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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1813
Page
4
Public notice outlines imposition of stamps on notes, bonds, and bills of exchange by banks and companies. Details scale from one cent for papers under one dollar to several dollars for higher values, with exemptions for Treasury notes and drafts.
Fragmentary document recounts Oliver Evans patent license terms for flour mill improvements with annual interest charges, and a 1814 1815 U.S. War Department proposal call for provisioning troops across multiple states including Michigan Ohio Kentucky and New Hampshire with detailed ration components and delivery conditions. The notice includes pricing, terms of payment, and enforcement language.
Dr Robertson's celebrated stomachic elixir of health priced at one dollar fifty cents proclaims itself a premier remedy for obstinate coughs colds consumption hooping cough aftashm pains and wind in the stomach and related digestive ailments claiming to relieve dysentery cholera morbus and severe griping in children and adults.
An advertised remedy priced at two dollars claims to cure gout rheumatism lumbago stone and gravel and swelling of joints as well as sprains bruises cramps and pains in the head face and body including chilblains frozen limbs and similar ailments.
An advertisement touts STOMACHIC BITTERS priced at one dollar. The product is praised for strengthening the stomach, boosting the appetite, and serving as a preventive and cure for fever and ague, among other claims.
A medicine advertised as essential for all families promises to destroy worms. The product is offered at a price of several cents per dose.
For sale a large set of lands near Beech Island and Augusta Georgia with several tracts totaling hundreds of acres, including cleared fields, orchards, and mills. terms require one third down and easy balance with clear title. Also a medicinal pill advertisement promising fever and bilious relief, travel safety, and female health benefits. Anyone applying should contact the subscriber or Major Goupy or Joan Carmichael in Augusta.
A brief ad lists Dr Dyott's Patent Itch Ointment with high claims of safety and speed for the itch at 6 pence per box, Balm of Iberia for skin defects at two dollars, and Restorative Centrifrice for teeth and gums at 50 cents. It notes vast sales since discovery, citing seven hundred thousand and rising demand.
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