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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1897
Page
3
The article warns of sprains from muscle strain and promotes St Jacob's Oil as a cure. It also reports the US warship Alert staying in Guatemala waters at the secretary of legation Prinsle's request as troops arrive to the capital amid ongoing siege conditions.
One hundred dollars reward offered for an incurable catarrh cure by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Local endorsements from West Truax Watprine Kinnan Marvin Toledo druggists. Hunl's Catarrh Cure promoted with price 75c per bottle and testimonials. Also Pacific Coast Jockey Club Winter Season begins November 1 at Ingleside Track with improved grounds and facilities for visitors to San Francisco.
An advertisement emphasizes high quality tea garden drips maple syrup and pelican LouisIANA MOClasses offered by Pacific Coast Syrup Co. Sold in cans through grocers, with refunds for unsatisfactory purchases and a request to ensure the manufacturer's name is lithographed on each can.
A short promotional note from August 26, 1895 in Faubucher La praises Piso’s Cure for Consumption and urges trying Schilling’s Best tea and baking powder as a product plug within a historical newspaper fragment.
The Columbus Buggy Co resumed operations on July 20 and cites the strongest September trade in a decade. Customers favor the "Good Old Columbus" as workmanship meets the old high standard. A G and J Q Glenn of San Francisco have become Pacific Coast Agents and report multiple carloads of new styles. Glenn Bros. also serve as coast agents for other major factories and offer extensive stock with varied prices and styles.
An Erie Medical Company advertisement promises a peer reviewed guide on marriage, natural vigor, and home remedies. It claims the work offers scientific facts and methods to cure nervousness and sexual disorders and invites inquiries to receive a free copy at 65 Niagara St Buffalo NY.
The arctic tundra yields immense fruit crops from cranberry, cloudberry and crowberry bushes, drawing millions of birds to breed there. Snow preserves last year’s harvest until melt reveals food, while prolific insect life drives insectivorous birds to the region. Mosquito swarms color the landscape, shaping bird populations such as warblers and wagtails feeding on them.
A fragment from London Tit-Bits describes a character named Murphy inquirying about smoking glass to see sunspots. The dialogue shows confusion over correct glass and a claim of being harmed by the pipe draw while doubting Dooley’s guidance.
A public health notice urges immediate use of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for inactive kidneys and bladder and cites Bright's disease. A conversational aside references a reader's volume of fugitive verses and a playful exchange about authorship.
A playful exchange notes that an average ball covers about nine miles of dancing. The Practical Daughter observes a girl is carried most of the way, while the mother warns against overlong dancing.
Accounts portray heroic acts as warfront resolve. A gunner with throat injury directs a subordinate to operate a gun lever before dying. A man with severe burns aids others until flames are out, then dies. An abdomen wound victim refuses help to spare fighters. A mortally wounded man shares locker key before dying.
George Sanders, 11, wandered from a pasture near Cleveland, Washington, mounted on a mare while chasing a cayuse. After hours of cold, hunger, and fatigue, he topped Simcoe Mountains and was found by Will Faulkner, then guided home to relieved parents.
The Great Seal, a double silver die for state documents, was once used for cooking. Tales tell Cardinal Wolsey and later Brougham mishaps with the seal, including a pancake making escapade at Rothiemurchus where the seal was concealed by ladies and found in a tea chest.
Mr Kronnick comments while viewing the eclipse through smoked glass saying it chose a cooler day to avoid discomfort. He suggests the sun might have acted on a hotter day to ease their discomfort.
The Kansas Russell ore claim from a 100 foot depth is said to pan out about $109 to the toll.
Old Cape Cod captain Pat terson retired to Barnstaple and enters his stubborn cow in a fair. To move her he rigged a sail on the cow with rope and a mast, guiding her to the grounds like a ship. The crowd cheered as the sailpowered bovine crossed to the fairship, earning the captain a special prize for clever cattle handling.
A prosperous but extravagant farmer on the Rus sell ave pike sought a $2,000 loan from the Northern bank through Hart Boswell for his brother Dave. Boswell urged him to stop hiring others and drive his own wagon to market. After selling his corn, director R. T. Anderson approved, noting any man who drives his own wagon can borrow freely, changing the borrower’s fortunes.
A local tale from Punxsutawney Spirit describes a boy who kept a large sucker as a pet. The fish was raised out of water until it walked and followed the boy, then fell overboard from a swinging bridge into the creek and drowned before rescue.
A reflection on how minor choices influence future outcomes. The speaker notes that small accidents can alter destiny, comparing life to streams widening toward the sea and memory as a labyrinth guiding fate through time. The verses attribute enduring influence to actions, both good and ill.
An advertisement asserts that nerve trouble signals poor health in women and that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound can rebuild nerves and restore the female system. It cites testimonial women from Philadelphia Cincinnati Brooklyn Woburn New Rochelle and other areas and invites readers to write for confidential guidance.
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