Pain Balm Testimony Promotes Local Remedy
A Dayton paper reader from New Lebanon Ohio touts Chamberlin’s Pain Balm for a wife’s back pain, claiming relief after a few days and full cure before using the bottle. The ad extols Allen’s Foot-Base as a remedy for foot issues and promotes mail orders and store availability.
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Gorge Schank
Ger
New Lebanon
Ohio
Dayton Volketung
Chamberlin
Allen
le Roy
How To Avoid Trouble With a Routine Colic Remedy
Advice urges families to buy Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy now to prevent nighttime crises. Claims it is the most successful bowel medicine for children and adults and widely available from druggists.
Remarkable Cure Advertisements Mention Cough Remedy
A mixed set of testimonial style lines touts Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and Foley's Kidney Cure. Claims of asthma like cough relief, kidney pain relief, and general health restoration are presented by named individuals including H. J. Strickfaden and John R. Hudson.
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Chamberlain
H. J. Strickfaden
World-I Herald
Fair Haven
Watch
All Druggista
Thomas Maple
Birkbeck
Lil
Foley
John Re Hudson
Veterans Parade In Dixie Reunion Draws Five Thousand
The United Confederate Veterans final day featured a grand parade with about 5,000 veterans, bands, and accompanying organizations marching from Confederate hall to the riverfront. General George W. Gordon led the procession, followed by prominent dignitaries and maids of honor, as divisions from multiple states and departments filed past crowds on a clear, ideal day.
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Ling
Confederate Hall
Dixie
River Front
Main Street
Court of Honor
Constan
Gordon
George
W. Gordon
A. R. Taylor
John B
George Moorman
Kiry Denton
Mra Elly . Ball
E Camfogs
Eloise Wormeley
J. H. Humphreys
Phoebe Frazer Edmonds
Joseph Bruce
M. O. Callaway
Bettie Yancey
Department of the Army of Northern Virginia
Virginia
Maryland
North Carolina
South Carolina
West Virginia
Trans-Mississippi
Missouri
Texas
Arkansas
Indian Territory
Oklahoma
Pacific Coast
Army of Tennessee
Kentucky
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Florida
Tennessee
Negro Division of Veterans
Forrast
Cavalry Corps
Sons of Veterans
Biscoe Hindman
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Memphis
Deadly pistol duel ends in Memphis brothers duel ends in tragedy
In Memphis Mepis May 81 William Wooten and his brother Jesse Wooten shot each other on a crowded street after a Confederate veterans parade. William fell dead at Jesse wife’s feet while Jesse lay mortally wounded, both men seized by officers and placed under arrest. Domestic troubles cited as motive.
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Jesse P. Wooten
W. Wooten
Memphis
Mepis
William Wooten
Jesse
Brother
Forty-Six Bales of Cotton Recovered From Catawba River
In Onantorte North Carolina May 31 the interior of the big cotton compress shows a floor coated with nine feet of cotton. A cotton bale from the Catawba river belonged to the Southern Railway and was part of a wreck that dragged a trestle and several cars downstream. Forty six bales were recovered and spread to dry. Also recovered were a rice car Granite car and a provisions car. Farmers along the stream may later find a crop of rice growing nearby.
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Onantorte
N. C
Catawba
Southern Railway Company
Mozley Lemon Elixir Adverts and Anecdotes Across Pages
A compilation of testimonials and promotional text for Mozley’s Lemon Elixir detailing its claimed cures for biliousness indigestion and malaria plus reader letters praising relief from headaches and dyspepsia. The snippet also includes unrelated ad lines and generic quotes from various sources.
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H. Mozley
Atlanta
de. H. Mozley
Bawrenn
Griflip
Morning Call
New York Chamber Delegates Meeting With King Edward
Delegates from the New York chamber of commerce arrived at Windsor Castle at King Edward's invitation. The king’s reception was abrumed by rumors of political significance and a royal mourning explanation. Delegates toured Windsor with a royal overseer, then shared refreshments in a shaded orangery area before a formal audience.
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Lonnos
New York Chamber of Commerce
Windsor Castle
King Edward
Lord Avebury
Indsor Castle
New York
Windsor
Metropolis
Messrs
Carnegie
London
Et Ee Matus
Victoria
Wrrrior
England
Anxiety in England over South Africa war reports
The British war office silence on Boer victories near Pretoria fuels anxiety in England. A Sun story claims Botha sought peace via Standerton with Kruger, and that Kitchener allowed it. Claims of 10,000 Zulus on the warpath and other Boer raids are cited as further tensions. A medical testimonial notes Foley's Honey and Tar easing a child’s croup.
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South Africa
Windfonteis
War Office
Pretoria
Lospow
The
Sun Today
Botha
Standerton
Kruger
Netherlands
Kitchener
Sun
Zululand
The Alabama Convention and Flood of Ordinances
A Mayland Alabama constitutional convention opens with roll call but stalls after reaching the letter K. The session features proposals on road taxation, jury verdict thresholds, waivers of trial by jury, education board membership, veterans tax exemptions, district residency, school fund racial division, school tax rates, interest caps, railroad commissioners selection, and a literacy test as citizenship proof.
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Mowroommay
Ala
Booker T. Washington
Boards of Education
An & A
Senate
Remedy for Nervous Exhaustion
A vintage advertisement promotes the Mystic Life Renewer as the fastest nerve builder and life strengthener. It claims to cure loss of appetite indigestion nervous weakness heart palpitations and failing health. Marketed by E J Eldridge a druggist in Americas with a marketing claim about virtue and pleasure.
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E. J. Eldridge
Americas
Blood Balm advert promises cure all with B B B tonic
An old patent medicine ad hawks Botanic Blood Balm as a cure for ulcers scrofula pimples itching and bone ache claiming it purifies the blood and restores vigor. It offers a trial and price of one dollar from Blood Balm Co Atlanta Ga. A stray sentence about a man named Jonah and his wife follows with no clear link to the ad.
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Atlanta
Anti-Diuretic May Help Parents and Sleepers
An arching ad cites Dr E Dotchon s anti diuretic as useful for children and sleep related bed wetting. It touts cures by E J Eldridge druggist and mentions Mr F D Arnold s endorsement. The Peabody Institute colored teachers meet June 17 for two weeks in Cordale, Sumter county teachers required to attend at least one week. Dr Loyal Ford s Dyspepticide promoted as a cure for indigestion and related symptoms.
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Peabody Institute
Peabody Institute For Colored Teachers
Cordale
Sumter County
Moonn
County School
Bumter Coy
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Mozley
Erta W
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Morley
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Middlesboro
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Loyal Ford
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