Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Adverts
A promotional notice urging women with backache and other female illness symptoms to try Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It cites testimonials from Mrs. Peter Gaffney and Mrs. Emma Imse in Brooklyn and Milwaukee, touts thousands of cures, and invites readers to write for advice to Mrs. Pinkham of Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Peter Gaffney
Marcey Ave
Brooklyn
N.Y
Milwaukee
Wis
Lydia E. Pinkli
Emma Imse
First St
Lydia FE. Pinkham
Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Nelson Battle Defeated In Camden County Election
Atlanta April 27 Special dispatch reports Nelson Battle veteran Camden County magistrate defeated for re election. Battle the Reconstruction era survivor faced W W King who alleged fraud. second election ordered and King won, but commis sion not yet issued amid capitol suspicions Battle held up returns. A later item notes a boy’s letter saving a man from death sentence in Clay County.
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Atlanta
J— Masion
Nelson Battle
Camden County
Battle
Bulloch
W. W. King
King
Nelson
Aanta
Lewis Millicons
Clay County
Tfe
Wade Baird
Nonprescription relief for rheumatism types
Many people object to strong medicines for rheumatism. Most cases are muscular or chronic varieties with no fever or little swelling. Apply Chamberlain's ointment freely for quick relief. price 25 cents or 10 cents large size, sold by local druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
H. R. Palmer & Sons
Orr Drug Co
Warren J.smith & Bro
E. C. McEvoy
L. P. Canning
Billion Dollar Railway Merger Rumor Circulates in New York
A report claims E H Harriman seeks to fuse New York Central lines into a single 1 billion dollar company governing over 12 000 miles of lines including West Shore Lake Shore and Michigan Southern and Canadian Southern with centralized management. No concrete plan or details are given and Nickle Plate is not included. Burial service for Annie O'Hara planned after tribe funeral in Atlanta.
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New York
E. H. Harriman
New York Central
Treasury
West Shore
Lake Shore
Michigan Southern
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Chicago
St. Louis
Pittsburg
Rossiter
Albert H. Harris
New York Central Lines
Drunk Man Sues Rail Line for 25000 Damages
B F Sanders sues Southern Railway in Atlanta claiming he boarded a Birmingham to Atlanta train March 13 while intoxicated. He says the conductor knocked him from the moving car amid a ticket search, crushing one arm and causing significant injuries. He seeks 25000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Southern Railway
B. F. Sanders
Sanders
Birmingham
Words to Freeze the Soul and the New Discovery Tale
A Springfield North Carolina merchant recounts being told his son had consumption and no hope. After using Dr King’s New Discovery for three weeks his son recovered fully. The ad claims it cures coughs and colds and lung diseases with a free trial bottle offered by local merchants.
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Geo. E. Blevens
Springfield
N. C
Dr. King
Mr. Blevens
W. J. Smiths
H. R.palmer & Sons
Rosin Leads Turpentine in Naval Stores Value in 1908
Washington reports 1908 marked the first time rosin value surpassed turpentine in U S naval stores. Improved turpentining raised rosin quality and demand with paler grades boosting use in varnish soap sizing and lubricants. Consumption exceeded 4 250 000 barrels valued near 18 million dollars amid price shifts and rising foreign demand.
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Washington
Naval
United States
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Niagara
Bright
J. R. Blankenship
Belk, Tenn
W. J. Smith & Bro
Jacob Dold
Foley
Annie O'Hara
Tom O'Hara
Walterboro
O'Hara
Nashville
Cincinnat
Bondurant Hardware Co
Rosa A. von der Lieth
College Ave
Lyndon Manufacturing
Contracting Department
G. M. Caskey
Athens
G&s. S. Crane & GC
Atlas Portland Cement
Orr’s School
Pulaski and
Dougherty Streets
Ss. P. Orr
John L. Arnold
Gorner Clayton and
Jackson Streets
Standard Lumber & Mi’g Co
Chase ST
Wynburn Place and &, A. L. Rwy
Harry Hull
M. Stern
M. G. Michael
G. A. Mell
B. Y. Harris
The
Athens Savings Bank
M. Stern, W. T. Bryan
Deupres Hunnicutt
M. G. Michael, J. A. Hunnicutt, T. & Mell
L. F. Edwards
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