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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1898
Page
3
A reader describes relief after five bottles of Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound for womb trouble piles and leucorrhea. The notice urges women to write to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for free advice and says many letters support the medicine's usefulness.
A dozen men drill day and night beyond Casitas Pass hoping to strike the fountain head of the oil supply for the Summerland and Santa Paula districts. Backed by San Francisco capitalists, the venture shows promising prospects though success remains uncertain.
Hercules Gasoline Engine and Pumping Plant offers irrigation solutions from 1 to 200 HP built by Hercules Gas Engine Works of San Francisco. Circulars describe the Special 244 HP Engine and Peel Plant. Hundreds sold this year, touted as prompt efficient and economical for irrigation, with potential crop savings.
Experts debate the difference between battleships and armored cruisers. While battleships aim for heavier guns and armor, real cases show uncertainties. The Maine, a battleship, was smaller and less armored than the armored cruiser Brooklyn, though cruisers are generally faster and battleships usually better protected.
Penn had a strong aversion to tobacco and surprised Friends who hid their pipes to respect their leader. The governor remarked that they were ashamed of the practice, and a Quaker replied that they chose to lay down their pipes to avoid offending a weaker brother.
The text recalls Hamilton palace as an early Scottish user of dessert spoons with a rough squire disputing a spoon’s use after a sweet course. It also notes snuff color varying with fermentation extent, attributed to the Argo anecdote.
Colonel Calliper recalls Silas Zingtock of Storkville Centre Vermont who built a house blower to let his ailing son Rufus fly a kite indoors. The device ran wild when Rufus pressed it, shattering windows and parlor goods, ending the indulgence. A London curate’s quip about health adds a humorous closing vignette.
The piece notes vast gold shipments from South Africa, the Klondike, and Australia and forecasts the year’s output nearly doubling the previous twelve months. It also mentions rising sales of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters aiming to cure dyspepsia and related ailments. An Atlantic City lifeboat scene is cited with a witty exchange about a ship in distress.
An advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to ease swollen nervous feet hot sensations and tiredness. It claims relief from smarting tight shoes blisters corns bunions and foot pain with a 25 cent price and mail order option from Allen Olmstead Le Roy New York.
A reader, Mrs. J. Nichols of Princeton Indiana, reports a cure for a bad lung trouble using Piso's Cure for Consumption. The testimonial is dated March 26, 1895.
An advertisement asserts deafness comes from an inflamed Eustachian Tube and offers $100 for any deafness caused by catarrh that Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure. It promotes Dr Kline's Nerve Restorer with a free trial bottle and treats. Includes contact details in Philadelphia and price notes for pills and tea products.
In Mrs Sid dons' hearing a friend argued applause aids actors by giving confidence. Another voice added it also gives the audience breath, underscoring the social function of applause in performance venues.
A collage of humorous exchanges and quips from old newspapers including Detroit Journal Chicago Journal Tid Bits New York World Judge and more. It showcases social jests about society office life court rooms and traveler anecdotes reflecting witty banter and regional flavors.
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