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Newspaper
Chipley Banner
Location
Chipley, Florida, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1898
Page
8
A collage of old advertisements and claims: advice on pruning apple trees for space and air, notes on modern physical vigor, catalog entries for George Pullman’s library contents, cold cures and tonics, tobacco cessation products, deafness cures and nostrums, nerve restorers, infant soothing syrups, and patent medicines. Ends with an ad for machinery parts like lanterns and rollers.
Louis W. Camp of Macomb Illinois testifies to dramatic weight gain and recovery from lifelong sickness after using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. He recalls severe stomach trouble, periods of illness, and says he now enjoys restored health and appetite. A physician notarizes his improved condition and authenticity of the statement.
Edward Lewis of 258 Division Street Chicago carries a heart nine by eleven inches weighing about four pounds. A Chicago physician discovered the cardiac music while examining him after a long illness. Since then Lewis has traveled the country and abroad as a living medical oddity, with the heart producing audible singing and intermittent thumps.
Fragment from a late 19th century issue notes a courtroom hold up as a judge waits for lawyers to secure more cigars and drinks before announcing a three month pending decision. The piece underscores legal delay and the need for readiness in court proceedings.
Rural World urges correcting wall-adjacent soil by removing cellar rubbish and adding good soil. Plant Virginia creeper two feet from walls with a two-foot stem, lay shoots in a trench to wall, and cover. Roots gain moisture, vines start faster and avoid drying out.
Jackson Georgia resident Mr. Taylor Buttrell possesses a violin manufactured in 1715, now 188 years old and valued by first class musicians. He has kept it about twenty years and, as a self described back date musician, often plays old time melodies with the instrument. The piece notes the instrument as among the oldest in the south.
A reader from Deep Water Missouri praises Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound for five years of womb trouble and piles. After five bottles she recovered enough to work and share her thanks, urging other women to write for free advice from Mrs Pinkham at Lynn Massachusetts.
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