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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1901
Page
2
The ad rate sheet outlines liberal contract prices for three month runs with run of paper pricing. Rates include one column twenty inches at eight cents per inch for the first insertion and three cents subsequent, and other column sizes with varying per inch charges. Extra charges cover typesetting and bold front-page placements.
A string of coy claims and colorful opinions race through political chatter. Mentions include Cols Bryan and Watterson, Mr Quay, Filipino hopes, General Kitchener, Li Hang Chang, Miss Stone, Secretary Wilson, President Cleveland, Mr Low, Mr Rayner, Admiral Schley, a Chicago financier, pumpkin markets, Prince of Wales, and contempt of court cases.
In a Glasgow address Sir William Thomas Lewis notes the British concern over workable coal seams and profits, as the United States now surpasses Great Britain in coal output. He warns thinner seams may remain unworked if thicker, superior coals can be used to mix for profit.
An advertisement proclaims Hall's Catarrh Cure as a universal cure for catarrh with a $100 reward for any failure to cure. It claims internal action through the blood and mucous surfaces, builds constitution, and lists testimonials, with sales by a Druggist for 75 cents and mentions Hall's Family Pills and smoking cessation products.
A Dayton Tennessee father recounts how Ramons Liver Pills and Tonic Pellets improved his pale delicate youngest son who cried to take them at night. He notes the boy became robust and rosy cheeked like a healthy child after regular use. The testimony ends with a boast about the son’s vigor and health.
An advertisement urges every U.S. reader to obtain a book on opium and whiskey habits by B. M Woolley of Atlanta Georgia box 387 free. A testimonial from W Lynch of Winchester Indiana credits Foley’s Honey and Tar with easing a boy’s membranous croup and rescue from danger. G. H. Wade is named in the fragment.
Retail merchants are warned that 130 gross of toilet soap, including Castile Medicated Skin Soap Tar Soap and highly perfumed varieties, has been secured at manufacturers prices for jobbers. Wholesale quotes promise soaps sold at a dime to competing retailers for a nickel. See samples before ordering for the holiday trade Frat Top Grocery Co Pioneer Wholesale Grocers Bluefield W Va.
A Winchester Indiana man, M. M. Austin, credits his wife’s recovery from illness to Dr. King’s New Life Pills. The ad touts relief for stomach and liver troubles, constipation, and headaches, selling at 25 cents per bottle in drug stores.
Ad claims STOPS TAK COUGH AND WORK OFF THE COLD with Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets and guarantees cure in one day. Offers No Cure No Pay, priced at 25 cents.
After exposure or onset of a cold, take a dose of Foley's Honey and Tar. It never fails to stop a cold if taken promptly. G. H. Wade.
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