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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1898
Page
3
A historical fragment discusses the value of nurses and physicians, notes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for chills fever and digestive issues, and includes a quoted exchange about risky train jumps, attributed to the Boston Transcript.
An amalgam of 19th century advertising copy promotes Allen's Foot-Ease for swollen hot feet with numerous testimonials and low prices, followed by an "Oath" style sworn statement by F J Cheney about Hall's Catarrh Cure, its claimed efficacy, and distribution details. It mentions mail orders, trial offers, and multiple druggists, ending with a note on Hall's Family Pills.
A Detroit Free Press quip has a doctor asking a wife about her husband’s meals. She replies onions twice daily prove strength, highlighting a humorous exchange about diet and vigor in a medical setting.
Dr Samuel Pitcher of Hyannis Massachusetts asserts exclusive rights to the names Castoria and PITCHER S CASTORIA. He states The Centaur Company headed by Chas H Fletcher owns authority to use his signature on wrappers and that no one else may use his name. March 1897.
A jumble of vintage ads and a joke. It promotes TEA GARDEN 8 syrup and PELICAN molasses with refund on unsatisfactory goods and cautions buyers to check the maker’s name. Also touts Dr Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer and Piso’s Cure for Consumption. A light London Fun quip about a daughter and her fiancé actor ends the fragment.
A collage of humorous exchanges and witticisms from various papers. Short dialogues cover weddings, dreams, elevator mishaps, coffee strength, lawyers, and social clashes. Notable bits include a best man quip, a parrot engagement joke, a booted horsehoe gag, and a senator remark about temperance.
A fragmentary notice references Hood's Pills and a tired feeling complaint as part of an old newspaper ad. The jagged text hints at potions or remedies offered to ease fatigue, though details are unclear.
A Boston Transcript correspondent portrays Claude Monet living in Normandy’s Giverny as a wealthy man with a large family. His enlarged house is simple beside a superb garden. Monet appears rugged and refined, wearing country sabots with fine linen and hemstitched ruffles.
A New York fashion writer notes the return of large Gainsborough hats with soft plumes in white pink mauve and black. He describes delicate braids airy muslins and lace shoulder capes and tibus as summer ideals and predicts a poetic stylish season. The hats will shift from gaudy to elegant with satin ribbons and jeweled ornaments and later French flowers may appear.
A Chicago Times Herald piece outlines U S naval power ranking fifth globally behind Britain France Russia and Italy with four first class battleships one second class battleship eighteen cruisers fifteen gunboats six double turret monitors one ram one dynamite gunboat one transport and eight torpedo boats It covers ship sizes costs armament ranges and the structure of the navy including officers manpower and training practices
A fragmentary poem passage recalls a little Dutch garden with flowers and vegetables, featuring a chubby Dutch man, a rosy Dutch frau, and Gretchen as a fair figure. The text shifts to a Boston Budget note and a historical line about 1700 and the United States, implying newspaper pagination or section text.
A Philadelphia woman testifies to Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a reliable aid for female ailments. She describes nine weeks of bed rest with inflammation and congestion, relief upon standing, prior costly medical visits, and a complete personal cure yielding strong faith in the remedy.
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