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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1898
Page
3
Physicians warn malaria causes fatal illnesses and nervous prostration though its immediate death rate is small. They credit Hostetter's Stomach Bitters with eradicating the malady and curing biliousness constipation rheumatism and dyspepsia.
A Detroit Free Press note recalls a scene where a song recital unfolds with an audience of women talking through the performance. The piece mentions the comfort of wearing Allen’s Sore Foot products and a quirky password tradition for the Tower of London, with Irish resorts noted for historic spots.
An open letter from Samuel Pitcher asserts exclusive rights to the words Pitcher’s Castoria and Castoria, urging mothers to check the wrapper signature of Charles H. Fletcher and the Centaur Company. The document includes sworn attestations about Catarrh cure claims and lists various patent medicine promotions and testimonials from users across almost a century’s era.
Washington dispatch reports Major General Fitzhugh Lee will be the first military governor of Cuba. He will act as adviser to Secretary Alger for a week with a private office near the secretary. After Havana falls, Lee will go to Cuba to headquarters there and oversee a temporary dictatorship until a Cuban republic is established.
A collection of aphoristic religious lines urges repentance and faith in Christ. It contrasts virtue with vice, warns against sin, and frames daily conduct and societal issues in Christian moral terms.
World figures born early in the century include Gen. George Sears Greene 95 Dr. James Martineau ologian and David Wark 93 ex Senator Bradbury 95 Ernest Legouve 91 W E Gladstone Cassius M. Clay Admiral Keppel R N R W Trompson 38% Pope Leo XIII Lord Armstrong Senator J S Morrill 88 Samuel Smiles Charles L Tiffany 86 Baroness Burdett Coutts Verdi 84 Prince Bismarck Elizabeth Cady Stanton Adolph Menzel 83 ex Senator H L Dawes Justice J S Field Rev Newman Hall Philip James Bailey Park Godwin Russell Sage 82 King Christian Theodore Mommsen Sir Joseph Hooker ex Senator J M Palmer Bishop Williams 81 ex Senator W M Evarts Baron Reuter ex Senator George S Boutwell Wade Hampton 80 Queen Victoria Crispi Ruskin Lord Palfrey Duke of Cambridge Julia Ward Howe Bishop Huntington Reagan 79 Herbert Spencer Florence Nightingale Susan B Anthony John Tenniel Virchow Storrs Ristori Duc de Broglie Sims Reeves Sir W H Russell 77.
A compilation noting longest and shortest daylight hours across cities such as London, Bremen, Stockholm, Hamburg, Dantzic, St Peters burg, Tobolsk, Tornea, Ward bury, Spitzbergen, St Louis, and Montreal with references to seasonal variations and extreme daylight lengths. It includes a brief note from the Saturday Evening Post on Chinese endurance and lack of nerves.
The article notes Lake Superior reaches 1,008 feet in depth with 601 feet above sea level and 407 feet below it, while its bottom sits about 375 feet deeper than the New York harbor entrance channels. It also states Lake Erie’s maximum depth as 210 feet and ends with a remark about a man disposing of experience at cost.
A newspaper column shows a harsh ad seeking a “young and strong woman” to cook, wash, iron, and care for children with evenings and afternoons off. The hired girl rejects it, noting the notice reads like a plea for a wife rather than a helper, preferring a plain hired girl’s job.
A collage of light quips and cartoon captions from periodicals includes jokes about timid soldiers, bargaining jokes, marriage, delays, and daily life. Characters named Harry, Maude, and Parson appear amid puns about war fears costumes and lectures, reflecting a lively late 19th to early 20th century humor tone.
This piece describes syncope as a temporary loss of consciousness due to brain anemia and heart weakness often triggered by distressing stimuli. It notes who is most at risk, and outlines immediate first aid steps including lying flat, loosened clothing, fresh air, cooling the face, and gentle stimulation.
The London Chronicle recalls Edam’s antiquities museum detailing eighteenth century battens of justice. Bills by executioners Vogel and Ka show decapitations sword wounds and hangings with fees from 6 to 150 florins, revealing escalating cruelty and calls for reform in Holland's criminal code.
A Boston Journal extract depicts a crime scene where a man declares himself a newspaper man after a would be robber demands surrender. The robber shows mercy, offers a quarter, and fears disclosure to avoid gang retaliation.
A Massachusetts woman reports severe fibroid tumor in the womb and a persistent flow. After taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, her flow regulated and the tumor reportedly passed away, with doctors unable to help before.
Emiliano Ibarra, famed as the luckiest mining man on the western Mexican coast, sold the Dalmalli properties for thousands, opened new producers at Agua Dulce, and mined fields at several sites. He returned to Dalmalk, pierced a dyke to reach a richer ledge, now has thirty tons at the ocean landing worth 300 dollars per ton and hundreds more excavated.
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