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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1900
Page
3
Mrs Pinkham promotes a new book featuring letters from Lynn city officials who support her work. She claims to have helped a million women with female troubles and states her correspondence is handled entirely by women at Lynn Massachusetts.
In the Sierras at about 6000 feet a new rose currant grows, oily yet flavorful with a bright red color. A Delaware and Hudson freight train derailed on a Hoosic Mountains grade between Carbondale and Honesdale, killing brake man Albert Cavanaugh and injuring John Simmons and Fred Ripple.
In H J Pearson's Around Novaya Zemlya the crew endures relentless swarms under a scorching sun. They press through birch scrub to reach camp by eleven, blood swollen bites cover caps and skin, and mosquito nets remain behind. Remedies like lavender oil and turpentine olive oil offer only brief relief.
The piece notes Chinese village theater mirrors English Shakespearean staging with no scenery and male actors since women are forbidden. It also quotes William Jennings Bryan recalling a Nebraska campaign setback and a governor’s quip about his speeches.
A British treasury counsel offered a judge a cab ride from Blackfriars bridge to Newington. The judge’s application at the Surrey sessions was refused after arrival. The usher revealed the counsel had left the judge to pay the fare, prompting surprise.
The piece extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as a curative tonic removing blood impurities, improving appetite, and increasing strength. It cites a testimonial from John E. Moungovan of Point Arena California about sores vanishing after use.
The piece argues elites promote decadence and that luxury drains vigor. It cites indiges tion and nerve strain from excess suppers and lack of exercise. Advertisements claim Stomach Bitters purify blood and aid digestion while Adams Sarsaparilla Pills promise health.
The advertisement touts Carter's Ink as the best and most sold ink worldwide. It notes San Jose's crackdown on theater hoodlums disturbing performances.
A miscellany notes medical quack cures with Cascarets and Winslow remedies, a land lease request in San Jose for Alum Rock to build a hotel, a free book offer for a Rocky Mountain illustration weekly, mining news and shipyard equipment shipments to Boole and Son in Oakland.
A Pueblo Colorado special reports a 95 foot scaffold collapse on the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company dome at the steel works. Five men were thrown to the ground. F. D. Curtis was instantly killed and J. W. Stanton is in critical condition, expected to die.
An advertisement asserts deafness stems from inflamed mucous linings of the Eustachian Tube and offers Hall's Catarrh Cure as a remedy. It promises $100 for any deafness case due to catarrh not cured by the remedy and notes F J Henrichsen of Del Mar plans soil tests for tobacco farming with initial plantings on about twenty acres.
Shake into your shoes with Allen's Foot-Ease powder which relieves painful swollen nerves and bunions and makes tight shoes feel easy. It claims to cure ingrowing nails sweating callous and hot tired feet with over 30 000 testimonials. Sold by druggists and shoe stores or by mail for 25 cents in stamps. Trial package free. Address Allen 8 Olmsted Le Roy New York.
An old advertisement notes Piso’s Cure for Consumption as an infallible medicine for coughs and colds. It cites N W Samuel of Ocean Grove New Jersey dated February 17 1900 as the endorsement.
As winter ends housekeepers consider new wall coverings. Paper wears quickly and kalsemine is dirty and costly. Alabastine cement offers a clean wholesome coating that can be applied easily in many beautiful tints and is long lasting.
Berkeley hosts the sixteenth annual Pacific Unitarian Conference from May 1 to 4. Sacramento readies police and fire arrangements for visiting attendees and citizens at the upcoming fair. The issue also promotes The Illustrated Weekly on trial and a rheumatism cure called Five Drops by Swanson Rheumatic Co.
Letters from Mrs Hamilton of Columbus Ohio and others tout Pe-ru-Na as a life changing remedy. Testimonials describe improved health restored voices and relief from catarrh and female complaints. Dr Hartman offers free treatment directions from Columbus Ohio.
An article extols the Mougri as a remarkable vegetable native to Java. It grows to about twenty inches with pods sometimes three feet long. Pods are edible young like radishes and excellent for pickles or salads. Boiled pods taste like asparagus, earning the nickname bush asparagus.
The casabanana is praised as a remarkable fruit that climbs tall trees in a single season. It grows about eighteen inches long with a fiery red color and pineapple-like flavor. Highly valued for preserves, a tree bearing three to four hundred fruits is noted as unforgettable. Seedlings start in pots before frost risk ends.
Abilene Kansas dispatch reports Bishop Jesse Engle head of the River Brethren Church died in South Africa of apoplexy at 65. He had traveled a year ago to establish a mission and led the church in Kansas for many years.
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