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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1900
Page
3
The ad touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a tested cure for diseases caused by bad blood and low vitality. It emphasizes blood purification, stomach toning, and nerve strengthening, claiming relief from Yege and nervousness, debility, fatigue, and all bloody diseases. Only Hood's is recommended.
Hard woods in Paraguay include quebracho a highly profitable timber. It yields an extract used for tanning leather. Paraguay forests abound with quebracho and exports to Europe and the United States as an Argentine product shipped via that country.
The exchange reveals Eliza telling inquirers the flat is within walking distance without specifying the destination. The dialog highlights casual evasiveness about what constitutes walking distance and avoids prompting further questions.
A Philadelphia North American item reports a ten year sentence imposed on a forger who proclaims that great writers must suffer to grant complete freedom to art.
In a Harpers Ferry flood incident President John W. Garrett ordered a loaded silk train onto the bridge to stabilize it. The silk bound for the west came from San Francisco via China and Japan. Garrett’s decisive action saved the costly railroad bridge and aided American development.
Edward T Dudley a San Francisco attorney testifies to a dramatic recovery from paralysis and blood depletion after taking Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. He credits weight gain from 145 to 185 pounds and renewed mobility with the pills, urging others to try them as a blood maker and nerve builder. The advertisement notes the pills cost 50 cents a box or six for $2.50 and may be bought from druggists or by mail from the Dr Williams Medicine Company Schenectady NY.
The Dewey homestead birthplace of Admiral George Dewey, moved by T. R. Gordon in 1890, stands at its present site, with visitors welcomed by the Gordons. A letter from Gordon to Peruna Drug Mfg Co. praises the remedy for his wife’s chronic catarrh and sleep disruption, claiming marked relief.
In Oakland California night burglars forced an entrance to the Eleventh street doorway at Hook's furniture, wrecked the safe interior with hammer and jimmy, damaged desk drawers, and escaped with $1 in two cent stamps.
Claiming S S S builds up blood and cures weak emaciated systems with no minerals, the ad features testimonials from J F Durr of Princeton Missouri and urges readers to request free book and medical advice from The Swift Specific Co Atlanta GA.
War Department reports Captain Charles McQuesten of the Fourth United States Infantry died in Mangonone Bagor Cavite province from a gunshot wound inflicted by a private soldier. MacArthur notes the captain attacked company members in a temporary insanity fit and was shot in self defense. Further details to come.
The Pasadena News notes a $750 judgment for a man who did not receive the sleeping berth he paid for. It argues editors who ride in Pullman cars feel the impact, suggesting some things are valued more when not obtained.
In 1873 a silver dollar equaled one dollar and six-meths in gold and in 1896 forty five cents. Money may de preciate but there is one standard medicine which has not changed in half a century. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters remains the remedy for indigestion dyspepsia or kidney troubles.
Mrs Casey recalls a wounded soldier begging for whisky and Mrs Dolan speaks of fatherless children as war tears through home, while Carter’s Ink touts forty years of experience and bills a free Inklings sample. Sperry and Crown mills donate flour to Galveston sufferers. Circulars promote Cas Carets Candy Cathartic laxative in drugstores nationwide.
Advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Ease powder as instant relief for tight shoes, bunions, swelling, blisters, callouses, ingrown nails and sweating. Claims 30 000 testimonials and that it cures while you walk. Sold by druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents with a free trial by mail from Allen 3 Olmstead Le Roy New York.
The Highland area debates moving the central mail office to Highland with carriers based there, closing East Highlands and Delrosa offices while keeping Patton for asylum service. A mix of local notices and personal notes follow including household ads and teething remedy promotion.
An advertisement asserts deafness stems from inflammation of the Eustachian tube and catarrh, promising to pay one hundred dollars for any deafness case caused by catarrh that cannot be cured. It promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills, listing Toledo, Ohio as the company location and druggists at 75 cents.
A mosaic of quips and humorous exchanges from varied sources. The bits cover puns about porcelain walls, blackmail, Irish accents, labor strikes, and playful anecdotes about trains, clocks, and family life. The tone mirrors a late 19th or early 20th century humor column with brisk lines and punchy setups.
A column endorses Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female ailments, arguing it has decades of proven cures. Readers share testimonials from Miss Jalz Saul of Dover and Miss Rosa Held en of Canton praising relief from monthly pains and related symptoms.
Two women recount severe womb troubles and monthly bleeding with tumors. after doctors failed, they used Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. One woman, Mary A. Stahl of Watsontown, says tumors expelled and health restored. another, B Davins of Binghamton, reports cure from leucorrhea and recommends the remedies.
Mrs Mary Vauaun of Trimble Kentucky describes severe child bed fever and womb troubles lasting eight months after birth. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Liver Pills and Wash with relief allowing her to perform housework and expresses hope the letter helps others.
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