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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1897
Page
4
A nostalgic ad style note warns of returning rheumatic pains with changing seasons and promotes St Jacobs Oil as a universal remedy. It claims the oil can ease pains from rheumatism neuralgia and stiffness, styling it as a helper to enjoy better times.
The ad extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a fortifying remedy for seasickness and general digestion. It claims benefits against malaria rheumatism and dyspepsia and promises relief from constipation. A separate joke queries women’s rights and bachelors.
The note praises Pure Food Tea Garden Drips as a pure sugar product described as the sweetest and most favored table syrup ever made. It highlights its sugary quality and positive reception.
The advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only known positive cure for catarrh a constitutional disease. It claims internal use affects blood and mucous surfaces and offers one hundred dollars for any case not cured. Address F J Cheney and Co Toledo Ohio and notes 75 cent price. also promotes Hall's Family Pills.
In Detroit near the western market, locals discuss a lanky horse owned by a farmer near Ypsilanti. The creature, named Cyclone, survived a cyclone that savaged a barn and fences years ago, then miraculously appeared in a hen coop unharmed, earning praise for its seeming grit and pluck.
A Chicago Times Herald piece recalls Andrew, a Swedish mail carrier in Silverton, who vanished with a sack of letters. His brother, searching through canyons and snow for two years, uncovered a boat and his brother’s coat, revealing a tragic tale of fidelity and a grave left at the canyon head.
Certain high altitude plants adapt to brief summers by letting top buds sprout and take root instead of relying on ripened seeds. This natural pro vision ensures species continuation when seed ripening is impossible in the alpine environment.
A collage of wry quips from Life Puck and Judge style columns. Jokes cover walking, riding, courting, telephones, and courtship misfires. Interjections note baby smiles, cyclometers, and a donkeys as chaperon while cartoonish banter mocks social norms and travel mishaps.
The table lists principal bridges by nation with lengths in feet: Tay 9 696, Forth 5 552, Moerdyck 4 820, Volga 4 715, Weichsel 4 346, Theon 4 172, Grander Elbe 3 580. It notes the Forth main span reaches 1 725 feet and the East River Brooklyn Bridge span 1 601 feet.
Ollie Heath, born and raised among the Cherokees, debuts on stage as Puck in Marie Wainwright's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. She later attended a seminary where she first learned the basics of acting and stagecraft.
Morphine injection grows in France with pharmacists estimating at least 50 000 victims in Paris, most of them women. Lazy People: Inhabitants of the Sandwich Islands do little work as nature provides enough food, leaving natives content with their subsistence.
A brief item notes a divorce filing following marriage strain. A doctor appears unexpectedly early, and a patient mentions dog disruption of medicine left for treatment. A parting gift described as a brush and comb accompanies the scene.
In a St Nicholas article, Frank M Chapman details woodpecker anatomy. He notes a wedge shaped beak with equal mandibles, a long flexible tongue with barbs, bristly tail feathers on larger species, and a unique two forward two backward toe arrangement praised by a blind observer.
A historical account recalls Admiral Cockburn leading British troops in August 1814 through Bladensburg to Washington where they burned the Capitol, White House, and numerous public and private buildings after looting. fires destroyed vast official records and valuable furnishings as marauders feasted and departed.
An eclectic advertisement fragment endorses Toboggan Maple Syrup as pure and flavorful and cites physician approval. It also lists Piso's Cure for Consumption as a household cough medicine with a customer testimonial from D. C. Albright of Mifflinburg PA dated December 11 1895. Additional lines promote Schilling's Best tea and baking powder and claim rupture and piles cures with a book offer from Drs Mansfield and Porterfield at 838 Market St San Francisco.
A specimen from Crystal Rock Salt Mining Co shows a lake sized deposit near Cadiz along the Atlantic and Pacific line. The vast salt beds cover about a thousand acres, extend sixty feet deep with no bottom in sight, and yield pure transparent salt like glass readable through a two foot thick block.
The movable guard for light carriages is woven from willow basket work and shaped like a coat hanger. It fits over a wheel rim and is carried in the carriage. It is placed on the wheel to protect a woman’s gown when entering or leaving the carriage.
In a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court case over fatal damages, Senator Hoar contests Ben Butler’s plea citing Job about life. Hoar dismisses the line as a devilish plea not deserving court sympathy. Also notes on fruits claimed to purify blood and aid rheumatism with oranges recommended.
In a London Fun column two characters joke about boot squeaks, contrasting accessories with unpaid items. Gus de Smythe mocks the squeak while Johnnie Fewseads retorts that all clothing would squeak if the issue were real. The piece uses humor to lampoon thrift and propriety.
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