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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1883
Page
8
A baby elephant, bound for a Chicago showman, was found in a sealed express car after a train halted three times on Tuesday. Conductor set watches, caught the culprit when opening the car, the trunk gripping the airbrake cord with a calm expression.
A period piece advertises Electric Bitters for relief from low spirits appetite loss and bilious disorders claiming rapid improvement and renewed strength. The 50 cent bottle is sold by H. K. Dorr. A Hawkeye cartoon adds a humorous side note about a man and lockjaw.
Distress from dyspepsia diarrhea and stomach humor is claimed relieved by Hood's Sarsaparilla. The ad touts remarkable cures, asserts trusted efficacy, and says the medicine improves appetite and body energy while urging readers to try a bottle.
This item compiles short testimonials and ads for medical cures from early newspapers. It cites W D Wilson of Ottawa Illinois praising Dr Bigelow's Positive Cure after three months of lung trouble and a free bottle at Lash's drug store. It also notes a Mercer Pennsylvania minister who supposedly cured a dog by prayer and lists Shiloh's remedies for consumption cough and catarrh with prices and Lash as sponsor.
A Philadelphia reader from February 1 1583 reports long trial of musular rheumatism with five doctors and finds Allcock's Plaster on the affected parts highly effective. He declares the pain nearly gone and recommends the plaster as the best, noting other kinds were worthless.
Epwakp D. Buaxnan writes of rheumatic and kidney troubles improve after using Allcock's Porous Plasters. He had tried two other plasters without success and credits one plaster with curing his complaints and bringing comic relief.
The Minneapolis Tribune ridicules Judge Hoadly in his Hamilton keynote for trying to appease liquor sellers and fans with feigned temperance zeal. It compares his stumping to a failing church case where a repenting woman tries to fly but lands hard, saying he lacks the right flop to win friends before the election.
A thirty year old letter extols Ely’s Cream Balm as a remedy for hay fever after eleven years of suffering, with endorsements from R Watson Harris and C T Stephens and a 50 cent price. The piece also notes a celebrated minstrel’s death after joking with his doctor about wives and husbands, a quip linked to his final days.
A known patent medicine, Electric Bitters, is praised as a valuable cure for biliousness fever and ague stomach liver and kidney complaints, recommended openly. The Knoxville Tennessee region experiences a mysterious reservoir loss of 500 000 gallons through an opening at the bottom with oily water springs nearby, prompting local speculation about the city’s foundations.
An advertising claim extols Dr. Jones's Red Clover Tonic as a cure for dyspepsia, biliousness, costiveness, and kidney liver and bladder diseases. It is described as a tonic and blood purifier that clears the skin, prevents pimples, and promotes health. Price 50 cents.
Dr J A Patmore of Riley Indiana asserts in his practice that Samari tan Nervine cures epileptic fits. He states I prescribe it in my practice and recommends the remedy to treat epilepsy.
A special train left New York City last week with a renowned New York physician bound for Montreal for consultation, completing the journey in under eleven hours. At one stretch five miles were covered in four minutes and forty eight seconds per mile. Sleepless nights and coughs are soothed by Shiloh's Cure, sold by E R Lash.
Old advertisement touts the best salve for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions. It promises perfect satisfaction or money refunded with a price of 25 cents per box offered by H. K. Dorr.
A Herald column reflects on a comment about providence and ruin, contrasting a church steeple’s ornament with a shot tower’s functional purpose. The piece muses on why towers survive and what that says about use versus decoration.
Advert reads Dr Quinn's Great Discovery for coughs colds and consumption. Claims no opium or morphia, offers immediate evidence of cures. Encourages trial at Lash's drug store in Athens via Dr Quinn's Irish Liniment.
An advertisement argues against pledges failing due to liquor, urging temperance by removing the craving for stimulants. It promotes Brown's TRON Bitters from Brown Chemical Company in Baltimore as a genuine tonic curing nervousness weakness and general ill health, with a price of $1.00 per bottle.
A Providence drug dealer and long time user testifies to Hunt's Remedy curing rheumatic kidney illness. He describes severe prior attacks, physician ineffectiveness, and subsequent relief after taking the remedy, claiming restored kidney function and overall health.
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