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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1900
Page
2
The article argues that seasoned businessmen can estimate local trade potential and that newspaper advertising boosts legitimate business, often yielding profits far exceeding ad costs. It critiques Parliament, notes Nicaragua’s path to prosperity, and mentions Boer numbers, politics, sports injuries, Weyler, Spain’s stamp tax, and Minot Steel’s mill changes introducing a new iron handling process with a sandless mold system.
A noted bacteriology expert warns that diseases stem from eating unwashed fruit and especially unwashed grapes. After washing aging grapes, tubercle bacilli appeared in the wash water and killed a guinea pig in two days. Two other pigs exposed to the germ in water died in six weeks.
An old advertisement offers one hundred dollars for ears of catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It states familiarity with J Cheney over years and endorses their business, with signatories from W eert Thrax and others in Toledo Ohio. The text is garbled but references wholesale druggists and local shops.
A Christian Advocate excerpt recalls itinerant preachers who rode from plow, anvil, and boat to spread religion. Largely self taught, they faced war era hostility, scant pay, and legal opposition, yet their sincerity and sacrifice powered a vast evangelical effort across early America.
Dayton Tenn resident touts Kamons Liver Pills and Tasie Pelets for his ill child with rapid improvement after regular use. Widespread endorsement from Pace Whitfield Co. of Chicago and leading druggists claim Chamberlains Cough Remedy prevents influenza and pneumonia, selling broadly.
John Oliver of Pooladelphia recalls a dreadful illness where doctors abandoned him until Keenie Bitters restored his health after three weeks. The testimonial urges trying the remedy, priced 50 cents, and claims it guards digestion and bowel regularity with Olean berlin's stomach and liver tablets also sold by H N White.
A Philadelphia resident reports full recovery from a throat ailment after using Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption. She describes rapid relief, improved sleep, and a renewed sense of well being, praising the remedy and its advertised guarantees.
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