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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1913
Page
4
A long, fragmentary Brimfield column covers visitors and neighbors from Peoria to Elmwood, farm notes, rail interurban talks, and local incidents. It notes road conditions improving, political caucus results, livestock trading, and family visits, with scattered town names, dates, and names such as Caney, Peoria, Elmwood, Brimfield, and Carter.
An old ad copy warns that pneumonia follows a cold and that Foley’s Hovey Tar Compound stops coughing eases sore inflamed air passages and strengthens the lungs The genuine product comes in a yellow package with a beehive on the carton Substitutes should be refused Livart.
Page ad proclaims a cure for catarrh claiming a universal cure across stages and promises a postal history of the remedy. It touts kidney and bladder treatments by George Howard as strengthening tonic cures with no habit forming drugs and urges readers to send for a pamphlet and prices.
An epidemic sweeps the town touching young and old. Lee Pharmacy in Chico, California, endorses Foley's Honey and Tar Compound as a safe remedy for coughs and colds. Dr. Geo. Howard notes it contains no narcotics or harmful properties.
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