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Newspaper
Brenham Weekly Banner
Location
Brenham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1891
Page
1
Liquors arrives in two car loads including brandies and gins and several bar items. The consignor is F. Keentzui with assorted French cognac grades, half barrels, and 10 and 5 gallon casks.
A bulk of brief items lists varied statistics and trivia from 19th century contexts. Names include Marie Antoinette and Queen Elizabeth with fashion notes, while figures cite exiles, money values, and corporate income. Notable lines mention Krupp and Mudie library.
Local items note Mineola seeks a cotton compress. LaGrange targets waterworks and electric lights. Seymour hosts Northwest Texas Press Association meeting. various incidents across Texas include fires, arrests, and deaths.
Generals of the Confederate armies now living include two generals with temporary rank, eight lieutenant generals, and others divided among major generals and brigadier generals. Only one major general resides in Texas, B. Maxey of Paris. seventeen brigadiers are in Texas. A Philadelphia Press report describes harsh conditions of Pennsylvanian anthracite miners and a company store extracting wages. Upshur, speaking in Chicago, muses on naval action, recalling a classmate’s answer about steering a ship through a rock and two quarters by howling if needed. Hood’s Sarsaparilla advertised for rheumatism relief, and other late-19th century tonics praised. Gold in old fields and Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy are touted as health remedies.
An article notes Koch’s claim about the secret of lymph and cautions men may break under rheumatism. It suggests salvation comes to those who seek relief, mentions a 25 cent price and Mrs. Stanley preferring fresh air with room temperature kept at 62 degrees.
A Dallas Texas firm Davin R Fry & Co declares Fry’s Eli Liver Pills solve constipation and indigestion after about a year of use. Attested by J E McComb US Attorney and others, with a note on appetite and liver health. Also mentions Mrs Leland Stanford spectacle and a corn cure affecting crops.
Ada Gray is described as the only colored woman dentist in the country and is noted to practice in Cincinnati. The brief highlights her unique professional status and location.
The notice promotes Shilohs Cure as a sure treatment for coughs and the disease consumption. It claims over a million bottles sold last year and says the product relieves croup and whooping cough at once. Mothers are urged to keep it on hand and use Shilohs Plaster for back side or chest. Sold by RE Luba and Thos Watson in Burton.
A fragment from a period piece includes a humorous exchange about a ringing bell with a Texas mistress and servant Matilda Snowball. It then digresses into quack remedies like Prickly Ash and P P P claiming blood cleansing, plus a Peru roof-kept cow anecdote and an ad for Sairom's Catarrh Remedy priced at two cents, all noting local merchants Burton and Thos. Watson.
An advert claims Shilohs Consumption Cure cures coughs, torpid liver and poor appetite with orange soak water said to improve complexion. It markets at 108.5 and 1 but cautions on sore lungs and back pain with Shilohs Porus Plaster. Also notes many unrelated items from malaria cures to divorce suits and a preacher who appears to sleep while delivering sermons.
A Galveston letter dated August 24 endorses the All Liver Pils claim of Mesers. David Fly & Co. with signatures from F Cannon K B Hawley F L Lane John D Settle and others praising its efficacy.
W R Gregory from Kansas City Missouri used a design called red hot stove with an oven full of biscuits. He sold the item at a second hand store for three dollars.
The article notes William Castle a former Christy minstrel and English opera tenor leading a chorus-singers school in Philadelphia. It also lists medical remedies and products, mentions a senator, and a portrait from Eastman Johnson for the White House collection.
A collage of old ads mentions Dr Mendenhall claiming a fifteen year cure for colds and a patent remedy for Ernie Colds. It praises Chase’s Barley Malt Whisky, Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for infants, Clarke’s Extract of Flax Cough Cure, and Winter Forest Cough Syrup. Also notes farmer politics and a Cherokee strip boom context.
On September 24, 1869, a panic swept Wall Street as fortunes evaporated and securities plunged amid a dramatic market collapse. Financing figures and investors faced heavy losses as financial confidence faltered.
An advertisement offers Shiloh's Vitalizer to treat various ailments including loss of appetite yellow skin and general malaise. It promises a guaranteed cure and is sold by RE Cohn and Thos Watson Burton.
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