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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1900
Page
3
An early 20th century style column mocks a Pinkham remedy ad promising cures for women ailments from Lynn Massachusetts. It features a humorous Chicago-Kansas City exchange about visiting the Palmer House hotel and finds.
In the Wallapai mountains a visitor from the Santa Fe Pacific, an English overland tourist, joined a desert express of burros to prospect. At Maggie Springs he cooked breakfast in an old miner cabin when a large king snake dropped from the chimney into hot frying grease, startling the cook.
In a Buffalo News tale, widow Mrs Maynard blends charity with social life in New York. Her confidant Lewis Baxter learns she loves him after she hints at marriage to a moneyed match, sparking a sudden self revelation and romantic turn.
The highest monument in the world stands in Washington D C. Erected to honor George Washington it rises 555 feet with a 55 foot square base built of 18 000 marble blocks two feet thick An interior elevator and 50 flights of stairs of 19 steps each provide access to the summit.
The Gulf Stream travels about three miles per hour on average. At some points the current rushes to fifty one miles per hour, making the surface appear as a sheet of fire when the sun shines on it.
In spring, pimples boils eruptions and other ailments signal cobwebs in the system. Hood’s Sarsaparilla is advertised as the thorough brush to sweep humors away, purge impurities, and renew the body. Dwient C. Park of Whiteland Indiana endorses its spring use for restored vitality.
The city shows sixty seven pumping plants with forty eight steam driven sixteen gasoline and three electric. Average plant cost is 3000 dollars, totaling 2 011 000 dollars invested. With about 704 wells, roughly eleven wells per pumping plant are active.
Miss Gush recalls her stage experience saying she led a church cantata at home once and a neighborly chorus praised her performance as exceptionally lovely. The Columbus Ohio State Journal notes her claim with light humor and local pride.
A mix of advertisements and brief notices mentions Hostetter's Bitters for digestion, Adam's Sarsaparilla pills, Cascaets candy, Carter's Ink claims, and Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup. Local items note Pomona delegates to a Republican club convention Riverside polo win Santa Ana's Democratic club and San Jacinto earthquake shocks.
An advertisement argues deafness results from inflamed Eustachian mucous linings and cannot be cured by local applications. It offers one hundred dollars for any catarrh deafness cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure and promotes Hall's pills, with testimonial from Mrs. Thomas Robbins in Norwich, New York, dated Feb 17, 1900.
Shake into your shoes with Allen's Foot-Ease a powder praised as a cure for painful swollen and smarting nerves feet and ingrowing nails It claims instant relief from sting of corns and bunions and makes tight new shoes feel easy over 30 000 testimonials and mail order trial for 25 cents from Allen E. Olm Roy NY
A Germantown physician tells of a patient who never smoked much but who works around tobacco. the doctor says tobacco inhalation creates a tobacco heart and prescribes eight hours in fresh air. The tale illustrates the habit of tobacco breathing and its grip beyond smoking. The piece notes Honolulu fish varieties and a Westlake oil rig moving to drill No. 24 after shifting from well No. 22.
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