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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1816
Page
4
An advertisement touts a popular remedy priced at one dollar and fifty cents praised as the most valuable medicine for coughs colds consumption hooping cough and chest pains. It claims rapid relief for asthma bronchial issues hoarseness wheezing and shortness of breath with benefits extending to summer complaints in children and digestive disturbances.
An 19th century medicine advertisement promotes Dr Robertson's Vegetable Nervous Cordial at $1.50 claiming rapid relief for nervous disorders and weak spirits. It touts anti scurbutic properties, blood purification, skin diseases like scurvy, and accompanies with Anti Bilious Pills and Gout and Rheumatic Drops priced at $2 for gout and related ailments.
An 1814 advertisement touts Dr Robertson’s Worm Destroying Lozenges claiming wide efficacy and safety for infants. It lists other Dr Dyott medicines including anti-bilious pills, itch cure, tooth drops, eyewash, and skin balms, with prices and a note that 700000+ patients benefited.
Stephen Elliott announces a subscription work on the botany of South Carolina and Georgia. It covers phanagamic plants, observations on uses and insects, Latin and English characters, with cryptogamic plants deferred. Ten numbers planned, first due May or June, price one dollar per number, subscriptions at Dr. Whos J. Wray’s Medical Store.
Will be sold on the first Tuesday in May next at the courthouse in F Jacksonborough Scriven county between the usual hours 202 1 2 acres in the 12th district Wilkinson county known as number 105 levied on as property of Stephen Butler to satisfy an execution in favor of Aaron Smith from the Justices Court returned to me by a constable Solomon Kemp ss c tds April 5
On the first Tuesday in May at the Marker House Augusta two enslaved people named Victor and Jack will be sold under an execution from the Sixth Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Georgia in favor of William Dixon & Co. A five thousand acre tract of land in Clarke County on Trail Creek, granted to Count D Estang, to satisfy an execution for Henry Messemer. Conditions cash buyers pay for titles.
A published attack on an officer's integrity is challenged as false regarding a fifteen thousand dollar Savannah Bank check and assorted treasury notes. The officer insists he used funds properly for troop payments, refutes peculation claims, and accuses the author of reckless calumny and venality.
A Savannah dated April 12 1616 report recounts Lt J H Mallory Paymaster to the 7th U S Infantry refusing to exchange Georgia money for District of Columbia notes with a premium. It notes his desire to swap Treasury notes for smaller amounts to pay troops, his illness, and witnesses affirming his conduct as honorable. Also includes government notices about public meetings and a sale of estate assets, with ads for bank directors and auctions, plus a jail notice listing two enslaved individuals.
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