a moujik calmly washes the beast with cold water. Pe Ron and Fezon watch in horror, but the man continues until the tiger rolls over and purrs, offering his body for cleansing before being led away.
A lively sketch details Emma Thursby's minor bird who entertains visitors with songs and antics while affection for pets appears among society notables. It also recalls Colonel Robert Ingersoll's dog Rusk' sickbed care and funeral, Richard Croker's parrot Kate and black cat, and a Tammany era cat famed as a boxing guardian of good luck.
A collection of wry reflections on famous figures. Twain jokes about debts and lies spark memories of Artemus Ward Whistler and creditors. A sharp quip opens with a Paris exposition line about expenses while noting women running church business and a dig at tempering criticism of a partner's whist.
A reader describes early ovarian inflammation with dull side pain swelling and heat and says a home remedy reply from Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound helped Annie Curtis of Ticonderoga New York after nine years of female weakness bed confinement and other severe symptoms including leucorrhoea and dropsy fears. The letter cites Mrs Pinkham as an expert in female illnesses and urges contacting Lynn Massachusetts for advice.
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