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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1898
Page
3
Fragmentary notes discuss growth influenced by large standing armies and the spread of dis content. The text promotes Bitters as a remedy for indigestion fever and nervous issues, urging readers to try one bottle.
The fragmentary notice blends a comic exchange about selling a suburban lot for a new wheel with advertisements for Jesse Moore Whiskey Hall's Catarrh Cure Dr Kline's Great Nerve Restorer and prune crop duty corrections. It shows varied era advertising and a casual editorial tone.
In a letter from Holly West Virginia Mrs Lucy Goodwin recounts four years of womb trouble and nervous prostration. She credits Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Sonative Wash and Liver Pills with restoring her health and weight from 108 to 131 pounds.
The article describes using zinc and sulphuric acid in water to remove rust from iron objects. Zinc must remain in electrical contact. wrap wires or use batery zinc to connect. For delicate items, use galvanized wire and milder acid. After rust is removed, wash and oil, warm slightly to aid absorption.
An item notes a baked good made with Schilling's Dest baking powder claiming no litter taste and mentions pie.
Mines in Lehigh Valley at Audenried cave in as church structures sink. Garlock cyanide plant in Kern County now works sixty tons daily with tailings stock around twenty thousand tons. Eureka mill at Randsburg processes eight tons daily with several tons from Little Butte ore. Cyanide plants expand as costs fall in Los Angeles boosting Southern California gold output.
The article recounts the 1885 creation of the California State school book system as a protest against private publishers, details the long fight by the book trust to undermine state printing, and notes the California State School-Book League forming to defend the system, highlighting cost savings and cross‑state influence.
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