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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1903
Page
2
A long experience in the Fancy and Staple Grocery business highlights commitment to quality. The grocer promises the best money can buy and emphasizes prompt delivery and attentive, courteous service in every detail.
The article surveys historic references to fish used in medicine, detailing perch and carp valued for healing effects, and notes on barbel and tench. It cites German, English, and Roman authorities, with anecdotes from Gesner Aldrovandus and Dame Herners, and recalls observations of the tench as a healing fish and the barbel’s poisonous lore.
Advertising copy touts Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as the best for burns sores bruises cuts boils ulcers and skin eruptions. The 25 cent remedy is guaranteed to satisfy by West End Drug Store and Miller Drug Co. Druggists.
The article notes that St Dunstan, famed Weald smith and Canterbury archbishop, is linked to a legendary encounter with the devil at Mayfield Sussex. It adds a tale of the saintly hammer and tongs said to have belonged to Dunstan, kept at Mayfield palace.
A brief quoted exchange discusses a recent drive and a six dollar fare for a rig. The text then reflects on infancy as springtime, seed sowing for a young life. The tone is moralizing and reflective, written in a historical newspaper style.
An old advertisement claims a single day cure for a cold using Laxative Bromo Quinine Tallets. It offers a money back guarantee if it fails and features E. W. Grove's signature on the box. Prices noted as 25e.
An advertisement offers Botanic Blood Balm as a cure for rheumatism and catarrh. It claims the medicine cleanses the blood to relieve back and shoulder pains, joint swelling, and symptoms like hawking and specks before the eyes. Free samples and medical advice are described, with the Atlanta Georgia address for Bleed Balm Co.
Donahoo and Company advertise sale of Blocton coal with orders taken at the old location.
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