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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1900
Page
5
Various items list people visiting Indianapolis Cincinnati and Newpoint on Tuesday and Saturday nights plus shopping lines for dresses shirts and patterns. Mentions May Festival G A R encampment and local store promos. Found: personal trips, sales pitches, and light humorous quotes.
A shopper asks the price of a French clock and the clerk quotes one hundred ten dollars. The customer comments in disbelief about the clock always keeping its hands before its face.
Testimonials from Atwater Ohio and Roanoke Tennessee praise Foley's Kidney Cure De Witts Witch Hazel Salve and Kodol Dyspepsia Cure for diverse ailments. Short quips show domestic humor and household concerns alongside medical product endorsements.
An assorted page shows patent medicine claims for Foley's Honey and Tar, Kodo Dyspepsia Cure, Littell's Liquid Sulphur and Ointment, Banner Salve, Cham berlain's Cough Remedy, and Chamberlain's Pain Balm. It includes town notices, humor bits, and short testimonials praising cures, with dates and place references such as West Point Mississippi and Cross Roads Indiana. The items emphasize relief from coughs dyspepsia skin diseases and diarrhea and promote sales through local dealers G A Baas and Bigney & Co.
John M. Gentry praises Littell's Liquid Sulphur Oil for treating a road mare's cuts and bruises from an accident. He says it is the best remedy he has seen for horse injuries and offers a voluntary endorsement. Sold by G. A. Baas for horses and dogs.
Dr S B Townsend reports success in treating fifty patients with various illnesses. He visits Sherman House Batesville Saturdays Lookout Sundays and Thursdays for forenoon visits Versailles Fridays and Mondays Delaware Sundays and Thursdays afternoons Levingston's ten miles south of Milan Tuesdays and his Milan office Wednesdays. Charges are reasonable and due at treatment. Also for sale sweet potato plants contact Ed Stowe on the pike.
A passenger laments engine life of about thirty years while the engineer jokes that extra life would come if the engine did not smoke so much. The exchange captures a light moment about locomotive reliability and maintenance.
J. Q. Hood, Justice of the Peace, Crosby Mississippi, testifies that One Minute Cough Cure relieves his wife’s breathing problems after the first dose and has benefited his whole family. He claims it acts immediately and cures coughs colds croup grippe bronchitis asthma and throat and lung troubles.
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