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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1897
Page
4
Jim and John, townsmen and chums, attend a hot baseball game and suffer back pains. A stray ball injures them and Lumbago worsens, but Jim's St Jacobs Oil relieves their aches. They joke about the cure and retire for the night, both waking in good humor and health.
Dialogue highlights a wife noting her husband’s quiet dress habits and a playful remark about his habit of misplacing collars and cuff-buttons, provoking humorous exchange between Mrs. Cumso and Mrs. Cawker.
The advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy that cures catarrh at all disease stages. It claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, strengthens the system, and offers one hundred dollar reward for any case it fails to cure. Also mentions Hall's Family Pills and Toledo based makers F J Cheney & Co.
Dr Samuel Pitcher of Hyannis Massachusetts asserts exclusive rights to the words CASTORIA and PITCHER S CASTORIA and claims only The Centaur Company with Chas H Fletcher as president may use his name signature on wrappers. He notes the product has served mothers for over thirty years and urges mothers to verify the wrapper signature.
A promotional note states Tea Garden Drips is a pure product and promises forfeiture of $1000 if any published testimonials are proven false. It also mentions wheat consignments totaling 150 carloads at San Diego awaiting shipment to Great Britain.
A long, mixed OCR digest reports on pioneers in medicine and industry, tax practices, legal verdicts, colonial politics, reform efforts, theater festivals, and wildlife controls. It mentions Georgia’s first female physician, rising wheat consumption, British Guiana church plans, London periodicals, dental advances, newspaper turnover in New York, a Lucan inn sign, Nile relics, diving dress tests, Baroness Hirsch philanthropy, electricity employment, a mixed Paris Senate verdict, Madagascar costs, Swedish and Russian restraint for dripsomaniacs, wart cures, Australian rabbit infestation, vast US streetcar mileage, Transvaal racial rules, Joubert and mine labor, and a Morlan hair market.
Hairdressers crowd a street as they haul bright shears from leather straps while young peasant girls gather in doorways to sell their hair. Dealers walk the line in search of customers, with couples often standing near the storefronts awaiting offers.
Captain Sherman of the whaling steamer Beluga announces the birth of his daughter Helen Herschel Sherman near Herschel island in the Arctic. The event attracts attention from four captain’s wives and local whalers who sent gifts, with Rev Stringer baptizing the child and ruling the birthplace as American under his view of jus sanguinis.
The Washington Star reports on Florida alligator hunting from 1880 to 1894. It notes 2.5 million killed, 30,000 hides traded in Kissimmee, 4,000 pelts to Fort Pierce, 30,000 skins by Jacksonville firms, and hunters fetching 20 to 25 dollars for baby alligators. Teeth and stuffing sustain 40 workers. Growth is slow. a twelve footer may be 75 years old. Jacksonville centers the traffic with many sales to tourists and rough live and stuffed sales.
U S yearly sugar consumption runs about 2 000 000 tons or 4 000 000 000 pounds equating to roughly sixty pounds per person. Salt use is about 1 900 000 tons or 2 000 000 pounds less than sugar’s weight.
Wyoming has the smallest female population at 21 362 while New York leads with 3 020 960. A man does not tire of circuses until the very last thing.
A youthful journalist recalls an extraordinary afternoon when Ulysses S. Grant, then president, invited him to stroll along Pennsylvania Avenue. The pair shared stories around the White House, ending with a private drink, leaving the reporter proud and astonished at his encounter.
In 1840 Thackeray discussed why English are disliked by other races. He argues they are hated for arrogance and insolence, not foreign envy, citing a Belgian and French perception, and contrasts English snobbery with their social restraint. He notes a carriage gentleman’s pompous greeting as an example of national dullness.
The piece notes that ax handle making requires skill tied to timber grain and that machines cannot replicate this craft. It describes how beginners overestimate ease, only to discover the difficulty after the handle is fitted. Many duel with the realization and defer to experienced artisans.
The Kansas City Star notes that Chicago residents feel a troubling presence in their water, a sensory reaction suggesting contaminated supply without relying on Roentgen rays. The item frames public concern as a matter of trust in municipal water quality.
A weary old gentleman distrusts courting suitors for his daughter while a guest confesses he is not in love. The daughter intervenes revealing a private theatricals arrangement at Mrs. Winton's. The elder, bewildered, finally blurts Take her, my son, take her. Detroit Free Press.
A general order from the War Department establishes an emergency ration for short term troop use. The menu lists bacon, hard bread, pea meal, coffee or tea, saccharin, salt, pepper, and tobacco with strict limits on duration and carry. The Subsistence Department will package each item accordingly for field use.
A description of the mood caused by dyspepsia and how Hostetter's Stomach Bitters banishes the ugly spirits known as the blues blue devils megrims and mulligrubs while also curing biliousness constipation chills fever kidney complaints and nervousness.
A Bloomers controversy is described as young women debate attire with two camps. One group insists bloomers should be banned while the other criticizes the idea as vulgar and argues colors should be solid.
A women friendly appeal from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co promotes contacting Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for guidance on female weakness. It stresses comfort and privacy, noting thousands already wrote for help and that no charge is required. Also mentions Toboggan Maple Syrup and Schilling's Best tea and baking powder.
A lesson to mothers on guiding daughters toward a healthy future. The text emphasizes watchfulness over their physical well being and cites Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a trusted aid for female health issues. It portrays feminine change as a parent’s responsibility and links well being to life outcomes.
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